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The Atlantic - A Shared Resource 

The NACLIM project was invited to take part in the event 'The Atlantic - A Shared Resource.', held ion 23-24th May 2013 in Galway (Ireland). The NACLIM project was represented by Dr. Gerrard McCarthy (NERC/NOC, UK).

The event was organized by Irish Presidency together with the European Commission. The objective of this event was to provide a vision for enhanced cooperation on both sides of the Atlantic and a set of jointly agreed priority actions to provide the means to achieve these goals. The organizers invited the involvement of international partners in tackling the challenges confronting the citizens of the North Atlantic coastal states.
 

Meeting website: www.euintheus.org/events/the-atlantic-a-shared-resource/

Read the final report from the workshop.

Antarctica teaching app 

CLAST (Climate in Antarctica from Sediments and Techtonics) is an interactive educational app developed to explain topics of Geology and Earth Sciences to schools.

CLAST provides a representation of the results of ANDRILL, a scientific research program on paleoclimate that studied two over 1000 m long cores of rock from the seabed.

www.mna.it/apps/clast/english/insegna_e.html

Southern Ocean Meeting at Royal Society 

New observations and models of the Southern Ocean, its role in global climate and the carbon cycle

Chicheley Hall, Buckinghamshire,

July 16-17, 2013

Full details are available at royalsociety.org/events/2013/southern-ocean-models/

If you are interested in attending, please visit this webpage and click "request an invite".

 

Adaptation Futures 2014  

12th to 16th May 2014

Centro de Eventos do Ceará
Fortaleza/Ceará, Brazil

http://adaptationfutures2014.ccst.inpe.br/

Third International Climate Change Adaptation Conference Organized by CCST/INPE and PROVIA.

 

U.S. CLIVAR Draft Science Plan is now available for public comment 

The U.S. CLIVAR Draft Science Plan is now available for public comment through July 3, 2013. The draft plan reflects input from U.S. CLIVAR scientists serving on its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), three implementation panels, and members of the research community.

SPARC General Assembly 2014 

 

12-17 January 2014

Queenstown, New Zealand

www.sparc2014.org

 

 

NERC South Asian Monsoon Research Opportunity 

 

Drivers of Variability in the South Asian Monsoon
Closing date: 16:00 on 22 July 2013
 

Website: www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/monsoon/events/ao.asp

WCRP Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean 

 

Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Date: March 17-21, 2014
The call for abstract will begin by mid-June 2013

Website: www.cima.fcen.uba.ar/WCRP/

Highlights from SSG-20 

The CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) meets on an annual basis, to discuss the accomplishments of the last year and future direction of the project for the forthcoming year. The meeting is the one opportunity in the CLIVAR calendar where the entire SSG and representatives from panels, working groups, national programmes, funders and other WCRP (World Climate Research Programme) core projects (CLiC, SPARC and GEWEX) all meet in once location. The 4-day meeting was hosted by GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany, the home institute of CLIVAR SSG co-chair Martin Visbeck. In total 48 people participated over the four days of the meeting, with representatives from over 30 international academic institutions/scientific organizations.

Aerosol Remote Sensing, Processes & Applications Summer School 

Initial Training for Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Summer School in Aerosol Remote Sensing, Processes & Applications
Date: September 23 -  October 4, 2013 
Location: Bucharest, Romania National Institute of Research and Development for Optoelectronics (INOE)
Application Deadline: 30th July 2013
Website: itars.uni-koeln.de/index.php/training/network-events/summer-school-2013

The 1st Summer school of the EU-funded network “ITaRS - Initial Training for atmospheric Remote Sensing” emphasises on aerosols by providing fundamentals of atmospheric optics and observation.