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The CLIVAR/CliC Northern Oceans Region Panel organized its teleconference on 21 April, 2022, with the participation of NORP members and the new ex-officio members, Alexandra Jahn and Julienne Stroeve.

NORP members introduced their backgrounds so that the ex-officios had an overall view of NORP. After that, members presented the updates of NORP’s two main activities: the NORP/SORP joint...

The CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel (CDP) held its first telecon in 2022 on 13th April, right after the CLIVAR SSG-27. Most of the CDP members joined this meeting.

With the joining of two new members, this meeting began with the introduction of CDP by Sarah Kang, one of the co-chairs of the panel. She presented...

 

The 3rd Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modeling of Climate Dynamics: Tropical Oceans, ENSO and their teleconnections, will be organized at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy from 18 - 29 July 2022 in a hybrid format. The summer school is co-...

The 18th Session of CLIVAR/IOC GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) held virtually on 23 March 2022, alongside the annual meetings of other Indian Ocean partners, i.e. Sustained Indian Ocean Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research (SIBER) of IMBeR, IndOOS Resource Forum (IRF), International Indian Ocean Expedition-2 (IIOE-2) Steering Group, IOGOOS and...

Figure: Polar Amplification simulated by CMIP5 and CMIP6 climate models for the temperature thresholds of +1.5°C, 2.0°C and 3.0°C global mean warming under RCP8.5 and SSP585 scenarios of northern and southern hemispheres high latitudes. The boxplots indicate the central 50% intermodal range (25% - 75%), the median and upper and lower boundaries in the CMIP models....

A recent study (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-022-06195-3) led by Dr Luciano Pezzi, member of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel, was published in Climate Dynamics. This work brings a new approach to the study and understanding of the oceanic surface cooling that the oceanic South Atlantic Convergence Zone (SACZ)...

The 27th Session of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) took place on April 1, 4 & 5. Given the situation of the COVID pandemic, and to reduce our carbon footprint, the SSG-27 was held in a completely online format. This year, it focused more on internal WCRP and CLIVAR business, bringing together over 40 scientists from all over the world, including the CLIVAR SSG members, co-...

The CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) held a telecon on 18 March 2022, participated by Eleanor Frajka-Williams, Regina Rodrigues, Paquita Zuidema, Dariia Atamanchuk, Susan Bates, Gregory Foltz, Franck Ghomsi, Laura Jackson, Ingo Richter, Olga Sato, Tannecia Sydia Stephenson from ARP and Jing Li from ICPO...

The International Indian Ocean Science Conference 2022 (IIOSC2022) organized virtually from 14 to 18 March 2022, sponsored by the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Govt. of India and co-hosted by the National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), and National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Goa University and...

In parallel to the Main London event International Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit (4-5 May 2022, London, UK), led by the Digital Twins of the Ocean Programme (DITTO) of the UN Ocean Decade, a call...

The WCRP Seal Level 2022 Conference will be organized from 12 to 16 July 2022, in a fully hybrid format with onsite participation in Singapore. The conference will provide an opportunity to share the present status and future of climate-related sea-level research with a strong focus on the application of sea-level science for adaptation and stakeholder needs. Given...

The Working Group 3 (Observations) of the CLIVAR Tropical Basins Interactions Research Focus held a teleconference on 9 March in order to plan the activities of the WG.

The topics covered includ:

  • Review summary and action items from Feb 2021 workshop (Roxy).
  • Overall goals and priorities of WG3 - what we can accomplish, how we can interact with the broader community...

The third meeting of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel (SORP) in 2022 was organized on 1st March. Main outcomes are as follows:

SORP was preparing the presentation of the CLIVAR SSG-27 and the annual report for CliC. Co-chair of SORP, Torge will represent SORP to attend the SSG meeting, and will feedback to SORP during the next SORP...

Jose Santos, Executive Director of the ICPO, attended the Copernicus Marine Service - Phase #2 - kickoff event, which took place on the 17 and 18 of February, 2022. This event was held in a fully online format, and was organized by Mercator Ocean International.  Several members of the CLIVAR community also attended the event.

Following the Copernicus Horizon 2035 Symposium, which was...

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