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GODAE OceanView Symposium 2013
“Promoting Operational Oceanography”

Location: NCWCP, NOAA Center for Climate and Weather Prediction, College Park, Maryland near Washington DC
Date: 4 – 6 November 2013
Abstract submission: 15th July 2013

The GODAE OceanView (GOV) Symposium will provide an opportunity to review the key scientific achievements of GOV in the last years, to critically examine outcomes, and to discuss the next steps towards the future of operational ocean analysis and forecasting and its international coordination.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
Croucher Summer Course
Date: 17-21 June 2013
Location: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Registration deadline: 31 May 2013
Contact: marinesc@ust.hk
Weblink: www.marinesummercourse.ust.hk

Open to all local and international graduate students and early career researchers.

The Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC) website has been redesigned and is now called yotc.ucar.edu

It contains some new parts for example the YOTC related projects which will hopefully be of use to the community. The old website address (www.ucar.edu/yotc) will automatically redirect you to the new site.

 

Arusha, Tanzania

15-18 October 2013

http://www.climdev-africa.org/acc2013

 

Deadline for Funding Applications and Abstract Submissions: 31 MAY 2013

The deadline for abstract submission to the Africa Climate Conference (ACC-2013) is May 31st, 2013.

The 41st SCOR Executive Committee Meeting will take place in Wellington, New Zealand on 25-27 November 2013. The SCOR Secretariat will accept proposals for new working groups from now until 15 May 2013.

 

Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs) were proposed by the WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD) as a venue for comparing global ocean-sea ice models run under a common prescribed atmospheric state, with boundary fluxes computed via the same bulk formulae. CORE simulations complement the coupled climate and earth system models run for the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Efforts across a broad community of modelling groups have produced CORE simulations (CORE-II) using 60 years (1948–2007) of inter-annual forcing, with details of the protocol and participating groups available from the WGOMD web site: http://www.clivar.org/wgomd/core/core-2

 

CLIVAR hosted a Townhall meeting at EGU 2013 on Monday 8th April. Martin Visbeck, co-chair of the CLIVAR SSG, presented information on the evolution of CLIVAR.

Climate models are fundamental tools for learning about our planet, assisting scientists and governments, and in assessing current and future risks and vulnerabilities. The reality of today’s climate modelling landscape, with ever more complex numerical models, running on the world’s largest supercomputers, requires a high degree of competence and efficiency, which must be instilled in scientists at the early stages of their careers. This intensive 12-day course is aimed at advanced PhD students and post-doctoral researchers, working in the natural sciences wishing to become experts in climate modelling.

Date: 8th - 20th September 2013
Loation: Oxford, UK
Registration Deadline: 12th April 2013
Weblink: ncas.ac.uk/index.php/en/cmss

A web portal (sac.csic.es/spei/) has been developed that focuses on the Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI), a recent tool for the analysis and monitoring of droughts.

The web portal provides information on the SPEI and different software tools to calculate SPEI

Training on-board an Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) cruise in 2013
POGO is pleased to announce that it will once again offer a special POGO Visiting Fellowship for training on-board an Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT) cruise in 2013. The programme is open to scientists, technicians, graduate students (PhD/MSc) and post-doctoral fellows involved in oceanographic work at centres in developing countries and countries with economies in transition.

Cruise Dates:  10th October - 24th November 2013
Cruise Transect: AMT - UK to Chile
Deadline: 3rd May 2013