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Study shows that oxygen depletion zones in Tropical Oceans are expanding (06 May 2008) 

Scientists confirm computer model predictions that oxygen-depleted zones in tropical oceans are expanding, possibly because of climate change. Data used was gathered from recent cruises undertaken as part of International Repeat Hydrography and Carbon Programme.[More...]

Climate Mapper tool for SERVIR-the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System (12 May 2008) 

USAID, NASA, the Institute for the Application of Geospatial Technology (IAGT), the University of Colorado, and CATHALAC are pleased to announce the beta release of the Climate Mapper tool for SERVIR-the Regional Visualization and Monitoring System. [More...]

Changes in Australian attitudes towards global warming (21 May 2008) 

There was a dramatic increase in the media coverage of climate change in Australia during 2006 and 2007. This increase coincided with an increase in the level of concern about climate change amongst Australians. [More...]

Francis Zwiers, ETCCDI co-chair, awarded the 2007 Patterson Medal Award (05 Jun 2008) 

Dr. Francis Zwiers, Director of the Climate Research Division, Science and Technology Branch, Environment Canada, and co-chair of the CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indices (ETCCDI) has been awarded the 2007 Patterson Medal Award for distinguished service to meteorology in Canada. He received the award jointly with Dr. John (Jack) C. McConnell, Professor of Atmospheric Physics, Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering, York University.

Latest WCRP News No. 10 (24 June 2008) 

The WCRP News No. 10 can be accessed through this link: http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/Ezine10_Jun08.pdf

NASA launched a climate science portal (25 June 2008) 

NASA JPL has recently launched a new web portal on climate science. It can be accessed through the link http://climate.jpl.nasa.gov/

Latest WCRP News No. 10 (19 Sep 2008) 

The WCRP News No. 10 can be accessed through this link: http://wcrp.wmo.int/documents/WCRPezine11_Sep08.pdf

AR5 Science Workshop (03 Oct 2008) 

An AR5 Science Workshop is being held at the NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. The workshop will focus on how to improve the science coming out of the multi-model databases being prepared for the Intergovernmental Panel and Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and the existing CMIP3 database.

12th Session of the JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modeling (14 Oct 2008) 

The Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM) held a historic meeting in Paris, France on 22-24 September 2008 where representatives from 20 of the global coupled climate modeling centres from around the world were invited to hear about the next round of coordinated experiments that were originally proposed by the WGCM/Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES) community in 2006. The modeling groups will commit huge resources over the next two years performing the next climate model intercomparison project (CMIP5).

Year Of Tropical Convection Science Plan has been published (30 Oct 2008) 

The YOTC Science Plan has just been published as a WMO technical document. The focus of YOTC is organized tropical convection, with emphasis on time scales up to seasonal, and in particular the intersection of weather and climate. The YOTC project will address critical issues faced by prediction models that involve the representation of tropical convection, convective organization, the large-scale circulation and the accompanying scale interactions.