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We are profoundly saddened to learn the passing of Dr Lisa Goddard. Our thoughts are with her, family, friends and many colleagues from around the world.
 
Lisa’s passion for Climate Science started early in her academic studies, as she expressed herself “I decided to go into climate research when I was considering graduate school after getting my BA degree in...

Figure: (upper) The global upper 2000 m OHC from 1958 through 2021. The histogram presents annual anomalies relative to a 1981–2010 baseline, with positive anomalies shown as red bars and negative anomalies as blue. Units: ZJ. (bottom) Detrended OHC time series from 2005 to 2021 compared with ONI index.

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The COSPAR 2022 conference will be organized in Athens, Greece on 16-24 July 2022.

The chairs of the session A0.1 Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction are calling for abstracts. The abstract submission deadline is 11 February 2022. Below you’ll find the...

A preparation teleconference for the 2022 Sea Level Conference was organized on 10th January 2022, with the participation of the WCRP Sea Level Grand Challenge (GC) co-chairs and members, local organizers and event service provider, as well as staff from ICPO. The main issues covered by the telecon were on the registration and abstract submission systems...

The China SCOR annual meeting, with the theme “Implementation of the UN Ocean DECADE: the international cooperation of the ocean community in the post-COVID-19 era”, was successfully organized from Dec 21 to 22, 2021. Liping Yin, staff scientist of the ICPO, represented ICPO to report the progress of CLIVAR activities in the past year.

To accommodate the COVID-19 situation, this meeting...

The December telecon of the CLIVAR/CliC Northern Ocean Region Panel was organized on December 16th, continuously discussing the NORP-SORP joint workshop, the summer school, and the membership.

It happened to be during the AGU Fall Meeting 2021, the participants shared their experience on participating or organizing sessions of this hybrid AGU, learning lessons and making...

 
The 6th Organising Committee telecon for CLIVAR-GOOS workshop was organized on December 16, 2021, with the participation of Weidong Yu (Co-chair, OOPC), Edem Mahu (Co-chair, invited), Nick Hardman-Mountford (IORP), Maria Paz Chidichimo (ARP), Ivonne Montes (PRP), Enrique Cruchister (OMDP), Hindumathi Palanisamy...

A preparation teleconference for the 2022 Sea Level Conference was organized on 15th December 2021, with the participation of the WCRP Sea Level Grand Challenge (GC) co-chairs and members, local organizers and event service provider, as well as staff from WCRP Secretariat and ICPO. The main issues covered by the telecon were: registration and abstract submission...

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) supported by EUMETSAT will be holding a conference in Darmstadt, Germany on 29 November-2 December 2022 to assess how the current global climate observing system can be improved to better support current and near-term user needs for climate information. This conference follows on from the first climate observations...

The Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Indian Ocean Observing System Resource Forum (IRF-13) was organized on 9th December 2021. Dr. Juliet Hermes and Dr. Roxy Mathew Koll, co-chairs of IORP, and Dr. Jose Santos and Jing Li from the ICPO participated in the meeting as IRF members from the CLIVAR side.

Brief updates on existing...

The December telecon of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel was organized on December 2nd, focusing on the review of the progress in task teams and next steps, the membership discussion and the annual report.

Torge reported the progress of the Southern Ocean heat and freshwater task team, which is designing a protocol for the freshwater-release...

The CLIVAR Climate Dynamic Panel held a telecon on November 17. All of the CDP members participanted in this online meeting, discussing the annual report, the membership renewal, and the panel plan for next year.

The members reviewed the panel actives and activities relevant to the CLIVAR and WCRP strategy plan in 2021.

All the self-nominees from the open call of CLIVAR panel...

A preparation teleconference for the 2022 Sea Level Conference was organized on 30th November 2021, with the participation of the WCRP Sea Level Grand Challenge (GC) co-chairs and members, local organizers and staff from WCRP Secretariat and ICPO. The main issues covered by the telecon were: COVID-19 regulations updates, poster session arrangement,...

The CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) organized a telecon on Nov. 24, mainly focusing on a virtual go-around to update ARP-relevant activities, a look at the annual report and a discussion of membership rotation.

The updates of ARP-relevant activities include mention of upcoming atmospheric field campaigns in the sub-Arctic,...

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