News

IASCLIP: the new endorsed CLIVAR project (28 Jul 2009) 

We are pleased to announce that CLIVAR SSG has endorsed the Intra-America Study of Climate Processes (IASCLIP), as proposed by the VAMOS panel. More information can be found at http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/iasclip/

CMIP3 team at PCMDI receives AMS Special Award (04 Nov 2009) 

The American Meteorological Society has made a Special Award to the CMIP3 team at PCMDI for their outstanding efforts in archiving and making available the CMIP3 multi-model dataset. The award will be presented at the AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia in January,2010. We all owe a great debt of gratitude to PCMDI for their support of WGCM model intercomparison initiatives over the years, culminating in the CMIP3 effort. We look forward to their continued contributions for CMIP5.

GO-SHIP launches new website (27 Nov 2009) 

The Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) was established in 2007 by the IOCCP and CLIVAR to develop a strategy for a sustained global repeat hydrography program as a contribution to the OceanObs09 Conference (September 2009) and to revise the 1994 WOCE hydrographic program manual.

NOAA launches new Climate Services (15 Feb 2010) 

NOAA has started a new climate service on Monday that will provide predictions on how global warming will affect everything from drought to sea level rise. More info on the new service can be found at http://www.climate.gov/.

CLIVAR-Spain report on climate variability and change in the Iberian Peninsula (21 Apr 2010) 

The report summarizes and evaluates information on the past and recent climate variability and change observed in the Iberian Peninsula, as well as on the regional climate projections for the end of the century. As the main outcome of the workshop held in Madrid in February 2009, the report was officially presented in Madrid on 12 April 2010 by the Spanish Secretary of State for Climate Change. The report, available in Spanish, will be soon translated in English.

Jose Marengo, VAMOS co-chair, awarded IJC Editor's Award (22 Apr 2010) 

We are delighted to inform that Dr. Jose Marengo, co-chair of the CLIVAR VAMOS panel, has been awarded the 2009 International Journal of Climatology Editor's Award (sponsored by Wiley-Blackwell) of the Royal Meteorological Society.

CLIVAR Review article on global warming impacts on El Nino (27 May 2010) 

The CLIVAR Pacific Panel concludes, in a review article published in Nature Geosciences, that the changes in the Pacific region due to the rising of global temperatures will affect the character of ENSO and the impacts that ENSO has on the Pacific countries. However, it remains hard to identify whether ENSO variability will be enhanced or moderated, or how the frequency of the events will change. Read the article.

CHFP Sea-Ice Historical Forecast Project (02 Dec 2010) 

The CLIVAR Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Predicability is coordinating the WCRP Climate-system Historical Forecast Project. This is a multi-model and multi-institutional experimental framework for sub-seasonal to decadal complete physical climate system prediction. The 'complete physical climate system' implies contributions from the atmosphere, oceans, land surface cryosphere and atmospheric composition in producing regional and sub-seasonal to decadal climate anomalies.

Survey of participation in CMIP5 and the Climate System Historical Forecast Project (CHFP) (20 Sep 2010) 

A survey of participation in CMIP5 decadal simulations and the Climate System Historical Forecast Project (CHFP) has been prepared by G.J. Boer, B. Kirtman, and A. Scaife (WGSIP) and G. Meehl and S. Bony (WGCM). Please respond to Anna Pirani (anna.pirani@noc.soton.ac.uk) by September 24 simply indicating your interest in this project by providing some essential information.