Here you will find the latest news about CLIVAR and climate http://www.clivar.org en-gb Mon, 04 July 2006 10:40:00 GMT http://www.clivar.org/images/clivar_logo.gif http://www.clivar.org 115 89 Meetings recently added to the CLIVAR calendar: Dutch Climate Variability Symposium (10 Oct 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Tropical Atlantic Variability Workshop (18-20 Oct 2006, Paris, France), Subpolar Gyre Workshop (19-20 March 2007, Kiel, Germany) http://www.clivar.org/calendar/calendar_all.php meet_latest.net The CLIVAR Atlantic Implementation Panel will have its 8th meeting in Kiel, Germany, on 21-22 March 2007. http://www.clivar.org/organization/atlantic/atlantic.php atl8.net The CLIVAR GSOP and GODAE are organizing a meeting on Ocean Synthesis Evaluation, to be held at ECMWF (Reading, UK) on 31 Aug - 01 Sep 2006. For more information about this meeting, please see http://www.clivar.org/organization/gsop/synthesis/synthesis.php http://www.clivar.org/organization/gsop/synthesis/synthesis.php synth_ev.net The CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and Indiices will have its second session in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Canada, on 14-16 November 2006. For more information, visit the ET webpage on the CLIVAR website (http://www.clivar.org) http://www.clivar.org etccdi2.net The JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling will havve its 10th session in Victoria, BC, Canada, on 25-27 October 2006. For more information, visit the WG webpage on the CLIVAR website (http://www.clivar.org) http://www.clivar.org wgcm10.net There are three new additions to the CLIVAR Calendar: "7th Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability", Waikoloa Village, Hawaii, 40 Apr - 03 May 2007. The "CLIVAR/GODAE Meeting on Ocean Synthesis Evaluation" (http://www.clivar.org/organization/gsop/synthesis/synthesis.php), ECMWF, Reading, UK, 31 Auug - 01 Sep 2006. And the "PICES Fifteenth Annual Meeting" (http://www.pices.int/meetings/annual/PICES15/background.aspx), Yokohama, Japan, 13-22 Oct 2006 http://www.clivar.org/calendar/calendar.php humboldt.net The International Conference on The Humboldt Current System: Climate, ocean dynamics, ecosystem processes, and fisheries will be hel in Lima, Peru on 27 Nov - 01 Dec 2006. Fpr more details, see http://irdal.ird.fr/hcs-conference.imarpe.fao.ird.php3 http://irdal.ird.fr/hcs-conference.imarpe.fao.ird.php3 humboldt.net A new book, Mediterranean Climate Variability, edited by P. Lionello, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli and Roberta Boscolo, has just been published by Elsevier. http://www.clivar.org/about/news.php#med med_book.net The first MedCLIVAR workshop, "Reconstruction of past Mediterranean climate: Unexplored sources of high resolution data in historic time" will happen in Baeza, Jaen, Spain, Universidad Internacional de Andalucia on the 9-13 November 2006. For more information, see http://clima.casaccia.enea.it/medclivar/workshop_1.html http://clima.casaccia.enea.it/medclivar/workshop_1.html med_symp.net GODAE is organizing a "Symposium on ocean data assimilation and prediction in Asia-Oceania" to be held in Beijing, China, Oct. 16-18, 2006. More info about the meeting can be found in http://ctwf.iap.ac.cn/godae2006/. If you are interested in receiving future announcements related to this meeting, please email Tony Lee (Tong.Lee@jpl.nasa.gov) with "GODAE symposium" in the subject line http://ctwf.iap.ac.cn/godae2006/ godae_symp.net The latest issue of CLIVAR Exchanges (no. 37) is available to download from http://www.clivar.org/publications/exchanges/exchanges.php http://www.clivar.org/publications/exchanges/exchanges.php exchanges.net The third International GOCE (Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer) User Workshop will be held in ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, from 6-8 November 2006. For more information, go to http://earth.esa.int/goce06/ http://earth.esa.int/goce06/ goce06.net The Earth now absors more energy than it emits back into space, and the excess heat is hiding in the ocean. (Source: NASA's Earth Observatory) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/HeatBucket/ bigbucket.net Woods Hole will host the Ocean Carbon Cycle Science Workshop, sponsored by the Ocean Carbon and Climate Change (OCCC) and the new Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry (OCB) program. The workshop will happen this summer on July 10th-13th. For more details, please contact Mary Zawoysky (mzawoysky@whoi.edu). http://ocb.whoi.edu/workshops.html occc.net The The Centro Internacional para la Investigacion del Fenomeno El Nino (CIIFEN) produces a seasonal forecast based on statistical analysis of 126 meteorological stations from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador,?Peru, Bolivia and Chile. The latest product can be found at http://www.ciifen-int.org/ http://www.ciifen-int.org/ ciifen.net The ESSP Open Science Conference, to be held in Beijing, China, on 9-12 November 2006 invites scientists, policy makers, practitioners, scholars, members of the private sector and journalists to submit online abstracts (poster or parallel session presentations) through the OSC website (www.essp.org/ESSP2006/CallPapers_index.html). Deadline is 01 May 2006. http://www.essp.org/ESSP2006/CallPapers_index.html essp.net The CLIVAR Southern Ocean panel had its climate-related observation webpages updated. They can be found at http://www.clivar.org/organization/southern/CLIVAR_CliC_Obs.html. For details about the updates, visit http://www.clivar.org/organization/southern/news.htm. http://www.clivar.org/organization/southern/news.htm south_obs.net The VACS panel will host a workshop on Predictability and Prediction of southern African climate variability and impacts of the neighbouring oceans. The workshop will take place in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on 10-13 July 2006, and will be followed by a VACS Panel meeting (13-15 July). For more info, contact Chris Reason (cjr@egs.uct.ac.za) or Mike Sparrow (m.sparrow@noc.soton.ac.uk) http://www.clivar.org/organization/vacs/vacs.php vacs.net The International Symposium on Asia-Pacific Remote Sensing will take place in Goa, India, on 13-17 November 2006 http://spie.org/conferences/calls/06/ae/ asia-rs.net The 3rd Alexander von Humboldt International Conference on "The East Asian Summer Monsoon, past, present and future" will take place in Beijing, China, on 24-28 September 2007 http://www.clivar.org/calendar/calendar_all.php humboldt.net The latest issue of PAGES newsletter - Vol. 14, No. 1 - a special issue on Ice Core Science is available to download in high or low resolution at http://www.pages-igbp.org/products/index.html http://www.pages-igbp.org/products/index.html pages.net The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Climate Center (APCC) located in Busan, Republic of Korea, invites proposals to conduct an international research project on the development of a validated multi-model ensemble seasonal and sub-seasonal prediction system. The project budget is approximately US$150Kand the proposal due-date is 30 April 2006. The project announcement can be found at http://www.apcc21.net/index.php http://www.apcc21.net/index.php apcc.net The results from the 50 year long GECCO ocean synthesis: a report (ECCO Report 40) is available on the ECCO Website summarizing the inpjut data sets and a few first results. The report can be downloaded from http://www.ecco-group.org/report/report_40.pdf http://www.ecco-group.org/ ecco.net The PAGES/CLIVAR panel is organising a workshop that will synthesise our present knowledge about the 8.2ka event, and will comprise observationalists and modellers working on it. http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/rapid//rapid2006/workshop82.php event82k.net The RAPID International Conference would like to invite submission of abstracts for papers to be presented at the meeting. The call for papers and abstract submission information is at http://rapid.nerc.ac.uk/rapid2006/ic06call.php http://rapid.nerc.ac.uk/rapid2006/ic06call.php rapid.net