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‘Advanced School and Workshop on American Monsoons: progress and future plans’ was held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics South American Institute for Fundamental Research (ICTP-SAIFR), São Paulo, Brazil, during 19-24 August 2019.

The Sources and Sinks of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Energy, a Joint US CLIVAR and CLIVAR Workshop Report is now available, summarizing a March 2019 workshop on advancing our understanding of ocean mesoscale eddies and their energy sources and sinks in the context of climate variability and change.

After an open call to receive proposals for new Research Foci, CLIVAR received five outstanding proposals covering a wide range of topics all relevant to WCRP science in general and CLIVAR in particular; after a careful review process the CLIVAR SSG has chosen to support the proposal entitled: Tropical basin interaction (TBI).

Jose Santos, Executive Director of the ICPO attended the “2019 Indian Ocean Workshop: What to do”, held in Hangzhou, China; organized by the Indian Ocean Operational Oceanographic Research Center, and with the support of the Second Institute of Oceanography.

We would like to appoint Ms Zhao, Qian as the administrative assistant of International CLIVAR Project Office

The International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) was invited to attend the No. 244 Shuangqing Forum on 'Physical and Biogeochemical Processes and their Interaction in the Indian Ocean under the Global Changes', which was organised by National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) on 26-27 October 2019 in Beijing.

Dr Rupa Kumar Kolli has recently taken charge as the Executive Director of the International CLIVAR Monsoon Project Office (ICMPO), hosted by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India.