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The 2nd Indian Ocean Observing System (ndOOS) Review Workshop took place on March 22 and 23, 2018 in Jakarta, Indonesia. There were 45 participants, including a Review Board of six, lead authors, IORP and SIBER members, and local observers. 

The CLIVAR/IOC GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel held its 14th Session in the afternoon of March 21, 2018, in Jakarta, Indonesia, alongside the IIOE-2 Steering Committee Meeting, IOGOOS-14 and SIBER-8. 

Under the 2015 Paris Agreement, nations agreed to limit global mean warming to 2°C, while also working toward the more ambitious goal of limiting warming to 1.5°C. However, current pledges to support the Paris Agreement would only limit global warming to 3°C. Would meeting the Paris temperature goals be sufficient to avoid an ice-free Arctic?

The 3rd Open Science Symposium (OSS) on Western Pacific Ocean Circulation and Climate (WPOC) will be held on May 8-10, 2018 in Qingdao, China.

WCRP is calling for (self-)nominations for membership in the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), for a four-year term from January 2019 to December 2022. Nominations should be submitted via an online nomination form by 6 April 2018. 

On February 10, the CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel (ARP) held its 16th Session in Portland, Oregon, US, right before the 2018 Ocean Science Meeting. Sixteen participants including ARP members and invited speakers from US CLIVAR AMOC Team, EUREC4A project, CLIVAR EBUS and European Commission have participated the meeting.