Dr Howard Cattle

We are saddened to hear of the passing away of Dr Howard Cattle, Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) from 2002 to 2010 while it was at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. 

Howard succeeded John Gould in August 2002, as the fourth director of the ICPO, around the time when the World Ocean...

At the start of 2024, the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) bid farewell to member Dr Wenju Cai, and welcome a new member Dr Shoshiro Minobe.

Dr Wenju Cai served as a member of the SSG in 2018 and 2023, and as Co-Chair from 2019 to 2022.  Prior to joining the SSG, Dr Cai served as member and Co-Chair of the CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel.  

In person meeting at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics

29-31 July 2024, Kastler Lecture Hall, ICTP, Trieste, Italy

The sea ice plays a key role in the climate system, through its impact on radiative fluxes and the modulation of freshwater, energy and gas transfers between the...

Figure 1: The "v_prime T_bar" mechanism, schematically illustrated with mean (black arrows) and anomalous (red arrows) flows, which reveal how flow along constant-density surfaces connects the subtropics to the tropics.  Both "v_prime T_bar" and "v_bar T_prime" mechanisms have been proposed as potential contributors to tropical Pacific decadal variability ('prime'...

The 18^th Session of CLIVAR Atlantic Region Panel was successfully organized at Universität Hamburg, Germany and online on 17 July 2023, alongside the workshop on ‘Meeting AMOC Observation Needs in a Changing Climate’ which was organized on 18-20 July. During the ARP-18, a comprehensive review of the ARP activities was conducted, with the focus on three foci (AMOC, ocean climate risk...