The CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG) has endorsed the “International Workshop on Tropical-subtropical Weather, Climate and Oceans”, which will be organised by Sun Yat - sen University of China, in Guangzhou, China in November 2017.

The IV International Conference on El Niño Southern Oscillation: ENSO in a Warmer Climate will be co-organised by CLIVAR and CIIFEN on 16-18 October 2018, in  Guayaquil, Ecuador. The conference aims to review the progress on the science of ENSO with a focus on examining the range of ENSO “flavors” (especially in regard to the longitudinal variations of warming), assess the existence of possible and distinct precursors to the different flavors, and examine how the different oceanic and atmospheric processes that drive the different ENSO flavors and impact their predictability would vary in a warming world.

From July 2 – 6, 2017 the Kiel Cluster of Excellence ‘The Future Ocean’ will hold a conference on “Advances in Integrated Ocean Research towards Sustainable Development” in Kiel, Germany.

The latest CLIVAR Exchanges, a special issue for CLIVAR Open Science Conference Award Winners, has just been published!

The 'Years of the Maritime Continent (YMC) Reseach Project has recently been endorsed by CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group (SSG).

The UNESCO/IOC-ODC Training Course on Development of Coupled Regional Ocean Models will be organized in Qingdao, China, from 12 - 23 June, 2017.The training will cover topics related to regional surface wave model, tide model, ocean circulation model and their coupling.Application deadline: 10 April, 2017. 

The 2017 Joint IAPSO-ITAMAS-IAGA Assembly will be organised from 27 August to 1 September 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa.

From January 30th to February 1st, the CLIVAR/IOC GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) met for its 13th session in Perth, Australia. The main agenda item of the meeting was the (Indian Ocean Observaing System (IndOOS) Review Workshop, jointly organized with SIBER, IRF and IOGOOS.

The Group on Earth Observations Oceans and Society: Blue Planet Initiative (GEO Blue Planet) is seeking nomination to serve on the Initiative's Steering Committee and Advisory Group.