The CLIVAR/IOC GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel had a telecon on 2 November 2020. Participants focused the discussion on how to map IORP into the new structure of WCRP, as well as the IORP membership issue. 

The SOLAS Indian Ocean Meeting was organised virtually on 30 September 2020. Roxy Mathew Koll, co-chair of the CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) and Jing Li from the International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) attended the meeting. 

IORP held its quarterly telecon on 21 September 2020. Emma Heslop from the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) was invited to introduce the GOOS’ ongoing effort in assessing the impacts of COVID-19 on global ocean observing networks, and share the experience in the Atlantic Ocean. 

The IndOOS Resource Forum (IRF) had its 11th meeting virtually on 19 August 2020. Roxy Mathew Koll, co-chair of IORP and Jing Li from ICPO participated the meeting on behalf of CLIVAR. 

The CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel (IORP) had its quarterly telecon on 18 June 2020.

Jose Santos and Jing Li, from the ICPO participated in the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Indian Ocean Observing System Resource Forum (IRF-10), which was held online in two parts: part one on Wednesday 25 March 2020, and part 2 on 30th April 2020.

A symposium themed as Climate Variation, Prediction and Application was held on November 17-19, 2019 at Nanjing, China to commemorate the 20-Year Anniversary of Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) Research. The summary report of the syposium is now available.

Due to the current global COVID-19 pandemic, the 16th Session of CLIVAR/IOC-GOOS Indian Ocean Region Panel Meeting (IORP-16), which was originally planned in Goa, India, was organised online on 24 March 2020.