About U.S. CLIVAR

The goals of U.S. CLIVAR include:

• Identifying and understanding the major patterns of climate variability on seasonal, decadal and longer time scales and evaluating their predictability;
• Expanding our capacity in short term (seasonal to interannual) climate predictability and searching for ways to predict decadal variability;
• Better documenting the record of rapid climate changes and the mechanisms for these events, and evaluating the potential for abrupt climate changes in the future;
• Evaluating and enhancing the models used to project climate change due to human activity, including anthropogenically induced changes in atmospheric composition, and:
• Detecting and describing any climate changes that may occur.

U.S. CLIVAR posters and presentations:

• Presentation to International CLIVAR SSG 2007 (pdf)
• Presentation from the AMS Town Hall Meeting January 2006 (pdf)
• Poster from the 2004 CLIVAR Conference (jpg)
• Poster from teh 2004 Decadal Variability Workshop (jpg)

Science Tidbits    

20 June 2008 - NASA launches satellite to keep a weather, climate eye open

2 May 2008 - Oxygen Depletion Zones in the Tropical Oceans expanding - maybe due to Global Warming

1 May 2008 -Advancing decadal-scale climate prediction in the North Atlantic sector (Nature)

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Announcements

Drought Workshop in conjunction with NOAA's 33rd Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop; 20-24 October 2008

Western Boundary Current Workshop Announcement; 15-17 January 2009

U.S. CLIVAR Summit Symposium presentations and Summit documents are available online

First announcement for Ocean Obs '09
(21-24 September)

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