CLIVAR Highlights

The U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Research Program (CLIVAR)

Saturday, February 4, 2012

Goals

Structure

Presentations

US CLIVAR Committee

Interagency Working Group

Prediction and Predictability Panel

Process Study Model Impovement Panel

Phenomena Observations and Synthesis Panel

Drought Working Group

High Latitude Surface Flux Working Group

Hurricane Working Group

Ice Sheet Working Group

MJO Working Group

Salinity Working Group

Western Boundary Current Working Group

Decadal Predictability Working Group

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Drought

Climate Model Evaluation

Process Studies

Atmospheric Data Analysis/Reanalysis

Ocean Data Analysis/Reanalysis

Intraseasonal Variability

Deep Ocean Hydrography

Climate Prediction

Science Tidbits

Announcements

Monthly Electronic Newsgrams

Implementation Plans

Meeting Reports

Bibliography

Outreach Publications

Conference Posters and Presentations

Staff

Directions

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Highlights

About US CLIVAR

CLIVAR Accomplishments

For a complete listing of Publications, click here.

US CLIVAR Panels

Predictions, Predictability and Applications Interface Panel (flyer - pdf)
Process Studies and Model Improvement Panel (flyer-pdf)
- "Best Practices for Process Studies", BAMS 2009
Phenomena, Observations and Synthesis Panel (flyer-pdf)
US CLIVAR Project Office (flyer-pdf)
- publications

Working Groups

Decadal Predictability Working Group
- US CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group, 2011: Distinguishing the roles of natural and anthropogenically forced decadal climate variability: Implications for prediction, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., Vol.92, No. 2. pp. 141-156
Western Boundary Currents Working Group
- Western Boundary Current Analysis Webpage
- AMS Special Collections
- Kelly, K.A., R.J. Small, R.M. Samelson, B. Qiu, T.M. Joyce, Y-O. Kwon, M.F. Cronin, 2010: Western Boundary Currents and Frontal Air-Sea Interaction: Gulf Stream and Kuroshio Extension, Journal of Climate, Vol. 23, No. 21.
- Kwon, Y-O., M. A. Alexander, N.A. Bond, C. Frankignoul, H. Nakamura, B. Qiu, L. Thompson, 2010: Role of Gulf Stream, Kuroshio-Oyashio and Their Extensions in Large-Scale Atmosphere-Ocean Interaction : A Review, J. Climate, 15 June 2010, Vol. 23, pp 3249-3281.
Drought Working Group
- AMS Special Collections
- Drought Metrics
Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Working Group (flyer-pdf)
- Simulation metrics/diagnostics developed
- Established MJO forecast metrics
- Working Group publications
Salinity Working Group (flyer-pdf)
- SPURS process study proposal
- Community Workshop report (pdf)
- Special issue of Oceanography magazine focusing on ocean salinity (Vol. 21, March 2008)

Model Evaluation

Coupled Model Experiment Program (CMEP)
- 19 Proposals awarded / Multiple publications
Drought In COupled Models Program (DRICOMP)
- 16 proposals awarded / Multiple publications
Climate Process Teams (CPTs)
- CPT publications
- 4 New CPTs awarded (2010)

Announcements

U.S. CLIVAR Call for New Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR joint call with Ocean Carbon Biogeochemistry Group (OCB) for Working Groups (pdf)

U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2011 presentations online

U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group publishes paper in BAMS (Feb. 2011, Vol. 92, No. 2)

NCAR Advanced Study Program Summer Colloquium - 6-24 June 2011; Statistical Assessment of Extreme Weather Phenomena under climate Change - presentations online

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