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

Monday, May 21, 2012

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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

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Atmospheric Data Analysis/Reanalysis

Ocean Data Analysis/Reanalysis

Intraseasonal Variability

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Highlights

About US CLIVAR

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Hurricane WG

Hurricane Science

Hurricane WG Information

Hurricane References/Links

Hurricane Science

Seasonal Forecasting for Tropical Cyclones - Timothy LaRow, Hui Wang, and In-Sik Kang
Statistical Models for Tropcial Cyclone Activity - James B. Elsner and Gabriele Villarini (pdf)
Tropical Cyclones in Coupled General Circulation Models - Enrico Scoccimarro
Tropical Cyclones in High-resolution Atmospheric Models - Ming Zhao
Tropical Cyclone Theory - Kerry Emanuel and Adam Sobel

Proposed Models for Experiments

Model	Resolution	Institution	Contact
ECHAM5	T159 L31	CMCC INGV, Italy	Enrico Scoccimarro
ECHAM6	T126 L95	MPI, Germany	Monika Esch / Lennart Bengtsson
FSU/COAPS	T126 L27	FSU, USA	Tim LaRow
GEOS5	1/2 degree	NASA, USA	Siegfried Schubert
HIRAM2.1	50 km L32	GFDL, USA	Ming Zhao
NASA GISS	1 degree	NASA GISS / Columbia University USA	Anthony del Genio / Adam Sobel
NCEP GFS	T126 L64	NCEP, USA	Hui Wang
NICAM	14km L40	JAMSTEC, Japan	Kazuyoushi Oouchi
Reading/Hadley Center	TBD	U. Reading / UK Met Office, U.K.	Pier Luigi Vidale / Malcolm Roberts
SNU-AGCM	25-50km, L20	SNU, South Korea	In-Sik Kang

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

More Announcements

Science Tidbits

26 September 2011: Seeking better answers to climate change, extreme weather

20 September 2011: Earth is losing Arctic sea ice: consequences could be global

17 August 2011: Study blames humans for half of recent Arctic ice melt

9 July 2011: Record south-central drought could continue into 2012, National Weather Service predicts

7 July 2011 - US Climate: The New Normal

10 June 2011 - NASA launches Aquarius

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Current Climate Indices

Current Climate Forecasts