Announcements

• MJO - US CLIVAR Briefing/Press Release from the AGU Conference
• U.S. CLIVAR Climate Prediction Applications Postdoctoral Program (CPAPP) Fellowship Announcement - This program has been developed to encourage and build the pool of scientists qualified to transfer advances in climate science and climate prediction into climate-related decision frameworks and decision tools. Applications due 15 December 2007. Full text announcement located at : http://www.vsp.ucar.edu
• Broad Agency Announcement for NOPP: Atlantic Meriditional Overturning Circulation - The full announcement can be found at http://www.onr.navy.mil/02/BAA/docs/07-040_ONR%20NOPP%20BAA%20FY08.pdf
• U.S. CLIVAR Summit 2007 was held in Annapolis, Maryland on 23-25 July. Meeting documents and summary reports are now online.
• June 2007: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society article: Monsoon Region Climate Applications: a Binational workshop, held in Guaymas. The full citation is:
  • Ray, Andrea J., Gregg M. Garfin, Luis Brito-Castillo, Miguel
    Cortez-Vazquez, Henry F. Diaz, Jaime Garatuza-Payan, David Gochis,
    Rene Lobato-Sanchez, Robert Varady, and Chris Watts. 2007. Monsoon
    Region Climate Applications. Bulletin of the American Meteorological
    Society, 88:6:933-935
• 14 June 2007 Atlantic Decadal Variability: Combining observations and models to investigate predictability (Workshop report)
• 5 July 2007 Report from the Salinity Working Group published (pdf)
• 25 May 2007 - DRICOMP Awards Announced
• 26 January 2007 - Ocean Research Priorities Plan Released - From Greenwire "...Ocean monitoring, seafloor mapping and fisheries management will see budget increases in President Bush's fiscal 2008 budget request, administration officials said today.The administration is requesting an increase of $143 million over its fiscal 2007 budget for selected oceans projects in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation and the Interior Department."
• The public comment period is now OPEN for Charting the Course for Ocean Science in the United States: Research Priorities for the Next Decade, a draft document that outlines the national ocean research priorities for the United States for the next ten years.
• Workshop on "Multidecadal to Centennial Global Climate Variability" to be held at the East-West Center at the University of Hawaii, in Honolulu on November 15th-17th, 2006
• July 2006 - The 2006 U.S. CLIVAR Summit took place this year in Breckenridge, Colorado 26-28 July. Agendas and panel reports are online.
• The MJO Working Group presentations from their meeting 24-25 July 2006 in Breckinridge, CO are online.
• Panel Strategic Plans are now available online.
• February 2006 - U.S. CLIVAR Salinity Working Group convened an open session at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii entitled "The Role of Ocean Salinity in Climate".
• January 2006 - The January 2006 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society has an article on the NAME Field Campaign of 2004 and its modeling strategy. A future special issue of the Journal of Climate will focus on NAME as well.
• The U.S. CLIVAR hosted a Town Hall Meeting at the AMS Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Georgia on Tuesday, 31 January 2006. Presentations are now online.

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