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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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U.S. CLIVAR produces a monthly electronic news-gram which includes timely information regarding upcoming meetings in addition to announcing climate research opportunities. To subscribe, send an email with "subscribe" in the subject header and include your contact information.

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Highlights

About US CLIVAR

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PSMI Meetings/Documents

PSMI Science

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References

Process Study	Links
CLIVAR Mode Water Dynamic Experiment (CLIMODE)	Funded [http://www.climode.org/]
Intra-America Study on Climate Processes (IASCLIP)	Under review
North American Monsoon Project (NAME)	Analysis phase http://www.usclivar.org/name-index.html http://www.eol.ucar.edu/projects/name/
TACE	[http://www.clivar.org/organization/atlantic/TACE/]
Eastern Pacific Investigaion of Climate Processes (EPIC)	Analysis phase www.usclivar.org/epic-index.html www.pmel.noaa.gov/tao/epic/
VAMOS Ocean Cloud Atmosphere Land Study (VOCALS)	Funded/Field Campaign in Fall 2008 [http://www.joss.ucar.edu/vocals/]
Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Southern Ocean (DIMES)	Funded [http://www.usclivar.org/dimes-index.html]
Kuroshio Extension System Study (KESS)	Funded and implemented http://www.po.gs.uri.edu/kess
Climate Process Teams (CPTs)	Ongoing [http://cpt-gce.org/] [http://cpt-emilie.org/] [http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~breth/CPT-clouds.html]

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

More News

Current Climate Indices

Current Climate Forecasts