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U.S. CLIVAR Reports

U.S. CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee (SSC):

U.S. CLIVAR Panels:

  • Robinson, Walter A., Andrew Robertson, and M. Susan Lozier, 2005: Scientific Understanding of the Atlantic Basin Climate System - A Mid-CLIVAR Perspective, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (submitted), 29pp.
  • Peterson, Larry, John Chiang, and Jean Lynch-Stieglitz, Report of the U.S. Atlantic CLIVAR PALEO-TAV Workshop, 2005: Develping Paleoclimate Records and Model Experiments for Understanding Tropical Atlantic Variability, 21 pp.
  • Kushnir, Y., A.W. Robertson, M.N. Ward, S.E. Zebiak, editors, 2003: Proceedings of the U.S. CLIVAR Workshop on the Dynamics and Predictability of the Atlantic ITCZ and its Regional Climatic Influences, 2002, September 18-20, Palisades, N.Y. Report 2003-2, U.S. CLIVAR Office, Washington, DC 20006, 27pp.
  • U.S. CLIVAR Office, 2002: U.S. CLIVAR Atlantic Conference Proceedings, June 12-14, 2001, Boulder, CO, 193pp.
  • U.S. CLIVAR Atlantic Meeting June 12-14, 2001, Abstract Volume, David Skaggs Research Center, NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center, Boulder, CO; U.S. CLIVAR Office, 82pp.
  • Implementation Plan for Atlantic Climate Variability Experiment: Summary and Recommendations. 2000, Joyce, T., and J. Marshall. US CLIVAR Office PDF (3.2 MB)
  • Atlantic Climate Variability Experiment (ACVE): Science and Draft Implementation Plan. 1998, Visbeck, M., D. Stammer, J. Toole, P. Chang, J. Hurrell, Y. Kushnir, J. Marshall, M. McCartney, J. McCreary, P. Rhines, W. Robinson and C. Wunsch. PDF (3.2MB) HTML
  • Pacific Implementation Panel Meeting Report, 15-16 November 2004
  • Implementing the Pacific Basin Extended Climate Study (PBECS). August 2000, Davis et. al. U.S. CLIVAR Office Complete Report-PDF (4.6MB)
  • Prospectus for a Pacific Basinwide Extended Climate Study (PBECS), draft plan. 1998, Lukas, R., R. Davis and W. Kessler. US WOCE Project Office.PDF (1.1MB)
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  • U.S. CLIVAR, 2003: EPIC2001 Workshop, September 15-16, 2003, and Pan American Workshop, September 16-18, 2003: Poster Abstracts and Agendas, NCAR Mesa Laboratory, Boulder, CO, 112pp.
  • Esbensen, S., C. Gudmundson, T. Mitchel, editors, 2002: U.S. CLIVAR Pan American Research: A Scientific Prospectus and Implementation Plan, May 2002, 58pp.
  • U.S. CLIVAR Pan American Principal Investigators Meeting, Abstract Volume, Septermber 2000, U.S. CLIVAR Office, 99pp.
  • A Science and Implementation Plan for EPIC: An Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate Processes in the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System. 1999, EPIC Scientific Steering Committee PDF (1.3 MB).
  • Pan American Climate Studies (PACS): A Scientific Prospectus and Implementation Plan. 1999, Esbensen, S., T. Mitchell and C. Gudmunson. eds. 40 pp. PDF (3.0 MB)

 

Working Group Reports:

  • U.S. CLIVAR Office, July 2007: U.S. CLIVAR Salinity Working Group Report. Report 2007-1, U.S. CLIVAR Office, Washington, DC 20006, 46pp.
  • The Asian-Australian Monsoon System: A Prospectus for a Research Program. Draft recommendations from the St. Michaels, Maryland, Monsoon Workshop, July 28-30, 1998.

 

 
   

 

Science Tidbits    

9 October 2008 - Future Risk of Hurricanes: the Role of Climate Change

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

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; Register NOW!!

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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