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Salinity Documents

  • The Salinity Working Group Report Issued July 2007 (pdf)

Salinity Meetings

  • Special Session Planned at Ocean Sciences Meeting in Hawaii (February 2006)

THE ROLE OF OCEAN SALINITY IN CLIMATE

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Conveners: James Carton, Ray Schmitt and Gary Lagerloef

Ocean salinity is a key variable related to the interactions between the Earthís water cycle, ocean circulation and climate. Understanding its importance in climate variability involves studying topics such as (1) the influence of salinity variability on tropical dynamics and ENSO, (2) large scale salinity changes in mid to high latitudes that influence mode water formation and ocean convective overturning circulation and (3) closure of the global ocean-atmosphere freshwater balance. This session welcomes presentations on these general topics and other processes that define the role of ocean salinity in climate.

  • Salinity Workshop at Woods Hole 8-10 May 2006 - click here for more information.

 

 

 

 

 

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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