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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 to with "subscribe" in the subject header and include your contact information.

 

  

  

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The U.S. CLIVAR Committee includes the chairs of each panel and three at-large (non-panel) members. This committee is charged with promoting balance withing the various elements of the program, identifying scientific gaps, providing oversight to the U.S. CLIVAR Project Office, and keeping the National Research Coucil/CRC apprised of the status of U.S. CLIVAR.

US CLIVAR Committee
last updated March 4, 2009
Michael Alexander NOAA CIRES
Sarah Gille Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Arun Kumar NOAA NCEP
Martin Hoerling, chair NOAA CDC
Ben Kirtman RSMAS University of Miami
Sonya Legg Princeton
Jay McCreary University of Hawaii - IPRC
Mike Spall Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Paquita Zuidema RSMAS - University of Miami

Terms of Reference

  1. Provide overall scientific and programmatic guidance to ensure that US CLIVAR progresses towards achieving its scientific objectives using individual experts or expert groups as necessary

  2. Develop and update as needed an implementation strategy to prioritize and sequence US CLIVAR activities, and comment on agency implementation of the US CLIVAR Program;

  3. Promote balance within the various elements (theory, modeling, empirical studies, long-term observations and field campaigns) of the program and identify scientific gaps;

  4. Ensure that US CLIVAR activities are coordinated with international CLIVAR activities and other US GCRP elements;

  5. Provide oversight and coordination of, and guidance to US CLIVAR working groups;

  6. Provide advice for and implement, in consultation with other advisory bodies, effective transition of sustained observations initiated during CLIVAR to operational entities after they have demonstrated their usefulness for climate predictions;

  7. Keep the NRC/CRC appraised of the status of US CLIVAR, and acts as US liaison to the International CLIVAR SSG;

  8. Provide oversight of and guidance to the US CLIVAR Project Office.

 

 

Announcements

First Circular Announcement for WCRP Open Science Conference October 2011

7-9 June 2010 - US CLIVAR Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Annual Meeting (Miami, FL)

International CLIVAR seeks new Director - closing date 29 March 2010.

17-19 March 2010 - High Latitude Surface Flux Workshop in conjunction with SEAFLUX (Boulder, CO)

Postdocs Applying Climate Expertise(PACE) seeking Organizational Partners

PSMI Publication on Best Practices for Process Studies released and has reached #6 on AMS most viewed list. (BAMS, July 2009)

 

 

 

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Science Tidbits    

February 2010

YOTC-GS Alpha Prototype for Satellite data has been released to the public

14 August 2009 - Past Atlantic Hurricanes linked to Climate Change

10 August 2009 - Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans

 

 

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