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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 July 7, 2008
Michael Alexander NOAA CIRES
Sarah Gille Scripps Institute of Oceanography
Alex Hall UCLA
Martin Hoerling, chair NOAA CDC
Ben Kirtman RSMAS University of Miami
Sonya Legg Princeton
Jay McCreary University of Hawaii - IPRC
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.

 

 

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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