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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.

 

  

  

GET INVOLVED Highlights About US CLIVAR Search

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 28, 2011
Nicholas Bond University of Washington
Annalisa Bracco Georgia Institute of Technology
Arun Kumar NOAA NCEP
Lisa Goddard, chair IRI
Michael Bosilovich NASA GSFC
Jay McCreary University of Hawaii - IPRC
Mike Spall Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Joao Teixeira NASA JPL
Rob Wood University of Washington

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

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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