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U.S. CLIVAR Variations

U.S. CLIVAR publishes a science newsletter 3 times annually. A complete listing of articles is below. To receive a paper copy of the newsletter, please contact the U.S. CLIVAR Office.

March, 2011 V9N1 (PDF)

  • Driving Ecosystem and Biogeochemical Models with Optimal State Estimates of the Ocean Circulation - by Stephanie Dutkiewicz
  • Developing an Integrated Earth System Analysis Capability (Workshop summary) and the 3rd Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (Workshop summary) - by David Legler, Randall Dole, Rob Allen and Gil Compo
  • Comparative Analysis of Upper Ocean Heat Content Variability from Ensemble Operational Ocean Analyses - by Yan Xue, et al.

November, 2010 V8N2 (PDF)

  • Seasonal Predictions of Arctic Sea Ice Coverage - by Ron Lindsay
  • A Vision for Climate Variability Research in the Southern Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere System - by Kevin Speer, Matthew England, Kate Stansfield and the Southern Ocean CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Panel

May, 2010 V8N1 (PDF)

  • Measuring and understanding surface heat fluxes in a changing Arctic Environment - by Jennifer E. Kay
  • High Latitude Fluxes and Products: The case for gridded time series - by W.G. Large
  • Comparison of Wind Products in the Southern Ocean - by Chin-Ying Chien, Kevin Speer, and Mark Bourassa
  • In-situ air-sea flux observations during the International Polar Year - by Ian Renfrew

December, 2009 V7N3 (PDF)

  • Constraining the Southeastern Tropical Pacific Heat Budget with Observations - by Simon de Szoeke
  • Preliminary confrontation of the VOCALS Hypotheses with Observations and Modeling - by Robert Wood, et. al.
  • Eddies in the Southeast Pacific and Their Influence on the Upper Ocean - by Fiamma Straneo et. al.

August, 2009 V7N2 (PDF)

  • Did Changes in the Subpolar North Atlantic Trigger the Recent Mass Loss from the Greenland Ice Sheet? by Fiamma Straneo et. al
  • Effect of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation on Tropical Atlantic Climate by Caihong Wen et. al
  • Observed and Modeled Pathways of the Deep Limb of the North Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation by Amy Bower et. al

April, 2009 V7N1 (PDF)

  • Local and remote influences of the Kuroshio Extension on the atmosphere - by Hiroki Tokinaga et. al.
  • Ocean model representation of western boundary currents and frontal systems: How good are the strongly eddying models? by Matthew Hecht
  • Atmospheric sensitivity to SST near the Kuroshio Extension: A case study of the extrtropical transition of Typhoon Tokage - by Nicholas Bond

December, 2008 V6N3 (PDF)

  • Summer Drought and Heat Waves in Southern Africa: Observations and Coupled Model Behavior by Bradfield Lyon
  • Overview of the Drought Working Group
  • Analysis of the multi-model U.S. CLLIVAR Drought Working Group Simulations by Philip Pegion and Arun Kumar
  • The Caribbean Low Level Jet: Regional Dynamics and its Relationship to Precipitation by Kerry Cook and Edward Vizy

September, 2008 V6N2 (PDF)

  • Is It Me, of Did the Oceans Cool? By Josh Willis
  • Marine Ecosystems and their Climate Connection by David Mountain
  • Water Resources Decision-Makers and their needs for Decadal Climate Prediction by Andrea Ray
  • A New Reanalysis in the CISL Research Data Archive

Spring, 2008 V6N1 (PDF)

  • Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation shows significant changes in early data from intenational monitoring systems at 26.5N by Christopher Meinen and Molly Baringer
  • Recent ENSO and SAM Teleconnections for Antarctica by Ryan Fogt, David Bromwich and Keith Hines
  • US CLIVAR Working Group on High Latitude Surface Fluxes by Mark Bourassa and Sarah Gille
  • US CLIVAR Drought Working Group Workshop

December, 2007 V5N3 (PDF)

  • Estimating the Circulation and Climate of the Ocean (The ECCO Consortia) by Patrick Heimbach and Carl Wunsch
  • The US CLIVAR Working Group on Western Boundary Current Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction by Bo Qiu, Kathryn Kelly and Michael Alexander

September, 2007 V5N2 (PDF)

  • Decadal Variability and Predictability by D.J. Vimont and M. Newman
  • US CLIVAR Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Science Team
  • Climate Prediction Applications Postdoctoral Program (CPAPP) by Lisa Goddard, Kelly Redmond and Meg Austin
  • Decadal Changes Evident from CLIVAR Repeat Hydrography Section I9N: More Women Oceanographers at Sea! By Janet Sprintall and Sabine Mecking
  • US CLIVAR Salinity Working Group Report Summary
  • Open Call for Panel Nominations
  • Diapycnal and Isopycnal Mixing Experiment in the Souther Ocean (DIMES)

Spring, 2007 V5N1 (PDF)

  • The VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS) by Robert Wood, et. al.,
  • The US CLIVAR Working Group on Long-term Drought by Dave Gutzler and Siegfried Schubert
  • The Path to Improving Predictions of the North American Monsoon by David Gochis and Wayne Higgins
  • Analyzing the Variations of the Global Ocean Energy Cycle by William Rossow et. al.,
  • US CLIVAR Western Boundary Current Working Group

Fall, 2006 V4N3

  • Practices for Seasonal-to-Interannual Climate Prediction by Lisa Goddard and Martin Hoerling
  • US CLIVAR Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO) Working Group Meeting Summary by Duane Waliser and Ken Sperber
  • Atlantic Decadal Predictability Workshop Summary by John Marshall
  • The Predictability of ENSO by Ben Kirtman
  • 2006 US CLIVAR Summit Highlights

Spring/Summer, 2006 V4N2

  • Underwater Gliders for Ocean Climate Observations by Charles Eriksen
  • NASA’s Modern Era Retrospective-analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) by Michaael Bosilovich, et. al,
  • The US CLIVAR/CO2 Repeat Hydrography Program by James Swift
  • The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (GHRSST) Pilot Project by Kenneth Casey and Craig Donlon
  • US CLIVAR MJO Working Group
  • US CLIVAR Salinity Workshop Summary

Winter, 2006 V4N1

  • The U.S. CLIVAR CPT Program by Raffaele Ferrari
  • Climate Process Team on Eddy Mixed Layer Interactions: Eddy-mixed layer interactions in the ocean by Raffaele Ferrari
  • Gravity Current Entrainment Climate Process Team by Sonya Legg
  • The Climate Process Team on Low-Latitude Cloud Feedbacks and Climate Sensitivity by Chris Bretherton
  • US CLIVAR Town Hall Meeting
  • North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME) update

Fall, 2005 V3N3

  • On the Relationship between ENSO and Extreme Weather over the Contiguous United States by Siegfried Schubert, Yehui Change, Max Suarez and Philip Pegion
  • The Probabilistic Projection of Climate Risk by David Enfield and Luis Cid-Serrano
  • Changes in daily precipiation and surface iar temperature extremes in the IPCC AR4 models by Michael Wehner
  • Salinity Working Group article
  • US CLIVAR Summit report

Spring, 2005 V3N2

  • The Evolution of the Weak El Niño of 2004-2005 by Bradfield Lyon and Anthony Barnston
  • El Niño Impacts on the California Current Ecosystem by Franklin Schwing and Steven Bograd
  • CLIMODE: a mode water dynamics experiment in support of CLIVAR by John Marshall on behalf of the CLIMODE team
  • Reorganization article
  • CLIVAR/IPCC Workshop on Analysis of Climate Model Simulations for the IPCC AR4

Winter, 2005 V3N1 (PDF)

  • Seeking Progress in El Nino Prediction by Lisa Goddard and David DeWitt
  • The NOAA Climate Test Bed by R.W. Higgins et. al.
  • US CLIVAR Climate Model Evaluation Project by Cathy Stephens

Spring, 2004 V2N1 (PDF)

Winter, 2002 V1N1 (PDF)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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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