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The U.S. CLIVAR Western Boundary Current Working Group was formed in January 2007. The group was charged with identifying shortcomings in the atmosphere, ocean, and coupled models that need to be addressed to accurately model western boundary current atmosphere-ocean interaction. The group will be hosted a workshop in Phoenix, 15-17 January 2009. Additional information is available online.

Western Boundary Current Working Group
last updated September 22, 2009
Mike Alexander NOAA CDC
Kathie Kelly (co-chair) University of Washington
Bo Qiu (co-chair) University of Hawaii
Nick Bond University of Washington
Meghan Cronin NOAA PMEL
Claude Frankignoul Laboratory of Ocean and Climate (France)
Terry Joyce Woods Hole Ocean. Inst.
Youn-Oh Kwon Woods Hole Ocean. Inst.
Hisashi Nakamura Univ. of Tokyo
Roger Samelson Oregon State University
Justin Small University of Hawaii
LuAnne Thompson University of Washington

Terms of Reference

  • Bring together the KESS, CLIMODE and other western boundary current atmosphere-ocean interaction groups for a synthesis of results
  • Identify shortcomings in atmosphere, ocean, and coupled models that need to be addressed to accurately model western boundary current atmosphere-ocean interaction
  • Identify observational gaps and modeling experiments that would answer outstanding issues

 

 

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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