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The U.S. CLIVAR Decadal Predictability Working Group was formed in January 2009. Membership and terms of reference are listed below.

Decadal Predictability Working Group
last updated April 8, 2011
Jim Carton University of Maryland
Tom Delworth NOAA GFDL
Rym Msadek NOAA GFDL
Clara Deser NCAR
Ichiro Fukomori JPL
Lisa Goddard, co-chair IRI/Columbia University
Ben Kirtman University of Miami
Arun Kumar, co-chair NOAA CPC
Yochanan Kushnir Lamont Doherty - Columbia Univ.
Matt Newman NOAA - University of Colorado
Amy Solomon, co-chair NOAA - University of Colorado
Dan Vimont University of Wisconsin
Contributing Members
George Boer Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
Tom Fricker University of Leeds, UK
Arthur Greene IRI
Ed Hawkins  
Gabi Hegerl University of Edinburgh
Jerry Meehl WGCM, NCAR
Doug Smith UK Met Office
Tim Stockdale WGSIP
Rowan Sutton  

Terms of Reference

  • Define a framework to distinguish natural decadal variability from anthropogenically forced variability and to quantify their relative magnitude.
  • Develop a framework for understanding decadal variability through metrics that can be used as a strategy to assess and validate decadal climate predictions simulations.

 

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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