US CLIVAR
Fostering understanding and prediction of climate variability and change
US CLIVAR Climate Variability and Predictability Program
Who We Are
US CLIVAR is a national research program with a mission to foster understanding and prediction of climate variability and change on intraseasonal-to-centennial timescales, through observations and modeling with emphasis on the role of the ocean and its interaction with other elements of the Earth system, and to serve the climate community and society through the coordination and facilitation of research on outstanding climate questions.
Our Research
The ocean plays a key role in providing a major long-term "memory" for the climate system, generating or enhancing variability on a range of climatic timescales. Understanding the ocean's role in climate variability is therefore crucial for quantifying and harnessing the predictability inherent to the Earth system. US CLIVAR-led research has played a substantial role in advancing understanding of, and skill in predicting climate variability and change.
Science and Research Challenges
Subseasonal-to-
Seasonal Prediction
Decadal Variability
and Predictability
Climate Change
Climate and Extreme
Events
Polar Climate Changes
Climate and Marine
Carbon/Biogeochemistry
Climate at the Coasts
Announcements
The Pattern Effect: Coupling of SST Patterns, Radiative Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity Workshop
Scheduled for May 10-13, 2022. The workshop's goal is to advance our understanding of the coupling between surface temperatures and radiative feedbacks and the origin and timescales of surface temperature pattern evolution.
2021 Fall Variations
This edition of Variations themed "New Frontiers for Ocean Surface Currents" features 6 articles from state of knowledge of vertical velocity structure to the expected impact of technological and modeling advances.
2022 Call for new US CLIVAR Panel members
Apply to join one of the US CLIVAR implementation Panels that formulate science goals and implementation strategies, catalyze and coordinate activities, and work with agencies and international partners to advance the progress of the climate research.
2021 Call for new US CLIVAR Working Groups
Requests are now being accepted for new US CLIVAR-sponsored Working Groups. All documents must be submitted by October 15, 2021.
Research Highlights
Upcoming Webinars
Process Study Webinar Series
Date:
Title: Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic
Presenter: Colleen Iversen and Peter Thornton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Funding for US CLIVAR provided by
