US Climate Variability and Predictability Program
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.
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.
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
Apply to join one of the US CLIVAR 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.
Please join us for a Town Hall to preview the Air-Sea Transition Zone Study Group's observing and modeling strategy and provide feedback.
Be sure to stop by one of the Air-Sea Interactions Working Group's sessions at Fall AGU 2022 in-person or online.
Please join us for a Town Hall to preview the Air-Sea Transition Zone Study Group's observing and modeling strategy and provide feedback.
J. Tom Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
J. Thomas Farrar, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Funding for US CLIVAR provided by
