The Arctic sea ice decline may explain the suggested slow-down of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation and the persistence of the Warming Hole.
The Ocean Carbon Hot Spots Workshop will take place on September 25-26 in Moss Landing, California. You can check out the poster presentations in the digital gallery.
Requests are now being accepted for up to one new US CLIVAR-sponsored working group for 2018. Submissions are encouraged from the US climate science community. All documents must be submitted by October 12, 2017. The next call for working groups will be in September 2018.
On February 17-18, US CLIVAR will host a workshop to create a shared understanding of ocean mesoscale eddy interactions with the atmosphere. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon, and limited to 50 participants. Applications are due October 6.
Requests are now being accepted for US CLIVAR-sponsored workshops for 2018. Submissions are encouraged from the US climate science community and their collaborators. All documents must be submitted by September 29, 2017. The next call for workshops will be in spring 2018.
The WCRP/IOC Sea Level Conference organizers seek signatories for the conference statement, based on input from the broad community. You can read about the conference in the daily highlights and a "by the numbers" graphic.
The 2017 summer edition of Variations, with guest editor Sonya Legg (Princeton U.), is themed: "Polar ocean and sea ice interactions." This edition focuses on describing and understanding the interactions between ocean circulation and sea ice, in addition to highlighting new observational and modeling opportunities.
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