All Announcements

The second day of the conference was dedicated to presentations on contemporary sea level change, ranging from the role of ocean heat content to satellite missions to drivers of the variability of extreme sea levels.

The Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts conference kicked-off on June 10, starting with past sea level rise and working towards understanding the future. Day 1 conference highlights feature keynote speakers, overview talks, and three sessions on paleo sea level data and modeling, millennial-scale ice sheet and sea level interactions, and contemporary contributions from ice sheets and glaciers.

As part of the 2017 Summit, we will be broadcasting two special sessions on Tuesday, August 8. The first one is Advances & Challenges in Understanding & Predicting Climate Teleconnections at 10:00am-12:00pm ET and the second one is Polar Sea-Ice & Ocean Interactions at 5:30-7:30pm ET. Check out our webinar page for a list of speakers and details on how to join. 

On July 10-14, hundreds of scientists and stakeholders will gather in New York to address the existing challenges in describing and predicting regional sea level changes and in quantifying the intrinsic uncertainties. Follow along at #sealevel2017 and check the website for daily summaries. 

For three days, members and collaborators of the US AMOC Science Team met in Santa Fe to discuss advances in our understanding of the overturning circulation. Over 60 oral and poster presentations can be found on the website, along with highlights from the discussion. Also, a digital story is available, which captures the progression of the meeting. 

This workshop report on "Connecting Paleo & Modern Oceanographic Data to Understand Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Over Decades to Centuries" highlights discussions from the meeting and identifies promising and potentially synergistic research directions for the paleo and modern oceanographic communities. 

The Climate Process Team on Internal-Wave Driven Ocean Mixing has published an article on recent advances in the understanding of internal-wave driven turbulent mixing in the ocean interior, along with new parameterizations for global climate ocean models and their climate impacts.

Early bird discount registration closes May 15 for the International WCRP/IOC Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts Conference. The meeting will be held June 10-14, 2017 at Columbia University in New York. 

The 2017 spring edition of Variations is themed: "A case for observing the deep ocean." This edition highlights the existing “state-of-the-art” methods to measure the deep ocean, some of the scientific insights that have already been gained from these observations, and new methodologies and technologies to expand the network of deep observations. Join us for a webinar on May 16, featuring contributors from this edition. 

The 2016 Process Study Model Improvement (PSMI) Panel meeting focused on high-latitude and cryospheric processes, coastal and marginal seas, biophysical interactions, the tropical Pacific observing system, and data management. This report captures the presentations, discussions, recommendations, and action items the Panel agree upon at the meeting.