All Announcements

International CLIVAR seeks nominations for the Scientific Steering Group (SSG) and panels. Nominations should support expertise need to fulfill a panel's terms of reference. Nominations with diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply, as well as early career scientists. The deadline for nominations (appointments start in 2017 for panels and 2018 for the SSG) is 20 July 2016.

The next edition of Variations will feature a series of articles that highlights two recent sea surface temperature events—the warm blob in the North Pacific and the cold blob in the North Atlantic. The articles will highlight recent work, theories, and advancements in understanding these phenomena. The authors of the articles will be giving two distinct webinars (one on each region) to discuss these topics. The North Pacific Warm Blob webinar will be on Tuesday, June 7 at 1:00 pm EDT and the North Atlantic Cool Blob webinar will be on Friday, June 10 at 12:00 pm EDT. 

The upcoming AMS annual meeting will bring together researchers across the weather, water, and climate community. There are multiple conferences and symposiums, as part of the meeting, that will be of interest to the CLIVAR community, such as the 29^th Conference on Climate Variability and Change. Abstracts are due August 1.

Join the Arctic Mid-latitude Working Group for a workshop to explore the possible links between Arctic change and mid-latitude climate and weather that has spurred a rush of new observational and modeling studies. This meeting will take place in Washington, DC on February 1-3, 2017. 

Welcome to the new US CLIVAR Working Group on the Changing Width of the Tropical Belt. The intent of the working group is to further the understanding of new insights that call into question the prevailing view about the nature and causes of changes in the width of the tropics.

The Consortium for Ocean Leadership, American Geophysical Union, and US CLIVAR are seeking input from a wide audience of ocean stakeholders and scientists to help inform future ocean science priorities in the next Administration. If you would like to contribute to the recommendations, now is the time to do so. Please submit your requests in the form of broad themes or goals, followed by a few specific actions to accomplish them, by May 13.

Participants are invited to attend this workshop to help develop a framework for using ENSO forecasts to predict changes in marine ecosystems off of the US West Coast, which shows large imprints of ENSO on biological processes. Due to the limited size of the workshop, participants must apply by May 2. 

The National Academies is conducting the 2017-2027 Decadal Survey for Earth Science and Applications from Space and is requesting a second round of community white papers to inform the Survey. This request for information builds upon the initial set of white papers submitted last year (responses available on the website). The purpose of this second set of papers is to provide ideas for specific science and applications targets under the following five themes: (i) Global Hydrological Cycles and Water Resources, (ii) Weather and Air Quality: Minutes to Subseasonal, (iii) Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems and Natural Resource Management, (iv) Climate Variability and Change: Seasonal to Centennial, and (v) Earth Surface and Interior: Dynamics and Hazards. White papers are due April 30.

Comments are sought on a draft white paper based upon the October 2015 US CLIVAR workshop, Translating Process Understanding to Improve Climate Models. The white paper is intended to summarize questionnaire responses, workshop presentations, discussions, and recommendations to inform both the broad research community and agency considerations on the need for a coordinated effort to translate process understanding into climate model improvements over the next decade. Comments on the current draft are due by April 29.