All Announcements

The NOAA Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) Program webinar series will host its next presentation on seasonal predictions on October 29 from 11:00am - 12:00pm ET. Speakers will include Lisa Goddard of Columbia University, Eric Guilyardi of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace and University of Reading, and Ben Kirtman of the University of Miami. US CLIVAR is a co-sponsor of this webinar. More details about the webinar. 

The September meeting of the US AMOC Science Team brought together over 80 researchers to Seattle Washington to share the latest scientific results in observing, modeling, and understanding the AMOC and it's impacts. A summary of meeting highlights and indvidual presentations are now online and available to download. 

Requests are now being accepted for US CLIVAR-sponsered workshops and new Working Groups. The call for submissions is open to the US climate science community. Sponsored annually, open community workshops are used to coordinate, develop, plan, and implement new or focused activities for the benefit of the scientific community and relevant to the goals of US CLIVAR. The initiation of two new Working Groups will be sponsored annually with an objective to undertake actionable and measurable tasks over a 2-3 year period.

For more details, review the individual calls:

Workshop  

Working Group

Requests are due by October 17, 2014. 

Ocean's Carbon and Heat Uptake: Uncertainties and Metrics is a joint workshop by the Ocean Carbon Uptake and Southern Ocean Working Groups of US CLIVAR and OCB, which aims to catalyze progress toward understanding the ocean’s role in carbon and heat uptake by strengthening communication and collaboration across traditional disciplinary boundaries to facilitate the exchange of results from recent studies and discuss the most promising directions for future research. The workshop will be December 12-14 in San Francisco, CA. Participation will be limited to 75 scientists, and advance registaration and a brief application are required. 

The 2014 summer edition of Variations examines the predictability of Arctic climate variability and the impacts of a warming climate. Contributing authors provide insights from sea ice predictions to weather patterns to linkages with lower latitudes, which sheds light on the relationship between a changing Arctic with the rest of the globe.   

The US Repeat Hydrography CO₂/Tracer Program, having recently completed a decade of full-depth surveys of the world’s ocean basins, has compiled a report summarizing programmatic and scientific achievements. As a contributor to the international Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP), the US program has advanced understanding of the role of the ocean in climate change, carbon cycling, and biogeochemical responses. The report highlights key scientific discoveries and presents future science and monitoring objectives.

The 95th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorlogical Society will be held on January 4-8, 2015 in Phoenix, Arizona. The theme for the meeting is “Fulfilling the Vision of Weather, Water, and Climate Information for Every Need, Time, and Place”. 

Check out our compiled list of sessions relevant to the CLIVAR community. 

Message on behalf of Erica Key, National Science Foundation:

Now available online is the sixth annual report for the US AMOC Science Team. This report features progress made in the past year on the main objectives of the program, identifies any programmatic gaps, and makes recommendations on near-term research priorities for the program. Findings and recommendations from an external review process conducted in 2012-2013 and highlights from the US AMOC/UK Rapid international meeting are also featured.

Following on the release of the new Science Plan, the upcoming 2014 US CLIVAR Summit in Denver will review progress, identify opportunities, and develop strategies to advance US CLIVAR goals. The meeting will have a particular focus on benchmarks and metrics for evaluating improvements in monitoring and analysis, model development, and prediction. To learn more about the Summit, check out the agenda. (Please note this is an invite only meeting.)