All Announcements

The US CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group was formed to coordinate efforts to produce a set of model experiments designed to improve understanding of the variability of tropical cyclone formation in climate models.  The WG hosted a workshop this summer at GFDL that included presentations by US and international scientists.  The Hurricane Workshop Report, summarizing 30 presentations over the 2.5 day event, is now available online

The theme for the Fall 2013 edition of Variations is Hurricane/Tropical Cyclone frequency and intensity.  The edition contains articles from members of the US CLIVAR Hurricane Working Group including findings presented at the recent workshop at GFDL.

NOAA's 38th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop is going on this week  Registration is available on-site.  The meeting will be held at the NCWCP Building in College Park, MD.  Check the meeting website and sign-up on the list-serv for the latest updates.

We've moved!  The US CLIVAR Project Office is now located at 1201 New York Ave NW, 4th Floor Rooms 4002-4004, Washington, DC 20005.  Our new phone number is 202.787.1682.  We're co-located with members of the UCAR Washington Office at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership.  We're looking forward to working with these colleagues in our new office space.

CLIVAR held a Town Hall at the Ocean Sciences Meeting on Tuesday, February 25^th, with presentations by Detlef Stammer and Lisa Goddard on future goals and research challenges of International and US CLIVAR.  Download a copy of the presentation.  Oral and poster sessions on CLIVAR: Ocean and Atmosphere Variability, Predictability and Change are scheduled for Wednesday, February 26^th.

“Challenges to Understanding the Dynamic Response of Greenland’s Marine Terminating Glaciers to Oceanic and Atmospheric Forcing” was published in the August 2013 edition of BAMS.  The paper summarizes the current state of knowledge and highlights key physical aspects of Greenland’s coupled ice sheet–ocean–atmosphere system.

The latest issue of CLIVAR Exchanges showcases a selection of articles on the science presented at the WGOMD/SOP Workshop on Sea Level Rise, Ocean/Ice Interactions and Ice Sheets held in Hobart, Australia February 18-20, 2013.

Follow scientists on board the NOAA RV, Ronald H. Brown, as they retrace line A16N to measure CTD, salinity, pCO₂, TCO₂, alkalinity, and more on this repeat hydrography cruise.  This cruise, the seventh re-occupation of this North Atlantic line since the first WOCE survey in 1988, is organized under the U.S. Global Ocean Carbon and Repeat Hydrography Program, jointly sponsored by NSF-OCE and NOAA-CPO and is a component of the global survey coordinated by GO-SHIP.

Along with its partners, NOAA Climate Project Office (CPO) supports competitive research through four major programs: Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM); Earth System Science (ESS); Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP); and Climate and Societal Interactions (CSI). All together, these programs are holding nine individual competitions for research funding in FY 2014.

The State of the Climate in 2012 supplement to the BAMS August 2013 issue is now available.  Download the report and browse through highlights on report topics: Extreme Events, Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Heat Content and others on NOAA's Climate.gov website.