AMS 96th Annual Meeting, CLIVAR sessions of interest

28^th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

• Distinguishing among climate variability, anthropogenic forcing, and evolution of current climate state: Contributions of US CLIVAR science
• US CLIVAR Session on Ocean Fingerprints of Decadal-to-Centennial Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Change
• 20th Century Reanalysis: Methods and Applications
• Advances in climate modeling and prediction
• Arctic circulation and sea-ice variability and trends
• Climate Change and the Large-scale Circulation
• Climate assessment and decision support
• Decadal-Multidecadal variability in Pacific, Atlantic and Indian basins
• Earth System Climate Reanalyses: Low Frequency Variability and Trends
• Extreme events
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions: Quantifying Uncertainties in Measurements and Models and Resultant Climate Impacts 
• Helping Society Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Variability and Change
• High Impact Weather: Analysis, Prediction, and Interaction with Climate Changes
• Interannual variability
• Mechanisms of Anthropogenic Aerosol-Forced Regional Climate Variability
• Multi-model Predictability and Prediction on Subseasonal to Seasonal Timescales
• Progress in North Atlantic extratropical sub-seasonal to seasonal forecasting
• Regional climate variability and change
• Subseasonal variability
• The Pacific Decadal Oscillation: Is it really real?

22^nd Conference on Applied Climatology

• Data quality and climate data sets
• Drought monitoring, prediction, and impacts
• Effective climate services (including assessment of science, product, and service needs, assessment of impacts, and communication of climate science)
• Emerging Services within the Weather, Water, and Climate Enterprise
• Helping Society Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Variability and Change
• Links between climate and weather
• Observations, as well as analysis and research related to applications of climate data, forecasts, and information
• Related to the theme of helping society mitigate and adapt to climate variability and change 

20^th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land-Surfaces

• Data Assimilation
• Field Experiments: observational and assimilation results
• Numerical analysis and prediction experiments involving observations
• Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs)
• Observing Systems
• Perspective and Plans for Future Observing Systems in Earth System Science
• The Impacts, Successes and Gaps of Current Observing Systems in Earth System Science

 Fourth Symposium on Prediction of the Madden-Julian Oscillation

• Air–sea interactions in the MJO
• Analysis of observations from the DYNAMO/CINDY field campaign
• Climate change and the MJO
• MJO modulation of tropical cyclones
• Methods for identification and prediction of the MJO
• Representation of the MJO in numerical models
• Societal impacts of the MJO, including the agricultural and energy sectors
• Theoretical studies of the MJO’s dynamics
• Tropical–extratropical interactions with the MJO

Special Symposium on Seamless Weather and Climate Prediction—Expectations and Limits of Multi-scale Predictability