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... the Indian Ocean and associated upper-ocean ...upper ocean in the MJO- convection onset (Slingo et ...the ocean surface to the entire troposphere is required for better understanding of ... See full document

... new climate-related mooring program JASMINE (Australia and the United States) was also ...on CLIVAR, GOOS, OOPC, NOAA's Office of Global Programs, International Research Institute for Climate Predic- ... See full document

... the ocean, two consortia on ocean modelling and state estimation were supported recently through the US National Ocean Part- nership Program (NOPP) with funding provided by the National Aeronautics ... See full document

... coupled ocean-atmosphere general circulation model (GCM), a cou- pled run in which ENSO is suppressed, and one run in which the ocean GCM is replaced by a mixed layer ...and ocean dynamics to SST ... See full document

... bal ocean models have only recently become realistic enough to be able to model and assimilate this data ...by ocean state estimation methods, using travel times as integral constraints on the model ...the ... See full document

... the Indian subcontinent. This past year saw the first meetings of both CLIVAR Numerical Experimentation Groups and the Upper Ocean ...the CLIVAR/PAG- ES 1 Working Group as well as workshops on ... See full document

... the climate research ...the climate system on time scales up to a century including the influence of mankind on global climate, are part of the CLIVAR Science ...of CLIVAR in providing ... See full document

... A superficial assessment indicates that some ef- fects fit the classical model (as given by previous events), but many did not. Another area where highly anomalous conditions were experienced was Kenya and the horn of ... See full document

... tropical climate variability. Tropical ocean- atmosphere interactions provide the dominant signal in interannual climate variability, while paleoclimatic and historical evidence indicates that ... See full document

... underlying ocean stratification and deep wa- ter ...to CLIVAR itself, particularly Section D5 of the CLI- VAR Implementation Plan, I and a Lamont colleague, Xiaojun Yuan, have undertaken a study designed to ... See full document

... for Climate Studies”, held in Boul- der, CO, USA, in August 1998 (see previous ...an ocean model satisfacto- rily to represent ocean eddy heat transport and to re- solve key processes such as ... See full document

... for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at the USA Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, ...and ocean mixing, could be investi- gated in more ... See full document

... TAO/TRITON captured the basin scale develop- ment of warm conditions in the tropical Pacific in early 2002 with considerable detail. In April 2002 (most recent full month for which data are available), SSTs were close to ... See full document

... produce climate variability from a single summer to the next and within one ...The Climate Forecasting Applications in Bangladesh (CFAB) project was formed as a joint effort between Georgia Institute of ... See full document

... Of particular importance is also the role of the Mediterranean to the global circulation (Fig. 4 page 17). The Mediterranean water injected into the Atlantic is entered into the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. ... See full document

... the Indian Ocean Global Ocean Observing System (IOGOOS), as a successful and active collaborative entity that continues to produce significant advances in the characterization and modeling of the ... See full document

... affect ocean-atmosphere interactions in the surrounding ...regional climate models, offer the prospect for some enhancement of skill levels and lead-time for seasonal predictions in the ... See full document

... Figure 1a shows the April-May climatological (1979- 1992) distribution of AI over the greater Indian monsoon region. Three major source regions can be identified: I) The Ganges Plain over northern India (marked by ... See full document

... to climate fluctuations on both interannual and interdecadal time ...such climate disasters and their impacts on water resources, food security, and ...the Indian Ocean, may have favored a ... See full document

... the CLIVAR-OOPC link via ...to climate change in the past, present global warming / anthropogenic climate changes and impacts, closely related to those of the CLIVAR-CCl ETCCDMI and the ... See full document