[PDF] Top 20 CLIVAR Exchanges No 8

... 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 identify the linkages between the Antarctic polar sea ice ... See full document

... TRMM may unfortunately be retired from service after this summer (2005) and a comparable replacement will not fly at least until 2010. Accordingly, the capability demonstrated here (and in additional results slated for ... See full document

... As some of you might have already heard, my official CLIVAR involvement will end by end of this year. We are very grateful to the German funding agency BMBF who has supported the office and part of my position for ... See full document

... substantial dependence of crops on distribution of rainfall through the season. A methodological research area is the coupling of seasonal predictions with crop models. Figure 2 (page 8) provides an example of ... See full document

... The PIRATA-8 meeting firstly dedicated to the na- tional and international status of the backbone array of the programme, the last PIRATA events from PIRATA-7 (Na- tal, April 2000), and the perspectives for the ... See full document

... major CLIVAR implementation workshop was held in Villefranche-sur-Mer which is located in the heart of the French ...around 8 invited presentations and 5 working group sessions which were designed to ... See full document

... The Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAM- STEC) hosted the “International Workshop on Ocean Climate Variations from Seasons to Decades with Special Emphasis on Pacific Ocean Buoy Network”, May 29-31, in Mutsu, ... See full document

... Climate change issues in the Pacific were discussed by Amy Clement, Wenju Cai and Akio Kitoh. Amy Clement’s presentation sketched how our understanding of paleo- climate can be used to assess future climate ... See full document

... about 8 years. Additional experiments have shown that the mechanism for this 8 yr mode around Antarctica is very similar to mechanism for the 16-18 yr mode in the North Atlantic: The SST anomalies are ... See full document

... Accurate upper-air observations were needed over a large region currently without a dense sounding network to a) quantify the variability of the LLJ over different spatial scales; b) describe the spatial variability of ... See full document

... Over the 1968-2005 period, the mean date of the monsoon onset was 24th June with a standard deviation of 8 days. Figure 2 (page 17) depicts the latitude-time cross-section of the OLR field in 2006 averaged between ... See full document

... One of the main goals of MedCLIVAR (Mediterranean CLImate VARiability and predictability project, http://clima. casaccia.enea.it/medclivar; see also Lionello et al. 2006) is the reconstruction of Mediterranean past ... See full document

... of Exchanges which, as you will have seen, focuses on Ocean Model Development and Assessment and also to have his “seal of approval” of the included ...to CLIVAR-related ... See full document

... Moored buoys are deployed in the coastal and offshore waters to measure and transmit barometric pressure; wind direction, speed, and gust; air and sea temperature; and wave energy spectra from which significant wave ... See full document

... The consensus protocols have several advantages. First, it will be possible to create multimodel ensembles of simulations of the key phenomena, so as to obtain an estimate of the reliability of the results. Second, the ... See full document

... successful CLIVAR Conference and the review of CLIVAR undertaken by the Scientific Steering Group immediately ...addition, CLIVAR Panels and Working Groups have been continuing to develop various ... See full document

... of Exchanges which, as you will see, is joint with ...joint CLIVAR/CCl/JCOMM Expert Team on Climate Change Detection and ...the CLIVAR SSG ...for CLIVAR over the ...to CLIVAR, if in a ... See full document

... US CLIVAR and is designed to improve the understanding of the variety of mechanisms that connect the thermocline to the surface in the equatorial Pacific cold ... See full document

... Anthropogenic climate change (ACC) is currently top of the political agenda, and public awareness of the threat of climate change is very high. Since significant climate change now seems inevitable, government and society ... See full document

... T wo broad classes of climate variability have been iden- tified by CLIVAR which may provide some predictabil- ity on seasonal to longer time scales. Those modes of variability of the first class all have a ... See full document