[PDF] Top 20 CLIVAR Exchanges No 31 Atlantic Predictability

... the Atlantic on ...the Atlantic on upstream ...a) Atlantic SST: all ocean points north of the equator, between longitudes 100W and 60E, with the exclusion of Pacific points between 100W - 75W, and Eq ... See full document

... In analogy to ocean heat content, land surface soil moisture and snow cover have a longer memory than atmospheric quantities and can potentially contribute to atmospheric variability and seasonal predictability. ... See full document

... tropical Atlantic (France, Brazil, and ...on CLIVAR, GOOS, OOPC, NOAA's Office of Global Programs, International Research Institute for Climate Predic- tion, Pan American Climate Studies, Atmospheric ... See full document

... the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group had identified African Climate Variability as one of the eleven principal research areas for CLI- VAR and asked a small group of interested scientists to organize a study ... See full document

... and predictability of the WAM in ...and predictability is a joint WG with THORPEX and is concerned with improving our knowledge and understanding of high impact weather over the West African continent, and ... See full document

... Because these expendable instruments have modest costs ($10,000-$15,000), it is feasible to consider deploying large numbers of them around the globe. An array of 1,000 instruments arranged with 500-km spacing would ... See full document

... The South American monsoon system (SAMS) develops over a land mass characterized by a large area at the equator, very high mountains to the west that effectively block air transport, and surface cover that varies from ... See full document

... EPICA is a long-term (~7 years) European deep ice-core drilling project in Antarctica to derive high resolution records of climate and atmospheric compo- sition through several glacial-interglacial cycles. The project, ... See full document

... the CLIVAR science programme offers an opportunity to cooperate in a comprehensive study of climate varia- bility and ...for CLIVAR as part of the ...the CLIVAR programme that aims to understand the ... See full document

... within CLIVAR continue to be very active, and this past year has seen considerable amount of effort in support of the IPCC ...by CLIVAR and the WMO Commission for ...of CLIVAR science, with respect ... See full document

... lution of 0.1 deg, or finer, is required to ”resolve” the eddy-mean flow interaction in the extratropical oceans. A necessary, though perhaps not sufficient, condition is that the horizontal grid needs to be smaller than ... See full document

... the CLIVAR Science ...of CLIVAR in providing these answers will also de- pend on the advances of each of the other WCRP compo nent projects, namely WOCE, GEWEX, SPARC and ...of CLIVAR, therefore, is ... See full document

... The CLIVAR Atlantic and Southern Ocean panels have made significant strides this past ...substantial CLIVAR presence in tropi- cal Atlantic identified process studies on subtropical cells, ... See full document

... for predictability of the NDVI, a variable whose potential in seasonal forecast applications had been previously recognized (Verdin et ...the predictability for each grid-box of ...the ... See full document

... The seasonal differences of the climate response are largest at the continental scale following tropical eruptions. Over northern hemispheric (NH) land regions, radiative cooling is dominant only in the summer half-year. ... See full document

... Rainy-season onset date is usually defined using thresholds for estimating the first wet spell of the season (i.e. Dodd and Jolliffe, 2001). Restriction to large rainfall amounts and/or long wet spells help to reduce the ... See full document

... the predictability of the system, since it carries the implication that there is some sort of discoverable shared time-dependence between the two main freshwater transports passing south either side of ...the ... See full document

... Here CLIVAR comes into play and will continue some of the WOCE activities through its basin- scale projects in the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern Oceans as well as through global sustained observations and ... See full document

... for CLIVAR is monsoon prediction and its links to applications, activities that are focussed in CLIVAR’s Asian Australian Monsoon Panel ...monsoon predictability and prediction, the role of intra-seasonal ... See full document

... of CLIVAR, GOOS and GCOS, a longer term monitoring net- work that will address more completely the nature of seasonal to interannual climate variability, as well as the processes associated with longer term, ... See full document