[PDF] Top 20 CLIVAR Exchanges Seasonal prediction

... The Seasonal Prediction Model Project (SMIP) provided the opportunity to verify the performance of seasonal simulations using several Atmospheric Global Circulation Models (AGCM’s) in several regions ... 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

... During the SW Mosoon (SWM), the Findlater Jet drives coastal upwelling, horizontal advection and offshore mixed layer entrainment in the Arabian Sea that generate widespread phytoplankton blooms (Hood et al. 2003; ... See full document

... monthly, seasonal and decadal forecasts for Europe may be such that to demonstrate usefulness, the whole “end-to-end” forecast-to-user-decision process needs to be optimized in a single integrated step for each ... See full document

... on seasonal and interannual time scales other than ENSO (STOIC) was also nearing ...the CLIVAR Exchanges. The Seasonal Prediction Model Intercomparison Project (SMIP) which begun in ... See full document

... Livestock management in the Greater Horn of Africa An agriculture issue that has potential regional level interventions is the risk of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) in livestock in the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA). It has been ... See full document

... the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Group will meet in Geneva, Switzerland from 11-14 September ...of CLIVAR and on what legacy we might ...assigned CLIVAR the lead on two cross-cutting topics: ... 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 ... See full document

... ocean prediction system compared with global weather prediction is that the hori- zontal scales of the most relevant ocean processes are quite small (down to the order of a few tens of kilome- tres), and so ... See full document

... tury climate, a presentation (Jim Hurrell, NCAR) was made on the question of how limited AGCMs may be in simulating the variance of climate adequately. A specially designed experiment was created whereby the Hadley ... See full document

... Thanks to funding from the US CLIVAR Interagency Group (IAG) we have also been able to hire a second new staff member in the ICPO. Dr. Daniela Turk will join the office in mid-September. Daniela is currently at ... See full document

... broadly as possible the results of global change research in the form of an atlas. Specific objectives are to estab- lish a single source of information that has undergone peer review, to present the research results in ... See full document

... of seasonal to in- terannual variations in the tropical ...of CLIVAR, GOOS and GCOS, a longer term monitoring net- work that will address more completely the nature of seasonal to interannual climate ... See full document

... skilful seasonal forecasts to be used as a basis for making optimal use of the limited ...improved seasonal and even intraseasonal forecasts together with a more efficient dissemination of information have a ... 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

... LIM prediction is made by applying a statistically obtained Green's function to an observed initial ...LIM prediction system, 20 EOFs of the SSTA are used and a three- month running mean has been applied to ... See full document

... and prediction capability for the coupled atmosphere-ocean-ice ...weather; seasonal, interannual and decadal forecasts and for reducing biases and “spin up” time in climate change ... See full document

... The volume, which is also available as a hardbound book from Elsevier press, is guest edited by K. Alverson, F. Oldfield and R. Bradley and consists of 27 papers divided into five sections. The first section highlights a ... See full document

... AO indices are represented by the leading princi- pal component time series of the monthly mean North- ern Hemisphere (poleward 20ºN) sea level pressure field and available for period 1899-1999 (Thompson and Wallace, ... See full document

... relate seasonal-to-decadal variations of the Asian-Australian Monsoon system to variations of the ocean circulation in the western Pacific and Maritime Continent ...the CLIVAR SSG in ... See full document