[PDF] Top 20 CLIVAR Exchanges No 25 Special issue on: CLIVAR Atlantic

... The measurements available to date seem to con- firm the monitoring strategy as well as the experiment design. Intense short-term variability has been docu- mented, but the 2 year time series is still too short to reveal ... See full document

... DOVETAIL is the third and most recent in a sequence of research programs organized under IAnZone over the past decade, and is an integrated field and modeling study that addresses the transport of newly formed deep ... See full document

... North Atlantic pres- sure gradient is weakened implying an impact on the North Atlantic Oscillation (see Merkel and Latif, 2002, their ...North Atlantic is reduced, implying a southward shift of the ... See full document

... The primary aspect considered is whether, during 1997-2000, the large-scale modes of atmospheric variation typically triggered by El Niño /La Niña were indeed trig- gered – and then if they were modified by regional sea ... See full document

... One of the key questions when dealing with the thermohaline circulation in the South Atlantic is how much heat and salt is transferred from the Indian to the Atlantic Ocean. This inter-ocean exchange take ... See full document

... the issue of GCM/RCM skill in representing the mean climate and its variability remains, it is encouraging to note that gridded model output can be used with some ... See full document

... North Atlantic are a special part of the “cold water sphere” that makes up the bulk of the world ...saline Atlantic Waters carried northward into the Irminger and Labrador ...water exchanges ... See full document

... tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) and the Indian ...both CLIVAR Numerical Experimentation Groups and the Upper Ocean ...the CLIVAR/PAG- ES 1 Working Group as well as workshops on scientific is- sues related ... See full document

... equatorial Atlantic, negative (positive) SSTA over the tropical Northern Atlantic and warm (cold) El Niño Southern Oscillation events ...below 25-50% (10-30%) on a regional (grid-point) ... See full document

... also Exchanges, ...to 25 years in length should be performed with global coupled atmosphere/ocean models and a range of predictability measures collect- ...ed. CLIVAR NEG-1 pointed out that any ... See full document

... with Special Emphasis on Pacific Ocean Buoy Network”, May 29-31, in Mutsu, Aomori-prefecture, Japan, just prior to the Sap- poro CLIVAR ...next issue of ... See full document

... The CLIVAR SSG recommended to publish the Initial CLIVAR Implementation Plan in two ...of CLIVAR ‘key scientists’ and the draft was circulat- ...a special emphasis on implementation ... 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

... Three of the GOALS PRAs are already served by planning and oversight panels. Two of these - VA- MOS and the Asian-Australian Monsoon, had just met. The SSG endorsed the staged approach to field programmes proposed by ... See full document

... Previous studies have been devoted to study the low- level circulation over South America (Rasmusson and Mo (1996) and Nogués-Paegle and Mo (1997), among others). Particularly, Saulo et al (2000) have characterised the ... See full document

... the Atlantic is entered into the North Atlantic thermohaline ...North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) is formed in the Iceland-Greenland and Labrador Seas and then is spread through the global ... 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

... South Atlantic (Haarsma et ...South Atlantic Ocean consists of a dipole in SST and a monopole in SLP ...Tropical Atlantic and slab ocean elsewhere, captures the observed dominant mode of coupled ... See full document

... of variability in the region. The land-surface also can potentially play a role in amplifying the chaotic (unpredictable) component of seasonal variability. Strong evidence already has been presented that land- ... See full document

... by CLIVAR and the Inter American Institute ...The CLIVAR SSG welcomed this recommendation along with the acronym “VAMOS” which in Spanish meens “Let’s go!”, and decided to create a VAMOS Panel whose first ... See full document