[PDF] Top 20 CLIVAR Exchanges No 24 Special issue on: CLIVAR Pacific

... 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, meridional ... 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 next ... See full document

... It has long been a matter of debate whether and how the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) warm and cold extremes influence Euro-Mediterranean rainfall. In fact while the impact of ENSO on tropical climate is well- ... See full document

... NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in collaboration with NIO and the Indian Department of Ocean Development (DOD) deployed 4 ATLAS moorings and 1 ADCP mooring between 80°-90°E from the Ocean ... See full document

... the Pacific continues to underpin much of CLIVAR research on ENSO and related variability in the tropical ...the CLIVAR Ocean Observations Panel (COOP) will be reconstituted with a focus on global ... See full document

... by CLIVAR which may provide some predictabil- ity on seasonal to longer time ...the Pacific, the north-south dipole in the Atlantic, the ENSO-type mode in the equatorial Atlantic, the east-west dipole in ... See full document

... tropical Pacific during the 1997-98 El Niño event and how well they were predicted by objective means (dynamical models and statistical methods) and how these were translated into forecasts to the community and ... 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

... 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

... with Special Emphasis on Pacific Ocean Buoy Network”, May 29-31, in Mutsu, Aomori-prefecture, Japan, just prior to the Sap- poro CLIVAR ...the Pacific ocean and its adjacent seas, in ... See full document

... western Pacific in March 1998; on the PIRATA array (supported by France, Brazil, and the ...the Pacific Coast of Chile, and on the status of Indian National Data Buoy ... 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

... with special emphasis on regions with scarce information (North African coastal regions, sea information, Figure 1) and those having sensitivity to climate ... See full document

... We are addressing this question in part through analysis of several different atmospheric general circu- lation model (AGCM) ensembles, where the AGCMs were forced with the time history of observed SSTs. Most of the ... See full document

... to CLIVAR implementation of mon- soon studies, ocean observations, and coupled model stud- ...of CLIVAR. CLIVAR has developed recently a tracking sys- tem to monitor these various international ... See full document

... tropical Pacific are ...central Pacific centered on the equator together with warm SST anomalies in the eastern Pacific (correlation exceeds ...tropical Pacific during an El Niño in a much ... 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 purpose of this project is to examine how well current experimental seasonal predictions of sea sur- face temperature in the so-called NIÑO-3 region of the equatorial Pacific (5 o N-5 o S, 150 o W-90 o W) per- ... See full document

... for CLIVAR in the development of long-term climate system observa- ...studies. CLIVAR ACC has a role in the design and coordination of such studies, and should, therefore, also be involved in the ... 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