[PDF] Top 20 CLIVAR Exchanges No 22 Special issue on: Southern Ocean Climate Variability

... It is of interest to calculate the mean buoyancy loss experienced by the surface waters of the Weddell Sea as a result of the presence of the polynya. Table 1 shows results for the austral winters of 1975 and 1976. Mean ... See full document

... Indian Ocean intensify the summer monsoon circulation in the experiment con- ducted to study the positive IOD ...Indian Ocean causes reduction in convection during the positive DM event and hence the ... See full document

... Of particular importance is also the role of the Mediterranean to the global circulation (Fig. 4 page 17). The Mediterranean water injected into the Atlantic is entered into the North Atlantic thermohaline circulation. ... See full document

... coupled variability in the South Atlantic (Haarsma et ...coupled variability in the South Atlantic Ocean consists of a dipole in SST and a monopole in SLP ...of variability (Venegas et al., ... See full document

... year CLIVAR has seen significant progress made by a number of its monsoon related ele- ...of CLIVAR that intersects with other elements of the World Climate Research Pro- ...The CLIVAR monsoon ... See full document

... coupled ocean- atmosphere model developed by ECMWF coupled with a simple hydrology ...Indian Ocean sea-surface temperature (SST) variability, as well as remote influences such as El ... See full document

... Future climate prediction systems will include ocean models at eddy-permitting to eddy-resolving resolution, ...the ocean interior and its boundaries, including air-sea interactions that drive the ... See full document

... gional climate patterns in ...Indian Ocean, and perhaps also in the tropical southeast- ern Atlantic, a region capable of impacting Equatorial Afri- can climate ...Indian Ocean anomalies ... See full document

... adverse climate change impact ...a climate change monitoring system for the region, which is a long-term goal of the ...the ocean off the west coast of South America from Colombia to the ... See full document

... lantic variability should involve the coupling of possi- bly unknown processes, the PIRATA proposal included, from the outset, the suggestion that one attribute, the so- called “dipole mode”, referring to a model ... See full document

... Indian Ocean, South and equatorial Atlantic, negative (positive) SSTA over the tropical Northern Atlantic and warm (cold) El Niño Southern Oscillation events ...seasonal climate prediction by ... See full document

... an 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 ... See full document

... The point of the matter is further clarified when we make similar composites for SST and sea surface height (Figs. 5 and 6, pages 21 & 22). The SST compos- ites (Fig. 5a and 5b) for all IOD events show dipole ... See full document

... datasets. Models tend on average to produce too little sea ice cover (except along sectors of the sea-ice edge region where the sea-ice extent is slightly overestimated) and to amplify the amplitude of its seasonal ... See full document

... on Ocean Climate Variations from Seasons to Decades with Special Emphasis on Pacific Ocean Buoy Network”, May 29-31, in Mutsu, Aomori-prefecture, Japan, just prior to the Sap- poro ... See full document

... the CLIVAR Pacific Panel, is aimed at targeting some of these ...its variability in the eastern equatorial Pacific. The CLIVAR Pacific panel recommended establishing closer ties between PUMP and VOCALS, ... See full document

... for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) at the USA Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, ...and ocean mixing, could be investi- gated in more ... See full document

... entire climate system and at the same time attractiveness to researchers and national fund- ing agencies that may have scientific and practical in- terests focussed at a more regional ... See full document

... coupled ocean-atmosphere process- es to influence monsoon variability on timescales from days to decades has become increasingly appar- ent and much of our future research will focus on un- derstanding ... See full document

... new climate-related mooring program JASMINE (Australia and the United States) was also ...on CLIVAR, GOOS, OOPC, NOAA's Office of Global Programs, International Research Institute for Climate Predic- ... See full document