MedCLIVAR: Mediterranean CLImate VARiability and predictability project

Climate Variability and Predictability

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY Workshop on Tropical Atlantic Variability

The main objectives of the Paris workshop were to review advances in science since the last workshop, and to coordinate international efforts toward a sustained observing system in support of understanding, modelling and predicting TAV. The workshop was sponsored by the International CLIVAR Project Office. At its conclusion detailed recommendations were presented to the CLIVAR Atlantic Implemen...

Predictability of North Atlantic Multidecadal Climate Variability

Atmospheric weather systems become unpredictable beyond a few weeks, but climate variations can be predictable over much longer periods because of the coupling of the ocean and atmosphere. With the use of a global coupled ocean-atmosphere model, it is shown that the North Atlantic may have climatic predictability on the order of a decade or longer. These results suggest that variations of the d...

Newsletter of the Climate Variability and Predictability Programme ( CLIVAR )

VOCALS " C-130 Flight track overlaid on a MODIS satellite image. " " The Peruvian IMARPE R/V Jose Olaya " " The NSF C-130 flies by the NOAA Ronald H Brown underneath the stratocumulus during a research mission far off the Chilean coast on the 11th November 2008. Photo courtesy Cameron McNaughton, University of Hawaii " " Students from the Universidad de Arturo Prat, launch one of the four-times...

Atlantic Climate Variability and Predictability: A CLIVAR Perspective

Three interrelated climate phenomena are at the center of the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Atlantic research: tropical Atlantic variability (TAV), the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), and the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (MOC). These phenomena produce a myriad of impacts on society and the environment on seasonal, interannual, and longer time scales through va...