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International clivar project office. NACLIM Kick-off Meeting, Barcelona, 6-8 November 2012 Roger G. Barry Director , International CLIVAR Project Office, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK. Outline. CLIVAR International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) NACLIM activities
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International clivar project office NACLIM Kick-off Meeting, Barcelona, 6-8 November 2012 Roger G. Barry Director, International CLIVAR Project Office, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, UK
Outline • CLIVAR • International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) • NACLIM activities • User needs • Climate services plan • Dissemination
CLIVAR Mission The World Climate Research Programme’s project on ocean-atmosphere interactions • Mission: To observe, simulate and predict changes in Earth’s climate system with a focus on ocean-atmosphere interactions, enabling better understanding of climate variability, predictability and change, to the benefit of society and the environment in which we live.
CLIVAR Objectives • Understand the causes of climate variability on intra-seasonal to centennial time-scales through observations, analysis, and modeling • Improve predictions of climate variability and change associated with both internal and external processes • Extend observational climate record through assembly of quality-controlled paleoclimatic and instrumental data sets
CLIVAR Achievements Atlantic Implementation Panel: Prediction of Atlantic Meridional Circulation, CMIP-5
Strategy and Evolution of CLIVAR Research Challenges • Intraseasonal, seasonal and interannual variability and predictability of monsoon systems • Decadal variability and predictability of ocean and climate variability • Extreme events in the atmosphere-ocean system • Marine biophysical interactions and dynamics of upwelling systems • Dynamics of regional sea level variability Capabilities • Improving ocean system models • Improving ocean observing systems • Ocean data, synthesis and information systems • Knowledge transfer and stakeholder feedback • Education, capacity building and outreach
International CLIVAR Project Office (ICPO) • ICPO • Administrative and scientific support to CLIVAR’s panels and working groups • Support to World Climate Research Programme activities • Dissemination of CLIVAR results and CLIVAR-relevant information to the international scientific community • Communication to decision makers, funders, and other interested parties
Summary of ICPO Activities • Administrative and scientific support to CLIVAR panels, working groups and SSG: • Meeting support • Reporting • Web content • Endorsed projects • Funding • Support to World Climate Research Programme activities
Summary of ICPO Activities Please refer to ICPO report to SSG-19 for further details • CLIVAR communications • CLIVAR website • CLIVAR bulletin • Articles • e.g. Sea Technology, Planet Earth • Social media
Summary of ICPO Activities • CLIVAR Exchanges • CMIP5 special issue • La Plata Basin special issue • Ocean basins themed issue • VAMOS special issue • Africa special issue
NACLIM: User Needs • Literature review • Co-organisation of workshop on end-user needs (Autumn 2013) • Decision makers • Industry • International climate science community
NACLIM: Climate Services Plan • Workshop results • Analysis • Dissemination to NACLIM partners • NACLIM products • Dissemination of NACLIM specific information modules to climate service centres and international scientific community
NACLIM: Dissemination • Circulate results • Utilise and build on existing networks • User feedback • Develop channels for user feedback • Analyse feedback
International clivar project office www.clivar.org