Exchanges Call for Contributions Newsletter of the Climate Variability and Predictability Programme ( CLIVAR ) l li i ili i ili

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Author	Palmer, Timothy N.
Copyright Year	2005
Abstract	CLIVAR is an international research programme dealing with climate variability and predictability on timescales from months to centuries. will continue this theme. The Asian Monsoon edition will now be no. 34 (July 2005) with a submission deadline of 30th April 2005 and not 31st January as advertised on the front cover of issue 31. Figure 1. Model hindcasts at different lead times for anomalous sea ice concentration and associated atmospheric conditions in JJA, 2000. The top row (0-month lead) may be regarded as the target to predict. CLIVAR's mission " To observe simulate and predict 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 " is wide-ranging! In order to realise its mission, CLIVAR has created a number of panels, dividing the project as a whole into a set of manageable parts. Many of these panels (AAMP, VACS, VAMOS and the Ocean Basin Panels) have regional foci, whilst the perspective of others (WGSIP, WGCM, WGOMD and GSOP) is primarily global. This regional/global dichotomy is an essential aspect of CLIVAR. On the one hand observations are made locally, and the value of climate forecasts is determined by their influence on the lives of individuals. On the other hand, the tools we use to assimilate these observations and to make these climate predictions are increasingly global in domain. As discussed at the last The last year has been a busy one for CLIVAR, not least because of the highly successful CLIVAR Conference and the review of CLIVAR undertaken by the Scientific Steering Group immediately following. In addition, CLIVAR Panels and Working Groups have been continuing to develop various aspects of the CLIVAR programme. Seasonal Prediction, to which much of this edition of Exchanges is devoted, is an important activity not only for CLIVAR but also for WCRP as a whole. Indeed the Task Force on Seasonal Prediction (TFSP) was the first such activity to be set up under WCRP's Coordinated Observation and Prediction of the Earth System (COPES) strategy. The TFSP is chaired by Ben Kirtman, who also co-chairs CLIVAR's Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (WGSIP) with Tim Stockdale. It has proposed a major pan-WCRP " Total Climate System Prediction Experiment " to test the hypothesis that " there is currently untapped coupled predictability due to interaction and memory …
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