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Science Highlights

A 25-Year Global Temperature Data RecordThe launch of the Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) on board the Defense Meteorological SatellitePrograms (DMSP) Fram Space spacecraft in June of 1987 marked the beginning of a nearly continuous 25-year record of high-quality global microwave based atmospheric temperature observations... read more

The Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC): Latest Results

YOTC- a joint WCRP and WWRP/Thorpexcoordinated research programme involving observing, modelingand forecasting of organized tropical convection - highlights its latest accomplishments in three articles inthe August issue of BAMS

Subseasonal - Seasonal Predictability: Weather and ClimateProf. Julia Slingo, chief scientist of the United Kingdom MetOffice and member of the WCRP Joint ScientificCommittee, gave a compelling presentation on subseasonal to seasonal climate prediction at the 64th WMOExecutive Council in May 2012. See her presentation

Seamless Prediction of Seasonal to Decadal ClimateDespite their differences in timescale, climate processes and decisions relevance, the seasonal and decadal

prediction systems have common priorities and elements. Affiliated WCRP scientists make the case forbetter coordination of research of seasonal to decadal climate prediction....read more

BALTEX Celebrates 20thAnniversaryThe Baltic Sea Experiment (BALTEX) was founded in 1993 to study the hydrological cycle and energyexchange between the atmosphere and the land surface for the Baltic Sea region, including rivers andlakes. BALTEX is the only GEWEX Regional Hydroclimate Project(RHP) with an oceanographic focus... readmore

The Role of Stratosphere in Climate SystemThe emerging datasets from stratospheric-resolving models in the CMIP5and the Historical ForecastProject (Strat-HFP) are a major step forward in quantifying the role of the stratosphere in the observedrecord and future climate change. The SPARC DynVaractivity is coordinating this effort... read more

ESA Releases a 30-years Soil Moisture Data SetThe Climate Change Initiative (CCI)Soil Moisture project announced the public release of the EssentialClimate Variables (ECV) soil moisture data set. This soil data set is a part of the ESA CCI ... read more

Improving Hurricane ForecastsResearchers from North Carolina State University, including Dr. Fredrick Semazzi a member of WCRP JointScientific Committee, have developed a new method for forecasting seasonal hurricane activity that is 15percent more accurate than previous techniques... read more

Send news for e-zine No 25 (January 2012) to [email protected] you wish to subscribe to the WCRP e-zine go tohttp://www.wcrp-climate.org/ezinesubscribe.shtml
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Latest Report on Himalayan Glaciers ThicknessIn a study published in the Nature Magazine, scientists assembled new datasets from Earth-observingsatellites and found that glaciers in the Hindu KushKarakoram Himalaya region (HKKH) lost 12gigatonnes of mass per year over the period 200308, thinning much faster than previously reported.... readmore

The Extreme Events in a Changing ClimateA collection of articles published in the July 2012 issue of BAMSexamines the extreme weather climate

events of 2011. The articles show the importance of understanding the interplay of natural climatevariability and anthropogenic climate change on the extreme events.... read the contributions

Latest Progress on Predicting El Nino-Southern OscillationThe real-time ENSO prediction skills based on 20 models (12 dynamical and 8 statistical) demonstrate agradual improvement of ENSO predictions in the last decade. The most comprehensive dynamical modelsare found to be better able to predict ENSO than simpler dynamical models or statistical models... readmore

News

WMO Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Prediction InitiativeWMOthrough a partnership between WWRP/Thorpexand WCRP, is launching the Sub-seasonal toSeasonal Prediction Initiative with the aim to evaluate the potential predictability of sub-seasonal events,with special emphasis on high-impact weather events... read more

CORDEX South-Asia WorkshopThe Indian Express published an article on the CORDEX training workshopthat took place on 15-18October 2012 in Pune, India. This training workshop was the first step in developing a core team of Asianresearchers to assess the utility of regional climate projections through hands-on training... read the article

There is no Planet B says K. Trenberth at Public Lecture in SydneyThe Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate System Scienceinvited Kevin Trenberth,GEWEXChair, to give a public lecture at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. KevinTrenberth argued that climate change will manifest through weather extremes... read more

DACA - 2013: Call For AbstractsThe IAMASand IACSAssociations of the IUGGinvite the international scientific community to their joint2013 Assembly - the Davos Atmosphere and Cryosphere Assembly 2013, 8-12 July, Davos, Switzerland - todiscuss latest developments in Air, Ice and Process Interactions... read more

Next SPARC General AssemblySPARCis organizing a General Assembly for January 2014 in Queenstown, New Zealand. Since SPARC

has recently extended its focus into the troposphere, the 2014 General Assemblywill be the first timethat its expanded community will meet. An important goal of this event is to ensure that SPARCcontinuesto identify synergies between its current and future activities with a major focus on serving SPARCstakeholders... read more

First Session of WCRP Data and Modeling CouncilsThe first sessions of the newly formed WCRP Modeling Advisory Council (WMAC) and the WCRP DataAdvisory Council (WDAC) were held on 16 July in Beijing, China, prior to the 33rd session of WCRP JointScientific Committee. The meetings provided an opportunity to examine the respective modeling and dataefforts across WCRP and its affiliated partners... read more

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Future Earth Launched at Rio+20The International Council for Science launched the new 10-year international initiative on globalenvironmental research for sustainability at the Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation forSustainable Developmentin Rio de Janeiro on June 14, and shortly afterward at a very well attended sideeventof the Rio + 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development.... read more

The China-WCRP Climate SymposiumA joint China-WCRP symposium on climate preceded the 33rd Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific

Committee, with the aim to explore the synergistic activities between the Chinese science community andthe WCRP for the future....read more

Newsmakers

Kevin Trenberth Receives of the International Prize for WaterThe Chair of the GEWEXSteering Committee, Dr. Kevin Trenberth, and his team have been awarded the 5thPrince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Surface Water Prize. Their ground-breaking work on the effects of climatechange on the global hydrological cycle will provide tremendous guidance for future planning says thePrize Council... read more

Roger Barry is the New Director of the CLIVAR IPOWCRP welcomes Prof. Roger Barry as the new director of the project CLIVARthat is hosted by the NationalOceanography Centre in Southampton UK. We are delighted to have Rogers expertise and experienceserving CLIVAR and WCRP, said Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar, the Director WCRP.... read more

Australian Academy Elects John Church as a Fellow MemberDr. John Church, former WCRP JSCchair, was recently elected Fellow of the Australian Academy ofScience. This prestigious recognition acknowledges Johns pioneering work on ocean heat uptake andsea-level rise. In addition his multidisciplinary work remains a model of the application of oceanographicinformation to biological fisheries issues... read more

Antonio Busalacchi is Featured by the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceThe American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)interviewed Antonio Busalacchi, chair ofthe WCRP Joint Scientific Committeeand also AAAS member... read more

David Karoly is Appointed Board Member of the Australian Climate Change AuthorityWCRP congratulates Prof. David Karoly who has been recently appointed member of the board for theClimate Change Authority in Australia by the Australian Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency.Prof. Karoly is member of the WCRP JSC since 2011.... read the media release

Obituaries

Founder and Only Chair of BSRN, Dr. Dutton, Died in October 2012Dr. Ellsworth Dutton, founder and only chair of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN), passedaway on October 11, 2012. Dr. Duttons long chairmanship of BSRN began in 1992 and he has guided theproject to become the worlds premier source of surface radiation observations. BSRN is a contributingnetwork to the the WMO Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) Program and was designated in 2004 as theGlobal Baseline Surface Radiation Network of the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)... read more

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Former JPS member Margaret Lennon-Smith dies at 52It is with the deepest sorrow that we announce the untimely death of Ms Margaret Lennon-Smith on 14July 2012, at the age of 52. Margaret joined WCRP in 1998, where she quickly became a much-valued staffmember. She will be remembered fondly by her colleagues, by all those she worked with in the extendedWCRP family and by the scientists she helped to get to WCRP meetings with great kindness, perseveranceand good humour. We miss her dearly.... read more

Publications

A Book on ACSYS Scientific AccomplishmentsA new book edited by Peter Lemke and Hans-Werner Jacobi on the history of the WCRP Arctic System Study(ACSYS) has been published recently. The ACSYS project was fundamental in raising the awareness of therole of the Arctic in the global climate system.... read more

Free e-book on River Basins and ChangeThe Global Water System Projectof Earth System Science Partnership has published an e-book based onthe major contributions to the conference The Global Dimensions of Changes in River Basins: Threats,Linkages and Adaptations held in December 2010. This publication is available to all interested in water

related topics free of charge... download the book.

Latest CLIVAR Newsletter Focuses on African ClimateThe latest issue of Exchanges focuses on some major projects and activities in Africa that are linked to theCLIVAR Africa Climate Panel interests.... download the Newsletter

WCRP ReportsSome reports from the recent WCRP meetings and workshops can be found here.

Upcoming WCRP Sponsored Events

Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science13-16 November 2012, Frascati ITALY

Regional SPARC Workshop with Focus on Southern Hemisphere and South America26-27 November 2012,Buenos Aires ARGENTINA

20th Session of SPARC Scientific Steering Group 27-30 November 2012, Buenos Aires ARGENTINA

CLIVAR/GSOP Ocean Synthesis and Air-Sea Flux Evaluation Workshop27-30 November 2012, Woods HoleUSA

6th Session of CLIVAR/GSOP Ocean Synthesis and Observations Panel30 November - 1 December 2012,

Woods Hole USA

Energy, Water and Climate Change - Building Bridges Between Europe and MENA10-12 December 2012,Nicosia CYPRUS

3rd Workshop on the Evaluation of ENSO Processes on Climate, 21-23 January 2013, Hobart, AUSTRALIA

Click Hereto view the full list of WCRP-related events

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