CLIVAR

CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND PREDICTABILITY

International CLIVAR Project Office
National Oceanography Centre
European Way
Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK
Phone: +44-2380 596777
Fax: +44-2380 596204
Email: icpo@noc.soton.ac.uk

International CLIVAR Project Office

About ICPO | Staff | Contact

Dr. Anna Pirani

Position

Staff Scientist

Contact Details:

Earth System Physics
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Strada Costiera 11
34151 Trieste
Italy

Email: anna.pirani"@"noc.soton.ac.uk

Responsibilities

Coordination of:

Working Group on Ocean Model Development

Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction

JSC/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modelling

CLIVAR/PAGES Working Group

CCl/CLIVAR/JCOMM ETCCDI

Support of:

WCRP Climate Extremes and Drought Interest Group (DIG)

WCRP Decadal Prediction

WCRP Seasonal Prediction

Relevant Publications

Clement, A., B. Kirtman and A. Pirani, 2010: Climate Literacy as a Foundation for Progress in Predicting and Adapting to the Climate of the Coming Decades, BAMS, submitted.

Griffies, S. M., et al., 2010: Problems and Prospects in Large-Scale Ocean Circulation Models, Proceedings of the OceanObs’09 Conference: Sustained Ocean Observations and Information for Society, Venice, Italy, 21-25 September 2009, Volume 2, Eds. J. Hall and D.E. Harrison and D. Stammer, ESA Publication WPP-306.

D. Legler and A. Pirani, 2009: WCRP Drought Interest Group (DIG) Coordinates Drought Research for Better Prediction of Regional Drought, CLIVAR Exchanges, 51, 4-3.

Griffies, S. M., et al., 2009: Sampling Physical Ocean Fields in WCRP CMIP5 Simulations, WCRP Informal Report No. 3/2009, ICPO Publication Series No.137

Griffies, S. M. et al., 2009: Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiments (COREs). Ocean Modelling, 26, 1–46.

B. Kirtman and A. Pirani, 2009: The State of the Art of Seasonal Prediction Outcomes and Recommendations from the First World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Workshop on Seasonal Prediction, BAMS, DOI: 10.1175/2008BAMS2707.1

B. Kirtman and A. Pirani, 2008: WCRP Position Paper on Seasonal Prediction, WCRP Informal Report No. 3/2008, ICPO Publication No. 127

CLIVAR Reports

Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM)

Report of the 13th WGCM Session - September 2009, San Francisco, USA.
Report of the 12th WGCM Session - September 2008, Paris, France.
Report of the 11th WGCM Session - September 2007, Hamburg, Germany.

WCRP/CLIVAR Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM): Overview and Contribution to the WCRP Crosscut on Anthropogenic Climate Change - 2009

Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (WGSIP)

Report of the 12th WGSIP Session - January 2009, Miami, USA
Report of the 11th WGSIP Session - June 2007, Barcelona, Spain

Working Group on Ocean Model Development (WGOMD)

Report of the 8th WGOMD Session - April 2009, Exeter, UK
Report of the 7th WGOMD Session - August 2007, Bergen, Norway

WCRP Task Force of Regional Climate Downscaling (TFRCD)

Report of WCRP TFRCD Meeting - June 2010 - Lille, France
Report of the WCRP Workshop on Regional Climate:Facilitating the Production of Climate Information and its Use in Impact and Adaptation Work - June 2010, Lille, France

CLIVAR Community Webpages

Repository for Evaluating Ocean Simulations (REOS)
Coordinated Ocean-ice Reference Experiements (CORE)
Climate-system Historical Forecast Project (CHFP)

last updated Fri, Aug 27, 2010 by Anna Pirani