Upcoming Opportunities for CLIVAR/PAGES Collaboration

The CLIVAR/PAGES working group are working towards fostering greater collaboration between the CLIVAR and PAGES communities. Please contact us to let us know of any other opportunities.

Current opportunities are listed below:
 
US AMOC
US AMOC is planning a 2-3 day workshop in 2012 on fingerprinting changes and impacts of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and its variability. Participation from both CLIVAR and PAGES communities is sought.
 
Contact: Mike Patterson (US CLIVAR, mpatterson@usclivar.org), Bill Johns (wjohns@rsmas.miami.edu), or James Scourse (oss048@bangor.ac.uk)
 
Ocean 2K Initiative
The Ocean 2K initiative at PAGES is focused on building datasets and understanding for high resolution (annual to decadal) reconstructions of ocean conditions in the near-past (last 2000 years). Input and interest is sought from the oceanographic observational community for appropriate long instrumental records and re-analyses and general interest in extending the record back.
 
Contact: Mike Evans (mnevans@geol.umd.edu)
 
AAMP Monsoon Workshop
AAMP Monsoon workshop (Nanjing, 10-12 Sep 2012). Call for interest in interdecadal variability of the global monsoons including modern observations, high resolution paleo-records and modelling studies. 
 
The key motivations for the workshop are: 
  1. Review the present observational evidence of various aspects of monsoon interdecadal variability collectively and on a regional monsoon basis; 
  2. Discuss how these variations are linked to other major modes of interdecadal variability such as PDO, IPO, or AMO and to climate change; and
  3. Examine possible mechanisms underlying these interdecadal variations, including simulation and numerical experiments that address the physical processes that drive interdecadal changes, ultimately aiming to assess the predictability of monsoon interdecadal variations.
Intended outcomes include: 
  1. Enhanced understanding of monsoon decadal variability (workshop summary to be prepared and submitted to e.g. BAMS); and
  2. Proposals of coordinated multi-model experiment designs to test mechanisms for drivers of decadal variability in the global monsoons, and of modulations of monsoon-ENSO teleconnections.
Contact: Andrew Turner (a.g.turner@reading.ac.uk)