The Future CLIVAR& Collaboration with PICES

Toshio Suga, Tohoku University/JAMSTEC, Japan

With input from Martin Visbeck, Co-Chair, CLIVAR SSGand

Wenju Cai, Chair, CLIVAR Pacific Panel

PICES 2012 POC meetingHiroshima, JapanOctober 17, 2012

18 July 2012 Martin Visbeck and Jim Hurrell

Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

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18 July 2012 Martin Visbeck and Jim Hurrell

Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

WCRP EvolutionWhat does it mean for CLIVAR?

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Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

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WCRP EvolutionWhat does it mean for CLIVAR?

18 July 2012 Martin Visbeck and Jim Hurrell

Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

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Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

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Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

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Working Group on Ocean Model Development

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Pacific Implementation Panel

Indian O. Implementation Panel

Southern O. Implementation Panel

Knowledge Exchange and Capacity Building

I-S-I variability and predictability of monsoon systems

Decadal climate variability and predictability

Marine biophysical interactions and dynamics of upwelling systems

Dynamics of regional sea level variability

Trends, nonlinearities and extreme events

Core capabilities Research challenges

18 July 2012 Martin Visbeck and Jim Hurrell

Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

CLIVAR Research Challenges

• WCRP Grand Challenges and the role for CLIVAR

• What should they be?o How do they relate to existing CLIVAR Research

Challenges/Imperativeso Preliminary discussion at SSG-18; panel input and good

discussions at CLIVAR SSG-19o Further community input at Ocean Sciences (Feb 2012, Salt

Lake City)o US CLIVAR and other National Themes

18 July 2012 Martin Visbeck and Jim Hurrell

Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

CLIVAR Research Challenges

Intraseasonal, seasonal and interannual variability and predictability of monsoon systemsDecadal variability and predictability of ocean and climate variabilityTrends, nonlinearities and extreme eventsMarine biophysical interactions and dynamics of upwelling systemsDynamics of regional sea level variability…

18 July 2012 Martin Visbeck and Jim Hurrell

Co-Chairs, CLIVAR SSG WCRP JSC-33Beijing, China

Two directions of importance of climate variability in conjunction with the physical ocean

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Air-sea interaction

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Biogeochemical cycles

7th Pacific Panel meeting, 29 April – 01 May 2012 – Noumea, New Caledonia.

Wenju Cai

• Session 5: Interaction with green programmes

• 13:30 hrs - An introduction to IMBER and PICES – Hiroaki Saito• 13:50 hrs -

A proposal for future collaboration between CLIVAR and PICES from a PICES WG (Shoshiro Minobe)

• 14:10 hrs - Western North Pacific Integrated Physical-Biogeochemical Ocean Observation Experiment (INBOX) (Toshio Suga)

• 14:30 hrs - Discussion – Development of collaborative projects between PP/PICES/IMBER

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Important oceanic physical processes

For the on-going changes of green ocean, a number of physical processes are important:– ocean vertical and horizontal mixing associated

with the mixed layer– horizontal and vertical advection due to sub-

mesoscale and meso-scale phenomena– the transports of jets, striations and currents– water mass formation and ventilation– air-sea interaction over SST fronts and eddies

• Co-sponsored POC Topic Session, PICES-2012:“Challenges in understanding Northern

Hemisphere ocean climate variability and change”

• Joint workshop between the PICES and the CLIVAR Pacific Panel has been proposed by co-chairs of working group 27 to POC.– June 2013 (Li Jiang, Nun Nan province, China)

Pacific Panel: Strengthen links and develop activities with PICES and other “green” programmes