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UK CLIVAR is the UK's contribution to the international CLIVAR (Climate Variability) programme, part of the World Climate Research Programme.
See the CLIVAR website (www.clivar.org) for further details, or contact Dr Adrian New at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, SO14 3ZH email anw 'at' noc.soton.ac.uk
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As part of CLIVAR, UKCLIVAR exists to:
Explore the predictability of the climate system on seasonal, annual and decadal timescales.
Enable improvements in our ability to make predictions of seasonal climate and climate change.
Enhance our ability to distinguish anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change from natural variability.
The tools needed for CLIVAR are observations from in-situ instruments (i.e. data obtained from ships, buoys and drifting instruments), proxy datasets (i.e. historical climate records obtained from the analysis of tree rings, corals, sediments, ice cores etc.), remote sensing (i.e. data obtained using satellites & aircraft) and coupled models (computer simulations of the climate system) – all are areas where UK scientists are among the world leaders and able to make an important contribution.
A major focus for UK CLIVAR is the North Atlantic Ocean. This has comprised of three primary areas of research:
1. Storms, gyres and the NAO – the mechanisms of North Atlantic variability.
3. Interactions of the Atlantic with the Global Climate System with an emphasis on El Nino and interactions with the Southern Ocean.
Other components of UK CLIVAR include use of our world class expertise in global coupled modelling and in the seasonal to decadal variability of the tropics. The research is underpinned by the UK Argo profiling floats programme.
Who is taking part in UK CLIVAR?
Through major contributions from the Met Office, NERC Centres/Surveys and UK Universities, many of the UK’s leading research groups are actively involved in CLIVAR related projects. For a full list click on 'links to science partners & programmes' in the side-bar, contact Dr Adrian New at address given above.
How is it funded?
UK CLIVAR is an umbrella term for the large number of climate variability-related projects being undertaken in the UK. Individual components are largely paid for by their host institutes, but major programmes such as RAPID-WATCH are funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). .
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