The 2016 WCRP-CliC Annual Report is available. The report gives an overview of our activities in 2016 and includes contributions from all of the CliC Projects/Groups Leads.
Table of Content
Overview from the Co‐Chairs
Scientific Steering Group (SSG) Members
The International Project Office
CliC‐sponsored Workshops and Meetings
Report Format
WCRP Grand Challenge ‐ Melting Ice and Global Consequences
-Ice Sheet Modelling Intercomparison Project 6 (ISMIP6)
-Marine Ice Sheet Ocean Model Intercomparison Project (MISOMIP)
-Earth System Model ‐ Snow Model Intercomparison Project (ESM‐SnowMIP)
-Glacier Model Intercomparision Project (GlacierMIP)
-Sea Ice and Climate Modeling Forum / Diagnostic Sea Ice Model Intercomparison Project (SIMIP)
-Permafrost Carbon Network
Sea Ice
-Arctic Sea Ice Working Group (ASIWG)
-Antarctic Sea Ice Processes and Climate (ASPeCt)
-Technical Committee on Sea Ice Observations
-BEPSII ‐ Biogeochemical exchange processes at Sea Ice Interfaces
Hydrology & Permafrost
-Arctic Freshwater Synthesis (AFS)
-Permafrost Modeling Forum
Ice Sheets
-SCAR/IASC/CliC Ice Sheet Mass Balance and Sea Level (ISMASS)
Regional Activities
-CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Regional Panel
-Polar Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (Polar CORDEX)
-Southern Ocean Satellite Data Requirements
Inter‐disciplinary Activities
-Interactions Between High‐latitude Cryosphere Elements
-WCRP Polar Climate Predictability Initiative (PCPI)
Social Science
-Where Are They Now?
Emerging Activities and Ideas