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- ISSPI-1 was a CliC sponsored workshop The report of the 1st International Satellite Snow Products Intercomparison workshop (ISSPI-1) held…

The workshop is jointly organized by the WCRP Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) and the European Commission FP7 project EMBRACE (Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate) and will be held 20th - 23rd October 2015 in Dubrovnik (Croatia).
 
The workshop has three primary aims; following the format of the WCRP CMIP5 model analysis workshop held in 2012, to present and discuss:
·         Multi-model CMIP5 analyses taking advantage of the large suite of CMIP5 experiments
·         Earth system model improvements that help reduce systematic biases and/or increase the realism of models in terms of climate change response.
·         The main aims of CMIP6, in particular presentations of CMIP6-Endorsed Model Intercomparison Projects (MIPs).

The workshop will be structured around the three scientific questions:
1.       How does the Earth system respond to forcing?
2.       What are the origins and consequences of systematic model biases?
3.       How can we assess future climate change given climate variability, predictability and uncertainty in scenarios.

- Session is an activity of the SCAR/IASC/CliC ISMASS. Contributed by Tony Payne. This is to raise awareness of an…

CliC is pleased to release its 2014 Annual Report which summarizers the amazing number of activities that we sponsored, supported, and in many cases, initiated over the past few years. We hope you will take the time to read the achievements, as well as our plans for the coming year(s).

Citation: Baeseman, J. and G. Hamon. 2015. 2014 Climate and Cryosphere Project Annual Report. Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.15879

We are trying to harmonize and improve the way in which sea-ice related variables are saved in CMIP6 and other…

GlacierMIP is a new 4-yr Targeted Activity under the umbrella of the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project aiming at systematic intercomparison of glacier models that are capable of modeling the evolution of glaciers outside the ice sheets on a global-scale. Similar to previous ice sheet modeling initiatives, GlacierMIP provides a framework for a coordinated model intercomparison to foster model improvements and reduce uncertainties in global-scale glacier projections.

Our primary objectives are to:

1. coordinate a model intercomparison of existing state-of-the-art large-scale glacier models with respect to decadal to century scale glacier mass change projections (and possibly century scale past reconstructions),
2. identify current model deficiencies and data needs, and work towards a new generation of global-scale glacier models that allow more accurate projections of the glacier contribution to sea-level rise.

We solicitate participation in GlacierMIP.

The ESA-CliC Earth Observation & Arctic Science Priorities meeting was held on January 20, 2015, at the Fram Centre in…

- This workshop is an activity of the SCAR/IASC/CliC ISMASS activity.

We are pleased to announce a 3-day symposium on modelling and observation of solid-earth response to ice-ocean load changes. The symposium will be followed by a 1-day hands-on workshop on modelling of elastic deformation. Please save the dates:
May 26-29, 2015 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute in Fairbanks, Alaska

The World Climate Research Programme WCRP, Max-Planck-Institute für Meterologie MPI-M and Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research announce the 1st…

A workshop will be held from 8-10 April at the University of Reading in the UK to discus polar climate…