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The second planning meeting of the WWRP Polar Prediction Project (PPP) Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP), focussing on observations, was…

- CliC co-sponsored the THAW workshop   The THermokarst Aquatic Workshop was held from 12 to 15 March 2014 at…

The CliC Office is happy to introduce Erik Warming as our interim Administrative Officer. Erik holds a geophysics degree from…

The Polar Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) group met during the 3rd Regional-scale Climate Modelling Workshop in Lund, Sweden on…

The Polar Climate Predictability Initiative is pleased to announce a special session at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco,…

- ICSU is a sponsor of CliC’s parent programme, the WCRP The ICSU (International Council for Science) newsletter is now…

- This workshop is co-sponsored by CliC 

The International Sea Ice Concentration and Thickness Evaluation and Inter-comparison Workshop will be held at University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany on September 18-19, 2014

The registration for this workshop is open under the workshops' web page: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/meetings/seaice-conc-2014 where you will also find more information about the location and the workshop.

Results from inter-comparison studies, independent validation and consistency checks, model experiments and assimilation to the topic of the workshop are all welcome. Specifically we would appreciate workshop participants to present results obtained by using and/or including the prototype products for sea ice concentration (SIC) and sea ice thickness (SIT) of the ESA CCI Sea Ice ECV project (SICCI) into their analysis. This prototype products can be downloaded from http://icdc.zmaw.de/esa-cci_sea-ice-ecv0.html?&L=1. The SICCI team will also present its own results with regard to data quality assessment.

- CliC’s Director, Jenny Baeseman, and SSG member, Nalan Koc, are on the organizing committee for Session 1 of the…

Sea ice and Climate Modeling Forum Workshop on large-scale sea-ice simulations September 26th, University of Reading, UK

This one-day workshop brings together users and developers of sea-ice models to start a joint effort for improving sea-ice models. We will discuss the analysis of sea-ice biases in CMIP5 models, determine the most pressing needs for model development, identify the most helpful observational data, and compile a list of the most useful sea ice variables to be saved for CMIP6. The workshop is the first in a series of planned activities from the Sea ice and Climate Modeling Forum, which is a WCRP-CliC initiative that aims at improving and better understanding large-scale sea-ice simulations by coordinating a joint effort of the international sea ice modeling community. Following a few short plenary talks, the workshop will consist of breakout group and discussion sessions. For further information about the workshop and to register for it (by June 30th 2014), please go to: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/activities/groups/seaicemodeling.

Meetings in 2012 [original SSG report] 1) The ESA/CliC Conference Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science” (Frascati, Italy, 13 - 16…