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The workshop will take place on February 18-19 2013 at the Danish Meteorological Institute in Copenhagen and is sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), WCRP Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project Office and the Danish Meteorological Institute.

Sea ice concentration from satellite microwave radiometry is our primary source of information on the annual sea ice extent minimum as well as a large variety of other properties of the large scale sea ice cover of the Earth. For this workshop we invite scientists developing and/or applying algorithms to derive sea ice concentration to participate in discussions of mutual interest.
The theme of the workshop will be passive microwave sea ice concentration algorithm inter-comparison and validation and we will deal with topics such as algorithm intercomparison, ice concentration validation in different regions and seasons, establishment of a common open validation database, new algorithm developments including fusion of microwave radiometer data with other data sources.

As part of our efforts to help Norwegian sea ice researchers better collaborate, we ask you to fill out this simple form. Results will be presented at the Norwegian Sea…

At the 2012 Fall AGU meeting, CliC and the International Permafrost Association (IPA) renewed their long-standing partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) identifying a joint commitment to excellence in the field of permafrost research and its climate connections, in the pursuit of scientific advances, public awareness, advice to policy makers, stakeholder engagement, and the professional development of young researchers.

We are pleased to announce several new members to the CliC Scientific Steering Group (SSG) began their terms on 1 January 2013. Greg Flato (CCCMA, Victoria, Canada) has now taken…

The establishment of a Polar Prediction Project (PPP) under WMO’s World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) was approved by the World Meteorological Organization Executive Council (WMO-EC) in June 2012. The WWRP-PPP…

Contributed by Marilyn Raphael and Julie Jones.

The Polar Climate Predictability Initiative (PCPI) aims to bring together scientists engaged in research on polar climates, including the atmosphere, oceans and cryosphere.  Its purpose is to develop a coordinated program of research to improve the predictability of Polar Climates at longer timescales.  A first meeting was held in Bergen, Norway, in October 2010.  This was followed up by a three-day workshop in April 2012 at the University of Toronto in Canada, the aim of which was to produce a draft implementation plan on Polar Climate Predictability to be considered at the JSC meeting in July 2012. Keynote presentations were followed by focus groups, which were tasked to identify key scientific frontiers, the imperatives to address these, and focused scientific topics.

From 28-29 November, the International Council for Science (ICSU) held a Global Environmental Change EC) Projects meeting at UNESCO in Paris, France. The workshop was designed to seek feedback and…

The 2st issue of SOOS Update - the quarterly newsletter designed to keep all SOOS Stakeholders, sponsors, endorsers, committee members, and affiliated programmes, up-to-date on recent SOOS activities is available…

The ESA-CliC-EGU Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science Conference will take place from 13th to 16th November 2012 at the Italian center of the European Space Agency, ESRIN. This conference aims…

The CliC International Project Office was happy to host the visit of WCRP Director Ghassem Asrar and in-coming CliC Chair Gregory M. Flato at the The Norwegian Polar institute on Monday 12.November 2012.

Dr. Asrar and Dr. Flato met with many researchers at NPI. Initial discussions were also held with NPI leadership on a formal agreement regarding the hosting of the CliC office. Dr. Flato gave a stimulating talk on "Predictions and Projections of Arctic Climate Change"