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- SOOS is a CliC endorsed project. SOOS is holding two international workshops alongside the annual SOOS Scientific Steering Committee…

Contributed by: Torben Koenigk, Peter Berg, Ralf Döscher, SMHI The Arctic is an important region for the entire world’s climate…

The meeting report from the 11th Session of the Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC) Scientific Steering Group (SSG 11) which…

From 26-28 October 2015, Arctic CORDEX will have a meeting at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and…

- The Permafrost Carbon Network is a CliC sponsored activity

A few news items from the Permafrost Carbon Network….

-The 4^th Annual PCN Meeting prior to AGU 2014 in San Francisco was another successful and highly attended meeting. Working group leads and co-leads updated the attendance on their various activities before the four breakout sessions focused on a) Modeling, Benchmarking and possible CMIP6 activities; b) Arctic coastal processes and Yedoma region carbon pools; c) Thermokarst upscaling and d) Aerobic and Anaerobic upscaling using a Panarctic thermal scaling approach.

-The Permafrost Carbon Network is now hosted at Northern Arizona University and so Ted Schuur’s and Christina Schaedel’s email addresses changed to Ted.Schuur@nau.edu and Christina.Schaedel@nau.edu.

-Special Issue in Biogeosciences on ‘Freshwater ecosystems in changing permafrost landscapes’. Guest editors are: I. Laurion, J. E. Vonk, W. F. Vincent, and V. Brovkin. The timeline for submission is 15 April 2014- 20 June 2015. More details can be found here: http://www.biogeosciences.net/submission/scheduled_special_issues.html#45

- 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…