World Climate Research Programme and Agrometeorology

World Climate Research Programme

WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME CLIVAR Africa Implementation Plan

Africa is a vast continent straddling the equator with roughly equal landmasses in each hemisphere. It forms one of the three major tropical land areas (along with South America and Indonesia-Borneo or the so-called 'maritime continent') and is surrounded by two of the three tropical oceanic basins. Af-rica's unique geographical position leads to an equally substantial role in determining the c...

WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME JSC/CLIVAR Workshop on Decadal Predictability

The low-frequency climate variability simulated in the North Atlantic by a coupled ocean-at-mosphere model is diagnosed and compared to available observations. A variety of statisticalmethods is used to study the quasi-decadal (QD) oscillations. They tend to show that local di-rect interactions between the atmosphere and the ocean may help maintaining them. 1. Observed low-frequency...

The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP): The First Project of the World Climate Research Programme

The International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) has been approved as the first project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and will begin its operational phase in July 1983. Its basic objective is to collect and analyze satellite radiance data to infer the global distribution of cloud radiative properties in order to improve the modeling of cloud effects on climate. ISC...

WORLD CLIMATE RESEARCH PROGRAMME Report on the WGOMD Workshop on Southern Ocean Modelling