Professor Benjamin Horton, Chair of ASE, has been elected to serve as a member of World Climate Research Programme’s Grand Challenge of Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR). CLIVAR is one of the four core projects of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), with a mission to “understand the dynamics, the interaction, and the predictability of the climate system with emphasis on ocean-atmosphere interactions. In the future CLIVAR will critically contribute to new challenges of WCRP climate science by covering the following overarching topics:
- Understanding the ocean’s role in climate variability, change, and transient sensitivity;
- Understanding the ocean’s role in shaping the hydrological cycle and distribution of precipitation at global and regional scales;
- Understanding the drivers of regional climate phenomena that provide predictability on different time scales;
- Provision of coordinated observations, analyses and predictions of variability and change in the Earth’s climate system;
- Detection, attribution and quantification of climate variability and change;
- Development and evaluation of climate simulations and predictive capabilities