The United States Climate Variability and Predictability Program (US CLIVAR) Scientific Steering Committee held its annual meeting on August 19-20 at the National Science Foundation (NSF) Headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. The meeting served as a forum for committee members, federal agency managers, and US CLIVAR panel chairs to discuss current and future science priorities. 

As a key US CLIVAR partner, NOAA was well represented in the meeting. Climate Program Office’s (CPO) Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM) program manager, Samantha Wills presented NOAA’s agency-wide update. Wills’s presentation highlighted NOAA’s priorities in the areas of precipitation prediction, coastal resilience, fisheries and field campaigns. Ginny Selz, Jose Algarin and David Benson from CPO were in attendance as well. On the research side, NOAA scientists were invited to present the latest modeling developments. Vijay Tallapragad from NOAA’s Environmental Modeling Center highlighted the need of Air-Sea Transition Zone research for modeling requirements, while John Dunne from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory spoke on the status of CMIP7. Dillon Amaya from the Physical Sciences Laboratory and Michelle L’Heureux from the Climate Prediction Center, spoke on their on-going work as chairs on US CLIVAR’s Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface panel.

This annual gathering included further discussions on the future of Climate Process Teams, a report on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal, Climate Tipping Points, and Extreme Weather Risks in a Changing Climate. These discussions will steer US CLIVAR’s portfolio in the coming year. US CLIVAR receives funding from the CPO’s Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP) and Modeling, Analysis, Predictions, and Projections (MAPP) programs and NOAA’s Global Ocean Monitoring and Observing (GOMO) program. It also has interagency funding from NSF, NASA, the Department of Energy and NOAA.

For more information, contact Jose Algarin.