Tropical Atlantic climate and adjacent upwelling variations have important socio-economic consequences. Our understanding of climate in the region and its impacts is limited, and our ability to simulate and predict tropical Atlantic variability is poor. Recognising this, the EU FP7 PREFACE “Enhancing Prediction of Tropical Atlantic Climate and its Impacts”, PIRATA “Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic” and the CLIVAR Atlantic communities jointly organise the 2015 open to all Tropical Atlantic Variability conference in Cape Town (South Africa) from Tuesday 25th to Thursday 27th August 2015. Additional internal CLIVAR Atlantic panel, PREFACE and PIRATA meetings and workshops are planned for Monday 24th and Thursday and Friday, 27th and 28th August (see detailed programme below and schedule).

 

PROGRAMME of the CLIVAR Atlantic regional panel Meeting (internal or upon invitation, 24th August, on campus, UCT, Cape Town)

Coming soon

 

PROGRAMME of eventual parallel workshops (internal or upon invitation, 24th and 28th August, on campus, UCT)

Workshops to be confirmed

 

PROGRAMME of Tropical Atlantic Variability Conference (OPEN TO ALL, 25th - 27th August, Breakwater Lodge, Cape Town)

 

Session 1 - Key oceanic processes in the eastern Tropical Atlantic and adjacent upwelling, observations and modelling

Session 2 - Climate variability, modelling and prediction

Session 3 - Marine ecosystems, fisheries and climate change

 

FULL SESSION DESCRIPTION AND ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION: HERE. Programme available: HERE.

 

PROGRAMME of the PREFACE and PIRATA internal meetings (27th and 28th August, Breakwater Lodge)

See Schedule

 

 

 

 

Background:

 

PREFACE "Enhancing prediction of Tropical Atlantic climate and its impacts" is a climate change project with 28 partners across 18 countries in Europe and Africa, and 3 associate partners directly involved in the sustainable management of the three Eastern boundary large marine ecosystems of the Tropical Atlantic. PREFACE is funded by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (2007-2013) – Cooperation (ENV.2013.6.1-1: Climate-related ocean processes and combined impacts of multiple stressors on the marine environment),  under Grant Agreement number 603521.

 

PIRATA "Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic" is a program designed to study ocean-atmosphere interactions in the tropical Atlantic that affect regional climate variability on seasonal, interannual and longer time scales. The array was originally developed in the mid-1990s and has undergone expansions and enhancements since 2005 to improve its utility for describing, understanding, and predicting societally relevant climate fluctuations. PIRATA has been implemented through multi-national cooperation in support of CLIVAR, GOOS, GCOS, and GEOSS. Financial, technical and logistic support are provided by France (IRD in collaboration with Meteo-France, CNRS and IFREMER), Brazil (INPE and DHN) and the USA (NOAA). Data are freely available for research and operational applications via the World Wide Web and the Global Telecommunications System.

 

CLIVAR "Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change" is one of the four core projects of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). CLIVAR's mission is to understand the dynamics, the interaction, and the predictability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system. To this end it facilitates observations, analysis and predictions of changes in the Earth's climate system, enabling better understanding of climate variability and dynamics, predictability, and change, to the benefit of society and the environment in which we live. Read more about the CLIVAR Atlantic Region panel: HERE