S.T. Lee Lecture in Arctic Studies, IARC/UAF

Dr. Vladimir Ryabinin

Senior Scientific Officer for the World Meteorological Organization in Switzerland
Joint Planning Staff for WCRP, Geneva, Switzerland

About the S.T. Lee Lecture Series

World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and its Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC)

Location: Elvey Auditorium, Geophysical Institute
Date: November 30 , 2006
Time: 3:30 p.m.

The goal of the presentation is to facilitate more informed participation of IARC scientists in the WCRP activities. 

The presentation will review the main areas of activity and interests of the WCRP and, more broadly, of the Earth System Science Partnership.  WCRP has four core projects, CliC, CLIVAR, GEWEX and SPARC, and a co-sponsored project SOLAS.  In 2005 WCRP finalised its new strategy for the years 2005-2015, which is entitled “coordinated observation and prediction of the Earth system”.  The main goal of this strategy is to convert past achievements of WCRP into products of direct benefit to society.  The work of the core projects will continue but their activities will be more focussed on contributing to several cross-cutting goals such as seasonal forecasting, monsoon prediction, continuation of research on anthropogenic climate change, atmospheric chemistry and climate, and extreme events in the future climate.  New developments in these areas will be presented.