The Potential of Seasonal-to-Decadal-Scale Inter-Regional Linkages to Advance Climate Predictions

InterDec

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Principal Investigator

Daniela Matei, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany

Partners

Hisashi Nakamura, The University of Tokyo, Japan Jinro Ukita, Niigata University, Japan Tao Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Mojib Latif, GEOMAR - Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany Yongqi Gao, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center, Norway Noel Keenlyside, University of Bergen, Norway Torben Koenigk, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden Steven Woolnough, University of Reading, United Kingdom Frederic Vitart, European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts, United Kingdom

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Project Objective

InterDec is an international initiative aimed at understanding the origin of decadal-scale climate variability in different regions of the world and the linkages between them by using observational data sets and through coordinated multi-model experiments.

Call Objective

This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with a focus on inter-regional linkages role in climate variability and predictability. Major impediments indeed still exist having efficient climate services at regional and local level, because of little or poorly understood climate processes (in part caused by a paucity of observations), inadequate dissemination of scientific knowledge, conflicts between climatic and non-climatic stressors and lack of action by decision makers and the human society at large.

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Duration

42 months

Call Date

2015-04-06

Project Award Date

2015