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IPRC News
August 12, 2007
IPRC's
Shang-Ping Xie gave the keynote speech
at the opening of a meeting on the environment, hosted by the
Environment Program Office of the
Asia Foundation.
July 1, 2007
The American
Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate released the special
issue,
Indian Ocean Climate, on July 1, 2007. The editor is
IPRC's associate researcher
Tommy Jensen. The
IPRC hosted the conference
leading up to the special issue.
(read
more in news release;
News@UH)
June 20, 2007
IPRC's
Axel Timmermann
gave a talk at the Bishop Museum Science Cafe on
abrupt climate change. Over 100 people
attended the event. For his animations of climate change on the NOAA
"Science on a Sphere"
click
for jpg; for
pdf.
Photos courtesy of IPRC's Yan Du and Gisela Speidel.
May 19, 2007
The Hawaiian Island chain has seen about 40
to 60 percent of its normal rainfall this year. IPRC's
Annamalai Hariharasubramanian explained that this drought is
linked to the recent El Nino. (read
more in Honolulu Advertiser)
April 4, 2007
IPRC Director
Dr. Julian McCreary and the Executive Associate Director of
the APEC Climate Center
Dr. Chung-Kyu Park signed
an MOU in February to partner on climate prediction research.
(read
more in news release)
February 25,
2007
Hawai‘i faces
rising temperatures and sea levels, eroding shorelines, and a more
acidic ocean as atmospheric carbon dioxide levels
increase. IPRC's researchers for global environmental change
Kevin
Hamilton and
Axel Timmermann and
SOEST colleagues geologist
Charles “Chip” Fletcher, and oceanographers
Lorenz Magaard,
Roger
Lukas,
David Karl, and
Klaus Wyrtki (Emer.)
comment on the implications. (read more in
Honolulu Advertiser.
Photo: Coastal Geology Group.)
February 13, 2007
Axel Timmermann has been selected as the 33rd recipient of the prestigious Rosenstiel Award in Oceanographic Science for his outstanding achievement and growing impact on ocean science.
(read
more in Star Bulletin;
news release;
RSMAS news release )
January 8, 2007
The article "South China Sea
throughflow: A heat and freshwater conveyor" by Tangdong Qu
(IPRC), Yan Du (IPRC), and
Hideharu Sasaki (ESC/JAMSTEC) was
selected as a
Journal
Highlight by the American Geophysical Union (AGU) (read more
in
News at UH;
click image for full view)
December 8,
2006
Shang-Ping Xie, team leader
for Indo-Pacific Climate research has been elected to the
Council of the
Oceanographic Society of Japan (OSJ) for a two-year term beginning in
2007. The OSJ organizes two scientific conferences each year, and
publishes two scientific journals:
Oceanography in Japan (Umi-no-Kenkyu) in Japanese, and the
Journal of Oceanography in English.
November 16, 2006
Yuqing Wang has been asked to serve as an
associate editor of the AMS journal
Weather and Forecasting for
the term beginning in January 2007. The journal publishes research on
techniques for weather forecasting and analysis, forecast verification
studies, and case studies useful to forecasters.
October 17, 2006
Director Jay McCreary and Kevin
Hamilton, Meteorology chair and IPRC research team
leader, talk about climate change on the Hawaii Public
Radio show "Beyond the Reef" with host Alvin Adams. They were
joined by Andy Nash, director of operations at the NWS Honolulu
Forecast Office, and Gerard Fryer, seismologist at the NWS Pacific
Tsunami Warning Center. Click to listen
for
short version.
Click image for full view.
October 11, 2006
Shang-Ping Xie and H. Annamalai are predicting
that Indian Ocean conditions are helping the current El Nino to grow stronger. Find out more from
News Release,
MSNBC,
KGMB_TV,
The Daily Star,
The Star,
West Hawaii Today,
Hawaii Tribune Herald,
UH News,
Honolulu Star Bulletin. Click
map (courtesy NOAA-CDC) for full view.
October 5, 2006
The
Asia Pacific Data Research Center at the IPRC makes climate
data and products easily accessible to the scientific community and to
the general public. Its activities are featured in the October unidata.ucar.newsletter.
(read
more)
September 25, 2006
“The North Indian Ocean is a very special
ocean,” according to IPRC distinguished guest Satish Shetye, director of
the National Institute of Oceanography in Goa, India. Shetye’s talk was
followed by the “IPRC mini-workshop on the Indian Ocean.”
(read more).
September 11, 2006
IPRC's
five meteorology faculty join in their
department's celebration of 50 years of meteorology at UH (read more:
The Honolulu Star Bulletin;
program)
UH News, September 11,
2006
In July 2006, IPRC Director Julian
McCreary visited the South China Sea Institute (SCSIO). During the
visit, McCreary and SCSIO Director Ping Shi signed a memorandum of understanding to
collaborate on climate research.
(read more)
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, August 13,
2006
Kevin Hamilton
describes plans to study effects of global warming on Hawaii with
a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and
support from the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology
(read more
in Honolulu Star Bulletin;
USA
Today)
UH News, July 31, 2006
The American Geophysical
Union (AGU) features in its July 2006
Journal Highlights the
paper
Simulating the Horizontal Wind Velocity Variance in the Upper
Troposphere, co-authored by
Kevin Hamilton, professor
and chair of the Department of Meteorology at UH and an IPRC research
team leader. (read
more)
UH News, July18, 2006
The publication of
Bin
Wang's Book,
The Asian Monsoon, is announced together with a
brief description.
(read
more)
Honolulu Advertiser, July 10, 2006
IPRC Visiting Scientist Thomas Stocker
discusses the importance of climate records in ice cores to
understanding the climate system.
(read more)
The Ocean Policy Research
Foundation in
Tokyo has published in its Ship and Ocean Newsletter (May 5,
2006) an essay by IPRC Director Jay McCreary that features the
International Pacific Research Center and its activities. Professor Toshio Yamagata, who is co-chief editor for the
newsletter,
translated the essay into
Japanese.
(read more)
IPRC in the News
The Honolulu Advertiser, December 5, 2004
On the Indian Ocean Modeling Workshop and the research to determine the
variability of Indian Ocean Climate and its far-reaching climate
effects. The Honolulu Advertiser, September 20,
2004
Interview with IPRC's Axel Timmermann on the arrival of the 2004 El Nino
and the predictability of its climate effects for the Hawaiian Islands.
(read
more)
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin, September 9, 2004
Collaboration between the International Pacific Research Center and the
Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) on
simulations with JAMSTEC's
Earth Simulator of ocean and atmosphere processes affecting climate.
Honolulu Advertiser, December 4, 2003
Announcement of the fiscal year 2003 grant to
the International Pacific Research Center from the Japan Marine Science
and Technology Center and another Japanese agency. (read
more)
University of Hawaii News and
Announcements, December 1, 2003.
The International Pacific Research Center
(IPRC) at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa recently received over $3
million from the Japan Marine Science and Technology Center (JAMSTEC).
JAMSTEC is one of two Japanese agencies that have generously supported
climate research at the IPRC, providing nearly $23 million since it
began operations in 1997.
The Honolulu Advertiser, November 17,
2003
Interview with Ben Kirtman and Andreas
Villwock on the Climate System Observational and Prediction Experiment
(COPE) Workshop hosted by the IPRC.
University of Hawaii News and
Announcements, November 17, 2003
Description of the NASA Earth Observatory
online article Little Island - Big Wake, which features the
research conducted by IPRC's Shang-Ping Xie on the far-reaching effects
of the Hawaiian Islands on the atmosphere and the ocean.
University of Hawaii News and
Announcements, February 10, 2003
Announcements of IPRC Director Julian
McCreary's selection as AMS Fellow, and Executive Associate Director
Lorenz Magaard's selection as President Elect of the Pacific Congress
on Marine Science and Technology (PACON International).
Mainichi Shimbun, January 18, 2003
New observations will help improve climate
models for prediction of El Niňo and global warming.
Science News (Japan), January 18,
2003
Frontier Research System for Global Change's
analysis of satellite observations reveal effects of the Kuroshio
Current on climate
Science and Technology Daily
(China), January 7, 2003
TRMM satellite gives the first solid evidence
for Kuroshio's effect on climate
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, November
25, 2002
Interview with Raymond Bradley and Henry Diaz
about the Hadley Circulation: Present, Past, and Future Workshop, which
was hosted by the IPRC
Honolulu Advertiser, November 18,
2002
Interview with Henry Diaz and Kevin Trenberth
about the Hadley Circulation: Present, Past, and Future Workshop, which
was hosted by the IPRC
People's Daily (China), July 18,
2002
Xie receives the Japanese Meteorological
Society award for his research on climate and its dynamics
Qingdao Daily (China), July 2, 2002
Xie is the first non-Japanese to be awarded
this prestigious Medal by the Japanese Meteorological Society
Honolulu Advertiser, May 7, 2002
Interview with Barry Huebert and Urs
Baltensperger about the Air Pollution as a Climate Forcing: A Workshop
hosted by the IPRC
Honolulu Advertiser, November 18,
2001
Interview with Andrew Bakun and Jeffrey
Polovina about the Pacific Climate and Fisheries Workshop hosted by the
IPRC
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, November
17, 2001
Interview with Juergen Alheit and Claude Roy
about the Pacific Climate and Fisheries Workshop hosted by the IPRC
Quicken.com September 12, 2001
Bin Wang is cited, among others, on how
Japan's Earth Simulator will facilitate climate research.
Honolulu Advertiser, June 15, 2001
Discussion of S.-P.Xie, W.T. Liu, Q. Liu, M.
Nonaka article: "Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the
Pacific Ocean Atmosphere System," Science, 292, 2001
USA Today, June 14, 20001
Discussion of S.-P.Xie, W.T. Liu, Q. Liu, M.
Nonaka article:"Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the
Pacific Ocean - Atmosphere System," Science, 292, 2001
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June 14,
2001
Discussion of S.-P.Xie, W.T. Liu, Q. Liu, M.
Nonaka article: "Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the
Pacific Ocean Atmosphere System," Science, 292, 2001
Academic Press, June 12, 2001
Discussion of S.-P.Xie, W.T. Liu, Q. Liu, M.
Nonaka article: "Far-reaching effects of the Hawaiian Islands on the
Pacific Ocean Atmosphere System," Science, 292, 2001
Honolulu Advertiser, April 30, 2001
Interview with Kevin Hamilton, Alan Robock,
Georgiy Stenchikov about the effects of volcanic eruptions on climate
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, March 21,
2001
Interview with Axel Timmermann, Postdoctoral
Fellow at IPRC
Honolulu Advertiser, March 19, 2001
Interview with Jeffrey Polovina and Dick
Beamish about PICES Workshop hosted by the IPRC
Honolulu Advertiser, February 25,
2001
Interview with Eileen Shea about the Training
Institute on Climate and Society in the Asia Pacific Region of which
IPRC was a co-sponsor
Honolulu Advertiser, February 19,
2001
Interview with Michael Glantz on preparing for
extreme weather events and the Training Institute on Climate and
Society in the Asia Pacific Region of which IPRC was a co-sponsor
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February
17, 2001
Interview with Richard Rosen, President of the
American Meteorological Society, during his IPRC visit
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February
12, 2001
Interview with Robert Weller and John Gould
about the CLIVAR Pacific Implementation Workshop hosted by the IPRC
Honolulu Advertiser, February 11,
2001
Interview with John Gould, Robert Weller, Ding
Yihui, Yoshifumi Kuroda, and Jose Rutlant about the CLIVAR Pacific
Implementation Workshop hosted by the IPRC
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, January 19,
2001
Interview with Eric Lindstrom and Vikram Mehta
about NASA-IPRC-CLIVAR Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability hosted
by the IPRC
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, January 19,
2001
Interview with Jonathan Overpeck during
NASA-IPRC-CLIVAR Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability hosted by the
IPRC
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, January 13,
2001
Mr. Takashi Sasagawa's visit to IPRC and SOEST
Honolulu Advertiser, January 8,
2001
Interview with Vikram Mehta about
NASA-IPRC-CLIVAR Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability hosted by the
IPRC
Honolulu Advertiser, June 7, 2000
Lorenz Magaard, Executive Associate Director
of IPRC, receives PACON award
Honolulu Advertiser, May 15, 2000
Interview with John Gould, and Jürgen
Willebrand about the CLIVAR SSG Meeting hosted by the IPRC
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, May 2, 2000
Interview with Russ Davis, John Gould, and
Jürgen Willebrand about the CLIVAR SSG Meeting hosted by the IPRC
Honolulu Star-Bulletin, February 7,
2000
Interview with Soroosh Sorooshian and Roger
Newson on the GEWEX SSG Meeting hosted by the IPRC
Honolulu Advertiser, February 5,
2000
Interview with Roger Newson about the GEWEX
SSG Meeting hosted by the IPRC
For more news read our most recent IPRC Climate.
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Foretelling Future Climate Change:
Special
Issue on "Indian Ocean Climate"
Published
We're
in a drought!
SOEST scientists discuss climate changes threatening Hawai‘i
IPRC's
Shang-Ping Xie Elected to the Council of the Oceanographic Society of Japan
IPRC Scientist Yuqing
Wang to serve as Associate Editor of 'Weather and Forecasting'
Fifty years of meteorology at the
University of Hawaii.jpg)
IPRC and South
China Sea Institute of Oceanology sign MOU to collaborate on climate research
Story
of Our Future Lies in Ice
Featured in Newsletter of Japanese Ocean Think Tank