Summary of the Proceedings of the JCESS-CLIVAR Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability

Vikram M. Mehta* and Mike Coughlan+

1. Introduction

The JCESS-CLIVAR Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability was organized under the auspices of the NASA-University of Maryland Joint Center for Earth System Science (JCESS) and the WCRP Climate Variability and predictability Project (CLIVAR) to bring together researchers to assess the state of the science of natural decadal climate variability and its societal impacts, and to formulate a program of research in various aspects of natural decadal climate variability, its predictability, and applications of the predicted information. The workshop was held in Columbia, Maryland, during 22-24 April 1996 and was cosponsored by …