Dr. Valery Detemmerman, Executive Director of CLIVAR ICPO, Dr. Nico Caltabiano, senior scientist of CLIVAR ICPO and Dr. Weidong Yu, scientist from First Institute of Oceanography that hosts ICPO, visited IAP on 10 February 2015. The major purpose of this visit is to promote the potential cooperation between IAP and CLIVAR. Dr. Jiang Zhu, Director-General of IAP, Dr. Tianjun Zhou, assistant of Director-General of IAP, Dr. Guangqing Zhou, Director of Public Technology Service Center in IAP, Dr. Wei Li, Project Manager of Division Ⅳof Earth Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, Dr. Chaolin Zhang, Director of Division V of Earth Sciences, National Natural Science Foundation of China, and other young scientists in IAP attended the meeting. 

Dr. Zhu chaired the discussion and firstly introduced history, scientific activities, deployment of prioritized studies of IAP. Dr. Detemmerman introduced the evolution, global and regional panels of CLIVAR. Then, Dr. Tianjun Zhou, Dr.Hailong Liu and Dr. Lijing Cheng made the speeches of “Climate Modeling Activities in IAP”, “An Overview of IAP Ocean Model” and “The 4^th XBT Workshop: XBT Science and the Way forward” respectively. Dr. Wei Li and Dr. Chaolin Zhang talked about the project management, project application and other policies in NSFC. At last, several topics were discussed, including “CLIVAR Open Science Conference”, “CLIVAR Ocean Reanalysis Project”, “CLIVAR Ocean Model Comparison Project” and “Global Monsoon Model inter-comparison Project (GMMIP)”.  

CLIVAR ICPO also visited Chinese National Committee for World Climate Research Programme (CNC-WCRP) and Chinese National Committee for Future Earth (CNC-FE). Prof. Guoxiong Wu, Vice-Chair of CNC-FE, Dr. Jianqi Sun, Secretary-General of CNC-WCRP, Dr. Dabang Jiang, assistant of Director-General of IAP attended the discussion. 

CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change) is one of the four core projects of the WCRP. CLIVAR’s mission is to understand the dynamics, the interaction, and the predictability of the coupled ocean-atmosph ere 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.