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CLIVAR Research Focus: Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events
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This CLIVAR Research Focus involves several major research themes ranging from data acquisition to process understanding. They include the identification of the key modes of ocean-atmosphere variability impacting the magnitude and frequency extreme events, both now and in the future; improving observational data sets, providing higher temporal and spatial resolution for ocean-atmosphere processes; model development, addressing observational based approaches, improving variability in ocean-atmosphere simulations relevant to extreme events; and investigating the physical mechanisms leading to changes in high impact, societally relevant, weather and climate extreme events.