COLA and the International Climate Community

Antonio D. MouraINMET, Brazil

at COLA’s 20th anniversary Symposium

• Shukla’s early attempts with the ‘international Community’:

A slide show of Indira Gandhi participation at India’s national holiday festival (1973) (Shukla, Fung, Sarachik, Moura, ... accompanied by a bottle of vodka) ...... after Shukla came back from a climate meeting in Leningrade with Charney(at MIT’s student center)

• and ... our lunch gathering with Claudio Tebaldi

Recollection of Major International Collaboration

• Shukla’s study on predictability of monthly averages

• GATE and FGGE - WCRP steering and participation

• TOGA and T-POP - birth of the IRI

• GrADS - Brian Dotty

• Indian Centre for Medium Range Weather Prediction

• INPE/CPTEC - COLA model (adapted version)

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• ICTP - Association with Nobel Prize winner Abdus Salam

• … and TWAS ..

... earger to reach out and help LDC countries ...

Recollection of Major International Collaboration

• ICTP - Association with Nobel Prize winner Abdus SalamLate 1980’s and early 1990’s ICS/ICTP tentativeestablishment of a `Climate Laboratory’ to enhance capacity in LDC countries.

• TWAS – Membership and association with the Third Word Academy of Sciences

• COPES – WCRP/JSC with Hoskins and colleagues …(Coordinated Observation and Prediction of the Earth System) .. towards … GEOSS??? …

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• Bulletin of Long-lead Experimental Climate Forecasts

• Advisors (and colleague) of many well know internationalscientists (Brazil, India, Italy, ...)

COLA products used daily at INMET and many centers in South America, in addition to GrADS:

• COLA 5-day and 10-day average fields

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• IGES as an umbrella for housing centers and research activities in climate predictability, modeling studies, ... and ...

to work towards applications ... (early attempt with CARE)

• High school in India ... The children of Gandhi (noted in the New York Times)

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• COLA and IGES, of course, could not do as well if itwere not for the great scientists Shukla was able (with his persuasive and convincing capacity) to attract well known and promising names, such as:

Schneider, Kinter, Straus, Kirtman, Dirmeyer, Paolino, Schopf, Marx, Fennessy, Krishnamurthy, Doty, Huang… (many more) … and recently, Misra …

Recollection of Major International Collaboration

Thank you

for the opportunity to be here today

for COLA’s 20th celebration

I wish COLA to continue to have a great future!

Recollection of Major International Collaboration