Editing CLIVAR (section)

==History==
The following is an approximate timeline of CLIVAR and its precedents:<ref name=about/>

* 1985: The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) initiated the TOGA (Tropical-Ocean Global Atmosphere Project) (1985-1995) to study interannual variability driven by the ocean-atmosphere system in the tropics.
* 1990: The WCRP began the first observational phase of the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (1990-1997)
* 1991: The Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) of the WCRP called on a group of experts to come together and consider the possible future directions for climate research, building on the foundation laid by TOGA and WOCE.
* 1992: The deliberations of the Joint Scientific Committee were published in 1992 in a brochure entitled ‘CLIVAR – a study of Climate Variability and Predictability’.
* 1993: The WCRP JSC decided to undertake CLIVAR as a major activity.
* 1995: CLIVAR was officially launched, initially as a 15-year project. The launch coincided with the end of TOGA.
* 1997: The first CLIVAR implementation plan was published.