Call for papers

Consisting of 4-5 thematic sessions, the workshop, organized in partnership with My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity, will be held online from 9 to 15 October 2021. It is a combination of thematic keynote talks, individual presentations of original research papers, and peer discussions. At the conclusion of the workshop, the designated publishing editors will work closely with participants to revise their papers for publication as a journal special issue or an edited book.

How to answer the call?

Submit the title and the abstract of your paper (maximum 500 words) or your entire draft before 25 June 2021 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Preference will be given to abstracts/papers that resonate with the workshop’s topical and conceptual themes in the context of global climate change. If you have any questions related to the themes of the workshop, HUC staff will direct your queries to the workshop conveners.

To download the Call for papers announcement, click here.

For more information, visit the workshop website.

 

The European Space Agency has been selected by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) as the host for a new International Project Office, dedicated to supporting the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Set to open in September 2021, the new CMIP International Project Office will be based at the agency’s European Centre for Space Applications and Telecommunications in the UK.

Initiated by WCRP in 1995 and currently in its sixth phase, CMIP brings over 30 climate modelling centres from countries around the world into a single framework. The project enables scientists to validate models by testing how they perform against real-world observations and accurately simulate underlying climate processes.

The need for a dedicated CMIP international office reflects the growing input of CMIP products to the IPCC assessment reports but also the growing worldwide participation from climate modelling groups and their widening use across the research community, in national and climate assessments, by climate services and increasingly, the private sector which requires such information to manage climate risk.

Hosting the CMIP Project Office at ESA strengthens the link between climate observation and modelling prediction communities, and supports a key recommendation from the most recent WCRP review.

To lean more: https://climate.esa.int/en/news-events/esa-to-host-global-climate-modelling-project-office/

 

There is about a 40% chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5°C above the pre-industrial level in at least one of the next five years – and these odds are increasing with time, according to a new climate update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

There is a 90% likelihood of at least one year between 2021-2025 becoming the warmest on record, which would dislodge 2016 from the top ranking, according to the Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update, produced by the United Kingdom’s Met Office, the WMO lead centre for such predictions.

• To read the WMO Global Annual to Decadal Climate Update for 2021-2025, click here
• WMO Press Release
• Met Office Press Release

Building on the success of the Sea Level 2017 Meeting in New York, the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Grand Challenge on “Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts” will hold the Sea Level 2022 meeting on 11-15 July, 2022 in Singapore.

The conference will provide an opportunity to share the present status of climate-related sea-level research, and will have a strong focus on application of sea-level science for adaptation and stakeholder needs. The conference will consider the future of sea-level rise research within the new structure of WCRP, including the lighthouse activities and the new “Core Projects” focusing on "Regional Information for Society" and "Earth System Modelling and Observations".

For more information, download the flyer

Register your interest by filling in the form available here.

We are soliciting Expressions of Interest from qualified institutions to host the conference and act as a local organizer. Successful applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.

We are also planning to host two webinars (to cater for different time zones) that will serve as Q&A sessions for those groups, organisations or cities that are interested and may submit expressions of interest

Submitting an Expression of Interest

The bidding process will take place in two stages with initial Letters of Intent due 1 July 2021. At this point it is not necessary to answer everything in detail but rather to provide enough information required for the JSC to identify full invitations. Indications as to how the preparation of the conference can be assisted by a local team would be helpful.

To submit an Expression of Interest, please outline (maximum four pages) how your institution meets the requirements described in the Call for Expressions of Interest.

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26 May 2021, 10:00-13:00 CEST

Please join us for this Sustainability Research & Innovation (SRI) mini-workshop, where we will talk about how we can better relate and translate climate science for societal relevance. WCRP, Future Earth, and the Belmont Forum are working together to bridge research communities with users of scientific information and to identify priorities and joint activities. Please join the discussion. Click the heading for details of how to join.

The WCRP Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) Science Advisory Team (SAT) has developed a White Paper with the purpose of highlighting scientific challenges in regional climate modelling to better inform the decision making process in regions, and for setting the basis for the CORDEX science plan. The White Paper has been open for comments to engage the community in the development of CORDEX and regional climate science and has now been published.

To read the White Paper, click here.

To know more about CORDEX, visit the CORDEX website

We are delighted to announce that Nico Caltabiano joins the WCRP Secretariat from today.

At the WCRP Secretariat, Nico is responsible for supporting WCRP’s modelling activities, particularly those covering the WCRP Science Objectives on “Prediction of the near and mid-term evolution of the climate system” and “Long-term response of the climate system”. Nico will provide support to a number of activities including the new "Earth System Modelling and Observational Capabilities" and "Regional Climate Information for Societies" “Core Projects”, working closely with other WCRP Secretariat staff.

Nico is an oceanographer, with a Masters degree in Ocean Remote Sensing at the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research and a PhD in Oceanography at the University of Southampton, UK.

Before joining the WCRP Secretariat, Nico was Deputy Executive Director of the International CLIVAR Project Office, and more recently Project Manager of the Klimapolis Laboratory and EU AQ-WATCH project at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, in Hamburg, Germany.

The Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change Lighthouse Activity Workshop on "Attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system" will take place online, from 22 to 24 September 2021 (free registration and attendance).

The aim of this workshop is to document current research, identify challenges, and explore potential pathways towards building an operational capability to attribute multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system on global-to-regional scales.

To know more about the workshop and to submit an abstract and register, visit the workshop website at: https://wcrp-epesc.sciencesconf.org/.

Deadline for abstract submission: June 30, 2021

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Guest editors, Marisol Osman, Daniela Domeisen, Andrew Robertson, Qian Ye, are happy to announce a special issue in the  Climate Services Journal on "Sub-seasonal to decadal predictions in support of climate services.

Submissions related to the challenges and opportunities of subseasonal to decadal (S2D) predictions in relation to climate services, as well as studies on user-relevant climate services related to S2D prediction are welcome. This also includes reviews, case studies, and collaborative international efforts.

Papers submitted before 1 August 2021 will receive a full paper charge waiver.

Papers submitted before 31 December 2021 will receive a 50% paper charge waiver.

Deadline for contributions: 1 April 2022.

More information is available at: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/climate-services/call-for-papers/special-issue-sub-seasonal-to-decadal-predictions 

 

Improved sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) forecasts could enhance food security, the sustainable management of energy and water resources, and reduce disaster risk by providing earlier warnings for natural hazards.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is launching a competition to improve, through Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning techniques, the current precipitation and temperature forecasts for 3 to 6 weeks into the future from the best computational fluid dynamic models available today.

All the codes and scripts will be hosted at Renkulab, developed by the Swiss Data Science Center, and training and verification data will be accessible from the European Weather Cloud and IRI Data Library. Data access scripts will be provided. After the competition, open access will be provided to all the codes and results.

Timeline

- Opens: 1st June 2021
- Closes: 31st October 2021
- Winners announced: Early February 2022

Competition website : https://s2s-ai-challenge.github.io/

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An interview with Helen Cleugh, Vice-Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, given to the International Science Council (ISC)

"Understanding the coupled climate system – or how the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, land surface and biosphere work together – requires research on a massive scale, informed by data and information from multiple sources all over the world. We’re very conscious that – as important as WCRP has been for coordinating climate science around the world over the past four decades – we have gaps in terms of our diversity. That has multiple dimensions, but one of them is around our connections in the regions of the world. This is not only about doing science and science coordination that’s useful and relevant for different parts of the world, it’s also about discovering the science that’s being done in those parts of the world and helping to share it with the rest of the global community" - Helen Cleugh.

To read the full interview with Helen Cleugh, see the ISC website

WCRP Climate Research Forum for North and Central America, the Caribbean and Greenland on "Climate research priorities for the next decade"
11 May 2021, 15:00 - 17:30 Eastern Daylight Time (19:00 - 21:30 UTC) - Online

This is the third in a series of online Climate Research Forums, aimed at exchanging ideas, discussing new activities and opportunities being developed by WCRP, and exploring ways that our climate science community of scientists, partner programs, funders, and end-users can engage towards building “a world that uses sound, relevant, and timely climate science to ensure a more resilient present and sustainable future for humankind.

The Forum is open to all, please register here. 

To learn more about the Forum, click here

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An interview with Detlef Stammer, Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, given to the International Science Council (ISC)

"The challenges are huge, and we have to really think about how to approach them. This was and still is a very basic motivation for us. We only have about 10 years’ time to make progress on the Paris targets, and this is where society really comes in. It’s getting really urgent to start moving if we want to reach these targets. WCRP's priority following the publication of its strategic plan is to work with Future Earth and others to develop information that people can use for mitigation and adaptation." said Detlef Stammer.

To read the full interview with Detlef Stammer, see the ISC website

We are very pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the 2nd Climate Observation Conference, to be held virtually on 30 August – 3 September 2021, is now open!

Abstracts can be submitted online through the conference website for either an oral or poster presentation. The abstract submission deadline is 14 June 2021. The preliminary structure of the programme is now available on the conference website.

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The final report on the State of the Global Climate in 2020 is a multi-agency report spearheaded by WMO and combining input from UN agencies, national meteorological and hydrological services and associated institutions, regional climate centres and dozens of experts. Several WCRP scientists were involved.

It provides comprehensive details of climate indicators such as extreme weather, land and ocean temperatures, ice retreat and sea level rise. It also includes information on climate and weather impacts on both humans and land and marine ecosystems in a year when socio-economic development was hit by COVID-19.

The press conference is broadcast live on http://webtv.un.org/

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The Past Global Changes (PAGES) project is pleased to announce a new paleoscience magazine for teenagers and young adults.

Past Global Changes Horizons highlights science of the past, written in an easy to understand, visual format, for those interested in, and wanting to learn more about, environmental issues and global climate change. Each of the 18 contributions addresses a scientific question and includes appealing and understandable figures or images, without sacrificing scientific rigor.

To read the magazine, click here

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The second session of the WCRP Climate Research Forum “Climate research priorities for the next decade” was held successfully on April 7, 2021. The forum focused on the Eastern Asia region. It began with an overview of WCRP from the Vice Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, followed by talks highlighting climate science priorities and opportunities for collaboration in the Eastern Asian Region from an agency perspective. There were then talks on climate science activities in the Eastern Asian Region.

The recording of the event is available here.

Find more detailed information on the CLIVAR webpage.

Find out more : https://www.wcrp-climate.org/wcrp-osc23
Register your interest in filling in the form available here

The WCRP Open Science Conference 2023 will bring together diverse research communities, programmes and partners to discuss the latest developments in climate science, with an emphasis on science-based information for decision making. WCRP is looking at innovative ways to bridge science and society and to foster future climate science leadership, through workshops, public exhibits, forums, and other associated events.

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We are pleased to announce the WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis to be held in Bonn (Germany), 13-18 September 2021 alongside the 2021 ECMWF Annual Seminar on Observations.

The overall objective of WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis is to review latest developments and address issues of common interest to data assimilation and reanalysis communities.

Deadline for abstracts and financial support application: April 30, 2021

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We are proud of our research community who have enabled WCRP to provide the global scientific leadership and coordination needed to address frontier scientific questions related to the coupled climate system.

On this International Women’s Day, we especially want to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions and achievements of the women researchers across our WCRP community. You have played a significant role in WCRP’s impact and success.

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