Karl Taylor, major figure behind WCRP's Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), has been elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The honor is accorded to a small percentage of AGU members and recognizes both Karl's research successes as well as his contributions to WCRP, CMIP and IPCC. Click the headline for details.

WCRP has been working with the Transdisciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP ICSU) since early 2018, to further their mission of collating and curating digital/ICT-based teaching resources that integrate climate studies across the curriculum of Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Through new partnerships to advance cooperation, TROP ICSU will play its part in addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals numbers 4 (Quality Education) and 13 (Climate Action). To learn more, click the heading above.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Wiebke Schubotz has been appointed as the second science coordinator of the WCRP Coordination Office for Regional Activities (CORA), jointly hosted by the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) in Hamburg, Germany and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) in Bergen, Norway. To learn more click the headline above.

9-11 September 2019

UK Space Agency, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom (and live streamed)

This international CEOS and WMO-GSICS workshop will discuss the needs, state of the art and vision for a space-based climate observing system. For more information, click the headline above.

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WCRP provided multiple inputs to the 50th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including to the opening Plenary Session and the Session's Research Dialogue. Click the headline for the full report.

We are delighted to report that the WCRP Strategic Plan 2019-2028 has now been approved by all three WCRP sponsors, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the International Science Council (ISC) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO). Click the heading above for further information.

WMO launches a joint WMO/SCAR fellowship program for early career scientists from developing nations conducting Antarctic research. The deadline for fellowship applications is 17 July 2019. Click the headline for details.

The 21^st Session of the WCRP Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP) was held at the Institute of Numerical Mathematics (INM) of the Russian Academy of Science (RAS) in Moscow, Russia, from 29-31 May 2019. To find out more about proceedings, click the header above.

The WCRP Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) provides valuable multi-model climate simulations and projections that benefit many stakeholders. The Project has now reached a stage where certain components and activities require sustained institutional support for it to meet the growing expectation to support climate services, policy, and decision-making. A new resolution was just passed at the 18^th World Meteorological Congress that should aid in better supporting CMIP. To find out more, click the header above.

The United Nations has proclaimed a Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) to support efforts to reverse the cycle of decline in ocean health and gather ocean stakeholders worldwide behind a common framework. To find out more, click the heading above.

The 18th World Meteorological Congress' Research Day focused on the world's oceans as well as connections between WMO, WCRP, their partner organizations, climate projections, and policy. Click the headline for details.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has opened to expert review the first order draft of the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Prospective expert reviewers can self-nominate until 16 June 2019 for the review period closing 23 June 2019. Click the headline for details.

WCRP is calling for (self-)nominations for membership in six of its expert panels, namely both Advisory Councils (WDAC and WMAC), three Working Groups (WGCM, WGSIP, WGNE) and the CORDEX Science Advisory Team. New members are sought in each panel for a four-year term from January 2020 to December 2023. Nominations should be submitted via an online nomination form by 20 June 2019. To read more, click the headline above.

The leaders of 37 United Nations organizations called on their member states to "step up ambition and take concrete action" to limit global temperature increase from climate change, and to report on concrete measures at the UN Secretary-General's Climate Action Summit in September 2019. Click the headline for details.

Within the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee's annual meeting, Professor Thomas Stocker from the University of Bern gave a public science lecture on "The Climate of Tomorrow: Building the Knowledge for Earth Stewardship". His presentation inaugurated a new World Meteorological Organization public science lecture series. Click the headline for details.

The 40th Session of WCRP's Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) was opened yesterday, Monday 6 May, at WMO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. Click the headline to read more.

Abstract submission for the 4^th International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC)-Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) 2019 has been extended to 30 May. The conference will be held in Beijing, China, from 14-18 October 2019 and will bring together the international community to discuss regional climate research and to share the latest progress on regional climate modeling for impact and adaptation planning. Click the heading above for more information. 

The World Meteorological Organization is calling for applications for membership of its proposed Scientific Advisory Panel. The deadline for nominations and self-nominations, to be addressed to the WMO Secretariat, is 31 May. Click the headline for details.

Under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM), hundreds of climate researchers in modelling centres around the world are working to share, compare and analyse the latest results of global climate and Earth system models. Early results of the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) are now available and were discussed at the first CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop held recently in Barcelona. For more information, please click the heading above.

Participants of the CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop held in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2019.

Registration is now open for the Science Policy Forum, organized by the International Science Council (ISC), the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the UNISDR Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) and the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme, which will take place on 13 – 14 May in Geneva, as part of the preparatory meetings for the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Please click the heading above for more information.

On the occasion of its 40th Anniversary, the WCRP will be coordinating a Climate Science Week at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019. To find out how to get involved, please click the heading above.