Join us in the upcoming webinar as part of the WCRP Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity. Click here to register.
Topic: Coupled km-scale Modelling of the Terrestrial Water Cycle: Progress and Prospect
Speaker: Prof. Simon Dadson from School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
Date and time: June 6, 2025 - 15:00 UTC
For more information about the series: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/de-webinar-series
21 May 2025 | 13:00-14:30 CEST
The next webinar in the Tipping Points Discussion Series explores the latest scientific insights on AMOC tipping points and their profound policy implications. This discussion will bring together experts to examine how science and policy can work together to address these emerging risks and enhance global preparedness.
The Editorial for the Surveys in Geophysics special issue on Tipping Elements in the Earth’s Climate Systems is now online, finalizing the Special Issue featuring research from the ISSI Workshop: Tipping Points and Understanding EO data needs for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project.
Image from Stocker et al. 2024.
Last week, we had an excellent meeting of authors of the WCRP High-impact climate events, tipping points, and irreversible regional impacts assessment at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York (5-8 May 2025). A lot of progress was made on the Assessment, including nailing down the scope and structure of the publication. We will now be working to produce a first draft of the different sections by the end of June. Huge thanks to AIMES for sponsoring the meeting, to Hannah Liddy and Anastasia Romanou for hosting us at GISS, and to Gabi Hegerl for her leadership.
Participants of the meeting - NASA GISS - May 2025
The Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project organized an expert meeting on the Robustness of Climate Change Information for Decisions in April 2024, hosted by the European Commission and co-sponsored by the Green Climate Fund.
The workshop aimed to address the following issue: When sources of climate change information do not agree or are misaligned to decision contexts, there is a lack of consensus about how to overcome this barrier and inform local-to-regional decision making.
Collectively the meeting sought to develop forward thinking on building new cross-community collaboration to advance and demonstrate the development of relevant information that is defensibly robust, aligned to context, in ways that are scalable and transferable, and thus broadly accepted and widely applicable. The meeting was explicitly designed to be a first step, a catalyst for new cross-community recognition of the challenge, and to stimulate new actions to address this. A new Interim Working Group is carrying on the work of organizing follow-on activities on these themes, including guidance and standards, global North/South partnerships, ethics and accountability, reducing epistemic uncertainties, and collaborations around responsible data use.
More information: https://www.wcrp-rifs.org/activities/workshops/