Sunday, 8 December 2019
Hyatt Regency San Francisco Embarcadero, Bayview Room
WCRP is celebrating its 40th year of international climate science. We invite you to join us for a Symposium, which will showcase the many successes of our community over the last four decades and highlight some of the challenges and opportunities that climate science faces now and will face in the future. WCRP is entering a new phase of development to ensure that it is prepared for this future, recently launching its Strategic Plan 2019-2028. This Symposium will launch a series of sessions and events that will bring this future focus together in a “Climate Science Week”, a joint effort between WCRP and AGU’s 100th Anniversary Symposium.
Symposium Program with abstracts and biographies
Session A: Celebrating 40 years of WCRP in Service to Society (Chair: Pavel Kabat)
Opening remarks and expectations for the day and the week (Detlef Stammer)
Welcome by WCRP sponsors:
- Pavel Kabat - Chief Scientist, World Meteorological Organization. Earth System Approach to Weather, Climate, Water, and Environment. a new WMO agenda
- Vladimir Ryabinin - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of Unesco.
- Alik Ismail-Zadeh - International Science Council
Welcome by the American Geophysical Union
- Eric Davidson - AGU Past President
- Denis-Didier Rousseau - AGU Fall Meeting Program Chair
Keynotes:
- Kim Cobb -The climate change challenge
WCRP Accomplishments
- Gordon McBean - The first decades of WCRP and its accomplishments
- Antonio Busalacchi -The second phase of WCRP
- Raghu Murtugudde - Mobilizing global climate science capacity
Session B: Understanding the Climate System Components and their Interactions (Chair: Helen Cleugh)
- Carlos Nobre -The Amazon forest is near a tipping point
- Gerald Meehl - Facilitating climate science awareness
- Veronika Eyring - Scientific highlights from CMIP6
- Julie Arblaster - Scientific discoveries made possible with CMIP
- Kevin Trenberth - Climate system integration
Session B: continued (Chair: Detlef Stammer)
- Gen’ichiro Tsukada - Climate science for society in Asia and the Pacific
- Lisa Goddard - WCRP's role in climate services
- Steven Briggs - Observations, synthesis and monitoring/observing the climate system – future opportunities
- Irina Sandu - Modeling and prediction capabilities
- Bruce Hewitson - Capacity development
- Anca Brookshaw - Science innovation in support of climate services
- WCRP 40th Anniversary Film Premiere
Session C: The Launch of WCRP's Future (Chair: Pavel Kabat)
- Guy Brasseur - The WCRP science strategy
- Detlef Stammer and Helen Cleugh - From strategy to implementation
- Gaby Langendijk - An early career perspective on WCRP science
Awarding of:
Contact: Narelle van der Wel -
(Image credit: WMO, WMO/ICSU JSC, 1985)
