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Participating in an international group like this means putting aside our individual and institutional priorities to identify and address gaps where better coordination is needed. It’s a great way to serve the community, while expanding your network and building meaningful connections.

Open call for the Membership of the Global Extremes Platform (GEP) Working Group on Annual assessment of Weather and Climate Extremes (AWCE).
 
For information and to apply (deadline August 5, 2025), please visit the Open Call webpage

Join the RIfS Scientific Steering Group (SSG)!
For information and to apply (deadline September 15, 2025, 17:00 UTC), please visit the Call webpage

Early-career Earth scientists around the world face vastly different professional landscapes. While some benefit from robust funding, strong mentorship, and institutional support, many others, especially those in low- and middle-income countries, struggle to access even the most basic resources. A recent global study published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment (https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01964-w) based on survey data and conducted in-depth interviews with early-career Earth scientists from across the globe, sheds light on these disparities and proposes concrete steps toward a more inclusive and equitable scientific community.

Read the full article by Sara Pasqualetto, published in the ESMO Newsletter

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Frontiers in climate, May 2025

By bridging climate science, policy, and communities through regional platforms such as the Indo-Pacific My Climate Risk Hub at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, India, this paper in Frontiers in Climate outlines pathways for collaborative climate action. This work proposes actionable strategies for regional resilience.This study synthesizes existing climate knowledge for the Indo-Pacific region, emphasizing the need for localized, community-driven adaptation approaches.

To know more, read the study "Bridging climate science, policy, and communities: collaborative pathways for climate resilience in the Indo-Pacific, Modi A, et al., (2025), Front. Clim. Vol.7.

9th Med-CORDEX workshop 2025

The main goal of the workshop of the 9th International Med-CORDEX workshop, to be held online July, 2nd-3rd 2025, is to further foster scientific exchanges among the Mediterranean regional climate modelling community and to configure the near-future of Med-CORDEX in the global context of climate research. Although the workshop is free of charge, registration is mandatory.  Registration deadline : June, 23rd 2025.

Participants to the Risk-KAN Symposium

The joint CLIVAR-OMDP and RIfS-CORDEX Task Force on Regional Ocean Climate Projections  is assembling a record inventory of regional ocean model projection simulations as both a resource for the regional ocean modeling community, to inform recommendations regarding community needs and priorities. The Task Force is collecting information for this inventory by way of voluntary survey with the intent of making synthesized information publicly available via the Task Force web page.

You’re invited to take the survey using the QR code below or using directly this link https://forms.office.com/e/18yxHGqWPZ  by 1 July 2025.

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An international study, published in Science, has found that only 24% of present-day glacier mass will remain if the world were to warm to 2.7°C, the trajectory set by current climate policies. In contrast, limiting warming to 1.5°C — the target of the Paris Agreement — would preserve 54% of glacier mass.

To know more, read the study "Glacier preservation doubled by limiting warming to 1.5°C versus 2.7° - Harry Zekollari et al., Science, 2025, Vol 388, Issue 6750 pp. 979-983, DOI: 10.1126/science.adu4675.

Participants to the Risk-KAN Symposium

The first Risk-KAN Symposium, convened at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg at April 28th 2025, brought together researchers, practitioners, and stakeholders to chart the future direction of the Knowledge-Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (Risk-KAN). Next to serving as the official kick-off of the new working group and leadership structure, the gathering focused on discussing how to advance transdisciplinary risk research and fostering actionable insights to support societal preparedness, resilience, and adaptation to compound and systemic risks in a changing climate.

Find out more about the First Risk-Kan Symposium Report

 

CMIP Community Workshop 2026

The Scientific Organising Committee of the CMIP Community Workshop 2026, to be held in Kyoto, Japan from 9 to 13 March 2026, seeks to co-create the workshop as a bottom-up community-driven effort driven by scientists, practitioners and stakeholders. Take part by proposing engaging side sessions by  21 July 2025 12:00 UTC, or by submitting an abstract by 13 August 2025 12:00 UTC.

 

S2S2D 2026 Conference

The 3rd International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal to Decadal Prediction (S2S2D) will take place on 7-11 September 2026 in Reading, UK. This event will provide a forum for the current state of Earth system prediction science to be shared and discussed. It will consist of two parallel sub-conferences, respectively focusing on the subseasonal-to-seasonal and seasonal-to-decadal prediction horizons, together with plenary sessions addressing cross-cutting themes. 

Important Dates

  • 1 Dec 2025: abstract submission open
  • 1 March 2026: abstract submission closed

To know more about the conference, please visit the S2S2D conference website.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Participants of the meeting - NASA GISS - May 2025

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The WCRP Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project is calling for members of the newly established Robust Information Working Group (RIWG), and associated task teams which will contribute to its work. The aim of the group is to establish what it means for a scientific product to be “robust”, i.e.,  context specific regional climate information that is fit for informing decision-making; and what processes could look like to generate and apply robust information to produce “robust” decisions.

The group aims to identify attributes of robustness of information, identify processes to generate and apply such information, and produce recommendations about what we need to change in our communities of practice, institutions and structures to allow for the achievement of robust climate change information geared towards context-specific decisions.

For more information and to nominate someone (including self-nomination), deadline 15 May 2025 - 17:00 UTC, please visit the open call webpage and the application form.

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Pan-CLIVAR 2025 will bring together CLIVAR members from all panels, Research Foci, and Scientific Steering Group (SSG), as well as representatives from WCRP core-projects and external partners and will initiate the formulation of the next science plan. Pan-CLIVAR 2025 will be held from 22 to 26 September 2025 in hybrid mode (in-person and on-line) in Indonesia. It will consist of individual panels and Research Foci meetings, SSG sessions, cross-panel meetings, plenaries, and a Symposium "Bridging Science and Society in Southeast Asia and Beyond" on 24 September with breakout sessions in the morning of 25 September. This year 2025 marks the 30th Anniversary of CLIVAR.

Participation to Pan CLIVAR Meeting is by invitation. The Symposium, however, is open to all.

  • Registration and the call for Symposium abstracts are open. Abstract submission deadline: extended to April 18, 2025, 23h59 CEST.
  • To register and submit an abstract, visit the Pan-CLIVAR 2025 website.

The Scientific Organising Committee of the CMIP Community Workshop 2026 seeks to co-create the workshop as a bottom-up community-driven effort driven by scientists, practitioners and stakeholders. Take part by proposing your session now! The call for session proposals is open until 25 April 2025.

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WCRP is calling for nominations for membership of the World Climate Research Programme's Joint Scientific Committee (JSC). The deadline for nominations is extended to 30 April 2025.

JSC Call 2025

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Join us in the upcoming webinar as part of the WCRP Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity. Click here to register. 

Topic: The "Earthing" of Weather and Climate Processes: New Studies of Land-Atmosphere Feedback
Speaker: Dr. Volker Wulfmeyer (Institute of Physics and Meteorology, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany)
Date and time: April 1st, 2025 - 15:00 UTC 

For more information about the series: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/de-webinar-series

A new study by Regina R. Rodrigues (co Chair of the WCRP My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity), Afonso H. Gonçalves Neto, Edson A. Vieira, and Guilherme O. Longo, published in Communications Earth & Environment (https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02195-3), explores the connection between marine heatwaves (MHWs) and coral bleaching in the tropical Atlantic. For more information, click the heading above.

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On March 21, 2025, global leaders, scientists, and policymakers will gather at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and Paris to mark the first-ever World Day for Glaciers. To learn more, click the heading above.

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This workshop, by invitation only, is organized by the Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project (RIfS) and the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) in Cape Town (South Africa) from 8 to 11 September 2025. It is planned as a pivotal moment in Africa for how to address the critical questions of robust, defensible, and actionable climate information to support Africa’s policy and decision makers. This workshop is the first step to new cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, and cross regional collaborations.

To know more visit the workshop website.

AMOC webinar

We are delighted to invite you to join the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Tipping Point: "Impacts on Climate and Extreme Events" webinar, in the WCRP Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity, AIMES, the Earth Commission, and Future Earth webinar series. This webinar will explore the potential impacts of an AMOC tipping event on Europe’s climate.  When: 25 March 14:00-15:30 CET Presentations by:

  • Anastasia Romanou (NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies/Columbia University): AMOC bifurcation - tipping due to internal climate variability
  • René van Westen (The Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute):  AMOC Tipping Events under different Forcing Scenarios

Register: https://the-amoc-tipping-point-impacts-on-climate-and-extreme-events.confetti.events/

Following an open call in 2024 for the four GPEX Working Groups (WGs) co-chairs and members, the WCRP Global Precipitation EXperiment Lighthouse Activity, aiming at taking on the challenge of improving precipitation predictions around the world, including polar and high-mountain regions, would like to seek nominations (including self-nominations) to further expand its current WG memberships that will develop and execute the GPEX implementation plan over the next decade, and integrate with the past efforts. The deadline for applications is 31 March 2025. Click the heading above for more details and to apply.

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**The deadline for proposals to host the CORDEX IPO has been extended until 31 March 2025**

CORDEX is the focal point for advancing and coordinating the science and application of regional climate downscaling through global partnerships within WCRP. This fosters and grows research focused on advancing and coordinating the science and application of regional climate downscaling, to effectively link global climate research and the regional information needs of society.

The Host Institution will significantly benefit from hosting the CORDEX IPO by having a close interaction with this critical domain of research in support of regional downscaling experiments. It will serve as a great opportunity for the host to help deliver the exciting new goals of CORDEX to the international community.

All communications and enquiries regarding this call should be directed in English to Maureen Wanzala (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) in the WCRP Secretariat. 

The Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity invites researchers with an interest in climate change adaptation and mitigation measures, carbon cycle processes, urban heat, climate and health, or severe and cascading extreme events to apply to join its Scientific Steering Group. Researchers working in the Global South are strongly encouraged to apply. The deadline for applications is 17 March 2025. Click the heading above for more details and to apply. 

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