The Sixth WCRP International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR6) will take place in Tokyo from 28 October to 1 November 2024 under initiatives from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Japan Meteorological Agency, “Climate change actions with co-creation powered by Regional weather information and E-technology” (ClimCORE), and the University of Tokyo. 

Dates: 28 October – 1 November, 2024

Venue: Ito International Research Center, The University of Tokyo, Hongo, Tokyo, Japan

The CLIVAR International Project Office hosted by the Ocean University of China, Qingdao, welcomes its new Director Dr Agus Santoso.

Agus Santoso is a climate scientist specialising in the dynamics of Indo-Pacific climate variability and change, with broad interest in global thermohaline circulation and climate modelling.  Prior to joining the ICPO, he was a researcher with a PhD in physical oceanography based at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia.  During the two decades in research, he has been involved in various institutions and programs including the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre, and the Australian Government’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes, and the National Environmental Science Program.  Agus served as one of the project leaders at the Centre for Southern Hemisphere Oceans Research in understanding the El Niño Southern Oscillation and Indian Ocean Dipole, and their response to greenhouse warming.  He served as member of the World Climate Research Programme CLIVAR Pacific Region Panel and is a current member of its working group on tropical Pacific decadal variability.  He is also on journal editorial boards, including as an editor at the Journal of Climate.

The WCRP family wishes Agus a warm welcome and a great success in the new role.

WCRP SPARC community's new report on carbon footprint reduction is now published!

The World Climate Research Programme My Climate Risk (MCR) Lighthouse Activity is focused on making climate science meaningful at local (community-based) scales. MCR consists of an international network of regional hubs focussed on developing alternatives to existing climate science and institutional frameworks that will inform and facilitate locally-driven climate solutions. In this learning lab initial best practices, lessons learned, and experiences were shared, with opportunities for feedback from participants.

WCRP Publications 2023

My Climate Risk was well represented at the WCRP Open Science Conference in Kigali, both in-person and online. The only formal MCR event was the Learning Lab, “Democratizing climate science: Making it meaningful at local scales”, led by the Argentina hub with assistance from several other MCR hubs.

The latest edition of GEWEX Quarterly features articles on:

• AGU H3S Fall Highlights: Webinars, AGU Fall Meeting, and New Member Applications
• YESS Reporting on Active Engagement at International Science Meetings
• In Memoriam: Prof. Dr. Ehrhard Raschke
• Integrated Human-Earth System Modeling by Coupling E3SM and GCAM
• The Arctic Radiation-Cloud-Aerosol-Surface-Interaction eXperiment (ARCSIX)
• ... and many other articles

To read the Gewex Quarterly, click here.

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) convened a joint workshop in Paris on 22 - 23 June 2023 to assess the current state of knowledge of the Earth system cycles of energy, water, and carbon, and our capability to assess emerging changes related to these cycles. The aims were to i) identify challenges for research (knowledge of processes), modelling and observing system capabilities; ii) identify key indicators for measuring (observational needs), monitoring and modelling the cycles and indicate how they can be used in global assessment frameworks; and iii) identify key processes that need to be better understood to improve the monitoring of the cycles and to infer if and how the cycles are coupled.

The outcomes of the joint workshop are now available in the report that can be accessed here.

The CLIVAR-GEWEX Monsoons Panel is back with the second webinar in their series.

The Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity webinar "Earth System Modelling at km-scale resolution at MPI" will start on 21 November 2023 at 13:00 UTC.

Speakers: Daniel Klocke, Nils Brüggemann, Hans Segura (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Germany).

Check the Digital Earths webinar series page to register for this event.

Why is methane rising, how are sources and sinks changing, and what is the risk from hydrates

Join us for a webinar that will discuss this and more on 7 November 2023, 15:30-17:00 CET.

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• to know more and to apply click here.
• Deadline to apply: 21 November 2023

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Open Science Conference is currently taking place in Kigali, Rwanda. More than 1400 experts are gathering in a concerted effort to ensure that advances in climate science keep up with the speed of climate change to support a more sustainable future for the planet. Below are some articles and blogs centered on the conference: