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Live Stream S2SThe 2018 International Conferences on Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction, which will take place from the 17-21 September 2018 at NCAR in Boulder, will be live streamed for remote viewing. For more details follow the advice on the workshop webpages.

The conferences will bring together scientists, producers, and users at the forefront of S2S and S2D prediction and related research, development, and application areas. They will foster the exchange of information and knowledge between the

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The members of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) as of January 2019 are now confirmed. To see who has been newly appointed and reappointed, click the headline above.

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SPARC landscape colourAvoid the queues! The deadline for online registration for the Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate (SPARC) General Assembly in Kyoto, Japan, is 2 September 2018 at 24:00 UTC (Mon, 3 September 9:00 a.m. Japanese Standard time). Please register on the meeting website. 

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Ocean DecadeThe Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) is seeking nominations to join the Executive Planning Group of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. To find out more click the heading above.
 

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The Arctic Observing Summit 2018 organizers are seeking community input on the summit's topics in the form of brief statements. Click the headline above for more information.

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WCRP Strategic Plan

The WCRP Strategic Plan is currently open for public comment. Why is this plan important? What are the future priorities for climate research? Click the heading above to find out and to have your say on how we conduct climate-related sciences in the next decade.

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banner SPARC WCRP's Core Project on "Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate" (SPARC) is seeking nominations for new Scientific Steering Group (SSG) members to serve a four-year term from 2020. Nominations or self-nominations should be submitted by 15 September 2018 - click the headline for details.

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The WCRP Global Sea Level Budget Group has published a paper providing a comprehensive 'state of the science' review of global mean sea level from 1993 to present. Click the headline above to find out more.

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Submit your abstract to the HiWeather workshop, to take place from 20-22 November 2018 in Beijing China. Click the heading above for more details. The abstract deadline is 17 September 2018. 

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pixabay beijing panorama 805587The next International Conference on Regional Climate, ICRC-CORDEX 2019 will be held on 14-18 October 2019 in Beijing, China. The 2019 edition is the fourth in the ICRC series and will address relevant topics in downscaling and modeling; the human factor as well as impacts and applications; and capacity development, training, and co-operations. See the conference website for more information.

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The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6) Model Analysis Workshop will take place from 25-28 March 2019 at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) in Barcelona, Spain. Click the heading above for the full details.

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PNNLThe team at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is launching a major recruiting effort, searching for 10-15 researchers in atmospheric, climate, and Earth system sciences. Click the heading above for more information.

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The International Science Council (ISC) project 'Gender Gap in Science' is a global approach to addressing the gender gap in mathematical, computing, and natural sciences, looking at how to measure the gender gap and how to reduce it. If you are involved in these sciences you are invited to share your career and education experiences via a survey before 31 October 2018. For more information click the heading above.

Gender Gap In Science

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TG-DataThe IPCC Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-Data) is currently seeking nominations. Click the heading above for further details.

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WCRP is awarding annually, together with its two respective partners WWRP and GCOS, two prizes for notable achievements in model as well as data development. The prizes aim to honour, recognize, and foster research activities in their respective fields, as well as stress their mutual interdependence. For the 2018 edition of both prizes, nominations are now open with a deadline of 1 October 2018. For full details and links to the individual prize announcements, click the headline above.

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TROP ICSUThe International Science Council's project "Transdisciplinary Research-Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding" (TROP ICSU) is consolidating teaching resources for climate change education, aiming to integrate them with the core curricula at secondary school and university levels. In an anticipated expansion of its activities, the TROP ICSU project is seeking feedback from teachers and scientists in educational roles. Click the headline above for more information.

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urban climate cover with CitiesIPCC bannerThe Cities and Climate Change Science Conference in Edmonton, taken place this March with WCRP involvement, had successfully set a major milestone to develop and implement a global research and action agenda on cities and climate change. For following steps and in the effort of stimulatIng research and the production of knowledge, the journal "Urban Climate" is inviting, until 15 July 2018, abstracts for a special issue on "Urban Data and Climate Information Services". Click the headline above
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WCRP Strategic Plan LogoThrough a joint consultation process with WCRP expert bodies and activity chairs, WCRP leadership has prepared the next Draft WCRP Strategic Plan which is now open for public comment. WCRP welcomes your comments and invites you to share this call among your colleagues and networks. This public consultation phase will take place until 31 August 2018. It will enable WCRP, jointly with its wider community, to shape climate research priorities for the next decade. For details on the Draft
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PannEx research structurePannEx is a Regional Hydroclimate Project (RHP) undertaken at the regional scale of the Pannonian Basin, under the umbrella of WCRP's Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project (GEWEX). In their newly published article “PannEx: The Pannonian Basin Experiment”, the authors around the PannEx team identified five flagship activities and three cross-cutting actions combining current scientific challenges with related societal needs.

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land use panorama of vietnam fieldsThe IPCC invites nominations for Expert Reviewers for the First Order Draft of its "Special Report on Climate Change and Land". Expert Reviewers should hold expertise in one or several of the report's five climate change-related focus areas, namely, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems. Click the headline for details.

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Photo of a forest fireMembers of WCRP's Grand Challenge on Weather and Climate Extremes (GC-Extremes) and co-authors published a Nature Climate Change perspective article on "Future climate risk from compound events". The article is partially based on outcomes of the workshop "Addressing the challenge of compound events" which was held in April 2017 at the ETH Zurich in context of the GC-Extremes. Click the headline for more information.

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Toulouse by night, cover photo for EEI workshopWCRP is organizing a workshop on "The Earth’s Energy Imbalance and its implications" in Toulouse, France, from 13-16 November 2018. Abstracts are invited until 13 July 2018. The workshop's main aim is to initiate a new WCRP-wide activity on Earth’s energy imbalance with broad participation from both within and beyond WCRP's related initiatives. Click the headline for more information.

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Logos JPI Climate and AXISScientists located in elegible countries may consider submitting proposals to the EU JPI Climate's AXIS call. The call's goal is to broaden the climate-related knowledge base that helps guiding societies in their transition to sustainability. Proposals are expected to mostly be of small to medium size (0.3 - 2 million €) and of a duration of up to 3 years. Pre-registrations must be received by 18 June 2018 and full proposals by 8 October 2018. Click the headline for details.

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Clic logoThe World Climate Research Programme is soliciting offers to host an International Project Office (IPO) to coordinate its cryospheric activities from 1st January 2019 onward. For more information, click the headline above.

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WCRP provided multiple inputs to the 48th session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Notably, a keynote presentation by WCRP JSC vice-chair Amanda Lynch informed on strategic plans and partnerships of WCRP, as well as its ongoing support to fundamental understanding of climate and climate change in service to society.

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