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 We congratulate the winners of the WMO Prize Challenge to improve Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Predictions using Artificial Intelligence! To know more click the heading above.
On this International Women’s Day, we have spoken to some of our researchers from around the world to find out their views on ways that our institutions and programs like WCRP can help make a difference for women aspiring to have a productive and fulfilling career in climate science. To hear what they have to say, click the heading above.
March 2022 The future of CMIP and climate modelling In this issue of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Insights, we focus on the future of climate modelling. There is an ever-increasing demand on climate models to answer questions about what our climate will be like in the next years, decades and centuries. In 2022, the WCRP community will be looking at the best way forward to ensure that we are ready to answer those questions to our best ability.
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), and the International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) held an online celebratory event on 28 February 2022 to officially launch the IMPO and to highlight the consolidation of monsoon research under WCRP and WWRP. The IMPO is hosted and kindly supported by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM, Pune - India) and will be a global hub of monsoons research. To view the recording of the event,...
We have a nice package of modelling workshops and activities planned in 2022, all part of the new WCRP Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Core Project. How do they fit together and how will the outcomes shape the future of climate modelling? To find out more, click the heading above.
The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) is a strong foundation of climate science. Here we talk about CMIP, its new International Project Office, and provide some insights into what you can expect from CMIP in the next years. To read more, click the heading above.
A new paper by Regina Rodrigues and Ted Shepherd looks at climate-change science from the perspective of economic concepts from E.F. Schumacher's famous book 'Small is Beautiful', to see what light they shed on dealing with the complexity of local situations, deep uncertainty, and the need to empower local communities under a changing climate. To learn more, click the heading above.
"Dear members of the WCRP community, I am writing to you all today to express my personal dismay about the war of aggression that the Russian government has unleashed on Ukraine and its citizens. I am following here the ISC Governing Board, one of our co-sponsors, which expressed its unequivocal support of the Ukrainian people. The Governing Board also affirms its intention to assist scientists from Ukraine, and to seek to maintain international scientific collaboration amidst geopolitical...
WCRP is calling for (self-)nominations for membership of the World Climate Research Programme's Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), for a four-year term from 1 January 2023 to 31 December 2027. This call is now closed.
We are delighted to invite you to the sixth event in the discussion series on tipping elements, this time focusing on the role of monsoon systems. It will take place on 9 March 2022, 15:30 - 17:00 CET. The two talks of the event will be given by: South Asian Monsoon tipping – Ashwin Seshadri African Monsoon and potential greening of the Sahara – Francesco Pausata The session will be recorded and posted on the event site a day or two after the event. To register for the event, please see the 
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has just released the Summary for Policymakers of the report Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. It issues a dire warning on the urgency of the responses needed to the impacts of a changing climate. For more information, click the heading above.
The “CMIP Community next steps survey” has already received over 200 responses but we want to make sure that a wider range of groups around the world have had time to provide input, and in many cases, in a coordinated way. Therefore, we are extending the deadline for the completion of the survey to 14th March 2022.  https://www.wcrp-climate.org/cmip-survey We are in particular very keen to have responses from users of the data, from the academic and policy-making world. This is your chance to...
Building on the success of the Sea Level 2017 Meeting in New York, the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Grand Challenge on “Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts” will hold the Sea Level 2022 meeting on 12-16 July 2022 in Singapore. This is three years after the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) report and one year after the publication of the new IPCC WG1 AR6 report. The conference will provide an opportunity to share the present status...
The forum brings together a diverse set of communities who are using or developing scenarios for use in climate change and sustainability analysis to: exchange experiences, ideas, and lessons learned; identify opportunities for synergies and collaboration; reflect on the use of scenarios; and identify knowledge gaps for future research. The Scenarios Forum welcomes abstracts for sessions during the conference. Deadline extended to February 21, 2022 For further details see: 
Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) have begun preparing the 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022 and are scoping expertise from around the globe for inputs on which key findings should be featured. You are invited to contribute to the 2022 instalment of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science by answering the call for topics form by February 20. This annual series is a major synthesis of essential and recent climate-related research and an important...
Climate models are an important tool for scientists to understand our past climate and provide projections of future change. As such, they are in increasing demand as part of efforts to avert global warming and reduce risks associated with environmental change. To meet this demand, the World Climate Research Programme will open a new international office in the United Kingdom on 1 March 2022 that will coordinate the programme’s Climate Model Intercomparison Project. The new office will be under...
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), and the International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) cordially invite you to an online event celebrating the launch of the International Monsoons Project Office hosted by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, India. IMPO, a joint effort by WMO and IITM that will coordinate and support global monsoon research activities of WCRP and WWRP, was established at IITM in 2021. To commemorate...
The GEWEX Global Atmospheric System Studies Panel (GASS) will hold its 3rd Pan-GASS Meeting, Understanding and Modeling Atmospheric Processes (UMAP 2022) in Monterey, CA, USA, from 25-29 July 2022. The program will include all aspects and methods of model development from deterministic numerics to stochastic forcing; process modeling to parametrization; observational constraints to diagnostic techniques; and idealized modeling to operational forecasting and climate predictions. The purpose of the...
We are delighted to invite you to the fifth event in the discussion series on tipping elements, this time focusing on the role of the ocean and of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). It will take place on 11 February 2022, 13:30 - 15:00 CET.The two talks of the event will be given by: Ocean tipping points - an overview– Christoph Heinze Recent insights on the AMOC– Stefan Rahmstorf The session will be recorded and posted on the event site a day or two after the event. To...
The WCRP Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change Lighthouse Activity invites interested researchers to apply for positions in its Scientific Steering Group and their three Working Groups. The overarching objective of this Lighthouse Activity is to “design, and take major steps toward delivery of, an integrated capability for quantitative observation, explanation, early warning, and prediction of Earth System change on global and regional scales, with a focus on multi-annual to decadal...
We are profoundly saddened to learn of the passing of Dr Lisa Goddard. Our thoughts are with her, family, friends and many colleagues from around the world. Please click the heading above for words from the WCRP community.
The WCRP Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) and the CMIP Panel are already working hard in preparation for the next phase of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Specifically, we need to hear from everyone their views on the positive aspects and challenges they faced in CMIP6, and how they would like to see future phases of CMIP structured and delivered.  For that, we are inviting the community to take part in the “CMIP Community next steps survey”. It is your chance to help...
8 – 10 February 2022, online The Risk Modeling and Insurance Working Group of the Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (Risk KAN) is organizing a three-day workshop to bring together scientists and practitioners in the field of modeling risk in human and environmental systems. Some of the WCRP Lighthouse Activities will present their work on 10 February as part of the workshop. To find out more and to register, click the heading above.
The latest edition of GEWEX Quarterly features articles on: The Digital Earths LHA invites GEWEX community to engage in the task of describing and predicting the Earth in detail  Modelers and mathematicians collaborate to improve  numerical accuracy of atmospheric physics parameterizations in models  Introducing TEAMx A summary of the field campaign phase of LIAISE Looking at how synergistic Earth observing systems can aid precipitation assessment in high latitude and cold regions ... and many other...
The Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity, partnering with AIMES and the Earth Commission, has four exciting discussions planned for early 2022. Join us for talks on the role of permafrost, ice sheets, ocean, and monsoons in tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt change in the Earth System. Please see our event website for more information and to register.