The Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is one of the most fundamental metrics defining the status of global climate change and expectations for continued global warming. WCRP Core Projects work together for a new WCRP-wide initiative to identify research goals and opportunities for Earth’s Energy Imbalance and to strengthen future international scientific collaboration with experts for EEI assessments.

Save the dates for this opportunity for international scientific collaborations: The WCRP workshop

Future Earth is a global platform for international scientific collaboration on global environmental change. Over 20 global research programmes operate under the umbrella of Future Earth. The ties and partnerships between Future Earth and WCRP are strong and productive, for example within the CitiesIPCC activities, the recently developed Knowledge-Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events, and WCRP's Working Group on Regional Climate. Future Earth is sponsored by, inter alia, the

The Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Project is a joint undertaking by WCRP and WWRP which completed its first phase between 2013 and 2017. Last week, the Project's Phase I Final Report has been officially published, reporting on the period from November 2013 to December 2017. The report can be downloaded from WCRP's publications page. The S2S Prediction Project aims to improve forecast skill and understanding on the S2S timescale with special emphasis on high-impact weather events.

The abstract submission deadline for the "International Conferences on Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction" has been extended to Tuesday, 27 March 2018. The week-long event comprises both the "Second International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction (S2S)", the "Second International Conference on Seasonal to Decadal Prediction (S2D)" as well as a joint segment addressing mutual and emerging topics. The meeting will be held Sept. 17-21 in Boulder, CO, USA. It is being organized by

The first International Symposium on Regional Reanalysis will take place from 17 to 19 July 2018 in Bonn, Germany. The event aims to discuss and promote all aspects of regional reanalyses, and is hosted by the Hans-Ertel-Centre for Weather Research. Particular emphases will be on applications and user interactions as well as land surface heterogeneity. The symposium's organizing committee is co-led by Jan Keller, co-chair of the WCRP WDAC's Task Team for Intercomparison of Reanalyses (TIRA). For

The "International Conferences on Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction" will bring together at one event researchers from both the subseasonal-to-seasonal prediction community as well as from seasonal-to-decadal predictions. The week-long event comprises both the "Second International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction (S2S)", the "Second International Conference on Seasonal to Decadal Prediction (S2D)" as well as a joint segment addressing mutual and emerging topics.

The meeting

WCRP's Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity is calling for abstracts for its "2nd Meeting on Monsoons and Tropical Rain Belts", to be held from 2-5 July 2018 at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy.

The workshop will bring together expertise on large-scale atmospheric and oceanic dynamics, small scale cloud and precipitation processes, as well as hierarchical climate modeling and observation. It aims to identify opportunities for

The International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy, and in collaboration with CLIVAR, EGU and IUGG is calling for applications to the "ICTP Summer School on Theory, Mechanisms and Hierarchical Modelling of Climate Dynamics: Multiple Equilibria in the Climate System", to be held from 25 June to 2 July 2018 at ICTP in Trieste.

The school includes lectures on theoretical aspects of atmosphere, ocean and climate dynamics, with a focus on latest knowledge, relevant mechanisms and

In June 2018, Polar scientists and stakeholders will assemble in Davos, Switzerland, for the POLAR2018 conference jointly organized by SCAR and IASC, which includes several high-level meetings and conferences. Travel awards for early career and indigenous researchers to present their work at this event have now been announced by IASC, SCAR and APECS. For full information, see the official travel award page.

WCRP will be represented at several of POLAR2018's meetings, including the

The Nippon Foundation POGO Centre of Excellence (NF-POGO CofE) is calling for applications for the 2018 edition of its 10-month training programme on observational oceanography. Prospective candidates from developing and emerging countries who have at least a first degree in science are invited to consult the programme's information and application page.

The training programme will take place on the offshore island of Helgoland and the UNESCO reserve Wadden Sea island of Sylt, Germany.

For all unable to attend the 2nd WCRP Summer School on Climate Model Development, held 22-31 January 2018 in Cachoeira Paulista, Brazil, the summer school's lectures will be live streamed through the YouTube account of the Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos, the numerical weather prediction agency of Brazil. See the Summer School's home page for the full program and additional information 

A special issue of the journal "Surveys in Geophysics" summarizes the outcomes and findings of a workshop convened by WCRP's Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity. Edited by Robert Pincus, David Winker, Sandrine Bony, and Bjorn Stevens, the overall 17 articles seek to summarize knowledge on, as well as bring together the topics of "Shallow Clouds, Water vapor, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity". Read the preface and all full articles on the special issue's home page

13-15 March 2018 | Potomac, Maryland, USA

The abstract submission deadline was extended for the Workshop on "Remote Sensing for Studying the Ocean-Atmosphere Interface", co-sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). As a co-sponsor of SOLAS, WCRP encourages potential participants to consider submitting an abstract to by February 12 via the workshop homepage.