Ouranos, a consortium on regional climatology, with a mission to acquire and develop knowledge on climate change and its impacts, as well as relevant socio-economic and environmental vulnerabilities, seeks a director to head the new International Project Office (IPO) for the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) core project “Regional Information for Society” (RIfS), located in Montréal, Canada. The RIfS Project aims to strengthen ties between research on climate and the information needs of societies and governments.The director will assemble a team, define the IPO’s identity and fulfill its mandate.

• To read the position in English, click here.
• To read the position in French, click here.

 The call will remain open until 17 February 2023.

We’re pleased to announce that abstract call is open for the WWRP/WCRP S2S Summit to be held 3-7 July 2023 at the University of Reading, UK.

The Summit will celebrate the success of the WWRP/WCRP S2S Prediction Project over 10 years as it moves towards its completion in December 2023. The event welcomes contributions on all aspects of S2S science. The deadline for abstracts is 15th January 2023. Abstract submission should be through the abstract submission form.

To know more about the WWRP/WCRP S2S Summit, visit the website.
 

We're happy to spread the word about funding assistance to help researchers maximize their work. These CliC grants aim to increase engagement of Early Career Scientists in CliC. The project strives for gender balance and geographical diversity so submissions from regions currently under represented in CliC, such as Asia and Africa, are particularly encouraged. Deadline to apply is 1 March 2023. Click here for more information.

Interested in having your research exposed internationally? The call for abstracts is open for oral and poster presentations at the WCRP Open Science Conference 2023 in Kigali, Rwanda. Limited financial support is available inter alia to support deserving delegates who are early to mid-career researchers (EMCRs) or from low to lower-middle income countries. Click here for more information on abstract submission and financial support.

Together with the University of Massachusetts (UMass), Amherst, we are excited to invite applications for the position of Director of the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) International Project Office (IPO). The position will remain open until filled, with a preferred start date of 1 March 2023. For full details and instructions on how to apply, please see the CliC website.

To wrap up their 4-part webinar series, the My Climate Risk Hub at Ateneo de Manila University invites you to join the final session entitled Shifting "From Handover to Handshake": Co-generating Climate Change Information for Resilience, taking place 7 December 2022, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Philippine Standard Time (GMT+8) / 8:00-9:30 a.m. UTC. Please register for the session here.

Join the penultimate session of this 4-part webinar series to share perspectives and approaches to do climate science, communication, and risk management, taking place on 23 November 2022, 8:00-9:30 UTC. Please register for the session here.

Big news for 21st century research developments in Australia! The Australian Research Council (ARC) recently announced eleven new research centers, three of which relate to climate science and greenhouse gas management. It's an exciting and important step for Australia's efforts to facilitate cooperation between universities, industry, and government, and to effectively address the country's most pressing scientific challenges. Click here to learn more.

The 2022 Global Carbon Budget 2022 was released today at COP27 In Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt. It clearly shows that global carbon emissions remain at record highs with no sign of decreasing. The full findings, published in Earth System Science Data, are now available, and the new Global Carbon Budget website provides many additional resources.

• Press release: No sign of decrease in global CO2 emissions
• Full research paper: Global Carbon Budget
• Video
• Global Carbon Budget website

The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 is underway in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt. WCRP is directly involved in several sessions, including Climate Information for Decision Making on 9 November, the launch of the 10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022 on 10 November (with a panel session on 12 November), and the launch of the Global Carbon Budget 2022 on 11 November 2022. For more information, see our COP27 event page. 

Credit: UN Climate Change

Join the first session of this 4-part webinar series to share perspectives and approaches to do climate science, communication, and risk management, taking place on 8 November, 01:00-02:30 UTC. Please register for the session here.

Interested in better understanding the extent that recent drought phenomena are influenced by human activity? The Royal Society just published an interdisciplinary collection of articles discussing both risks of and contributors to drought in the Anthropocene. This research spans a range of topics, including the influence of meteorological droughts upon hydrological droughts, the planetary boundaries of freshwater use, and the economics of managing water crises.

The introductory article “Drought risk in the Anthropocene” highlights and summarizes the research in this issue, which is fully available here.

The WCRP Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change Lighthouse Activity invites you to join the second webinar of the series that will provide a discussion forum on topics focused on predicting and explaining a range of different climate phenomena and events, while supporting the further development of a scientific agenda.

This second webinar will focus on the Triple La Niña and will provide a view of causes, key processes and prediction of such event.

SPEAKERS:

• Mike McPhaden (NOAA, USA): Causes and Consequences of the 2020-2022 La Niña
• Fei Zheng (Institute of Atmospheric Physics, China): Key processes on triggering the multi-year La Niña event as revealed by seasonal climate predictions
• Xian Wu (UCAR, USA): Predicting the duration of La Niña events using the CESM multiyear forecast systems

The event will take place on 22 November 2022, from 15:00hs to 16:30hs UTC. Speakers will give a 20-minute talk each followed by a round table discussion, with questions from participants.

Registrations are free, https://EPESC-webinar-triple-la-nina.eventbrite.co.uk

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) project are pleased to announce the release of the "History of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project", a report authored by William B. Rossow, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the City College of New York.

40 years ago, the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP) was launched to collect and analyze global satellite observations of Earth’s clouds for climate research. This report covers the planning and inception of ISCCP and its evolution, including two version updates: the first led to better understanding of cloud types and their vertical structures, and the second helped to support cloud process studies by taking advantage of advances in satellite measurements. The current conceptual framework of the project now aims to understand the full role of clouds in weather and climate variation. Possible uses of the data and a new direction for ISCCP are also discussed. To read the report, click here.

The SOLAS Summer School is a regular, international event with the goal of providing multidisciplinary air-sea interaction background to the next generation of Earth System scientists. The next in-person School will take place from 5-16 June 2023 at the Ocean Science Centre Mindelo on Cape Verde. For more information and to apply for the in-person Summer School 2023, please use the form provided on the website. Applications must be submitted by 25 November 2022.