We are delighted to report that our event on ice sheets, which was postponed in November, will now take place on 25 January 2022, 16:00-17:30 CET. For more details and to register, click the heading above.

NOAA’s 2021 Arctic Report Card documents the numerous ways that climate change continues to fundamentally alter this once reliably-frozen region, as increasing heat and the loss of ice drive its transformation into a warmer, less frozen and more uncertain future.  Read NOAA's 2021 Arctic Report Card and watch the video summary.  

The third event in the discussion series on tipping elements focused on permafrost and took place on 17 January 2022, 16:00-17:30 CET. It included two excellent talks: An update on permafrost tipping – Hanne Hvidtfeld Christiansen Model insight on permafrost change  - Gustaf Hugelius The video recording and the slides from the talks are now available on our event site.. Page listing all events in this series: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/slc-events-opportunities/slc-tipping-points-discussion

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...

The Climate and Cryosphere  project (CliC) of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) announces an open call for CliC Grants 2022. The goal of CliC fellowships and grants is to increase the engagement of Early Career Scientists in CliC activities and to promote participation of scientists from regions currently underrepresented in CliC, i.e., South America, Asia and Africa. Deadline: 21 January 2022 at 13:00 (UTC)To know more and apply, click here  

    Even amidst the pandemic, 2020 was a productive year for the  Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) community. The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) annual report highlights some of CliC's progress and achievements during the past year. The report also covers the outputs resulting from the WCRP Grand Challenge on Melting Ice and Global Consequences. To download the report, click here and to know more about CliC activities, visit the CliC Core Project website.

  Two relevant sessions, on The role of Earth Observation in climate services and Exploring the interface of observations and modelling will be organized during the European Space Agency’s 2022 Living Planet Symposium. Do not miss the deadline for abstracts submission: 26th November 2021. A dedicated climate day, featuring discussions and events related to Climate relevant observations, modelling, and services will also be organized. The submission portal is available here To visit the...

The Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project (PMIP) is celebrating online its 30th anniversary by inviting you to take part in its special 30-hour-long round-the-world marathon across time zones  from 2 to 3 December 2021. You are invited to register (free but mandatory to get the access to the conference room) for this unique event and its different 1 to 2 hour-long sessions. During the registration process feel free to provide discussion topics or ideas for all the sessions (except the...

At the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) a joint session was hosted by WCRP, IPCC, and Future Earth to discuss risks and consequences of breaching 1.5oC warming, and possible transformation pathways that can guide decision-makers and stakeholders. Five priority actions and/or challenges for our research community regarding the transition to a low carbon society and limiting warming to well below 2oC were identified: Emerging climate risks and what will it take to limit...

We invite you to join us for the first WCRP Climate Research Forum for Southern Asia on 30 November 2021 at 9:00 UTC. We have some excellent speakers lined up on the themes of 'integrating societal needs for enabling science into action' and 'climate science challenges and priorities in the Southern Asia region.' The event is free of charge, but we do ask you to register. For more details, place see the forum webpage.

The report from the 42nd Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC-42), held in June and July 2021, has now been published. The report includes a summary of the presentations from the WCRP Core Projects, Grand Challenges, and Lighthouse Activities, as well as an overview of key strategic discussions and the official list of actions and decisions of the Joint Scientific Committee. We thank all JSC-42 participants for their involvement in the Session and for their contributions to its...

The European Space Agency’s 2022 Living Planet Symposium will take place on 23–27 May 2022 in Bonn, Germany.The symposium will focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions. Two relevant sessions, on The role of Earth Observation in climate services and Exploring the interface of...

The join initiative between WCRP, Future Earth and the Earth League was launched on Thursday, 4th November 9:30am–10am UK time. To explore the report, click here. The 10 New Insights in Climate Science (10NICs) are a synthesis of the most robust climate-related research findings available today. The report is based on an assessment made by more than 60 world-leading academic experts, with a scoping process that reaches several thousands of scientists working on fields related to climate...

WCRP is delighted to open calls for proposals to host two dedicated international project offices in support to the new WCRP core projects: the Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Core Project and the Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project. The role of each International Project Office will be to support the work of ESMO and RIfS, respectively, in close cooperation with co-chairs and Scientific Steering Groups, the WCRP leadership and the WCRP Secretariat in Geneva. To...

The WCRP COP26 Pavilion Event, co-organized by WCRP (co-sponsored by WMO, ISC, and IOC-UNESCO), Future Earth, and IPCC WG1, will be streamed on the WMO YouTube channel (https://youtu.be/8tlVuxwZKZM) on November 2, 2021, 08:00-09:00 (Local UK time: GMT) Anthropogenic climate change brings many significant challenges and risks that affect almost all aspects of life on Earth. Droughts, heavy rain and flooding, heatwaves, extreme fire weather, and coastal inundation are some examples of what is...

Reminder: The WCRP Academy Lighthouse Activity is seeking an individual or research group to conduct approximately six months of research and analysis into climate science training opportunities across the globe. The deadline for applications is 1 November 2021. To find out more, click the heading above.

We are delighted to present a new event in this discussion series, with a focus on the role of the Amazon. The event will take place on 29 November 2021, 17:00-18:30 CET. For more details and to register, click the heading above.

We are delighted that the pioneering work of Syukuro Manabe (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) and Klaus Hasselmann (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany) has been recognized by the Nobel Prize Committee, as having laid the foundation of our knowledge of the Earth’s climate and how humanity influences it. From a WCRP perspective we would specifically like to recognize the pioneering work of Syukuro Manabe and Klaus Hasselmann in climate modeling, which provided the...

The International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM) is a major quadrennial symposia/workshops series under the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The seventh workshop in this series, the IWM-7, is being organized at New Delhi, India, jointly by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, and the WWRP Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research (WGTMR), in cooperation with the CLIVAR/GEWEX...

Less than one month left to make submissions to the WMO Prize Challenge to Improve Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Predictions Using Artificial Intelligence. WMO launched the Challenge on 1st June 2021 with the aim to improving, through Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning techniques, the current precipitation and temperature forecasts for 3 to 6 weeks into the future from the best computational fluid dynamic models available today. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the top three teams. If you...

The Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate(SPARC) Core Project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is launching an open call for nominations to its Scientific Steering Group (SSG) for the period 2023-2026. The SPARC Core Project is currently inviting nominations from highly enthusiastic and dedicated experts to become a member of the SPARC Scientific Steering Group (SSG) - you can either nominate a candidate or nominate yourself. The SSG and co-chairs guide...

The WCRP Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity invites interested researchers to nominate themselves for Working Groups addressing the five lighthouse themes: safe landing pathways; understanding high-risk events; perturbed carbon cycle; water resources; and sea level rise. Deadline: 8 November 2021. For more information, click the heading above.

The high-level launch event for the 2021 "State of Climate Services: Water" report will take place on October 5,  2021, 13:00-15:00 CEST (on zoom). The launch event will present the report’s findings and lessons learned to help countries, funding agencies and development partners to assess the steps needed to address gaps in the climate services value chain to achieve greater resilience, improve adaptation and development outcomes in the water sector. To register, click here.To download the...

The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is launching an open call for nominations to its Scientific Steering Group (SSG) for the period 2022-2025. The SSG is the governing body of CliC and has the overall responsibility for planning, and implementing the CliC strategy plan and monitoring its activities. The SSG helps shape the international research agenda and functions as an integrator of activities to avoid duplication of efforts. CliC´s...

Save the date for the 14th WMO Symposium on Meteorological Education and Training, which will take place from 22 to 25 November 2021 online. For more details, click the heading above.