We are delighted to announce the upcoming webinar in the Tipping Points Discussion Series to be held on 22 January 2025, 15:30 CET. Click here to register for this event. 

The report from My Climate Risk Fifth General Assembly held online in October and November 2024, has now been published. This report includes summaries of the pre-recorded presentations, together with a synthesis across the three sessions of the main points arising from the discussion.

WCRP Climate and Ocean Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR)  is excited to announce the publication of a new paper "A Global Overview of Marine Heatwaves in a Changing Climate" by the Marine Heatwaves in the Global Ocean Research Foci Group. This comprehensive article provides a review of advances in understanding marine heatwaves (MHWs) and their increasing impacts on marine ecosystems worldwide. Marine heatwaves have become a major concern due to their profound effects on ocean ecosystems, fisheries, and coastal communities. The paper explores the three-dimensional structure and evolution of these extremes, their drivers, their connection with other extremes in the ocean and over land, future projections, and assessment of their predictability and current prediction skill.

The paper, published in Communications Earth & Environment, is available here.

The WGCM Infrastructure Panel (WIP) is a Working Group on Climate Modelling (WGCM) subcommittee charged with coordinating infrastructure support for CMIP. It works with projects funded to develop software and supporting infrastructure that facilitates access to and analysis of the CMIP model output. It defines specifications and standards that ensure model output is written in a common structure and format, and that it is archived and made accessible worldwide in a common way. More generally, the WIP provides guidance and oversees infrastructure development so that it will be fit for its purpose and meet the scientific needs of CMIP and other MIP projects.  

This call invites the community to nominate candidates (including self-nomination) to join the WIP. Application deadline: 08:00 UTC, Friday 10th January 2025

For more information and to apply, click here.

Around 40 scientists working on a range of impacts due to climate change gathered at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to inform, brainstorm, and exchange ideas. The Workshop on High-Risk Cascading Shocks, organized by members of the Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity of WCRP, took place from 18 to 20 November, 2024. The enthusiasm among the participants was palpable as they worked together on forming a forward-looking agenda for their work in the coming years. 

More than a dozen organizations have signed an open letter to leaders at COP29, emphasizing that exceeding the 1.5°C threshold risks will trigger irreversible and uncontrollable shifts in the Earth’s climate system, with catastrophic consequences for both current and future generations. Tune in to the media event, which will take place at the Cryosphere Pavilion at COP29 on Friday, 22 November, at 10:00 AM local time in Baku (7:00 AM CET): https://iccinet.org/cop29-november-22. The event will be streamed live and made available later on the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) YouTube channel.

The Global Carbon Project (GCP) published the Global Carbon Budget 2024 yesterday at the 29th Conference of the Parties in Baku, Azerbaijan. You can find the key messages on the GCP website and the preprint on the Earth Systems Science Data website.

Image: GCP website

1. Pan-Australia Kilometre-Scale Weather and Climate Modelling: Bridging the Tropics and Midlatitudes - 19 November 2024, 21:00-22:00 UTC. Register here. (Digital Earths Webinar series)
2. The LIAISE Land Surface Model Inter-comparison: What Goes Wrong When These Models Are Run at km-Scale Resolutions? - 2 December 2024, 15:00 UTC. Register here for this webinar (Digital Earths webinar series on high-resolution land model and land-atmosphere coupling)
   
    

Stéphane Hallegatte, Senior Climate Change Adviser at the World Bank Group, will be at the World Meteorological Organization to deliver a keynote on Climate and Economic Modeling: Lessons from 60 Country Climate and Development Reports and Key Knowledge Gaps.  

In his lecture, he will draw from his experience at the World Bank to highlight what works and what doesn't, in the climate and economic modeling realm. This lecture is part of a series of workshops (invite-only, in-person) organized by the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and S&P Global.  

Scan the QR code in the image to join the livestream.  

Click here to know more about the speaker and the event.  

5 November 2024, 15:00-16:30 CET

Join us for the next webinar in the Tipping Points Discussion Series, which will explore the origins of model uncertainties and shift the focus from asking when a model is "good enough" to considering when it becomes too unrealistic to be useful. The webinar will include two talks by Dave Stainforth (London School of Economics) and Thomas Stocker (University of Bern) and will be moderated by Gabi Hegerl (University of Edinburgh). Register now!

We are delighted to announce the next webinar hosted by the Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change (EPESC) lighthouse activity on 12 November 2024. The details are as follows:

• Topic: Approaches, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities in Extreme Event Attribution
• Date and time: 12 November 2024; 12:00 CEST.
• Speakers: Dr Nicholas Leach (University of Oxford), Dr Yukiko Imada (University of Tokyo), Dr Yang Chen (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Science).

To register for this webinar, click here.
Past webinars of the EPESC webinar series, are available here.

**The deadline for proposals has been extended until 31 March 2025**

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is delighted to open a call for proposals to host a dedicated project office in support of one of WCRP’s core activities: the COordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX). 

CORDEX is the focal point for advancing and coordinating the science and application of regional climate downscaling through global partnerships within WCRP. This fosters and grows research focused on advancing and coordinating the science and application of regional climate downscaling, to effectively link global climate research and the regional information needs of society. In its 15-year (2009-2024) history, CORDEX’s activities have generated a wealth of cutting-edge research. CORDEX has a major role in in key international scientific assessment reports, including WMO Global Framework for Climate Services, and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), by providing climate projections at the regional and local scale and through increasing science capacity in the Global South.

The Host Institution will significantly benefit from hosting the CORDEX IPO by having a close interaction with this critical domain of research in support of regional downscaling experiments. It will serve as a great opportunity for the host to help deliver the exciting new goals of CORDEX to the international community.

• Download the open call application package
• The deadline for proposals has been extended until 31 March 2025 

All communications and enquiries regarding this call should be directed in English to Maureen Wanzala (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) in the WCRP Secretariat. 

Our planet is witnessing cascading and damaging effects due to surges in temperature driven primarily by anthropogenic climate change, reveals the latest 10 New Insights in Climate Science (10NICS) report. These impacts have ripple effects on maternal and reproductive health and on one of our most vital natural carbon sinks, the Amazon rainforest, to name a few. 

Launched on Monday 28 October 2024 by a consortium of globally renowned social, natural and climate scientists, the 10NICS report spans a vast range of climate research and is designed to equip policymakers with the latest and most pivotal climate research published over the past 18 months. The The latest research on the insight topics is synthesised to highlight the policy implications that can inform negotiations at COP29 and policy through 2025 and beyond.

Read the full press release here. 

Read the 10NICS report here. 

The WCRP Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP) is seeking global experts dedicated to advancing the science, practice, and application of Earth System prediction over these timescales. In addition to improving understanding of the physical processes that influence prediction accuracy, the group focuses on enhancing model setup, forecast diagnostics, and methods for making predictions from weeks to decades.

Applications must be submitted by completing this application form. The deadline to submit applications is October 31, 2024, 

For more information, please refer to the full open call or contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The WCRP Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project invites the community to nominate candidates (including self-nomination) who are based in countries not currently represented by the Scientific Steering Group (SSG) and particularly encourages applications from Asia, "Least Developed Countries", "Landlocked Developing Countries", and "Small Island Developing States", to joint the RIfS SSG.

Please read the information about the call carefully before nominating. This is a limited call to fill two openings, with terms to commence at the start of 2025. Application deadline is: 12:00 UTC on Thursday 31 October 2024.

•  To know more and to apply, click here.

The WCRP Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Scientific Steering Group recently approved a new Working Group: Impacts of changes in the mountain cryosphere (IC-MontC). We are now seeking nominations (including self-nomination) to the IC-MontC Steering Group(SG), which will develop and execute its implementation plan for the initial 5 years.
Deadline for applications and nominations: 31st October 2024

•  To know more and to apply, click here.

We are delighted to invite you to a webinar on "Advancing Kilometer-Scale Land Surface Modeling using the E3SM Land Model: Developments and Case Studies" as part of the Digital Earths webinar series on 03 October 2024, 15:00 UTC. 

We are delighted to invite you to a webinar on "Linking Climate Change to Economic and Financial Impacts" as part of the Safe Landing Climates LHA webinars on 22 October 2024, 16:00 CEST.

Linking physical climate hazards to economic and financial impacts requires diverse disciplines including – economics, earth-systems science, and finance. Hear from globally renowned leaders who are at the frontiers of these cross-disciplinary research areas to improve our understanding of key models, data, and methods, as well as to identify gaps that need to be addressed.

• To know more about the speakers, click here.
• Click here to register for this webinar.

The World Meteorological Organization Science and Innovation Department is looking for a Department Director (Grade D2), for a 2-year period, in Geneva (Switzerland).

Responsible to the Executive Management (Secretary-General, Deputy Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General), the incumbent is accountable for the management of the Science and Innovation (SI) Department and ensures that the Department carries out its work as an integral part of the Secretariat and with smooth collaboration with the Departments and Regional Offices.

For more information and to apply click here.