The 24thSPARC Scientific Steering Group (SSG) meeting was held in Berlin, Germany, from 1-4 November 2016. The meeting followed a one-day science workshop focused on SPARC’s contribution to the WCRP Grand Challenges on 31 October 2016. The resulting report gives an overview of current and new SPARC activities, the current state of partner projects and an update on the looming gap in limb-sounding observations of atmospheric composition. Key discussion points from the WCRP/SPARC Workshop: “Grand

The Arctic is witnessing exceptional warmth and – as a result – record low Arctic sea ice volumes for this time of year. Antarctic sea ice extent is also the lowest on record. WCRP Director, David Carlson, talks about record low sea ice conditions to WMO News.

The deadline has been extended to submit your abstract to the International WCRP/IOC Conference on Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts. Find out more on the conference website.

3-15 July 2017, São Paulo, Brazil

Deadline for applications: 31 March 2017

Attention all graduate students / early career researchers interested in climate change! This training school will provide you with advanced knowledge on climate change science and related topics: observations and future projections; impacts; vulnerability; adaptation and mitigation; and the Paris Agreement: How to reach the 1.5°C target, including aspects of public policy.

WCRP is proud of our leaders pursuing Grand Science Challenges across the range of research sectors. A session at the 2017 Joint IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Assembly (27 August to 1 September 2017, in Cape Town) will bring together the WCRP Grand Challenge on Understanding and Predicting Weather and Climate Extremes, the HiWeather Project of the WMO World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) and others interested in understanding and predicting weather and climate extremes. The International Association of

We share an interesting article about plagerism published by Raghu Murtugudde, lecturer at the recent WCRP-JNU Training School on Monsoon Variability in Changing Climate. His advice is to "be careful about plagiarism but never let worries about it get in the way of thoroughly enjoying the exploration that you worked so hard to pursue as a career choice." Read the full article: Should young researchers be paranoid about their ideas being stolen?

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WCRP encourages promotion of and open access to scientific data. To emphasize this we have produced an official data policy:

World Climate Research Programme Data Policy

In the interest of collaboration and the advancement of scientific understanding, please read and share this policy. Think about how you might apply it.

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The 2016 Climate & Cryosphere (CliC) Annual Report is now available. Take a look to learn more about CliC and to get an overview of their activities.

The latest SPARC eNews Bulletin and SPARC Newsletter are now available.

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Deadline now extended until 4 February 2017.

The 5th WGNE workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models will be held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on the 19-23 June 2017. For more details see the workshop website.

The International Space Science Institute (ISSI), in Bern, Switzerland, and in Beijing, China, invites proposals to establish international teams to conduct research activities in space sciences, based on interdisciplinary analysis and evaluation of data from spacecraft and possible integration with ground data and theoretical models. For the purpose of this call space sciences include the solar and heliospheric physics, solar-terrestrial sciences, space  plasma and magnetospheric  physics, planetary

Due to increasing concerns with regard to the weather and climate of the Polar Regions, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has established a ten year Polar Prediction Project (PPP) under the auspices of the WMO World Weather Research Programme (WWRP). One of the main PPP activities will be the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) in order to enable a significant improvement in the environmental prediction capabilities for the Polar Regions, and beyond. The core period of YOPP will entail

The First Report of the Tropical Pacific Observing System 2020 project was published on 30 December 2016. This report contains initial recommendations for the Backbone and a synopsis of initial results and plans for the various initiatives of TPOS 2020. The Executive Summary and the full First Report can be downloaded from the tpos2020.org website or from the GOOS Report site. Further inquiries should be directed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript