Guest editors, Marisol Osman, Daniela Domeisen, Andrew Robertson, Qian Ye, are happy to announce a special issue in the  Climate Services Journal on "Sub-seasonal to decadal predictions in support of climate services.

Submissions related to the challenges and opportunities of subseasonal to decadal (S2D) predictions in relation to climate services, as well as studies on user-relevant climate services related to S2D prediction are welcome. This also includes reviews, case studies, and collaborative international efforts.

Papers submitted before 1 August 2021 will receive a full paper charge waiver.

Papers submitted before 31 December 2021 will receive a 50% paper charge waiver.

Deadline for contributions: 1 April 2022.

More information is available at: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/climate-services/call-for-papers/special-issue-sub-seasonal-to-decadal-predictions 

 

Improved sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) forecasts could enhance food security, the sustainable management of energy and water resources, and reduce disaster risk by providing earlier warnings for natural hazards.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is launching a competition to improve, 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.

All the codes and scripts will be hosted at Renkulab, developed by the Swiss Data Science Center, and training and verification data will be accessible from the European Weather Cloud and IRI Data Library. Data access scripts will be provided. After the competition, open access will be provided to all the codes and results.

Timeline

- Opens: 1st June 2021
- Closes: 31st October 2021
- Winners announced: Early February 2022

Competition website : https://s2s-ai-challenge.github.io/

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An interview with Helen Cleugh, Vice-Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, given to the International Science Council (ISC)

"Understanding the coupled climate system – or how the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, land surface and biosphere work together – requires research on a massive scale, informed by data and information from multiple sources all over the world. We’re very conscious that – as important as WCRP has been for coordinating climate science around the world over the past four decades – we have gaps in terms of our diversity. That has multiple dimensions, but one of them is around our connections in the regions of the world. This is not only about doing science and science coordination that’s useful and relevant for different parts of the world, it’s also about discovering the science that’s being done in those parts of the world and helping to share it with the rest of the global community" - Helen Cleugh.

To read the full interview with Helen Cleugh, see the ISC website

WCRP Climate Research Forum for North and Central America, the Caribbean and Greenland on "Climate research priorities for the next decade"
11 May 2021, 15:00 - 17:30 Eastern Daylight Time (19:00 - 21:30 UTC) - Online

This is the third in a series of online Climate Research Forums, aimed at exchanging ideas, discussing new activities and opportunities being developed by WCRP, and exploring ways that our climate science community of scientists, partner programs, funders, and end-users can engage towards building “a world that uses sound, relevant, and timely climate science to ensure a more resilient present and sustainable future for humankind.

The Forum is open to all, please register here. 

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An interview with Detlef Stammer, Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, given to the International Science Council (ISC)

"The challenges are huge, and we have to really think about how to approach them. This was and still is a very basic motivation for us. We only have about 10 years’ time to make progress on the Paris targets, and this is where society really comes in. It’s getting really urgent to start moving if we want to reach these targets. WCRP's priority following the publication of its strategic plan is to work with Future Earth and others to develop information that people can use for mitigation and adaptation." said Detlef Stammer.

To read the full interview with Detlef Stammer, see the ISC website

We are very pleased to announce that the call for abstracts for the 2nd Climate Observation Conference, to be held virtually on 30 August – 3 September 2021, is now open!

Abstracts can be submitted online through the conference website for either an oral or poster presentation. The abstract submission deadline is 14 June 2021. The preliminary structure of the programme is now available on the conference website.

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The final report on the State of the Global Climate in 2020 is a multi-agency report spearheaded by WMO and combining input from UN agencies, national meteorological and hydrological services and associated institutions, regional climate centres and dozens of experts. Several WCRP scientists were involved.

It provides comprehensive details of climate indicators such as extreme weather, land and ocean temperatures, ice retreat and sea level rise. It also includes information on climate and weather impacts on both humans and land and marine ecosystems in a year when socio-economic development was hit by COVID-19.

The press conference is broadcast live on http://webtv.un.org/

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The Past Global Changes (PAGES) project is pleased to announce a new paleoscience magazine for teenagers and young adults.

Past Global Changes Horizons highlights science of the past, written in an easy to understand, visual format, for those interested in, and wanting to learn more about, environmental issues and global climate change. Each of the 18 contributions addresses a scientific question and includes appealing and understandable figures or images, without sacrificing scientific rigor.

To read the magazine, click here

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The second session of the WCRP Climate Research Forum “Climate research priorities for the next decade” was held successfully on April 7, 2021. The forum focused on the Eastern Asia region. It began with an overview of WCRP from the Vice Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee, followed by talks highlighting climate science priorities and opportunities for collaboration in the Eastern Asian Region from an agency perspective. There were then talks on climate science activities in the Eastern Asian Region.

The recording of the event is available here.

Find more detailed information on the CLIVAR webpage.

Find out more : https://www.wcrp-climate.org/wcrp-osc23
Register your interest in filling in the form available here

The WCRP Open Science Conference 2023 will bring together diverse research communities, programmes and partners to discuss the latest developments in climate science, with an emphasis on science-based information for decision making. WCRP is looking at innovative ways to bridge science and society and to foster future climate science leadership, through workshops, public exhibits, forums, and other associated events.

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We are pleased to announce the WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis to be held in Bonn (Germany), 13-18 September 2021 alongside the 2021 ECMWF Annual Seminar on Observations.

The overall objective of WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis is to review latest developments and address issues of common interest to data assimilation and reanalysis communities.

Deadline for abstracts and financial support application: April 30, 2021

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We are proud of our research community who have enabled WCRP to provide the global scientific leadership and coordination needed to address frontier scientific questions related to the coupled climate system.

On this International Women’s Day, we especially want to acknowledge and celebrate the contributions and achievements of the women researchers across our WCRP community. You have played a significant role in WCRP’s impact and success.

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Computational science is crucial for delivering reliable weather and climate predictions. In this article published in  Nature Computational Science, the authors discuss the present limitations in the field and propose the design of a novel infrastructure that is scalable and more adaptable to future, yet unknown computing architectures.

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Carlos Nobre, WMO SAP member and one of the long-time leaders of the WCRP and IGBP communities, expert in the effects of climate change in the Amazon and a leader in science policy for a sustainable Amazon, received the 2021 AAAS Award for Science Diplomacy.

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Everyone interested to take part in a public review of the draft of the 2021 Status Report on the Global Climate Observing System is welcome. Your input will help shape the global climate observing system in the next 6 years. 

• The review can be accessed at: https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/gcos/pd/register.php
• Registration is live now, and the review will start on the 15 February.

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A Scientific Officer position at the WCRP Secretariat is available

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Deadline for application: 11th March 2021

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The inaugural WCRP Climate Research Forum “Climate research priorities for the next decade”, which took place at the 2021 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) Conference on 10 February 2021, was a great success and drew over 200 participants. To find out more, click the heading above.

It is with deep regret that we have learnt of the passing away of Professor Paul Josef Crutzen.

Paul Crutzen, a prominent atmospheric chemist, former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, and of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, USA, passed away on 28 January 2021.

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Recent assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) imply that global mean sea level is unlikely to rise more than about 1.1 m within this century but will increase further beyond 2100. Even within the most intensive future anthropogenic greenhouse gas emission scenarios, higher levels are assessed to be unlikely. However, some studies conclude that considerably greater sea level rise could be realized, and a number of experts assign a substantially higher likelihood of such a future.

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The European Union (EU) intends to become climate neutral by 2050, and the set of policies designed to bring about this green transition — the European Green Deal — was announced in December 2019.
For its green transition, the EU plans to fund the development of digital twins of Earth. For these twins to be more than big data atlases, they must create a qualitatively new Earth system simulation and observation capability using a methodological framework responsible for exceptional advances in numerical weather prediction.

This effort is very relevant to WCRP's effort to bring the digital twin concept to the climate science community.

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The ​10 New Insights in Climate Science 2020​ report was prepared by a consortium of 57 leading researchers from 21 countries. As a partnership of Future Earth, the Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the series synthesizes the latest sustainability research for the international science-policy community, with annual installments since 2017.

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