Two new job openings are available in the WCRP Secretariat:

• Science Officer (P3) : To know more, click here
  Deadline for application : 23 December 2020

• Science and Communications Officer (P3): To know more, click here
  Deadline for application: 22 December 2020
  

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In December 2019, WCRP launched its new Strategic Plan. Throughout this year, the community has been discussing how the plan can be implemented to deliver a new WCRP that is ready to tackle the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities of climate science in the next decade. This will involve simplifying the WCRP structure and launching a number of ambitious new activities. The details of a'soft implementation' of the new WCRP will be decided at the Extraordinary Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (30 Nov — 3 Dec 2020). To find out what decisions can be expected, click the heading above.

In the past year, the Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) have developed a new Strategic Action Plan and have been working to understand and support Early Career Researchers (ECRs) during the COVID-19 pandemic. They will also be involved in the upcoming American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, including in a session entitled “Moving Beyond the Standard: A Transdisciplinary Virtual Event for Early-Career Scientists." To find out more, click the heading above.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Mike Sparrow has been appointed as Head of the WCRP Secretariat and Head of the World Climate Research Division, Science and Innovation Department, WMO. To read more, click the heading above.

A recent study published in Nature shows that under greenhouse warming the trajectories of El Niño response are organized by an El Niño self-modulation mechanism. To read more, click the heading above.

WCRP is happy to welcome two new WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) members. Both Maria Ivanova and Roberto Sánchez Rodríguez come from a social sciences background and will bring unique and important perspectives to WCRP.

The workshop will be held on the 24-25 November and 8-9 December 2020.

Deadline for applications : October 26, 2020 .

 To find out more, click the heading above

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Geophysical Union (EGU) have announced the ESA–EGU Earth Observation Excellence Award. Deadline: 2 November 2020. Click the heading above for more information.

The United in Science Report, released today by the United Nations Secretary-General, includes important contributions from the WCRP community — especially from the WCRP Grand Challenge on Near-Term Climate Prediction and WCRP Joint Scientific Committee Member Pierre Friedlingstein. To discover more, click the heading above.

The first comprehensive Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) has just been published by von Schuckmann and others in Earth System Science Data (ESSD), showing that the ocean dominates the Earth's energy inventory. For more, click the heading above.

The WCRP CORDEX Science Advisory Team invites you to submit proposals for Flagship Pilot Studies (FPS). These are targeted experimental setups that address CORDEX Scientific Challenges (image below). For more information, click the headline above. The deadline is 15 September 2020.

WCRP is shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of Konrad 'Koni' Steffen. He was an inspiration and friend to so many in WCRP, especially through his longstanding contributions to the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) Program. Click the heading above to read a moving obituary by Thomas Stocker. 

Konrad Steffen on the Schatzalp, July 2020. Photo: Andreas Rigling (Original Image, WSL)

WCRP is evolving to ensure that the Programme is fit for purpose and fit for the future. WCRP Chair, Detlef Stammer, and Vice-Chair, Helen Cleugh, explain where we are at with implementing the new WCRP Strategic Plan and outline the opportunities that will arise in the coming months. To learn more, click the heading above.

WCRP researchers have published what is being hailed as a landmark publication on climate sensitivity. The work, undertaken as part of WCRP's Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity, brought together an international team of researchers from a wide range of climate disciplines and combined multiple lines of evidence. To learn more, click the heading above.

Image: ISS EXPEDITION 7 CREW/EOL/NASA

The Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) Community are becoming more and more integrated into WCRP activities, as well as with our co-sponsor, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). YESS members report on this growing involvement and some recent activities that the community has been undertaking. To read more, click the heading above.

Monsoon rainfall has profound economic and societal impacts for more than two-thirds of the global population. A new article, published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, reviews the current knowledge on detection, attribution, and projection of global and regional monsoons under climate change. To learn more, click the heading above.

Image: Wikipedia Commons

A new open-access book provides a compelling scientific account of the influence of human activities on key aspects of the regional climate of the Indian subcontinent, the adjoining Indian Ocean, and the Himalayas. To find out more, click the heading above.

4-6 August 2020

An international virtual symposium on drivers, predictability, and actionable information

Under the auspices of WMO, sponsored by the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Health Community of Practice, hosted the American Geophysical Union, and in partnership with several international and regional research organizations and entities from Africa, Asia, Europe, South America and the USA, a rapidly arranged international virtual symposium will take place in early August to examine the role of a range of environmental variables in the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information click the heading above. The abstract deadline is 10 July 2020.

A new article published in Science Advances reviews and synthesizes the latest developments in equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) and transient climate response (TCR) values in WCRP's Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). To learn more click the heading above.