The First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) invite applications for the post of Executive Director of the International CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean - Variability, Predictability, and Change) Project Office, based in Qingdao, China.

The goal of CLIVAR is to improve understanding and prediction of ocean-atmosphere interactions and their influence on climate variability and change, to the benefit of society and the environment. CLIVAR is a core project of

CORDEX is seeking Early Career Scientists who are interested in giving a 3-4 minute presentation on communicating climate science during the dedicated ECS event at the CORDEX Conference. The presentation should consist of one slide explaining a challenge you experienced within your research on communicating the science. Would you like to take this opportunity to be actively involved in the ECS event? Download the flyer, and for more information please contact: Helena Martins This email

This week at the Arctic Science Summit Week the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation announced the launch of a new Polar Challenge - to use an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) to complete a 2000 km mission under the sea ice in the Arctic or Antarctic.

The aim of the challenge, which includes prize money totalling 500,000 Swiss francs, is to stimulate the innovation of new monitoring tools for the polar oceans, to complement satellite

The Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community has released an open statement regarding proposed job cuts in climate-related research programs of Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). CSIRO recently announced plans for “substantial reductions in headcount” in the "Oceans & Atmosphere" and "Land and Water" units, as well as two others. 

Read the statement.

Due to unanticipated technical difficulties, the abstract submission system will migrate to a new system in the coming days. All abstracts and information submitted through the old system will be transferred to the new system. To allow plenty of time for migration and implementation of the new system, the deadline for abstract submission and application for the ECSS and financial support is extended UNTIL 25 MARCH.

We apologize for any inconvenience and look forward to your submissions and

We would like to welcome Iréne Lake as the new Director of the International Project Office for CORDEX.

Iréne holds Masters and PhD degrees in Oceanography. She has worked at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute in several different roles covering ocean models, ice services and early warnings, and as the marketing manager for oceanography and the marine environment. Her very relevant and diverse experience will be of great use to CORDEX and WCRP as a whole, and we wish her

We bring you news from WCRP Director, David Carlson, on progress towards meeting WCRP's Grand Challenges, on what COP21 means for future climate research and on the latest from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6. If you like a challenge, we have the perfect opportunity for you to join the ranks of the great explorers or you can shape the future by being a part of the CLIVAR Open Science Conference or ICRC–CORDEX 2016. Read the newsletter

Antonio Busalacchi, professor of atmospheric and ocean science at the University of Maryland and director of the Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Busalacchi was recognized for his contributions to our “understanding of tropical oceans in coupled climate systems via remotely sensed observations and for international leadership of climate prediction/projection research.”

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We are pleased to announce that, in order to accommodate the participants who are not able to join the meeting in person, live web streaming of the whole conference Global Climate Observation: the Road to the Future will be made available on the conference website.

Web streaming will occur for all sessions of the GCOS Science conference and the participants will have the opportunity to view a live web broadcast via the following link: http://www.gcos-science.org/livestream/.
The abstracts of the presentations are already

In this Commentary, published today in Nature Climate Change, Paul Durack and co-leaders in the ocean observation community report the hard-won successes of Argo and GO-SHIP, extremely relevant for understanding and monitoring global energy and global water budgets. Chapeau to the ocean observations community! But they also report fragile prospects for future funding of these systems. Recent events in Australia prove their point - loss of support from any key nation will threaten the entire

The Copernicus Sentinel-3A ocean-monitoring satellite was launched successfully on February 16 2016 from Plesetsk, Russia. Sentinel-3 is the third in a series of six Sentinel missions developed to provide Earth observation data for the EU Copernicus programme. The Sentinel-3A satellite carries a suite of instruments to monitor different aspects of the oceans such as the temperature and colour of surface waters, sea surface height and sea ice thickness. It will also monitor land temperature and

The Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project (DCMIP) organizing committee is happy to announce that applications are now being accepted for students and postdoctoral scholars to participate in the 2016 workshop and summer school, to be hosted at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado from 6-17 June 2016.

The DCMIP workshop and summer school is a unique and intensive educational experience for future climate scientists and atmospheric model developers. Special

The international climate research community expresses alarm at news of cuts to climate research programmes in Australia... read the message

The SPARC Newsletter contains news on current SPARC-related research activities, meetings, conferences, and reports... read the newsletter

A new article has been published highlighting the importance of integrated multidisciplinary approaches to climate, climate variability and climate change research. Read the article

The CLIVAR Open Science Conference and Early Career Scientists Symposium (ECSS) will take place 18-25 September in Qingdao, China. The Conference is now open for abstract, poster cluster and town hall submissions, ECSS applications and travel grants.

Abstracts can be submitted online here until 15 March 2016. Abstracts must be submitted to one of the OSC sessions.

The Early Career Scientists Symposium is a 3-day programme designed by, and for, early career scientists. To apply for a place at

The 13th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology will be held in Canmore, Alberta from 6-10 June 2016. The meetings, which have been held roughly every three years since 1979, are organized by independent statisticians, climatologists and atmospheric scientists. The meetings facilitate communication between the science and statistics communities and promote good statistical practice in climate and atmospheric science. The local organizer of the 13th meeting is Dr Francis Zwiers. This

On behalf of obs4MIPs, Robert Ferraro from JPL received a NASA Group Achievement Award for 'Innovative leadership and implementation of the Observations for Model Intercomparison Project and its contribution to the international climate research community'. The obs4MIPs effort was initiated with support from NASA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and has now expanded to include contributions from the broader community including ESA, EUMETSAT, NOAA and DLR under the leadership of the WCRP

The 1st WCRP Summer School on "Climate Model Development: Atmospheric Moist Processes" was held on 15-26 June 2015 at Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg. Video lectures from this event are now available here.

We are pleased to announce that Dr Catherine Rio from LMD/IPSL, France, has been awarded the WCRP/WWRP International Prize for Model Development 2015.

The Prize Committee, consisting of representatives from WCRP, WWRP and WGNE was greatly impressed by her strong profile and the high quality of her contribution to model development.

In making the selection, the Committee considered a range of criteria, including the importance of the contribution in the field, but also the community impact and

After an extensive search, we would like to welcome the new director of the Climate and Cryosphere Project (CliC) of WCRP, Lawrence Hislop.

Lawrence is from Montreal, Canada and has more than ten years of international experience leading UN and EU funded projects, and has produced many environmental assessments and related communications products. From 2009-2014, Lawrence led the Polar and Cryosphere programme at GRID-Arendal in Norway and collaborated on projects with the Arctic Council,

CLIVAR is seeking a Staff Scientist for the International CLIVAR Global Project Office (ICGPO) in Qingdao, China. The advertisement for the position is available here. The deadline for application is 5 January 2016. 

Run to coincide with the start of COP21, the European Space Agency's free online course on Monitoring Climate from Space starts on 30 November 2015. Sign up now!

The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society published an article in August 2015 highlighting the Earth System Grid Federation, titled A Global Repository for Planet-Sized Experiments and Observations.

“The Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) allows users to access, analyse, and visualize data using a globally federated collection of networks, computers, and software. Its architecture employs a system of geographically distributed peer nodes that are independently administered yet