Over 30 experts from across the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the wider science community gathered in Hamburg last week to discuss the scientific direction of the Programme. Click the heading above to find out more.

Participants of the WCRP Flagship Workshop (Photo: CLICCS).

WCRP is currently inviting self-nominations from highly enthusiastic and dedicated experts for membership of the following groups:

• WCRP Data Advisory Council (WDAC)
• WCRP Modeling Advisory Council (WMAC)
• Working Group on Coupled Modeling (WGCM)
• Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP)
• Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE)
• CORDEX Science Advisory Team (CORDEX-SAT)
• Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Project Steering Group

Please click the heading above to find out more. The deadline for submitting self-nominations is 20 March 2020.

Two training courses will be held back-to-back in Qingdao, China, in July:

1. CLIVAR-FIO Joint Summer School on ‘Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate’ (6 — 11 July 2020)
2. UNESCO/IOC-RTRC-ODC Training Course on 'Regional Application of Coupled Climate Models' (13 — 22 July 2020)

Registration closes on 27 March 2020. For more information click the heading above.

WCRP congratulates the 2019 winners of the WCRP/WWRP International Prize for Model Development, Drs Clément Albergel and Baoqiang Xiang, and the WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize, Drs Phu Nguyen and Hamed Ashouri. The prize winners were announced at the WCRP 40th Anniversary Symposium in San Francisco on 8 December 2019. To learn more click the heading above.

The WCRP Climate Science Week took place last week in San Francisco. It included an early career workshop, 40th Anniversary Symposium, Union Session, 4 Town Halls, more than 40 science sessions and an exhibition booth. To find out more about this successful week, click the heading above.

The WCRP Climate Science Week, taking place this week as part of the American Geophysical (AGU) Fall Meeting, began with a Joint Early Career Researcher (ECR) Workshop on Water Cycle in a 1.5° Warmer World: Interdisciplinary Approaches. To find out more, click the heading above.

On Saturday the 7th of December, the #VirtualBlueCOP25 will hold a unique 24-hour event all around the world. It will give the opportunity to decision makers, scientists, activists, artists, NGOs and many more to share and take their work to the COP25 from their home country. Additionally, the 24-hour event will provide insights and updates on the international climate-ocean negotiations at COP25 with real-time discussion and analyses among a wide group of participants. To find out more, click the heading above.

The 34th session of the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) was held on 24-27 September 2019 in Offenbach, Germany, and kindly hosted by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). Members agreed on the necessary evolution of WGNE into a broader Earth System Model development group across weather-climate time scales. To find out more about proceedings, click the header above.

WCRP is awarding annually, together with its two respective partners WWRP and GCOS, two prizes for notable achievements in model as well as data development. For the 2019 editions, nominations are now open with a deadline of 30 September 2019. For details and links to the individual announcements, click the headline above.

WCRP Joint Scientific Committee chair Detlef Stammer provided a statement yesterday at the launch event of a new synthesis report by UN agencies and international initiatives in climate research. The report, titled "United in Science", was coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO, one of WCRP's three co-sponsors) and underlines the glaring and growing gap between agreed targets to tackle global warming and reality. Click the headlines for details as well as links to the full report and session recordings.

The Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science is now published, in time for the 2019 Climate Action Summit. It is the primary outcome of the Cities and Climate Science Conference that was held in March 2018 in Edmonton, Canada, and was reported to the 48th IPCC Plenary session in October 2018 in Incheon, Korea. To find out more and to download the full and abridged versions of the report, click the heading above.

Karl Taylor, major figure behind WCRP's Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), has been elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The honor is accorded to a small percentage of AGU members and recognizes both Karl's research successes as well as his contributions to WCRP, CMIP and IPCC. Click the headline for details.

WCRP has been working with the Transdisciplinary Research Oriented Pedagogy for Improving Climate Studies and Understanding (TROP ICSU) since early 2018, to further their mission of collating and curating digital/ICT-based teaching resources that integrate climate studies across the curriculum of Science, Mathematics, Social Sciences, and Humanities. Through new partnerships to advance cooperation, TROP ICSU will play its part in addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals numbers 4 (Quality Education) and 13 (Climate Action). To learn more, click the heading above.

We are delighted to announce that Dr. Wiebke Schubotz has been appointed as the second science coordinator of the WCRP Coordination Office for Regional Activities (CORA), jointly hosted by the Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) in Hamburg, Germany and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) in Bergen, Norway. To learn more click the headline above.

9-11 September 2019

UK Space Agency, National Physical Laboratory, United Kingdom (and live streamed)

This international CEOS and WMO-GSICS workshop will discuss the needs, state of the art and vision for a space-based climate observing system. For more information, click the headline above.

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WCRP provided multiple inputs to the 50th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), including to the opening Plenary Session and the Session's Research Dialogue. Click the headline for the full report.

We are delighted to report that the WCRP Strategic Plan 2019-2028 has now been approved by all three WCRP sponsors, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the International Science Council (ISC) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO). Click the heading above for further information.

WMO launches a joint WMO/SCAR fellowship program for early career scientists from developing nations conducting Antarctic research. The deadline for fellowship applications is 17 July 2019. Click the headline for details.