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This training course aims to provide PhD students and early career researchers with the fundamentals of ocean-colour satellite data and their applications. Please see the course website for eligibility to register. The deadline for applications is 24 June 2017.
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Registration for the MathDACC School on Mathematics for Climate Change Detection and Attribution is now open. The school will take place from 24-29 September 2017 in Aussois, France. The deadline for registration is 21st of July 2017. See the website for more details.
 
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Amy LuersFuture Earth has named Dr. Amy Luers, a respected scientist and data innovator, as the new Executive Director of Future Earth, beginning in September 2017. For more information see Future Earth news.

IUGG logo 2On 12 June 2017, the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) released the Statement "The Earth’s climate and responsibilities of scientists and their governments to promote sustainable development" in response to the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement.

See the new EOS article on the WCRP/CLIVAR Open Science Conference: Charting the Course for Climate and Ocean Research, which was held in Qingdao, China, between 18–25 September 2016. 

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Figure from EOS Article: Paddleboaters enjoy a sunny day in Qingdao, China. Last September, more than 600 scientists gathered in Qingdao to mark the 20th anniversary of the World Climate Research Programme’s Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability, and Change project at the second WCRP/CLIVAR Open Science Conference. Credit: Bridgit Coila; CC BY-SA 2.0

clic logoCliC's June 2017 newsletter includes three science features: one on recent changes to New Zealand glaciers, another on phytoplankton blooms observed under thick snow and ice in the Arctic; and the third on biogeochemistry in the Antarctic pack ice. This issue also contains a number of summaries from various CliC events held during the first half of 2017, some news from the CliC Leadership, the report from the last Scientific Steering Group meeting, a list of upcoming workshops and meetings, and other events made possible with support from the WCRP Climate and Cryosphere Project.

CliC also welcomes the new CliC Co-chair, Dr. James Renwick, from the Victoria University of Wellington. Dr. Renwick was appointed on January 1, 2017, for a 3-year period.

The fifth IMBeR IMBIZO (the Zulu word for a gathering) will be hosted by the Ocean, Carbon & Biogeochemistry Group at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, USA from 2-5 October 2017. Deadline for abstracts: 15 June 2017.

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The Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS), a global research project of Future Earth, will hold its 5th Science Conference in Oxford, United Kingdom in September 2017. Take part in this international conference focusing on "Understanding the impact of land-atmosphere exchanges" by registering and submitting an abstract on the conference website. 5th iLEAPS Science Conference

Assessment of upper tropospheric and stratospheric water vapour and ozone in reanalyses as part of S RIP copyThis paper by Sean Davis and others presents water vapour and ozone intercomparisons that were performed as part of the SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate) Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP). The comparisons cover a range of timescales and evaluate both inter-reanalysis and observation-reanalysis differences. Find out more in this open access paper published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

This paper presents results that are part of the SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate) Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP)

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The Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes is a major seven-year initiative that brings together five of Australia’s leading universities and a suite of national and international partners. It is currently offering 14 postdoctoral positions. 

13 - 17 November 2017
Rome, Italy
 
Deadline for abstracts:  31 May 2017
 
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In response to fantastic feedback the Polar Challenge Committee has issued an update to the Challenge's guidelines - including relaxed mission and AUV requirements, opportunities for partial prize awards, late registration options and clarification on verification strategies. All prospective competitors are invited to review their participation options under the updated Polar Challenge Guidelines.

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In this issue:

  • Submit Your Research Highlights
  • 2017 Gordon Research Conference & Seminar on Radiation and Climate
  • 8th Annual Catchment Science Summer School
  • Seasonal to Subseasonal (S3S) Project Review Survey

Plus meetings and position announcements. For more see the latest GEWEX E-News.

YOPPThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) officially launched the Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) during the WMO Executive Committee meeting #69 in Geneva, Switzerland. From mid-2017 to mid-2019, scientists and operational forecasting centers from various countries will work together to observe, model, and improve forecasts of the Arctic and Antarctic weather and climate systems. WCRP is working with our sister organisation, the World Weather Research Programme, to ensure the success of the Year of Polar Prediction.

WCRP SBSTA 2017In Brief: WCRP Director David Carlson gave a keynote presentation "Urgent Climate Challenges - Research and Modeling" at the Research Dialogue of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) meeting in Bonn last week. The WCRP Community also presented five posters, informing SBSTA of relevant research activities by the science community. 

In brief: WCRP and the Global Carbon Project have signed a partnership to advance our knowledge of the carbon cycle and our ability to predict carbon sinks and sources in the future. To read more click the headline above…

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Women in Science 2017 1Inspirational scientific careers at the ‘Women in Science – Breaking the Cliché’ event on the 4th of May 2017 at the World Meteorological Organisation’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Hamburg, Germany
28 August - 1 September 2017
 
This week is the last chance to submit an abstract to the 4th International Conference on Earth System Modelling, to be held in Hamburg at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. The conference will begin with a keynote presentation from Thomas Stocker and offers advance discourse around four themes related to the World Climate Research Programme's Grand Science Challenges.
 
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SPARC portrait colourThe latest SPARC eNews Bulletin for May 2017 includes news and announcements, SPARC publications, journal special issues, early career opportunities, upcoming meetings and science updates.

Subscribe to the SPARC Newsletter and eNews on the SPARC Newsletter webpage.

Highlight: SPARC Annual Report 2016 now available!

In Brief: The City of Edmonton, Canada has been announced as host city for the 2018 Cities and Climate Change Science Conference, endorsed and co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The role of WCRP will be to represent and promote fundamental science in the planning and delivery of the conference. Click the headline above for more information...

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CLIVAR's May Bulletin is now available. Lots of news, information and upcoming events.Clivar Final 300

You can subscribe to future CLIVAR bulletins at the email list signup form.

David Carlson Director WCRPWCRP Director David Carlson resigns from WCRP. This is his message to the WCRP Community, partners and friends:
 
For personal reasons and with the welfare of WCRP in mind, I will resign as Director of the Joint Planning Staff for WCRP effective30 June 2017. I hope that I have helped sharpen WCRP’s grand challenges, supported the core projects and their international project offices, and injected fresh ideas. I have certainly recruited and enjoyed working with a talented JPS staff. I can not predict the near- or long-term arrangements for WCRP nor how the outcome of the ongoing review might impact those arrangements. I do know that the innovation, creativity, energy, persistence and insight of climate researchers, accompanied by admirable traditions of international collaboration and open access to data and model products, represent a vital resource as society confronts the urgent challenges of our changing climate.
 
Even as we apply our skills and tools to careful detection, quantification and prediction of change we remain too firmly wedded to existing structures and acronyms. Perhaps we require a base of organisational stability from which to explore an unstable climate. Perhaps our acronyms offer comfortable collegial nests in which we work somewhat protected from bureaucratic nonsense or external ennui and hostility. We must persistently question our internal structures just as much as we persistently press for improved models or improved understanding. We must not confuse persistence with perfection nor proclaim our present practices as optimal. Young scientists often offer critical views of existing practices and the most useful suggestions for change.
 
I have watched uneasy relationships between climate and weather communities for most of my career. At this moment weather and climate researchers use very similar modelling approaches and focus on mutually-interesting seasonal and decadal time scales. Climate research also requires intimate connections to paleoclimate and to marine and terrestrial ecosystem processes. We must incorporate human footprints into our understanding and models, particularly human impacts on land and fisheries and emergence of massive urban centres. Machiavelli, drawing from Latin and Greek sources, identified ‘divide and conquer’ as an effective military strategy. Too often in science, through our behaviours, practices and policies, we divide ourselves.
 
If ever a research programme needed to demonstrate attention to its carbon impact, WCRP needs such an effort. We started a useful discussion at the CMIP meeting in Dubrovnik. JPS then developed some carbon impact tools for assessing meeting travel. As a community we have not yet accepted nor confronted the need to reduce our carbon impact. I do note that at least one of our grand challenges has so far conducted all of its affairs via teleconference.
 
I would like to contribute to local transportation planning and improvements in Bozeman MT and to take a serious interest in the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. I hope to minimise personal carbon emissions and contribute to regional protection and maintenance of carbon sinks. I plan to test ideas about how to measure CO2 from my bicycle. I will remember many friends in science with great fondness. And of course you can promote open access by publishing your data in ESSD!
David Carlson
Director WCRP

Jose Santos

We extend a very warm welcome to José Santos, CLIVAR's new International Project Office Director. Many of you will have read the official announcement or met José at the 38th Session of the Joint Scientific Committee in Paris. To get to know José even better we asked him three questions.

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The Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR) project is one of WCRP's four core projects. CLIVAR’s mission is to understand the dynamics, the interaction, and the predictability of the coupled ocean-atmosphere system. To this end it facilitates observations, analysis and predictions of changes in the Earth’s climate system, enabling better understanding of climate variability and dynamics, predictability, and change, to the benefit of society and the environment in which we live.