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 united by common federation protocols and application programming interfaces (API)..." read the article

The Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI) is seeking an Executive Director. The advertisement for the position is available here and the Standard Nomination Form for candidates can be downloaded here. Deadline for application is 1 December 2015

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CLIVAR is seeking a Senior Staff Scientist for the ICGPO in Qingdao, China. The advertisement for the position is available here. The deadline for application is 15 October 2015. 

SMHI is currently seeking a Director for the International Project Office for CORDEX (IPOC). The advertisement for the Director position is available here. The deadline for application is 25 October 2015.

The Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) invite applications for the position of Director of the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) International Project Office (CIPO). The position, hosted at NPI in Tromsø, Norway, is temporary for a period until 31 January 2018. The deadline for application is October 15, 2015.

The advertisement for the Director position is available here.

Together with the CliC co-chairs, we would like to ask you to kindly give some thought to suitable candidates who might be interested in this position and to circulate the advertisement in your network.

Further inquiries about the position may be directed to WCRP Director Dr David Carlson, tel. +41 79 229 1042, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., WCRP Senior Scientific Officer Dr Michael Sparrow, tel. +41 22 730 8486, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or NPI Research Director Nalân Koç, tel. +47 77 75 05 30, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Further information on CliC is available at: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/

The WCRP Special Issue of Weather and Climate Extremes Journal, Vol. 9,  has now been published (and is free to download). This highlights the work of the WCRP Grand Challenge on Climate Extremes as well as the WCRP-ICTP Summer School on Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events.

"Understanding our planet׳s climate – not just warmth of air near the surface but the vast complicated and interacting physical, ecological and social factors that control and modify exchanges of heat, water and carbon among atmosphere, land, ocean and ice – to such a degree that one can make skillful predictions of future climate: this represents a scientific, technical and creative challenge equal to any confronting humanity. For the task ahead – and we must admit that, even building on three or four decades of extraordinary advances in research and particularly modeling, much of the task lies still ahead – climate science needs to attract and retain the best, brightest and most diverse students. For the foreseeable future, driven mostly by persistent inability of our fastest computers to run fully coupled full height full depth high resolution interactive biogeochemical climate models in ensemble mode (and not to mention the lack of full-coverage data by which to validate those models), those students will calculate and explore and compare, in detail and with exquisite care, monthly means, meridional heat transports, zonal wind patterns and global nutrient budgets – the large-scale but often subtle diagnostic patterns of our planet..." read the article

The worldwide climate research community has talent, dedication, and a clear sense of knowledge gaps. It needs to close those gaps and convey its messages effectively to user communities ... read the article

Scientitsts and water managers actively involved in world water balance research are invited to submit a paper for the International Conference on Water Resources Assessment and Seasonal Prediction that will take place in Koblenz, Germany, on 13-16 October 2015. This is a unique platform for exchanging views and ideas on monitoring, assessing and predicting key variables for water management. Deadline for submission: 20 June 2015 ... read more

The International Council for Science (ICSU) is convening a special event on July 6th on the sideline of the climate science conference in Paris "Our Common Future Under Climate Change" . The leadership of ICSU-cosponsored research programme (including WCRP) is invited to debate on how science can help to support the world's transition to a low carbon future... read more

At the 17th World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Congress on Friday 29th May, the delegates reviewed the latest achievements of WCRP. The WMO Congress expressed appreciation for WCRP's continued, positive and effective relationship with its co-sponsoring organizations   ... read the article

The findings and recommendations emerged from the Climate Symposium organized by EUMETSAT and WCRP in October 2014 have been published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). Session topics revolved around the six "Grand Science Challenges" of the WCRP and addressed the specific need, and role of, climate observations from space. Based on the presentations and discussions the authors identified the main outcomes of the symposium  ... read the article

Latest issue of International Innovation features an interview with WCRP Director David Carlson highlighting the Programme's cross-cutting role within the climate users. By facilitating analysis and prediction WCRP channels the knowledge of climate processes into products, prediction and assessment... read the article

The workshop was organized under the auspices of the WCRP Grand Science Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity. Over thirty experts from around the world gathered together for one week in Ringberg, Germany, in March 2015. The workshop produced nine recommendations, many of them focusing on specific research avenues that could be exploited to advance understanding of climate sensitivity... read the report

WCRP is pleased to announce that Dr Michael (Mike) Sparrow has joined the WCRP JPS team in Geneva. Mike comes from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), where he has been Executive Director for the last five years and Executive Officer before that... read more

75% of very hot days occurring over land can be attributed to human activity according to a new study recently published in Nature Climate Change. Moreover the authors found that 18% of extreme precipitation events is caused by temperature increase since pre-industrial times. Such study is based on the CMIP data coordinated by WCRP Working Group on Coupled Modelling.... read the article

The World Weather Research Program (WWRP) and World Climate Research Program (WCRP) have launched in 2013 a joint new research initiative, the Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project (S2S) which main goal is to improve forecast skill and understanding of the sub-seasonal to seasonal timescale, and to promote its uptake by operational centres and exploitation by the applications communities. A main deliverable of this project is the establishment of an extensive database that contains sub-seasonal (up to 60 days) near-real time forecasts (3 weeks behind real-time) and reforecasts (sometimes known as hindcasts), following the work started with the THORPEX Interactive Grand Global Ensemble (TIGGE) database for medium-range forecasts (up to 15 days) and the Climate-System Historical Forecast project (CHFP) for seasonal forecast. Detailed informations on the database are available here. This research database, hosted at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the Chinese Meteorology Administration (CMA) is now available to the research community from the ECMWF data portal.

The Belmont Forum and JPI-Climate have launched a call for proposals on climate predictability and inter-regional linkages. This call aims to contribute to the overall challenge of developing climate services with focus on the role of inter-regional linkages in climate variability and predictability. Project proposals should demonstrate a research need for international and regional coordination. Deadline for submission 1st June 2015... read more

 Recognizing the convergence in their interests and activities, and the potential for substantial mutual collaboration, WCRP and PAGES (Past Global Changes) have formed a scientific partnership aimed at strengthening ties between the two organizations at several levels.... read more

The second assessment of climate change for the Baltic Sea Basin (BACC II) is now available as open access. This book is an update of the first BACC assessment published in 2008 and offers new scientific findings in regional climate research for the Baltic Sea basin. The book will be launched at the ECCA2015 in Copehagen, Denmark, in May 2015... read more

The 30th session of the CAS/WCRP Working  Group on Numerical Experimentation was held on 23-26 March 2015 at the new NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP), College Park, Maryland USA. This was also the occasion for celebrating 30 years of achievements by reviewing the history of WGNE in the latest three decades... read more

In a new article featured in Nature Geoscience, S. Bony and B. Stevens  -plus many other authors- describe the WCRP Grand Challenge on how clouds, circulation and climate interact. This initiative focuses on understanding the role of cloud feedbacks and convective organization in climate, and the factors that control the tropical rain belts and the extratropical storm tracks... read the article

The CORDEX Scientific Advisory Team met in February 2015 to plan future activities that will strengthen regional climate modelling across the globe. Today, CORDEX has produced regional climate scenarios that cover most of the world's land regions... read more