After establishing the new globally distributed secretariat, Future Earth is seeking an Executive Director to provide leadership for the programme. The new Director will head the secretariat and will work closely with the scientific community, stakeholders, and members of the Future Earth governance structure. The closing date for receiving applications is 13 October 2014... read more

The WCRP Climate and the Cryosphere (CliC) project and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) invite applications for a permanent position as Executive Officer for CliC International Project Office. The work place is the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromso, Norway and the Executive Officer is expected to integrate into and actively interact with the cryosphere research community at NPI. The application deadline is 7 October 2014... read more

In recognition of the essential role model development plays to weather and climate science, the WCRP and WWRP are establishing the “WCRP/WWRP International Prize for Model Development”. The deadline for nominations is 15 November 2014... read more

WCRP is pleased to announce that the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI) has been selected as the host for the new International Project Office for CORDEX (IPOC). The CORDEX IPO is now looking for dedicated staff to support the CORDEX activities and establsh the linkages with the CORDEX science community... read more

SOLAS is calling for nominations to its International Scientific Steering Committee (SSC). The SSC sets the scientific direction and priorities of the project and is supported by the SOLAS International Project Office in its tasks. Members are appointed for a 3-year term and meet in person once per year... read more

Are humans changing the length of the agricultural growing season or the number of extreme weather events? Are temperature and precipitation swings in one region of the world related to those in another? These are among the real-world research problems young scientists examined at the first WCRP-ICTP Summer School on Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events... read more

Thanks to all who attended and contributed to the 7th International Scientific Conference on GEWEX. Over 560 scientists, managers, and students from 45 countries attended the Conference which addressed research on water resources, extremes in water such as droughts and floods, and new analysis from observations and data sets. There were 436 posters covering the topics of the conference... read more

Professor Tim Palmer, former co-chair of CLIVAR SSG, has been honoured in this year's Institute of Physics Awards for the development of probabilistic weather and climate prediction systems. Awarding Professor Palmer the Dirac Medal 2014, which recognises outstanding contributions in theoretical physics, is a recognition of the importance of the fields of weather and climate for all sections of society... read more

CliC and the International Permafrost Association are seeking inputs from the community for identifying the top priorities in permafrost research. The process will span much of 2014 and will result in a short publication. The document shall become the benchmark against which permafrost research should be gauged starting in 2015... Click Here to the survey and background informationz

Future Earth will have a new secretariat with a unique and innovative structure that spans three continents. The preferred bidders comprises five global hubs which will function as a single entity, and are located in Canada, France, Japan, Sweden and United States. This includes a series of regional hubs, from which it is expected new regional networks will develop, these covers, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and Asia. The secretariat will support five core functions: coordination, communication and outreach, research enabling, capacity building, synthesis and foresight... read more

Dr. Ghassem Asrar, former WCRP Director, has been named a 2014 Ambassador for the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in recognition for "outstanding contributions to societal impact, service to Earth and space community, scientific leadership and promotion of talent/career pool. " The Award honors up to five outstanding scientific leaders per year... read more

The Springer Annual Book Performance Report shows that the book "Climate Science and Society" edited by G. Asrar and J. Hurrel had nearly 10,000 chapter downloads since its publication on June 19th, 2013. This book is the testament of the success of the WCRP Open Science Conference held in Denver, Co. USA, in 2011. 

The outcomes of the ACC 2013 are reported in an article published in EOS Transactions AGU. More than 300 participants including decision makers, representatives of reserach funding agencies, scientists from various disciplines, and pratictioners from Africa and around the world attened the event that addressed the climate related challenges and information needs in Africa. ... read the article

The final report and all the presentations of the WCRP VAMOS/CORDEX workshop on Latin-America and the Caribbean are now available here. The workshop was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, on 7-9 April 2014 and hosted by the Oficina Nacional de Meteorologia (ONAMET). To download the report... click here

Stephen Griffies, currently member of CLIVAR SSG and former chair of WGOMD, has been awarded the 2014 EGU Fridtjof Nansen Medal for his outstanding contribution and leadership in ocean general circulation model development and critical insights in the physical nature and parametrization of ocean processes... read more

After many years of dedication and hard work for WCRP Valery Detemmerman took her retirement on 30th April 2014. She joined the WCRP Joint Planning Staff as TOGA science officer, she then provided support to WOCE, CLIVAR and GEWEX. Since November 2013 Valery has been acting director for WCRP.  WCRP Sponsors, JPS and the WCRP networks greatly appreciate Valery's contribution made over the years and join in wishing her all the best for this new phase of her life.

WCRP Sponsors are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. David Carlson as Director of the Joint Planning Staff. Dr. Carlson devoted the majority of his career in coordinating international science. He was the Director of the International Project Office for TOGA in the 90' and of the International Polar Year more recently. The JPS is looking forward to working with him starting from June 2014.... read more

WCRP has set a new milestone by establishing the International CLIVAR Global Project Office (ICGPO) at the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) of the State Oceanographic Administration (SOA) in the city of Qingdao. This is the first time China hosts a WCRP international project office... read more

As part of a project QA4ECV (Quality Assurance for multi-decadal ECVs) and the UK National Physical Laboratory is conducting a survey concerning the state of and need for quality assurance in satellite-derived land data products. The survey is targeting the users of these products to gauge what products are being utilized, the quality indicators supplied with the products, how the quality information is used, and if needed quality information is not available, what the user would like to see provided. For more information click here

The model output of the joint research activity by the WCRP-WWRP/THORPEX MJO Task Force and the Year of Tropical Convection (YoTC) and the GEWEX Atmosphere System Study (GASS) is now available for models-based, physical-process studies of a wide range of weather and climate phenomena... read more

The Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS), Climate and the Cryosphere (CliC), and World Meteorological Organization Polar Space Task Group (WMO PSTG) is seeking inputs from the community for identifying the satellite data requirements for the Southern Ocean (across all temporal/spatial scales). This is a great opportunity to feed information directly into the strategic planning for future missions and research initiatives. Click here for the survey. Deadline 31 May 2014.

About 220 scientists attended the WCRP Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean (WCRP-LAC) in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 17-21 March 2014. The subtitle of the conference "Developing, Linking and Applying Climate Knowledge" was suggested to emphasize the main goal of this event that is to define the research agenda needed to contribute to the provision of effective climate services in the LAC region... read more

Former GEWEX chair, Kevin Trenberth and WCRP Director, Ghassem Asrar, recently published a review on current outstanding challenges and opportunities in global water cycle observations, research and modelling. The article set the stage for a successful implementation of WCRP Grand Challenge on water availability as a major source of information for decision makers on water resources, food security and disaster risk reduction... read the article

Until recently, long range forecast systems showed only modest levels of skill in predicting surface winter climate around the Atlantic basin. In a recent publication, Adam Scaife and co-authors demonstrated that key aspects of European and North American winter climate and the surface North Atlantic Oscillation are highly predictable months ahead... read the article

The First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) in Qingdao, China, is seeking a scientist for a staff position at the International CLIVAR Global Project Office (ICGPO) hosted at FIO. The successful candidate would join the Executive Director and a Senior Staff Scientist, both recruited from the existing international CLIVAR team, and an Administrative Assistant, to formulate the ICGPO. Application deadline 28 March 2014.