A new open-access paper in “Nature Partner Journals – Climate and Atmospheric Science” describes how weather and climate scientists work together to improve forecasts for weeks and months ahead. The authors are Annarita Mariotti, Director of the NOAA MAPP Program, as well as Paolo Ruti and Michel Rixen, who coordinate research for the World Weather Research Programme and World Climate Research Programme, respectively.

The Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) is one of the most fundamental metrics defining the status of global climate change and expectations for continued global warming. WCRP Core Projects work together for a new WCRP-wide initiative to identify research goals and opportunities for Earth’s Energy Imbalance and to strengthen future international scientific collaboration with experts for EEI assessments. Save the dates for this opportunity for international scientific collaborations: The WCRP workshop...

Future Earth is a global platform for international scientific collaboration on global environmental change. Over 20 global research programmes operate under the umbrella of Future Earth. The ties and partnerships between Future Earth and WCRP are strong and productive, for example within the CitiesIPCC activities, the recently developed Knowledge-Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events, and WCRP's Working Group on Regional Climate. Future Earth is sponsored by, inter alia, the...

The Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Project is a joint undertaking by WCRP and WWRP which completed its first phase between 2013 and 2017. Last week, the Project's Phase I Final Report has been officially published, reporting on the period from November 2013 to December 2017. The report can be downloaded from WCRP's publications page. The S2S Prediction Project aims to improve forecast skill and understanding on the S2S timescale with special emphasis on high-impact weather events....

The abstract submission deadline for the "International Conferences on Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction" has been extended to Tuesday, 27 March 2018. The week-long event comprises both the "Second International Conference on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction (S2S)", the "Second International Conference on Seasonal to Decadal Prediction (S2D)" as well as a joint segment addressing mutual and emerging topics. The meeting will be held Sept. 17-21 in Boulder, CO, USA. It is being organized by...

The first International Symposium on Regional Reanalysis will take place from 17 to 19 July 2018 in Bonn, Germany. The event aims to discuss and promote all aspects of regional reanalyses, and is hosted by the Hans-Ertel-Centre for Weather Research. Particular emphases will be on applications and user interactions as well as land surface heterogeneity. The symposium's organizing committee is co-led by Jan Keller, co-chair of the WCRP WDAC's Task Team for Intercomparison of Reanalyses (TIRA). For...

The WCRP SPARC Core Project will hold its General Assembly 2018 from 1-5 October in Kyoto, Japan. Abstract submission for the SPARC General Assembly 2018 is open until 1 April. Click the headline above for all details.

WCRP is calling for (self-)nominations for membership in the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), for a four-year term from January 2019 to December 2022. Nominations should be submitted via an online nomination form by 6 April 2018. To read more, click the headline above.

More than 750 climate scientists, urban practitioners and policymakers will meet in Edmonton, Canada, from 5 to 7 March 2018 to foster new scientific knowledge around climate change impacts on cities. Click the headline above to read all about the conference, live stream options, and WCRP involvement in CitiesIPCC.