Abstract submission for the 4^th International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC)-Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) 2019 has been extended to 30 May. The conference will be held in Beijing, China, from 14-18 October 2019 and will bring together the international community to discuss regional climate research and to share the latest progress on regional climate modeling for impact and adaptation planning. Click the heading above for more information. 

The World Meteorological Organization is calling for applications for membership of its proposed Scientific Advisory Panel. The deadline for nominations and self-nominations, to be addressed to the WMO Secretariat, is 31 May. Click the headline for details.

Under the auspices of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM), hundreds of climate researchers in modelling centres around the world are working to share, compare and analyse the latest results of global climate and Earth system models. Early results of the 6th phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) are now available and were discussed at the first CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop held recently in Barcelona. For more information, please click the heading above.

Participants of the CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop held in Barcelona, Spain, in March 2019.

Registration is now open for the Science Policy Forum, organized by the International Science Council (ISC), the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR), the UNISDR Science Technology Advisory Group (STAG) and the Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme, which will take place on 13 – 14 May in Geneva, as part of the preparatory meetings for the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. Please click the heading above for more information.

On the occasion of its 40th Anniversary, the WCRP will be coordinating a Climate Science Week at the AGU Fall Meeting 2019. To find out how to get involved, please click the heading above.