The 34th session of the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) was held on 24-27 September 2019 in Offenbach, Germany, and kindly hosted by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD). Members agreed on the necessary evolution of WGNE into a broader Earth System Model development group across weather-climate time scales. To find out more about proceedings, click the header above.

WCRP is awarding annually, together with its two respective partners WWRP and GCOS, two prizes for notable achievements in model as well as data development. For the 2019 editions, nominations are now open with a deadline of 30 September 2019. For details and links to the individual announcements, click the headline above.

WCRP Joint Scientific Committee chair Detlef Stammer provided a statement yesterday at the launch event of a new synthesis report by UN agencies and international initiatives in climate research. The report, titled "United in Science", was coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO, one of WCRP's three co-sponsors) and underlines the glaring and growing gap between agreed targets to tackle global warming and reality. Click the headlines for details as well as links to the full report and session recordings.

The Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science is now published, in time for the 2019 Climate Action Summit. It is the primary outcome of the Cities and Climate Science Conference that was held in March 2018 in Edmonton, Canada, and was reported to the 48th IPCC Plenary session in October 2018 in Incheon, Korea. To find out more and to download the full and abridged versions of the report, click the heading above.

Karl Taylor, major figure behind WCRP's Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), has been elected fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). The honor is accorded to a small percentage of AGU members and recognizes both Karl's research successes as well as his contributions to WCRP, CMIP and IPCC. Click the headline for details.