The second GCOS Climate Observation Conference (17-19 October 2022, Darmstadt, Germany) will focus on activities and solutions that help to achieve a fully implemented, sustainable, and fit for purpose global observing system for climate. The Conference will also provide the occasion to celebrate GCOS 30^th Anniversary and take stock of the progress achieved by the global observing community in the last three decades. The Conference will be in person, even though hybrid options will be made available too.

• Deadline for abstract submission: 1 June 2022
• Deadline for registration: 23 September 2022
• For more information, please visit the conference website 

The WCRP Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) organises a hybrid workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models, hosted by the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), in Reading (UK) on 31 October - 4 November 2022. The workshop brings together a wide range of experts on simulating the Earth System including atmosphere, ocean, waves, land-surface, atmospheric composition, cryosphere, and associated disciplines to advance the understanding of systematic simulation errors at all timescales.

Early career researchers from selected countries will be able to enter a competition for best abstracts for oral presentations. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is pleased to offer funding for travel to ECMWF (UK) to the winners of the competition. Please see https://events.ecmwf.int/event/241/page/122-abstract-competition for details.

• Deadline for abstract submission: 31 May 2022
• To kow more about the workshop, click here.
• To download the flyer, click here.

A virtual summer school on 'Attribution, causality, and decision-making' in climate variability and change will run from 6-10 June 2022. Topics will include event attribution, trend attribution, philosophical issues in attribution, causality, and decision-making. The summer school is run by the joint Reading-Imperial Ph.D. programme, “Mathematics of Planet Earth,” and is co-sponsored by WCRP, through the My Climate Risk (MCR) Lighthouse Activity, and by the Walker Institute (a planned MCR hub). 

A more detailed syllabus and information on how to apply can be found on the summer school webpage. The deadline for applications is 2 May 2022.

The main session of the 43^rd Joint Scientific Committee meeting (JSC-43) will be held virtually during 27 June- July 1, with a JSC-only meeting to be held around a week later.

Attendance at this virtual JSC-43 is by invitation only. Should you wish to attend please contact Mike Sparrow (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)

For further details see: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/jsc43-about.

The WCRP My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity invites interested researchers to nominate themselves for its Scientific Steering Group (SSG), which is responsible for the overall scientific direction of the activity. To find out more and to apply, please see the open call webpage.

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WCRP is delighted to announce that the WCRP Open Science Conference (OSC) 2023 (#WCRP2023) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda on 23-27 October 2023, at the Kigali Convention Centre.

The Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA), on behalf of the Government of Rwanda, provided a strong proposal to host the WCRP OSC 2023 in Kigali and will support WCRP to deliver a true hybrid event. This event at the heart of the African continent will allow strong engagement with research communities, stakeholders and practitioners in Rwanda and the region. This will be facilitated by joint efforts with local partners, such as the Rwanda Meteorology Agency and the University of Rwanda.

The WCRP OSC 2023 Scientific Organising Committee has already started to discuss the format of the conference to ensure that it will foster future climate science leadership, through workshops, public exhibits, forums, and other associated events. A fundraising drive is also in place, as well discussions on innovative ways to deliver effective remote participation options to ensure inclusion and engagement while minimizing our carbon footprint.

The path is set! All roads lead to Kigali!

To know more click here.

SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate) is holding its 7^th General Assembly (GA) from 24^th to 28^th October 2022. The format of the SPARC GA will be different from past GAs, as it will be on a multi-hub basis with three locations (hubs) confirmed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), in Boulder, USA, the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), in Reading, UK, and the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) in Qingdao, China.

• Abstract submissions and travel support requests are now open.
• For more information and submissions, visit the conference webpage and announcement.

March 2022

The future of CMIP and climate modelling

In this issue of World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Insights, we focus on the future of climate modelling. There is an ever-increasing demand on climate models to answer questions about what our climate will be like in the next years, decades and centuries. In 2022, the WCRP community will be looking at the best way forward to ensure that we are ready to answer those questions to our best ability.

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP), and the International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) held an online celebratory event on 28 February 2022 to officially launch the IMPO and to highlight the consolidation of monsoon research under WCRP and WWRP. The IMPO is hosted and kindly supported by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM, Pune - India) and will be a global hub of monsoons research.

To view the recording of the event, click here

In parallel, a recently published review in online BAMS on `Monsoons in Climate Change’ also highlights WCRP/WWRP joining hands to advance global monsoons research as well as the establishment of the IMPO. To read the review, click here.

"Dear members of the WCRP community,

I am writing to you all today to express my personal dismay about the war of aggression that the Russian government has unleashed on Ukraine and its citizens. I am following here the ISC Governing Board, one of our co-sponsors, which expressed its unequivocal support of the Ukrainian people. The Governing Board also affirms its intention to assist scientists from Ukraine, and to seek to maintain international scientific collaboration amidst geopolitical tensions. The ISC therefore is not considering the suspension of any of its members. The statement of the ISC Governing Board can be read here: https://council.science/current/news/isc-statement-ukraine/  
As to our work, every member of WCRP bodies acts in a personal capacity and does not represent their country. Certainly, the conflict is impacting climate research and we have to await how the entire conflict will evolve. We all hope for the rapid return to peace and a rational interaction of nations. Until further notice, every member of all WCRP bodies must act according to the instructions given by their home institutions.
With respect to scientific events to be held in Russia or Ukraine, our clear advice is to find alternative options until peace is restored.

With best regards
Detlef"

We are delighted to invite you to the sixth event in the discussion series on tipping elements, this time focusing on the role of monsoon systems. It will take place on 9 March 2022, 15:30 - 17:00 CET. The two talks of the event will be given by:

• South Asian Monsoon tipping – Ashwin Seshadri
• African Monsoon and potential greening of the Sahara – Francesco Pausata

The session will be recorded and posted on the event site a day or two after the event. To register for the event, please see the event site.