To know more about Dr. Zhang, visit the CLIVAR website.
We are very sad to hear of the passing of Dr Venkatachalam “Ram” Ramaswamy. Ram served on the Joint Scientific Committee of the World Climate Research Program and for several years as part of APARC (formally SPARC). Since 1992 he has been a Lead Author or Coordinating Lead Author for each of the IPCC's assessment reports, and a member of the WMO Panel on Polar and High-mountain Observations, Research and Services (PHORS). He was a three-time recipient of the WMO Norbert-Gerbier MUMM International Award from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) which he received as a co-author of papers published in 2013, 2003, and 1998. We pass our condolences to Ram's family and many colleagues and friends.
Ram's memorial website: https://lestermemorialhome.com/obituaries/venkatachalam-ramaswamy
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CORDEX is launching new Task Teams (TT) to address key scientific challenges in:
- Convection-Permitting Regional Climate Modelling - to define and implement a strategy around its diverse Convection Permitting Regional Climate Modelling (CPRCM) activities (also called km-scale regional modelling).
- CORDEX-CORE - to coordinate, perform and analyse the new CORDEX-CORE-CMIP6 and CMIP7 experiments, building on the CORDEX-CORE simulation protocol.
- Machine Learning - to coordinate and advance machine learning (ML)–based downscaling activities within the CORDEX framework in close link with other CORDEX activities
To nominate someone (including self-nomination), please complete the application form. Deadline: July 31, 2026 (any time zone).
The Regional Information for Society (RIfS) Core Project organized an expert meeting on the Robustness of Climate Change Information for Decisions in April 2024, hosted by the European Commission and co-sponsored by the Green Climate Fund.
The workshop aimed to address the following issue: When sources of climate change information do not agree or are misaligned to decision contexts, there is a lack of consensus about how to overcome this barrier and inform local-to-regional decision making.
Collectively the meeting sought to develop forward thinking on building new cross-community collaboration to advance and demonstrate the development of relevant information that is defensibly robust, aligned to context, in ways that are scalable and transferable, and thus broadly accepted and widely applicable. The meeting was explicitly designed to be a first step, a catalyst for new cross-community recognition of the challenge, and to stimulate new actions to address this. A new Interim Working Group is carrying on the work of organizing follow-on activities on these themes, including guidance and standards, global North/South partnerships, ethics and accountability, reducing epistemic uncertainties, and collaborations around responsible data use.
More information: https://www.wcrp-rifs.org/activities/workshops/