This page lists major conferences and a selection of workshops of WCRP, hence highlighting only a small subset of WCRP-organized meetings. For a full list of events of each WCRP activity or of their joint meetings, kindly consult the relevant sub-pages (e.g., of the individual Core Projects, Grand Challenges, and Working Groups).

Upcoming Events

• WCRP High-level science questions and flagship workshop, 24-26 February 2020. Hamburg, Germany.
• WCRP Elements and Structure Workshop, TBD.
• 41st Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 18-22 May 2020. Sydney, Australia.
• CLIVAR-FIO Summer School on Ocean Macroturbulence and Its Role in Earth’s Climate. 6-11 July 2020. Qingdao, China.

Past Events

Joint Scientific Committee Sessions

• 40th Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 6-10 May 2019. Geneva, Switzerland.
• 39th Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 16-20 April 2018. Nanjing, China.
• 38th Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 3-7 April 2017. Paris, France.
• 37th Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 25-27 April 2016. Geneva, Switzerland.
• 36th Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 8-10 April 2015. Geneva, Switzerland.

WCRP Conferences

• International Conference on Regional Climate, ICRC-CORDEX 2019. 14-18 October 2019, Beijing, China.
• IV International Conference on El Niño Southern Oscillation: ENSO in a Warmer Climate. 16-18 October 2018, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• SPARC 2018 General Assembly. 1-5 October 2018, Kyoto, Japan.
• International Conferences on Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction. 17-21 September 2018, NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA.
• 5th International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR5). 13-17 November 2017. Rome, Italy.
• International WCRP/IOC Conference "Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts". 10-14 July 2017. New York, NY, USA.
  WCRP/IOC Sea Level Conference Statement 2017
• International Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. 13-18 February 2017. Wellington, New Zealand.
• CLIVAR Open Science Conference, “Charting the course for climate and ocean research”. 18-25 September 2016. Qingdao, China.
• CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium. 18, 24-25 September 2016. Qingdao, China.
• International Conference on Regional Climate-CORDEX 2016. 17-20 May 2016. Stockholm, Sweden.
• Climate Symposium 2014. 13-17 October 2014. Darmstadt, Germany.
• WCRP Conference for Latin America and the Caribbean: Developing, linking and applying climate knowledge. 17-21 March 2014. Montevideo, Uruguay.
• International Conference on Regional Climate - CORDEX 2013. 4-7 November 2013. Brussels, Belgium.
• Africa Climate Conference 2013. 15-18 October 2013. Arusha, Tanzania.
• WCRP Open Science Conference: Climate Research in Service to Society. 24-28 October 2011. Denver, CO, USA.

WCRP Workshops

• Workshop on Correlated Extremes at Columbia University. 28-31 May 2019. New York, USA.
• Workshop on physical modeling supporting a “storyline approach”. 24-26 April 2019. Oslo, Norway.
• CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop. 25-28 March 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
• WCRP Workshop: The Earth’s Energy Imbalance and its implications (EEI). 13-16 November 2018, Toulouse, France.
• 5th WGNE Workshop on Systematic Errors in Weather and Climate Models. 19-23 June 2017. Montréal, Québec, Canada.
• WCRP/SPARC Workshop: "Challenges for Climate Science - Synergies between SPARC and the WCRP Grand Challenges". 31 October - 1 November 2016. Berlin, Germany
• Model Hierarchies Workshop. 2-4 November 2016. Princeton University, New Jersey, USA.
• Early Career Researchers Workshop 2015 - Earth System Science Frontiers. 28-30 October 2015. Offenbach, Germany.
• Understanding, Modelling and Predicting Weather and Climate Extremes. 5-7 October 2015. Oslo, Norway.
• Data Requirements to Address the WCRP Grand Challenge on Weather and Climate Extremes. 25-27 February 2015. Sydney, Australia.
• An International Global Drought Information System Workshop: Next Steps. 11-13 December 2014. Pasadena, CA, USA.
• IPCC AR5: Lessons Learnt for Climate Change Research and WCRP. 8-10 September 2014. Bern, Switzerland.

WCRP Summer Schools

• Summer School at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Climate Extremes and Risk Management. 21 October - 1 November 2019. Nanjing, China. 
• The 2nd WCRP Summer School on Climate Model Development, 22-31 January 2018. Cachoeira Paulista, SP, Brazil
• WCRP-JNU Training School on Monsoon Variability in Changing Climate. 16–21 January 2017. Jeju, Republic of Korea.
• WCRP-ICTP 2014 Summer School on Attribution and Prediction of Extremes Events. 21 July - 01 August 2014. Trieste, Italy.

Other Events

• WCRP Climate Science Week, AGU Fall Meeting, 8-13 December 2019. San Francisco, USA.
• WCRP and WMO provided input to, and were represented at, the UN Secretary General's Climate Action Summit, 23 September 2019, New York, USA
• WCRP at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2018. 10-14 December 2018, Washington D.C., USA.