Events

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 Lighthouse Activities).

Upcoming Events

WCRP Open Science Conference

WCRP Open Science Conference 2023

23 - 27 October 2023

Kigali, Rwanda

Hybrid format

Early Career Events 22 and 28 October 2023

• Coming soon...

Webinars and Discussion Forum Series

• Discussion Series: Tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt change in the Earth system
• WCRP Climate Research Forums

Past Events

Joint Scientific Committee Sessions

WCRP Conferences 

• Seventh SPARC General Assembly, 24-28 October 2022, on a multi-hub basis with three locations (hubs) : 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).
• Second GCOS/WCRP Climate Observation Conference. 17-19 October 2022. Online.
• Third Pan-GASS Meeting Understanding and Modeling Atmospheric Processes, 25-29 July 2022, Monterey, USA.
• WCRP International Conference on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts, 12-16 July 2022, Singapore.
• WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis, as part of the 2021 ECMWF Annual Seminar on Observations. 13-18 September 2021, Bonn, Germany.
• 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

• Sixth WGNE workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models, 31 October - 4 November 2022, Reading, UK.
• Second Model Hierarchies Workshop, 29 August - 1 September 2022, Stanford, USA
• Data Assimilation Needs for Climate Prediction Workshop. 19-20 May 2022, Boulder, CO, USA
• The Future of Climate Modelling Workshop, 21-24 March 2022, 20:00hs – 23:00hs UTC. Virtual workshop streamed live on the WCRP Youtube channel.
• Risk KAN Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems, 8-10 February 2022, Online.
• WCRP Workshop on Extremes in Climate Prediction Ensemble (ExCPEns) - Subseasonal, seasonal, annual to decadal, and multi-decadal. 25-27 October 2021, Busan (Korea). Online format.
• Storying climes of the Himalaya, Andes, and Arctic. 9 - 15 October 2021. Online. In partnership with My Climate Risk Lighthouse Activity (Programme).
• Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change Lighthouse Activity Workshop on 'Attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system'. 22-24 September 2021 (Online). Report of the Workshop on Attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system.
• Regional climate change projections: Climate change analysis using CORDEX regional climate models over South Asia, 12-14 October and 19-21 October 2020. Online.
• WCRP High-level Science Questions and Flagship Workshop 2020, 24-26 February 2020. Hamburg, Germany.
• 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.

Webinars and Discussion Series

• Discussion Series: Tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt change in the Earth system. #1 Introduction - 20 September 2021. Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity, AIMES, Earth Commission.

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

• Tipping Points - from climate crisis to positive transformation. 12 - 14 September 2022. Exeter, UK (Sponsored by Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity)
• WCRP Sessions at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, 13-17 December 2021, New Orleans, USA.
• 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.

Last Updated: 17 November 2022