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 Event

WCRP Open Science Conference

WCRP Open Science Conference 2023
Location to be defined.
Hybrid format

• Risk KAN Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems, 8-10 February 2022, Online.
• WCRP International Conference on Regional Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts. 11-15 July 2022, Singapore.
• 2nd GCOS/WCRP Climate Observation Conference. Postponed to 2022. Online.
• 7th 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).

WCRP Climate Research Forums

Full list of upcoming Forums

Past Events

Joint Scientific Committee Sessions

• 42nd Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 28 June - 2 July 2021. Online.
• WCRP Extraordinary Session of the Joint Scientific Committee (JSC-41B). 30 November - 3 December 2020. Online.
• 41st Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 18-22 May 2020. Online.
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.