IGAC AWG welcomes nominations and self-nominations to its Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) from the international community. This call is open to scientists in all career stages. IGAC AWG is currently accepting nominations to start in mid-2023 from the following regions:

• Andes (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela)
• Caribbean
• Central America
• Mexico
• Southern South America

 
Nominations will be accepted until 1 March 2023. For information related to the IGAC AWG SSC, please see Fostering a collaborative atmospheric chemistry research community in the Latin America and Caribbean Region.
IGAC AWG accepts both nominations and self-nominations.  Please see below the requirements for each type of nomination.
Requirements to nominate someone to the IGAC SSC:

• Fill out the IGAC AWG SC Nomination Form.
• Upload the nominee’s CV and publication list (if not part of the CV).
• Upload a statement from the nominee on “Why do you want to serve on the IGAC AWG SSC and what will you bring to IGAC AWG?” The statement should be ~300 words or less.
• Provide in the form a reason for the nomination.

Requirements for self-nomination to the IGAC AWG SSC:

• Fill out the IGAC AWG SSC Self-Nomination Form.
• Upload your CV and publication list (if not part of the CV).
• Upload a letter of support from someone in the international scientific community.
• Provide a statement on “Why do you want to serve on the IGAC AWG SSC and what will you bring to IGAC AWG?”. The statement should be ~300 words or less.

Please keep in mind that IGAC AWG strives to have an SSC with diversity in geographical representation, gender, and expertise. To view current AWG SSC members, visit https://igacproject.org/working-groups/AmericasWG. 


For more information on the role and expectations of IGAC AWG SSC members, please feel free to contact the IGAC AWG Co-chairs Olga Mayol-Bracero () and Marcos Andrade ().

The My Climate Risk – Ateneo de Manila University Hub, through the Ateneo Institute of Sustainability, invites you to a webinar titled “Open Climate Science: A panel discussion on the meanings and practice of open science.” Open Climate Science seeks to discuss, articulate, and navigate the tensions of the meanings and practice of open science in addressing climate change, especially in local contexts.

What does ‘open’ mean, and what counts as ‘science’? How can we make open science legitimate, equitable, and empowering? Join us on 15 February, Wednesday, 4:30 to 6:00pm (GMT+8) for a panel discussion around these questions.

Our panel will feature Ms. Fiona Spuler of the University of Reading hub, Dr. Christopher Jack of the University of Cape Town hub, and Fr. Jose Ramon Villarin, SJ of the Ateneo de Manila University hub. They will also be joined by Dr. Noralene Uy and Mr. John Leo Algo.

We invite all interested parties to register at linktr.ee/MCR_ADMU, or directly through this link. To learn more about the webinar, you may also visit the following link: go.ateneo.edu/OpenClimateScience2023.

Please feel free to share on your hub websites and social media platforms! Attached are images you can use.

• Apply for SOLAS (The international Surface Ocean – Lower Atmosphere Study) Endorsement of Integrated Atmosphere-Ocean Time Series Stations

To better facilitate collaboration and capacity building among air-sea observatories, SOLAS launched a new initiative to form a network of Integrated Atmosphere-Ocean Time Series Stations in June 2020. SOLAS has completed the restructuring of the initiative and now invites new applications to join the network. If you are a principal investigator of a time series station within SOLAS science, you may ask SOLAS for formal endorsement. SOLAS endorsement will help to communicate research and highlights of your time series station to a wider community and provide links with other international organizations. Please fill out the new endorsement form, send it to the International Project Office (IPO), and inform your national contact (if there is one) about your application. Find more information.

• SOLAS Early Career Scientist Committee

SOLAS is pleased to announce that the SOLAS Early Career Scientist (ECS) Committee has been successfully established, which consists of 16 distinguished early career researchers from 15 countries worldwide. The committee will act as a strategic and operational body to coordinate and champion early career activities within the framework of SOLAS science under the supervision of the SOLAS Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) and International Project Office (IPO). Find more information.

There will be a hybrid workshop iaimed at bringing together the active and collaborative communities of RFMIP, AerChemMIP, and PDRMIP under a new initiative called CACTI (Composition Air quality Climate inTeractions Initiative: Emissions to Response). CACTI is a new activity which aims to follow on from the success of TriMIP, with the overall goal of quantifying and understanding global and regional forcing, climate and air quality responses, and Earth System feedbacks due to atmospheric composition and emission changes.    

The hybrid workshop will be held in-person at GEOMAR in Kiel, Germany, with an option to join online, from Tuesday 13 June to Thursday 15 June 2023. The workshop will consist of a mix of presentations and discussions, which we aim to record and make available with limited access. Further details about the workshop will be announced in due course, but for now, we ask that you save the dates. 

All further announcements about the workshop and CACTI activities in general will be made through a mailing list – if you are interested, please subscribe by sending an email to .

We look forward to seeing you in June. 

On behalf of the organising committee,

R. Allen, B. Collins, S. Fiedler, P. Griffiths, M. Kasoar, V. Naik, F. O’Connor, M. Schulz, C. Smith, T. Takemura, S. Turnock, D. Watson-Parris, D. Westervelt, L. Wilcox

The 10 New Insights in Climate Science series, jointly developed by Future Earth, The Earth League, and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), is an annual synthesis highlighting important recent advances in climate change research with high policy relevance, from natural and social sciences. This influential policy report has been launched every year since 2017 at the climate COP with participation from the UNFCCC Executive Secretary.

Every year we rely on an extensive effort of expert consultation across the research networks of the three partner organizations. We are seeking the input of active researchers, across all disciplines, working with issues related to climate change. 

Share your thoughts about what essential new climate change insights, discoveries, and advancements should be highlighted for policy-makers, negotiators, and the general public. You can also indicate your interest in contributing as a co-author to the peer-reviewed paper that underpins the policy report. The manuscripts from the 2020, 2021, and 2022 installments have been published in the journal Global Sustainability.

This call is open until 17 February 2023.

As the research training advisory and coordination arm of the World Climate Research Program, the WCRP Academy aims to equip current and future climate scientists with the knowledge, skills and attributes required to tackle the world’s most pressing and challenging climate research questions, by serving as a knowledge broker/hub, connecting climate scientists with training providers based on up-to-date and rigorous evidence of climate training needs.

We would like to invite all research and expert groups, academic and research institutions, government agencies and non-government organizations who provide climate science training and education to share with us the latest information about your most relevant upcoming event/activity and other climate science training activities you may provide. We are particularly looking for information on informal climate training opportunities (webinars/ seasonal schools/ MOOCs, etc.).

The survey will take about 25 minutes or less to complete. Please refer to the attached guide to review the questions, and prepare the relevant materials and information regarding the education or training opportunity you wish to share with us. If the hyperlink does not work, you may copy and paste the following link to your web browser: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/wcsastocktake

We kindly request that you complete this survey no later than 17 February 2023, and to share the link to the online questionnaire widely with your network. Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to get in touch with us through

Thank you for participating in the 2023 Climate Training Stocktake Survey. We look forward to linking your training opportunity with those who need it.

A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).

Tropical mesoscale convective system formation environments. By T.J. Galarneau Jr. et al. in the Atmospheric Science Letters.

Direct comparison between a non orographic gravity wave drag scheme and constant level balloons. By F. Lott et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research Letters.

Opposite Impacts of Interannual and Decadal Pacific Variability in the Extratropics. By M. Seabrook et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Convectively Transported Water Vapor Plumes in the Midlatitude Lower Stratosphere. By X. Wang et al. in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

The WCRP Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change Lighthouse Activity invites you to join the third webinar of the series that will provide a discussion forum on topics focused on predicting and explaining a range of different climate phenomena and events, while supporting the further development of a scientific agenda. 

This third webinar will focus on global and regional changes in drought and aspects related to a changing climate.

SPEAKERS: 

• Aiguo Dai (University at Albany, USA): Drought Under Global Warming
• Alessandra Giannini (Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/IPSL, France; and IRI, USA): Attribution of climate change: the case of late 20th century Sahel drought
• Juan Rivera (CCT Mendoza, CONICET, Argentina): Mechanisms behind the recent unprecedented drying along the Central Andes of Argentina

The event will take place on 15^th February 2023, from 15:00hs to 16:30hs UTC. Speakers will give a 20-minute talk each followed by a round table discussion, with questions from participants. 

Registrations are free and can be done via https://EPESC-webinar-series-drought.eventbrite.co.uk

The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) in Bern and ISSI in Beijing invite scientists to submit proposals for International Team projects. International Teams are small groups of 8 – 12 scientists involved in space science research, working together on data analysis, theory, and models. The call is open to all scientists, regardless of nationality or institutional affiliation, who are actively involved in any of the following research fields:

1. Space Sciences: Astrobiology, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Fundamental Physics in Space, Magnetospheric and Space Plasma Physics, Planetary Sciences, Solar and Heliospheric Physics, and Solar-Terrestrial Sciences.
2. Earth Sciences using space data. This includes understanding and modelling Earth system processes, as well as climate change projections.

Successful Teams will visit ISSI and/or ISSI-BJ for two (maximum three) one-week meetings, and it is envisioned that the activities of the Team should lead to peer-reviewed publications. The full details of the requirements and the support provided can be found on the ISSI website. Proposals must be submitted by 16 March 2023.

Find call online

A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).

Aerosol Effects on Clear-Sky Shortwave Heating in the Asian Monsoon Tropopause Layer. By J. Gao, Y. Huang, Y. Peng, and J.S. Wright in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

Monitoring sudden stratospheric warmings under climate change since 1980 based on reanalysis data verified by radio occultation. By Y. Li, G. Kirchengast, M. Schwaerz, and Y. Yuan in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Impact of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection on the East Asian Winter Monsoon. By Z. Liu, X. Lang, J. Miao, and D. Jiang in the Geophysical Research Letters.

Discussion papers – open for comment:

A simple model to assess the impact of gravity waves on ice crystal populations in the tropical tropopause layer. By M. Corcos, A. Hertzog, R. Plougonven, and A. Podglajen in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.

Improved representation of volcanic sulfur dioxide depletion in Lagrangian transport simulations: a case study with MPTRAC v2.4. By M. Liu et al. in the EGUsphere.

CFC-11 emissions are declining as expected in Western Europe. By A.L. Redington et al. in the EGUsphere.