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Modelling the Climate System at Ultra-High-Resolution

Abstract submissions and registrations are open for the workshop “Modelling the Climate System at Ultra-High-Resolution: Resolving atmospheric storms, ocean sub-mesoscale eddies, rivers and glaciers”.

The workshop will take place on 3 to 7 October 2022 in Boulder, CO, USA and hosted by NCAR. It is being organized by WCRP Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity and Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) Core Project.

Deadlines
Abstract submissions: 31st August
Registrations: 19th September

For more information visit the workshop website.

Release of stratosphere-focused chemical reanalysis M2-SCREAM

We are pleased to announce the release of the Modern-Era Retrospective analysis for Research and Applications – 2 (MERRA-2) Stratospheric Composition Reanalysis of Aura Microwave Limb Sounder (M2-SCREAM) developed at NASA’s Global Modeling and Assimilation Office in collaboration with the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS) team.

This stratosphere-focused chemical reanalysis provides assimilated global three-dimensional fields of ozone, water vapor, hydrogen chloride (HCl), nitric acid (HNO3), and nitrous oxide (N2O) mixing ratios, all of which are of primary importance to stratospheric chemistry and transport studies. M2-SCREAM assimilates MLS profile observations of these five species, alongside total ozone data from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument, with the recently developed Constituent Data Assimilation System (CoDAS). The system configuration includes a stratospheric chemistry module, StratChem and a version of the GEOS global circulation model with the dynamics constrained by meteorological fields from MERRA-2. The assimilated output is provided at a 50-km horizontal resolution on 72 model layers and at a three-hourly frequency. Analysis uncertainties are provided in a separate monthly data collection. A description and validation manuscript has been submitted to Earth System Science Data.

The current release covers the period from October 2004 to December 2021. Periodic updates are planned for the remainder of the MLS mission.

The M2-SCREAM data are available to the public through the Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (GES DISC) and can be accessed here.

A longer release statement can be found here.

Tipping Points – from climate crisis to positive transformation

Registration deadline – 8th August

Late booking and final deadline – 21st August

Join us for a unique meeting that will:

  • Improve warnings of the imminent risks of catastrophic climate tipping points.
  • Accelerate positive tipping points to avert the climate crisis.

Work with world-leading experts to consider the latest science on climate tipping points and breaching planetary boundaries. Then explore the opportunities in triggering positive social tipping points. Interactive plenaries and action orientated workshops will create new networks of partners and resources for implementation after the conference.

Confirmed speakers include Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Tim Lenton, Director of Global Systems Institute, Kate Raworth, co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Labs and Laura Pereira, University of the Witwatersrand.

Please have a look at the latest programme for further information on the speakers, workshops and plenaries. Participants will join a growing alliance of partners collaborating to develop the urgent solutions required to address the climate and ecological emergencies through a socially just transformation.

Upcoming deadline: AGU abstract submission due until 3 August 2022

AGU Fall Meeting 2022 will be held in Chicago and online everywhere 12 – 16 December 2022.

The abstract submission deadline is 3 August (23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT).
Abstracts can be submitted here.

A number of sessions related and/or of interest to the SPARC community have been organised for this year’s fall AGU meeting. The following is a non-exhaustive list:

A004 – Advances in understanding and modeling of the QBO and its impacts
Primary Convener: Jadwiga Richter (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Conveners: James Anstey (Environment Canada), Yoshio Kawatani (JAMSTEC), Scott M Osprey (Oxford University)

A020 – Atmospheric Chemical Mechanisms: Connecting Experiments, Theory, and Modeling
Primary Convener: Victoria P. Barber (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Conveners: Jessica Haskins (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Kelvin Hamilton Bates (Harvard University), Keith Tadao Kuwata (Macalester College)

A022 – Atmospheric Chemistry over the Tibetan Plateau: Measurement, Processing and the Impacts on Climate and Air Quality
Primary Convener: Chunxiang Ye (Peking University)
Conveners: Wei Nie (Nanjing University), Jicheng Gong (Peking University), Jianshu Wang (Peking University)

A024 – Atmospheric Gravity Waves, from the Surface to the Edge of Space
Primary Convener: Corwin Wright (University of Bath)
Conveners: Neil Hindley (University of Bath), Min-Jee Kang (Yonsei University), Tyler Mixa (University of Colorado Boulder)

A033 – Bridging the Gap from Climate to Extreme Weather: Observations, Theory, and Modeling
Primary Convener: Jane Wilson Baldwin (University of California Irvine)
Conveners: Gabriel J Kooperman (University of Georgia), Kevin Reed (Stony Brook University)

A035 – Cirrus in the Tropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Primary Convener: Peter N Blossey (University of Washington)
Conveners: Kara Lamb (Columbia University), Sylvia Sullivan (University of Arizona)

A042 – Constellation of Satellites for Atmospheric Composition and Air Quality
Primary Convener: Shobha Kondragunta (NOAA College Park)
Conveners: Diego G Loyola (German Aerospace Center (DLR)), Claus Zehner (European Space Research Institute), James F Gleason (NASA Goddard SFC)

A052 – Environmental sensor networks
Primary Convener: Misha Krassovski (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Convener: Jeffery S Riggs (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

A062 – Ground-Based Atmospheric Monitoring Networks
Primary Convener: Nicole P Hyslop (University of California Davis)
Conveners: Nicholas James Spada (University of California Davis), Jenny L Hand (Colorado State Univ), Dominique E Young (University of California Davis)

A054 – Extratropical and High-latitude Storms, Teleconnections, Extreme Events, and the Rapidly Changing Polar Climate
Primary Convener: Xiangdong Zhang (University of Alaska Fairbanks)
Conveners: Kent Moore (Univ Toronto), James E Overland (NOAA Seattle)

A055 – Extratropical Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation Variability
Primary Convener: Paul J Kushner (University of Toronto)
Conveners: Pedram Hassanzadeh (Rice University), Aditi Sheshadri (Stanford University)

A059 – General Session: Atmospheric Chemistry & Composition
Primary Convener: Joost A de Gouw (University of Colorado)
Convener: Anne Thompson (NASA/GSFC)

A060 – General Session: Atmospheric Dynamics & Climate
Primary Convener: James W Hurrell (Colorado State University)
Conveners: L. Ruby Leung (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Cecilia M Bitz (University of Washington)

A061 – General Session: Atmospheric Physics, Radiation, Clouds, and Aerosols
Primary Convener: Rong Fu (University of California Los Angeles)
Conveners: V Ramaswamy (NOAA/OAR/ GFDL), Ralph Kahn (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)

A064 – Improving Subseasonal to Seasonal Predictions Through ESMF-NUOPC Coupled Modeling
Primary Convener: Mark A Olsen (NOAA)
Conveners: Avichal Mehra (National Centers For Environmental Prediction-Environmental Modeling Center), Neil P Barton (US Naval Research Laboratory), Jessie Carmen (NOAA)

A065 – Jetstream Dynamics, Atmospheric Rossby waves and Associated Extreme Weather and Climate Events
Primary Convener: Rachel H White (University of British Columbia)
Conveners: Kai Kornhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research), Haiyan Teng (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

A074 – Monitoring and Modelling of F-Gases and Ozone Depleting Substances
Primary Convener: Luke Western (University of Bristol; NOAA)
Conveners: Megan Lickley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Marianna Katherine Linz (Harvard University), Piers Forster (University of Leeds)

A081 – Progress in Reanalysis: Development, Evaluation, and Application
Primary Convener: Jan Dominik Keller (Deutscher Wetterdienst)
Conveners: Masatomo Fujiwara (Hokkaido Univ), Michael G Bosilovich (Earth Sciences Division)
Student/Early Career Convener: Masatomo Fujiwara (Hokkaido Univ)

A087 – Stratospheric composition changes: observations and modeling of special events, feedback mechanisms, and long-term trends
Primary Convener: Natalya A Kramarova (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
Conveners: Nathaniel J Livesey (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology), Irina V Petropavlovskikh (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences; NOAA Boulder, ESRL/GML)

A088 – Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Prediction, Processes, and Applications
Primary Convener: Andrew William Robertson (Columbia University of New York)
Conveners: Johnna Infanti (Climate Prediction Center College Park), Kirsten J Mayer (Colorado State University), Frederic Vitart (ECMWF)
Student/Early Career Convener: Kirsten J Mayer (Colorado State University)

A090 – The Dynamics of the Large Scale Atmospheric Circulation in Present and Future Climates: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons
Primary Convener: Lei Wang (Purdue University)
Conveners: Isla Simpson (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Gang Chen (University of California Los Angeles), Simona Bordoni (University of Trento)

GC038 – Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change: A World Climate Research Programme Call to Action. Coupling of Observations and Models; Integrated Attribution, Prediction and Projection; Assessment of Current and Future Hazards
Primary Convener: Kirsten Lynn Findell (Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory)
Conveners: Zhuo Wang (University of Illinois), Isla Simpson (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Haiyan Teng (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)

OS007 – Earth System Reanalysis
Primary Convener: Detlef Stammer (University of Hamburg)
Convener: Iuliia Polkova (University of Hamburg)

SY016 – Perspectives on the 2022 UN Conference of Parties (COP) 27
Primary Convener: Julie A Vano (Aspen Global Change Institute)
Conveners: Alexandra Shultz (American Geophysical Union), Julie Brigham-Grette (Univ Massachusetts)

U019 – Climate Change & Climate Action Leadership in Illinois
Primary Convener: Trent Ford (Illinois State Water Survey)
Conveners: Ashish Sharma (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign), Donald J Wuebbles (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)

NG004 – Climate Variability Across Scales and Climate States
Primary Convener: Raphaël Hébert (Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz-Center for Polar and Marine Research Potsdam)
Conveners: Shaun Lovejoy (McGill Univ), Mara Young McPartland (University of Minnesota)
Student/Early Career Convener: Mara Young McPartland (University of Minnesota)

Vacancy Notice: Scientific officer

A new vacancy notice is available on e-recruitment for a new 2-year fixed term position as Scientific Officer at WMO (Atmospheric Environment Research (AER) Division) in Geneva, Switzerland. To find out more see here.

Closing date: 8 August 2022.

Announcement: COSPAR 2022 Awards

COSPAR is happy to announce the winners of its 2022 Awards, to be presented during the 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly in Athens, Greece. COSPAR bestows a number of medals and awards each year – some jointly with other institutions or space agencies – upon endorsed candidates of merit. Scientists who have made an outstanding contribution to space research and are working in any of the fields covered by COSPAR are eligible. The coveted COSPAR Awards are aimed at encouraging space science and exploration research and are an important step to achieve international cooperation in the field. This year’s nominees have come from a wide range of backgrounds and after careful consideration by the Awards Committee, Bureau, and partner organizations the following selection has
been made.


A complete list of citations and a brief description of COSPAR are included in the full press release. Previous citations for honors awarded at COSPAR Assemblies can be found online.


To be presented on 18 July during the 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly
16 – 24 July 2022, Athens, Greece.

Plans for CORDEX downscalings of CMIP now available

The information on CORDEX CMIP6 simulation status is now available.

Regional simulations/downscalings of CMIP that are planned for each domain can be seen at https://wcrp-cordex.github.io/simulation-status/

The simulations status is listed as:

  • Full list of simulations
  • Summary by domain
  • Summary by scenario
  • Summary by experiment

This simulation status platform will be a living site and evolve as simulations are completed, status changed or new simulation plans are added. For additions or updates, please give your input here.