The GEWEX Global Atmospheric System Studies Panel (GASS) will hold its 3rd Pan-GASS Meeting, Understanding and Modeling Atmospheric Processes (UMAP 2022) at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Monterey, CA, USA, from 25-29 July 2022.

UMAP 2022 aims to bring together weather and climate scientists, including both observationalists and modelers, to discuss the key issues of atmospheric science. The program will include all aspects and methods of model development from deterministic numerics to stochastic forcing; process modeling to parametrization; observational constraints to diagnostic techniques; and idealized modeling to operational forecasting and climate predictions. The purpose of the conference is to discuss progress in understanding atmospheric processes and representing them in models, to coordinate current initiatives and make plans for the future.

UMAP 2022 is an in-person meeting. If an in-person meeting is not recommended due to circumstances, UMAP2022 will be postponed to a later date.

For mor Information visit the meeting website.

Call for Abstracts

UMAP 2022 is articulated around four main themes, outlined below. For each of these themes, we are calling for studies relying on process-oriented diagnostics, modeling, and new observational data, applied to enhance our understanding and modeling capabilities of atmospheric processes and their coupling with the surface. The four main themes are:

• Organization of shallow and deep convection
• Surface-atmosphere interactions and the boundary layer
• Cloud systems and associated processes (microphysics, physics, dynamics, radiation)
• Towards global km-scale modeling and Digital Twins of the Earth System

Proposals for potential new community projects are particularly welcomed, including proposing a topic and possible approaches OR proposing specific activities in greater detail.

Detailed information about the Call for Abstracts can be found in Themes and Sessions.

The January 2022 issue of the SPARC newsletter is now available online here.

Enjoy reading through an interesting collection of workshop reports and SPARC science descriptions

In a comprehensive review, the SPARC S-RIP activity has conducted a coordinated intercomparison of reanalysis data sets with respect to key diagnostics. The results can be used to provide guidance on the appropriate use of reanalysis products in scientific studies of relevance to SPARC and beyond.

SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) Final Report can be found here (SPARC Report No. 10).

Edited by SPARC S-RIP activity team: https://www.aparc-climate.org/activities/reanalysis-intercomparison/ and https://s-rip.ees.hokudai.ac.jp/

The European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA) would like to inform you that the General Assembly on 08-09 March 2022 will take place in Brussels, as an in-person meeting.

The event is open to all!

The draft agenda can already be found on the event website: http://ecra-climate.eu/GA22

Registration will be possible from 08 February until 03 March.

Of course, we cannot guarantee any possible last minute changes due to the nature of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, but we will do everything in our power to enable a safe and in-person meeting.

ECRA is looking forward to meeting many of you in person on 8 March!

The event is free of charge. Accommodation and transport is the responsibility of each participant.

All the updates will be posted on the event page.

For any question:

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) supported by EUMETSAT will be holding a conference to assess how the current global climate observing system can be improved to better support current and near-term user needs for climate information. This conference follows on from the first climate observation conference, Global Climate Observation: The Road to The Future held on 2–4 March 2016 in Amsterdam.

The conference will take into account the GCOS Status Report 2021 as well as the GCOS Implementation Plan 2022 (in preparation), which will make recommendations to meteorological networks, ocean and land major observing systems and satellite agencies and will be presented to the UNFCCC in 2022.

A scientific committee is being setup under the leadership of Prof. Sabrina Speich, and an invitation for abstracts will be issued in March 2022. 

Please mark your calendars now for this important conference from 17 to 19 October 2022. We hope that in spite of COVID-19 pandemic the meeting will be held in person, but hybrid options will be considered too. The registration page for the conference will open in March 2022 and more detail on the programme will be available at that time. All information will be made available at our meeting website: https://www.eventsforce.net/gcos-coc

Please also feel free to pass this announcement on to colleagues and contacts who would also be interested in participating. 

In the meantime, if you have any questions related to the conference, do not hesitate to contact us via email: .

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Darmstadt in October!

The WCRP Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) and the CMIP Panel are already working hard in preparation for the next phase of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Specifically, we need to hear from everyone their views on the positive aspects and challenges they faced in CMIP6, and how they would like to see future phases of CMIP structured and delivered.

For that, we are inviting the community to take part in the “CMIP Community next steps survey”.  It is your chance to help us shape the future of CMIP!

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VHK8FJQ

Deadline for completing the survey: 28^th February 2022

We strongly encourage you to share this survey as broadly as you can. We are in particular very keen to have responses from users of the data, from the academic and policy-making world.

For more Information please visit the WCRP website. If you have any questions, please get in touch with Nico Caltabiano () in the WCRP Secretariat.

Thanks for helping us in making CMIP better!

The IPCC is encouraging Experts to participate as Expert Reviewers in the AR6 Synthesis Report Government and Expert Review of the First Order Draft. More information can be found here.

An online registration process has been prepared and is open for prospective Expert reviewers via the IPCC web site. Registration will close on 13 March 2021, one week before the end of the review period:

https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/ar6syr/fod/register.php

The deadline for submission of proposals is extended to January 31 2022.

The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) announces an open call for CliC Fellowships & Grants 2021.

Goal: The goal of CliC fellowships and grants is to increase the engagement of Early Career Scientists in CliC activities and to promote participation of scientists from regions currently underrepresented in CliC, i.e., South America, Asia and Africa.

Objectives: Applications for CliC fellowships and grants shall address CliC´s new vision and objectives as described in the  CliC Strategic Plan 2022-2031.

Proposed activities may include:  

Fellowships:

• Research visits to laboratories, research groups, etc
• Research synthesis, fieldwork or analysis

Grants

• Promotion of best practice protocols on research in cryosphere regions attentive to societal and community needs and expectations
• Educational activities/capacity exchange related to cryosphere research
• Activities to promote leadership and project management skills
• Research/activities to support participation in policy decision processes
• Science communication efforts aimed at policy making
• Dissemination and outreach activities, e.g., production of media pieces about CliC activities, research highlights, etc

Proposals that are motivated by clearly articulated COVID-induced delays or thwarted activities will also be considered.

CliC fellowship and grant awards up to a maximum amount of 20 000 Swiss Francs (CHF) are welcomed. If a strong case is made for a larger grant, it should not exceed 30 000 CHF. Co-funding with other sources is encouraged.

 Timeline: Activities must be completed in 2022.

 Eligibility

• PhD candidates: Applicants should be currently enrolled in a PhD program 
• ECR: those who have obtained a PhD within 7 years by the deadline January 21, 2022. The period excludes career breaks due to parental leave, health issues, etc.
• Applicants from underrepresented nations or regions in CliC, e.g. South America, Asia, Africa
• For fellowships: the visiting facility must differ from the applicant´s country of origin and current country of residence

 Deadline: 31 January 2022 at 13:00 / 1 pm UTC

To apply click here

Jointly with Future Earth and The Earth League, WCRP has been asked to nominate experts to be part of the Editorial Board for the 2022 10 New Insights in Climate Science (NICS).

The 10 NICS became very well known and a paper is being produced out of it every year. To assure that the 10 NICS continue to have the standard and quality that we intent it to have (it does have the WCRP co-ownership) we have to assure that sufficient involvement from WCRP exists, not just in terms of chapter authors, but also in terms of deciding which topics belong into the document. I therefore strongly encourage everybody to consider participating. 10 NICS are being presented at the COP of every year in a well attended press conference and published as a reviewed paper. 

Find out more on the website.

Our upcoming General Assembly is planned for the 8th and 9th March 2022, as an in-person meeting in Brussels.

Keep an open eye for updates on the Agenda and Planning (also in light of COVID) on the event website: http://ecra-climate.eu/GA22