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).
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.
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.
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!
Deadline for completing the survey: 28th 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.
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:
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
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.
Updated information about the upcoming Climate Coffee talks, and invite to join:
Neven Fuckar – On land and population exposure to heatwaves in a changing climate Dim Coumou – Is global warming making summer circulation more persistent?
Erik Kusch – Climate Data Pipelines – Efficient Data Retrieval and Processing
We are pleased to announce that the next ECRA (European Climate Research Alliance) General Assembly will be held from 8 to 9 March 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. This meeting has been postponed from 10-11 March 2021.
Conference theme will be “Extreme events under climate change – understanding, communicating, and managing the risks“.
This meeting is open to all and more information can be found here.
