Join a frontier community of open scientists shaping the future of Heliophysics from June 6 -10, 2022 in Vail, Colorado for the 3rd Eddy Cross Disciplinary Symposium. We will convene a diverse and international community spanning the geosciences, astrophysics, data science, and heliophysics with scientists worldwide to answer the question “Why Grand Challenges in Solar Terrestrial Physics Require Open Science?” 

You will have the opportunity to learn from and with an uncommon group across the following high-level topics:

• Open Science Methods: Emerging Open Science Methodologies
• The Interconnection of Sun, Climate, and Society
• Risk and Resiliency to Space Weather Disruption
• (Exo)Planetary Atmosphere: the Impact of Stars and Solar Physics on Habitability and Life

Travel Support for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows

Approximately 10 graduate students and early postdoctoral fellows will be selected through a competitive process organized by the UCAR Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System Science. The Eddy Symposium lasts for five days, and each selected participant will receive full travel support including: registration fees, airline tickets, lodging and per diem costs. Applications are due on Friday, March 25, 2022.

For more information please contact Kendra Greb (UCAR/CPAESS).

Funding for the Symposium is provided by NASA and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). 

For more information and to register, please visit the Symposium website. 

With great pleasure, we wish to inform you that an agreement was signed in July 2021 between the Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), an autonomous Institute under the Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, to host an International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) at IITM.

IMPO is a joint effort by WMO and IITM to help coordinate the global monsoon research activities of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP).

To commemorate the launch of the IMPO, a celebratory event is being held online on 28 February 2022 at 13:00 UTC (18.30 IST), coinciding with the National Science Day in India. The event is being streamed live on IITM’s YouTube channel — see flyer below.

The event will feature brief remarks by the lead stakeholders and a science talk:

• Prof. Dr. Detlef Stammer, Chair, WCRP Joint Scientific Committee
• Dr. Chris Davis, Chair, WWRP Scientific Steering Committee
• Dr. Jitendra Singh, Hon’ble Minister of Earth Sciences, Govt. of India (pre-recorded)
• Dr. M. Ravichandran, Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Earth Sciences
• Dr. Krishnan Raghavan, Director In-charge, IITM
• Prof. C.P. Chang, International monsoon expert, USA (Science Talk)

SPARC is holding its 7^th General Assembly from 24^th to 28^th October 2022. The format of the SPARC GA will be different from past GAs, as it will be on a multi-hub basis with three locations (hubs) confirmed at 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.

Find out more on the SPARC website.

Call for Abstracts now open!

Abstract submissions are now open through an online form (see link below). When you submit an abstract please indicate the scientific theme you would like to present under and which hub you intend to travel to. Overall there will be five scientific themes:New ways of viewing the atmosphere through observations and re-analyses.New understanding of atmospheric composition and variability.Coupling between climate, radiation, and dynamics.How do dynamical processes shape climate variability and trends?Climate prediction from sub-seasonal to decades.Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words and include no figures or other images. Submit your abstract

 Abstract submission closes: 22 May 2022.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Boulder Hub:

• Libby Barnes, Colorado State University, USA.
• Marvin Geller, Stony Brook University, USA.
• Peter Hitchcock, Cornell University, USA.
• Luis Millán, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA.
• Michelle Santee, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA.
• Isla Simpson, NCAR, USA.

Qingdao Hub:

• Suvarna Fadnavis, Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India.
• Masatomo Fujiwara, Hokkaido University, Japan.
• Eun-Pa Lim, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia.

Reading Hub:

• Marie-Lise Chanin, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France.
• Hella Garny, DLR, Germany.
• Marlene Kretschmer, University of Reading, UK.
• Irina Sandu, ECMWF, UK.

Important Dates

➯ Abstract submission: 14 February – 22 May 2022
➯ Travel support requests: 21 February – 30 April 2022
➯ Registrations open: Beginning of May 2022

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