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

See our website http://ecra-climate.eu/ClimateCoffee for more information, and register for updates at http://eepurl.com/hRIWdb .

We are welcoming new speakers, so please contact us if you want to present your work!

The Climate Coffees are co-organised by ECRA and BlueAction.

For questions:

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.

Rutgers University–New Brunswick

The Department of Environmental Sciences (DES) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in environmental engineering working at the interface of atmospheric science, air quality, and sustainability, with a focus on local and regional air quality issues related to atmospheric conditions and climate change. The successful candidate is expected to
(1) develop an innovative, vigorous, and externally-funded research program and (2) teach existing or new undergraduate or graduate courses in air quality modeling, air pollution control systems, instrumental methods and design, or other courses in our ABET-accredited Environmental Engineering program relevant to research interests. Rutgers-New Brunswick hosts one of the most diverse student bodies in the United
States. Our institutional commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), including our priority of diversifying our faculty ranks, is outlined in the Rutgers DEI strategic plan (https://diversity.rutgers.edu/university-plan). We especially encourage applications from backgrounds underrepresented in environmental engineering including Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ scientists or engineers.

We know many of you are participating in-person or remotely in the 2021 AGU conference. We would love to connect with you at this conference! 

In-person
The IGAC Director Langley DeWitt and IGAC co-chair Jim Crawford will be at the Convention Center  Poster Hall in Pod 2 from 15:30-16:00 CST on Tuesday, 14 December and 16:00-16:30 CST on Thursday, 16 December. Come join us at the pod to chat about international atmospheric chemistry! 

Additionally, if you see either of us around in New Orleans, please say hi!!

Online
Zoom rooms will be open for chatting at the same time as the in-person pods. If you feel like it, pop in and say hello virtually! 

15:30-16:00 CST (UTC -6) Tuesday, 14 December:  
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96794499945
16:00-16:30 CST (UTC – 6) Thursday, 16 December:
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95968184970

On social media
Please tweet us @igacproject if you would like us to highlight your #atmoschem related presentations at AGU on twitter!

Wishing everyone at AGU an inspiring, fun, productive, and safe conference. 

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 observations 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 28 November – 1 December 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

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 next year!

We are happy to announce two SPARC relevant session at the next EGU 2022, 3-8 April, Vienna.

Deadline for submitting related abstracts to these sessions is 05 January 2022!

First session:
AS3.6: The role of the middle atmosphere in a changing climate:  circulation, composition changes and radiative feedbacks

Convener: Mohamadou Diallo
Co-conveners: Gabriel Chiodo, William Ball, Birgit Hassler, James Keeble
Link

Abstract: Anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases and ozone depleting substances have caused substantial changes in the chemical composition of the middle atmosphere that, in turn, can influence tropospheric processes. Increasing greenhouse gas levels are expected to modify the stratospheric amount of key radiatively active gases, such as water vapor, ozone and stratospheric aerosols through changes in the stratospheric Brewer-Dobson circulation (BDC). Changes in stratospheric ozone can in turn affect the biosphere (via e.g. changes in UV exposure) and feed back on surface climate via their influence on Earth’s radiative budget. In addition, long-term changes in the ozone layer (e.g. ozone hole and recovery) are known to influence the tropospheric circulation and may be further coupled to a variety of Earth system feedbacks, which are to date poorly understood.

We welcome abstracts which explore composition changes and resulting radiative impacts and feedbacks on the tropospheric and stratospheric circulation as well as on surface weather and climate. Abstracts may address these issues on time-scales encompassing inter-annual to centennial timescales as well as impacts ranging from the tropics to poles. In particular, new studies on the influence of stratospheric ozone and composition on weather and climate are of interest. Research might also concern long-term ozone trends (depletion and recovery), as well as water vapor changes and volcanic aerosol impact in the stratosphere. We welcome contributions using chemistry-climate and Earth system models such as the new Chemistry Climate Model Initiative (CCMI-2) and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6), observations, as well as contributions using novel statistical approaches (e.g. Machine, causal inference) to gain insights into composition changes, related feedbacks and theoretical studies.

Second session:
AS3.7:  Dynamics and chemistry of the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS)

Convener: Felix Ploeger
Co-conveners: Tanja Schuck, Hella Garny, Harald Boenisch, Daniel Kunkel
Link

Abstract: The composition of the upper troposphere and the lower stratosphere (UTLS) plays a key role in the climate system. Our understanding of the interactions between dynamics, chemistry and climate in this region is rapidly advancing thanks to both observational and modelling studies. In this session we invite studies of dynamical, transport and chemical processes determining the variability and long-term trends in the composition of the UTLS, and related impacts on radiation and dynamics. This particularly includes studies of upper and middle stratospheric as well as of tropospheric dynamics and chemistry affecting the UTLS. We encourage studies bringing together recent in situ and/or remote sensing observations and model simulations of different complexity (e.g., comprehensive climate models, chemistry transport models, idealized and conceptual models)

MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is pleased to announce a Special Issue on “Dynamics and Chemistry of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere and Its Response to External Forcing—Observations and Models” in Atmosphere

[Atmosphere – IF 2.686]

Dr. Stefan Bender, Dr. Yvan Orsolini and Dr. Kristell Pérot are serving as Guest Editors. Given your expertise in this field, we warmly welcome you to submit a manuscript.

Keywords: mesosphere; thermosphere; solar-terrestrial physics; solar activity; external forcing; particle precipitation; whole-atmosphere models; sudden stratospheric warming; middle-atmosphere dynamics; atmospheric tides; atmospheric gravity waves; planetary waves.

The submission deadline is 31 January 2022. Detailed Special Issue and published paper information can be found here.

Atmosphere is fully open access with more frequent citations. The median processing time is less than forty days. The Article Processing Charge

(APC) of the journal is 1800 CHF, please note that for papers submitted after 31 December 2021, an APC of 2000 CHF applies (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/apc).

For early submissions before 31 December 2021, we will be glad to provide 600 CHF APC special discounts. If you are interested in contributing, please send us a short abstract or tentative title in advance for initial checking, and an expected submission date for our reference.

Or you can upload the information of your abstract to the following link.

Thank you for your consideration. Please contact us if you have any questions or suggestions. We look forward to hearing from you.

The iCACGP-IGAC2022 conference is being planned as a hybrid conference, with an in-person conference in Manchester, UK and held globally virtually 11-15 September 2022 . We believe that a hybrid format is the most equitable way to ensure that scientists from around the world can participate. We wish to develop a hybrid conference format that works for the community and carry this model forward after COVID-19 has waned. In-person interactions are important to community growth in IGAC and we will continue to support in-person events, but we hope to leverage new virtual tools for communication so that all atmospheric chemists can be mindful of their travel footprint and allow more scientists to fully participate in IGAC. 

We are a community-led organization and are always very grateful for feedback on how we can better serve atmospheric chemistry. For that reason, we are seeing input on hybrid conference formats. 

Please fill in the survey on conference logistics and hybrid conference format here if you have time.

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  DRAFT 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). 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 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

Apply here until 21st of January 2022 at 13:00 (1 pm) UTC.

Make a difference! Be part of the scientific or the organizing committee for the next ICRCC-CORDEX conference! Send your self-nomination to before 31 December 2021. The preparation of the next ICRC-CORDEX conference has just started and to ensure an effective process we need to set up a scientific committee and an overall organizing committee. The conference will take place during 2023, tentatively late spring/early summer, and will probably be in a hybrid format, possibly featuring regional hubs, with both in-person and remote/on-line participation. CORDEX aims to develop and provide detailed, regional climate information necessary for vulnerability, impact and adaptation studies at local and regional levels. CORDEX is working to meet the increasing need for reliable regional climate information communicated in a manner enabling effective impact and adaptation planning. Some of the topics that will be highlighted at the next International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC)- CORDEX will be extracted from the CORDEX White Papers and Science Plan, including further development of regional climate as well as impacts and applications. The conference will also provide a platform for scientists and users from all parts of the globe to meet and advance capacity development, training and knowledge exchange as well as to build new and enhance existing co-operations. The scientific committee will be tasked with proposing the main theme as well as details of the conference program; sessions, important partners/speakers, side events and more – all in close cooperation with the organizing committee. The organizing committee will be in charge of the administration such as settling venue(s), handling website and registrations, contact with participants and speakers and close cooperation with the scientific committee. Hope you want to contribute! Please don’t hesitate to contact the International Project Office for CORDEX (IPOC) at and volunteer for the scientific committee and/or the organizing committee.