The European Space Agency is pleased to invite you to it’s 2022 Living Planet Symposium. The event, which is held every three years, will take place on 23–27 May 2022 in Bonn, Germany. The symposium is organised with the support of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

This symposium focuses on how Earth observation contributes to science and society, and how disruptive technologies and actors are changing the traditional Earth observation landscape, which is also creating new opportunities for public and private sector interactions.

More details on the event can be found on the ESA website.

Abstracts can be submitted following this link. Deadline for submission is 26th of November 2021.

Of special interest for the SPARC comunity is the Session A1.11 on „Atmospheric Dynamics and Vertical Coupling”:

The vertical coupling of the atmosphere, both in upward and downward direction, has a strong impact on seasonal and interannual weather prediction and long-term climate projection. A multitude of atmospheric waves transport energy and momentum from the troposphere to the stratosphere and mesosphere, where they impact and change large scale circulations and wind patterns (e.g. the stratospheric polar vortex and the mesospheric general circulation). The changes in the middle atmosphere then couple back to the troposphere and influence our surface weather and climate. These vertical upward and downward coupling processes are not yet fully understood and are a topic of many current research projects. For example, the SPARC project explicitly mentions the stratosphere-troposphere coupling as scientific questions of interest.
To get a better picture of these vertical coupling processes, vertically resolved measurements of wind, temperature and trace gas distribution are necessary. Many current (e.g. ESA’s Aeolus, NASA’s Saber) and future (e.g. ESA’s Altius, Cairt, and Wivern) satellite missions provide such vertically resolved measurements. Usually, these satellite missions measure either temperature and trace gas distribution, or wind. It is expected that the combination of wind data with temperature and trace gas distribution measurements would greatly enhance the understanding of vertical coupling in the atmosphere.
We invite contributions on dynamical coupling between troposphere and middle atmosphere. A special focus shall be on new missions and new methods exploiting remote sensing data for atmospheric waves. Studies exploring synergies between the different satellite missions to improve the understanding of vertical coupling in the atmosphere are particularly welcome.

The guest Editors of the journal Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433, *IF*: 2.397),
would like to invite you to submit a research article or a review to the
Special Issue “Dynamics and Chemistry of the Middle and Upper Atmosphere and Its Response to External Forcing—Observations and Models “.

You can find brief information on this Special Issue for download below, while detailed information can be found under this link.

The Guest Editors are: Dr. Stefan Bender, Dr. Yvan Orsolini and Dr. Kristell Pérot

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2022

“Atmosphere” is fully open access with more frequent citations. The median
processing time is less than fourty days. Also we will do free English editing
after the acceptance of your paper. The Article Processing Charges (APC) are
1800 CHF (Swiss Francs). Since you are invited author, we will consider a 20%
discount if you would like to contribute. If you are interested, 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.

If you have any questions, please do feel free to contact the editorial office or Stefan Bender. We hope this topic is of interest to you and look
forward to collaborating with you soon.

We are happy to announce the following event on the COP26 WCRP Pavilion, which will be streamed on the WMO YouTube channel. 

Organizations: WCRP (co-sponsored by WMO, ISC and IOC-UNESCO), Future Earth and IPCC WG1

Speakers/Panellists/Moderator: Valerie Masson-Delmotte, Panmao Zhai, Detlef Stammer, Johan Rockström, Peter Gluckman, Helen Cleugh, Gabi Hegerl, Regina Rodrigues, Bruce Hewitson, Greg Flato, Sabine Fuss

Abstract: Anthropogenic climate change brings many significant challenges and risks that affect almost all aspects of life on Earth. Droughts, heavy rain and flooding, heatwaves, extreme fire weather and coastal inundation are some examples of what is already occurring and where amplified risks and impacts in the future will threaten millions of people around the world with many of the poorest most severely impacted. It also threatens the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  

To reduce such threats, the COP21 Paris Agreement aimed to limit global warming to well below 2C above pre-industrial temperatures, and to pursue efforts to limit warming to 1.5C. This requires a dramatic reduction of emissions of anthropogenic climate forcers, especially a reduction in fossil CO2 emissions. Eventually, all net emissions of anthropogenic climate forcers need to be reduced to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

It now appears increasingly likely that the 1.5C goal will be breached, given current emissions and national commitments. However, any delay in emissions reduction is committing the planet to even further increases in global temperatures and even greater risk of more intense and frequent weather and climate extremes.   Staying below 2.0C requires an unprecedented transformation of societies around the world to reduce emissions as well as a technology revolution. Negative emission technologies are unlikely to be possible at the scale proposed in many scenarios.  The session will discuss risks and consequences of breaching 1.5C warming, and possible transformation pathways that guide decision makers and stakeholders.

The Journey from Scientific insights to Societal Action
Side Session at COP26 is held on 1st November, 11:30 GMT (Glasgow Time) as online presentation

To tackle climate change effectively, it is important that all levels of society have an understanding of climate change, and its risks and impacts. This session takes a journey from new scientific research findings about net-zero futures and climate change impacts, discussing recent developments in communication, education and public engagement, to arrive at policy and action.

To register, visit the conference page here.
More information can be downloaded as pdf below.

The session is a collaboration of:
ECRA – European Climate Research Alliance
EUA – European University Association
CMCC – presenting the COACC, PESETA, and SOCLIMPACT projects
IIASA – International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis – presenting ENGAGE
CPA – Climate Psychology Alliance
KIT – Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

The Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity invites interested researchers to nominate themselves for Working Groups addressing the five lighthouse themes: safe landing pathways; understanding high-risk events; perturbed carbon cycle; water resources; and sea level rise (see the scope and proposed outcomes of each theme on the Safe Landing Climates webpages). 

For an outline of the possible roles and details of how to apply, please see the webpage. 

Applications will be accepted until 8 November 2021. 

Only about one month left to make submissions to the WMO Prize Challenge to Improve Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Predictions Using Artificial Intelligence.

WMO launched the Challenge on 1st June 2021 with the aim to improving, through Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning techniques, the current precipitation and temperature forecasts for 3 to 6 weeks into the future from the best computational fluid dynamic models available today. Monetary prizes will be awarded to the top three teams. If you are interested, do not miss the deadline to make your submissions by 31st October 2021. For more information, please visit the Challenge website.

Please find below a non exaustive list of AGU sessions that will include some presentations relevant to several SPARC activities:

A31HStratospheric Gas and Aerosol Composition Change and Associated Impacts on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate III eLightning
Irina V Petropavlovskikh¹, Sophie Godin-Beekmann², Karen Hepler Rosenlof³, Christopher Maloney¹, Ryan M Stauffer⁴ and Pengfei Yu^5,6, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States(2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France(3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States(4)USRA at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, PA, United States(5)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States(6)Jinan University China, Institute for Environment and Climate Research, Guangzhou, China

Convention Center – eLightning Theater VII: Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 08:00 – 09:15

A33DStratospheric Gas and Aerosol Composition Change and Associated Impacts on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate I Oral
Irina V Petropavlovskikh¹, Sophie Godin-Beekmann², Karen Hepler Rosenlof³ and Christopher Maloney¹, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States(2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France(3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States

Convention Center – Room 283-285: Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 12:45 – 14:00

A34DStratospheric Gas and Aerosol Composition Change and Associated Impacts on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate II Oral
Irina V Petropavlovskikh¹, Sophie Godin-Beekmann², Karen Hepler Rosenlof³, Christopher Maloney¹ and Martin Ross⁴, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States(2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France(3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States(4)The Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Convention Center – Room 283-285: Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 14:30 – 15:45

A35QStratospheric Gas and Aerosol Composition Change and Associated Impacts on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate IV Poster
Irina V Petropavlovskikh¹, Sophie Godin-Beekmann², Karen Hepler Rosenlof³, Christopher Maloney¹, Ryan M Stauffer⁴, Pengfei Yu^5,6 and Martin Ross⁷, (1)Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States(2)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France(3)NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States(4)USRA at NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, PA, United States(5)CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States(6)Jinan University China, Institute for Environment and Climate Research, Guangzhou, China(7)The Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Convention Center – Poster Hall, D-F: Wednesday, 15 December 2021, 16:00 – 18:00

AP25: Progress in Reanalysis: Development, Evaluation, and Application

Poster Session

We are happy to announce that the archive of CCMI-2022 model data is now available to the community. More information on how to gain access to the archive can be found on the CCMI website at http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/ccmi/ccmi-2022_archive/

Note that to help us keep track of what analyses are being performed by different groups, we ask you to register for access and provide us with a short description of the analysis you plan. You will also be asked to agree to the conditions of the Restricted Use General Licence, which is meant to formulate the conditions of access during Phase 1 of the project as described in the CCMI data policy. This is the usual conditions of requiring an offer of co-authorship to representatives of modelling groups if you use their data for a publication within the first 18 months of the data being made available. The CCMI data policy can be viewed at http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/ccmi/files/2021/08/CCMI-2022_data_policy.pdf

Much of the model data currently available is for the historical refD1 experiment (1960 – 2018), though scenario simulations are available for a couple of models. We are expecting both refD1 outputs from a couple of additional models and additional scenario simulations in the coming weeks. You can easily browse the current state of the archive through https://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/ccmi/data/post-cmip6/ccmi-2022

Thanks again to the many people who have been volunteering their efforts to get things this far. We look forward to a lot of interesting science coming out of these simulations.

The Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES), a global research network of Future Earth, is accepting applications to serve on the AIMES scientific steering committee (SSC). AIMES is an international network of Earth system scientists and scholars that seeks to develop innovative, interdisciplinary ways to understand the complex relationship between the natural world and human activities.

AIMES activities are initiated, advanced, and/or overseen by the SSC. Ideal candidates for the steering committee will be highly motivated individuals willing to serve in this volunteer position with a specific interest in fostering and supporting international, interdisciplinary initiatives in the Earth System Sciences. 

For more information and to see the general tasks of AIMES SSC members please see here.

Three to four SSC positions are available, with an anticipated start date of January 1, 2022.

To apply, please send a statement of interest and CV to  by November 1, 2021.

Please click here to learn more about AIMES or to apply.

We are pleased to inform you that the organization of the 44^th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) has entered its final year of preparation. COSPAR Athens 2022 will be held in Athens, Greece, on July 16-24, 2022, at the  Megaron Athens International Conference Center.

The objectives of COSPAR Assemblies are invariably “to promote on an international level scientific research in space, with emphasis on the exchange of results, information and opinions and to provide a forum, open to all scientists, for the discussion of problems that may affect scientific space research”. The Science Program Committee (SPC) and the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for COSPAR Athens 2022 remain committed to fulfilling these objectives and invite the world’s scientific community to participate in this truly global biennial event, alternating between continents from one to the next. 

We are planning on the physical participation of global attendees and accompanying persons, aiming to organize one of the first in-person, large-scale and top-level scientific meetings in the post-Covid era. One can hardly miss the symbolism of this happening in Greece, the cradle of astronomy and scientific reasoning.

As per the above, we are excited to forward to you the attached COSPAR Athens 2022 Sponsorship Booklet that includes all sponsorship opportunities available for the event. Through these, you have an opportunity to

• Interact face to face with top professionals in space research
• Deliver product and service demonstrations, expanding your prospect base and generating new sales leads
• Build visibility for your company in a competitive, steadily expanding marketplace
• Maximize your exposure within the scientific and space technology communities
• Target new customers and rebuild existing relationships
• Increase awareness and recognition of your brand
• Target and interact with highly influential decision makers and opinion leaders

For additional information and/or clarifications, you may contact directly the COSPAR 2022 LOC/Assembly On-site Secretariat and Professional Congress Organizer (AFEA) at

We profoundly value your support and presence as a Sponsor, as we firmly believe that the success of this event relies significantly on a vibrant group of motivated and creative sponsors accompanying the scientific and technological state-of-the-art to be presented in the Assembly’s framework.