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102nd AMS Annual Meeting – Abstract Deadline Extended

The 102nd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting will be held on 23–27 January 2022 in Houston, Texas.

The meeting will be in person with some virtual components. More information can be found on the AMS 2022 website. Information on registration rates are available here .

The abstract submission deadline is 8 September 2021.

A number of conferences of interest to the SPARC community have been organised for this meeting. The following is a non-exhaustive list:

21st Conference on Middle Atmosphere

35th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

24th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

10th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability

Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems

8 – 10 February 2022, online

We are pleased to announce that the Risk KAN Working Group on Modeling and Insurance is organizing a virtual workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems in February 2022. We have several high level keynote speakers and welcome abstract submissions for the 3 main topics:

  • Systemic Risks
  • Advances in Modeling Socio-Economic Impacts
  • Resilience and Adaptation

For more information and for submitting an abstract, please visit:

Workshop on Understanding and Modeling Complex Risks in Coupled Human-Environment Systems – Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (risk-kan.org) 

We look forward to your contribution to the workshop! 

Kind regards,

Alessio Ciullo, Jana Sillmann, Jürgen Scheffran and Christian Franzke

Understanding mitigation in the climate security nexus webinar, Thursday 26 August

Could climate action hinder peace and security?

Climate security webinar | Thursday 26 August | 4-5pm CET

Don’t miss your last chance to register for the latest live discussion on climate security from the CGIAR. Our latest climate security webinar series – moderated by Mark Leon Goldberg of the Global Dispatch podcast – which runs throughout the lead-up to COP26, brings together leading thinkers to unpack the causes and links between climate, security and conflict.

On Thursday, we ask if climate action harms peacebuilding and security. In an underdeveloped area of analysis this webinar will explore how efforts to mitigate climate change impact and influence security.

We’re excited to welcome as our host Lini Wollenberg, Flagship Leader, Low-Emissions Development, CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and welcome back Mark Leon Goldberg as moderator.

Register now

Stream it live from 4pm CET this coming Thursday on YouTube or LinkedIn, and ask our speakers your questions directly by simply typing them into the comment box under the livestream.  

Stream on YouTube

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Explore CGIAR’s research on climate security

Job Opportunity: Head of climate group at physikalisch-Meteorologische Observatorium Davos und World Radiation Center

The „Physikalisch-Meteorologische Observatorium Davos und World Radiation Center“ (PMOD/WRC) is advertising for the position of head of the climate group, who will continue and develop research into the Earth’s system and upper atmosphere modeling. PMOD/WRC is a research institute and international calibration center focused on meteorological solar radiation and imaging measurements. In our function as the World Radiation Centre, we ensure the worldwide standardization of solar irradiation measurements and maintain several groups of reference instruments. A substantial part of our activity also relates to study of atmospheric aerosol, ozone layer, terrestrial climate, Sun’s activity and space weather. A team of about 50 employees conducts research and designs and builds instruments (both for ground and space) at PMOD/WRC, which is situated in the highest alpine city and has a research history going back more than 100 years (www.pmodwrc.ch).

Application deadline is 29 October 2021. Full description and more information can be found here.

2nd Climate Observation Conference is postponed

We regret to announce that the second Climate Observation Conference is postponed.

In the coming months, we will be working towards a new event format which allows experts from around the world to fully engage and interact, with the prospect of holding the Conference in 2022.

We sincerely thank those who have put time and effort into their registration and we apologise for this delay. We are contacting those who submitted an abstract: their contributions will be considered for the new conference.

The new date of the Climate Conference will be announced in due time on this website.

We encourage you to join us then and look forward to seeing you all there, stay tuned!!!

Submit your abstract to the AGU fall meeting until 4th August 2021

The American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting 2021 will be held New Orleans, Louisiana and online everywhere. Abstract submission is open until 4th August 2021 — here

A number of SPARC-related sessions have been organised for this year’s fall AGU meeting
Abstract submission deadline: 4th August 2021

The following is a non-exhaustive list:

A031 Causes and Consequences of Polar Amplification

Lantao Sun, Colorado State University, Department of Atmospheric Science, Fort Collins, CO, US, James Screen, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom, Yutian Wu, Columbia University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Palisades, NY, United States and Qinghua Ding, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States.

A051 Extratropical and High-latitude Storm Tracks, Circulation Dynamics, and Extreme Events in the Context of Rapidly Changing Arctic and Antarctic Climate

Xiangdong Zhang, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, Kent Moore, Univ Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada and James E Overland, NOAA Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States.

A052 Extratropical large-scale atmospheric circulation variability

Aditi Sheshadri, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States, Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States, Paul J Kushner, University of Toronto, Physics, Toronto, ON, Canada and Ding Ma, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States.

A059 General Session: Atmospheric Chemistry & Composition

Joost A de Gouw, University of Colorado, CIRES and Department of Chemistry, Boulder, CO, United States and Anne M Thompson, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States.

A067 Jetstream Dynamics, Atmospheric Rossby Waves and Associated Extreme Weather and Climate Events

Rachel H White, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Kai Kornhuber, Columbia University, Earth Institute/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, New York, United States, Haiyan Teng, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States and Pedram Hassanzadeh, Rice University, Houston, TX, United States.

A100: Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Prediction, Processes, and Services

Andrew William Robertson, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, Arun Kumar, NOAA/NCEP, College Park, MD, United States, Kathleen Pegion, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, United States and Zhuo Wang, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, United States.

A103 The Dynamics of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in Past, Present, and Future Climate: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons

Lei Wang, Purdue University, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, Isla Simpson, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States, Gang Chen, University of California Los Angeles, Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States and Simona Bordoni, University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

A110 Understanding Climate and Ozone Impacts From Anthropogenic and Natural Stratospheric Aerosol Emissions Through Observational and Modeling Studies

Christopher Maloney, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States; Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Karen Hepler Rosenlof, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Pengfei Yu, Jinan University China, Institute for Environment and Climate Research, Guangzhou, China and Martin Ross, The Aerospace Corporation Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States.

New assessment report by the SPARC S-RIP activity available as early-online release

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.

Find SPARC Report No. 10,

SPARC Reanalysis Intercomparison Project (S-RIP) Final Report

This report is an early online release of the final report of the SPARC S-RIP Activity. This version has been reviewed in a blind peer-review process, and type-setting has been done to produce this early version of the report. To finalise the report, editorial work needs to be completed, which will **not change the contents** of the report.

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

Submit your abstract to the 102nd AMS Annual Meeting until 1 September 2021

The 102nd Americal Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting will be held on 23–27 January 2022 in Houston, TX.

The meeting will be in person with some virtual components. More information will become available on the AMS 2022 website (https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2022/) during this month. Registration rates will be posted in mid-July. The abstract submission deadline is 1 September 2021.

Please find the Call for Papers and the Student Award opportunities, including travel grants, on the MA Conference webpage (https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2022/program-events/conferences-and-symposia/21st-conference-on-middle-atmosphere/).

A number of conferences of interest to the SPARC community have been organised for this meeting. The following is a non-exhaustive list:

21st Conference on Middle Atmosphere

35th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

24th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry

10th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability

Four new WCRP/CORDEX Flagship Pilot Studies

In 2016 CORDEX Flagship Pilot Studies (FPSs) were established with the aim of improving the capability of the models in reproducing regional climate features and producing actionable information for impact studies. FPSs are intended to specifically tackle scientific questions for any given region of the world for which current RCMs are still unable to reproduce the regional climate features adequately.

The FPSs focus on extreme events with large socioeconomic impacts and can for example handle intensive rain, droughts, floods and heatwaves.

Current FPSs defined by CORDEX are summarised in a recently published CORDEX newsletter, as well as on the CORDEX webpage.

Prize Challenge to improve Sub-seasonal to Seasonal Predictions using Artificial Intelligence

Improved sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) forecasts could enhance food security, the sustainable management of energy and water resources, and reduce disaster risk by providing earlier warnings for natural hazards.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has launched a competition to improve, 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.

All the codes and scripts will be hosted at Renkulab, developed by the Swiss Data Science Center, and training and verification data will be accessible from the European Weather Cloud and IRI Data Library. Data access scripts will be provided. After the competition, open access will be provided to all the codes and results.

Timeline

  • Open since: 1st June 2021
  • Closes: 31st October 2021
  • Winners announced: Early February 2022

Prizes for the top three submissions

  • Winning team: CHF 15 000
  • Second team: CHF 10 000
  • Third team: CHF 5 000

Competition websitehttps://s2s-ai-challenge.github.io/

This challenge is part of the Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Prediction Project (S2S Project), coordinated by the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP)/World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), in collaboration with the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

To get the announcement, click here.