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The abstract submission deadline for the 9th Global Energy and Water Exchanges Open Science Conference has been extended to 19 February 2024! Submit your abstract here! |
Dates: 7–12 July 2024 Location: Sapporo, Japan Join us in beautiful Sapporo, Japan, in July to address the challenges facing humanity in terms of freshwater availability and associated disaster risk reduction and sustainable development in the context of climate change and human activities. The
conference will celebrate over 30 years of GEWEX research and the strong role of the Japanese research community, and will set the stage for the next phase of research addressing the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) main challenges on water resources, extremes and climate sensitivity through observations and data sets, their
analyses, process studies, model development and exploitation, applications, technology transfer to operational use, and research capacity development and training for the next generation of scientists worldwide. |
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Dates: July 4–6, 2024, with a Space Agency Event on July 7 Location: Sapporo, Japan The Young Earth System Scientists ( YESS), American Geophysical Union Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee ( AGU H3S), and the Japanese Early Career Researcher (ECR) community, with the support of GEWEX and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), is organizing a three-day workshop on Extremes in the water cycle and risks to society: Understanding ‘actionable’ information in hydroclimate research. The meeting will be held between July 4–6, 2024, with a Space
Agency Day on July 7, before the 9th GEWEX Open Science Conference (July 7–12, 2024), in Sapporo, Japan. This will be a working meeting designed to provide feedback for the GEWEX OSC 2024 and to produce a white paper describing the ECR perspective on research challenges and opportunities related to three overarching topics: - Extremes in the water cycle and risks to society
- Understanding “actionable” information in hydroclimate
research
- Emergent issues: AI/ML applications in the water-energy nexus & Climate Intervention in the Water and Energy Cycle
To apply for the workshop, you need to register for the 2024 GEWEX Science Conference, and during your registration, you will be asked whether you would like to apply for the workshop. Select "yes" to move forward with your application. |
Lessons Learned from the Updated GEWEX Cloud Assessment Database Look out for an article from Claudia Stuebenrauch et al. on "Lessons learned from the updated GEWEX Cloud Assessment database" in Surveys in Geophysics. The updated Cloud Assessment database is being prepared by the French data center AERIS. The article article will also appear as a chapter in the book "Earth's changing water and energy cycle" of
the Space Science Series, initiated during a workshop held at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in Sep 2022. |
The recently-developed Drought Atlas of India portal, which can provide information on past droughts during 1901–2021, is now available at https://indiadroughtatlas.in/. The Drought Atlas of India provides time series of average
Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) over India to assess drought occurrences during the summer monsoon season, winter monsoon, water year, and calendar year during 1901–2020. |
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The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is calling for nominations for membership of its Joint Scientific Committee (JSC). Initial terms are for four years, starting January 2025. The JSC is the highest-level steering committee of WCRP and an inclusive source of leadership for international climate research. Its membership
includes world-leading scientists from around the world, representing a wide range of disciplines with relevance to WCRP’s work, both from the natural and social sciences. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2024. |
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An overview of Calls for Papers can be found on GEWEX.org.
Dates: 2–7 June 2024 2024
Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 February 2024 An International workshop on Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions and Prediction of Monsoon weather EXtremes (STIPMEX) will foster all observational/modeling aspects of the stratosphere-troposphere coupling processes
and extreme weather events associated with the Asian summer monsoon. The workshop will provide a platform for discussions on dynamical, chemical, radiative, and convective processes of the atmosphere during the Asian summer monsoon. |
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Dates: 7–11 May 2024
Location: Tianjin, China Abstract Submission Deadline: 16 February 2024 The 4th International Soil Modeling Consortium (ISMC) Conference aims to integrate and advance the observation, data collection and simulation of soil systems, mainly through the following
methods: - Bringing together experts and scholars who simulate soil processes in various major soil disciplines
- Solving descriptions: there are significant scientific gaps in key soil processes and their contribution to different functions and ecosystem services
- Promoting the integration of soil modeling with other disciplines (such as climate, land surface processes, ecology, hydrology and other
models)
- Carrying out comparative studies of soil models at different scales (such as regional to global scales)
- Integrating soil and other data platforms to build soil models
- Integrating social and environmental factors into soil and ecosystem functions
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Dates: 3–6 June 2024 Location: Boston, MA, USA Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 March 2024 This 4-day conference will focus on the following topics, considering process and climate studies, and models and observations across a range of scales: - Convective organization
- Cloud
processes
- Clouds-circulation coupling
- Climate feedbacks and sensitivity
- Energy Imbalance
Please use this google form to submit your abstract for the meeting by 1 March 2024: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScZ4CLuYXwTUAGdcUjtiptkEh6gKUojVJ1O-QOFCdlz24J22w/viewform. |
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Dates: 18–20 June 2024
Location: University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
Abstract Submission Deadline: 5 March 2024 The 5th Workshop on Physics-Dynamics Coupling in Weather and Climate Models (PDC24) is a three-day workshop bringing together scientists who have an interest in discussing and improving
process coupling in geophysical modeling. The PDC24 workshop will provide a forum to share experiences and ideas on the following topics: - Conceptual issues in model or process formulation, including conservation and consistency.
- Discretization of individual processes and process interactions.
- Solution sensitivity to static or dynamic adaptation in spatial and temporal resolutions.
- Test strategies, results, and intercomparisons.
- Optimization,
algorithmic efficiency and high-performance computing.
- Coupling physical models to AI/ML emulators – opportunities and challenges.
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Dates: 13–16 February 2024 Location: Honolulu, HI, USA In the past decade, there have been unprecedented changes in the fields of sensor technology, satellite missions, modeling, and applications to benefit society. Massive amounts of data are available and can be ingested into data assimilation models to
better understand the influence of any particular part of the water cycle. This Chapman Conference aims to explore a number of interesting questions: what is the role of scientists in this mix? Which science questions have been answered in this past decade and what are the next decade’s pressing questions? How do we further connect the business of water with the researchers of water? This conference aims to bring together these groups to build further collaborations and foster new ideas that
will meaningfully contribute to society in the decades to come. |
Dates: 12–13 March 2024 Location: Offenbach, Germany The Workshop on Global Precipitation Monitoring in a Joint European Effort marks the restart of a jointly-hosted workshop series held between 2014 and 2017. The objective of the earlier workshop series was to assess the feasibility of generating a satellite-based global
precipitation climate data record (CDR) and to consolidate scientific and technical questions regarding the major building blocks of such a precipitation CDR. It was and still is consensus that this is a major endeavor and needs to be pursued in a joint European effort. The workshop in March 2024 brings together experts in the field and aims at defining priorities on future efforts and (new) cooperations. It is also an element of topical workshops organized by CM SAF to
address various aspects regarding the Earth’s energy and water cycles. |
Dates: 13–15 March 2024 Location: Boulder, CO, USA This workshop will bring together a diverse, interdisciplinary group of researchers from different Earth science communities with an interest in comparing observed and modeled trends to achieve the following two principal goals: - Take stock of the ability of models
to capture recent trends and to answer the following questions: What are we getting right? What are we getting wrong? What have we not yet paid enough attention to and where might surprises lie?
- Identify research challenges and new directions moving forward, including both scientific and methodological questions.
The 3-day meeting will be hybrid, with participants convening in person at the NCAR Mesa Lab in Boulder and online. For detailed information and to register, click
here. |
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Dates: 13–17 May 2024
Location: Jūrmala, Latvia From 13–17 May 2024, the 5 th Baltic Earth Conference will be held in Jūrmala near Rīga, Latvia. New challenges for Earth system research in the Baltic Sea region will be presented, while some challenges will be modified and continued. An updated
Baltic Earth Science Plan for the years ahead will be presented. Contributions will be arranged into sessions which are based on the topics listed here. |
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Dates: 27–30 May 2024
Location: Norrköping, Sweden The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s Impact Workshop series is an important quadrennial venue for providing science evidence on the impacts of surface- and space-based observing systems, on short- to medium- and longer-range forecasting including climate monitoring. During
this upcoming 8th Workshop, participants will continue to focus on assessing the impacts of various observing systems in all Earth system domains on numerical weather prediction (NWP), but the scope will be extended to encompass the impact assessment of the various observing systems to other Earth system applications. The list of scientific questions that the Workshop will attempt to address is available here. |
Dates: 23–28 June 2024
Location: Pyeongchang-gun, South Korea The annual convention of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS) provides a unique opportunity to exchange scientific knowledge and discuss important geoscientific issues among academia, research institutions, and the public. Please see below some sessions that
may be of interest to the GEWEX community. - HS05 – The Third Pole Environment and High Mountains of Central Asia - Hydrometeorological Processes and Human Dimension
- HS15 – Challenges in Hydrologic Modeling
- HS24 – Climate Variability and Its Impact on River Hydrology: Observational and Model Based Studies
- HS27 – Advances in Projecting the Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of Model Parameters in Hydro-meteorological Forecasting
- HS37 – Advances in
Understanding Terrestrial Water Cycle: Integrating Data and Models
- AS04 – The Asian Monsoon and Climate Change
- AS11 – Extreme Events: Observations and Modeling
- AS23 – Land-atmosphere Interaction and Climate Predictability
- AS26 – Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) and Longer Time Scale Precipitation Predictability and Prediction Associated with Land Surface Processes
- AS37 – Application of Regional and Cloud-resolving Model Simulations for Studying Cloud and
Precipitation Processes in Climate
- AS43 – Subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) Forecasts and Applications
- AS61 – Tropical Pacific Climate Variability and Change: Dynamics, Teleconnections, Impacts, and Projections
- AS65 – Regional Climate Downscaling and CORDEX: Challenges and Prospects
- AS66 – Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation, Precipitation, and Their Interactions
- AS69 – Advances in Coupled Atmosphere-land-hydrology Modeling and Practices
- AS72 – Extreme Events:
Predictability, Attribution, and Future Projection
- AS80 – Global Precipitation Measurement and Future Missions
- AS87 – Boundary Layer Exchange Processes and Climate Change
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Dates: 28 October–1 November 2024
Location: Tokyo, Japan The Sixth WCRP International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR6) will take place in Tokyo from 28th October to 1st November 2024 under initiatives from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the Japan Meteorological Agency, and “Climate change actions
with co-creation powered by Regional weather information and E-technology” (ClimCORE). ICR6 will bring together reanalysis producers, observation data providers, numerical modelers, and members of the user community to discuss progress, challenges, and future priorities in the field. The ultimate aim is to guide the development and use of reanalysis data in science, public services, policy making and social/economic activity. |
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Dates: 1–19 July 2024 Location: Trieste, Italy
Application Deadline: 8 April 2024 The school will summarize the current understanding of convection using new tools such as km-resolution (k-scale) global and regional convection-permitting models and the latest generation satellite observations. It will address questions such
as how deep and shallow convection organize in k-scale models; whether energy budgets can help understand their precipitation biases; and what the recent advances are in convective parameterization. The school will involve a combination of introductory and advanced lecture material and a week of hands-on data analysis in participant projects, with the opportunity to attend the 4th edition of the established conference on convective organization (WCO4) in the 2nd week. |
Application Deadline: 11 February 2024 The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW) seeks a postdoctoral researcher to further develop and apply the IOW Regional Climate System Model (IOW-RCSM) for the Baltic Sea region, in close collaboration with other scientists and scientific programmers at the department. The
objective is to examine how the physical processes have changed in coastal and marginal seas like the Baltic Sea in the course of decades to millennia. |
Two Research Associate Positions in Climate Physics Application Deadline: 20 February 2024 Two 2-year postdoctoral positions in Climate Physics are available at Imperial College London, with a focus on climate feedbacks and climate dynamics. There is some flexibility in the research goals. Possible areas include developing observational constraints on cloud and non-cloud feedbacks;
investigating the two-way coupling between the radiation budget and climate responses; and developing new theoretical frameworks to understand the climate response to external forcing. Find links to the positions here: |
Application Deadline: 26 February 2024 The successful candidate will undertake research into ground-breaking and ambitious modeling and data assimilation (DA) of the representation of the dynamic soil-vegetation continuum within ECMWF’s land surface model and DA system, ECLand. A shortened list of the main duties and responsibilities
can be found below: - Research on processes and process chains that deliver to the ambition of increasing skill in NWP, with a focus on scales at which new observations and state-of-the art numerical simulations are more directly comparable
- Develop and test new approaches in numerical simulation
- Research on developing new data assimilation techniques that are capable of improved land-atmosphere coupling
- Specifically, explore ML-based observation operators
that inform the derivation of soil hydro-thermal and vegetation parameters in the ECMWF ECLand DA system
- Actively engage with the latest theory and modeling of the soil-plant hydraulic system
- Develop, test, and evaluate the ECLand DA system with updated soil and vegetation parameters, at a range of spatio-temporal scales
- Produce and analyze subsequent medium-range coupled land-atmosphere NWP experiments to assess the impact of updated land parameters
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Application Deadline: 26 February 2024 The University of Reading is seeking six Postdoctoral Research Scientists to join the Advancing the Frontiers of Earth System Prediction (AFESP) research program. AFESP is a new research program that aims to enhance our capabilities in global data assimilation, simulation, and analysis, and will
deliver a new class of accurate, reliable, and usable forecasts, aiming to redefine the medium-range predictability limit from two to at least four weeks, enabling a wide range of new scientific and societal applications. |
Application Deadline: 1 March 2024 The Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science (EOAS) at Florida State University seeks two highly motivated postdoctoral research associates to conduct research in the area of atmospheric convection and climate in the tropics. Position 1 – Convective
Organization:
The successful candidate will analyze radar data and other field observations, and conduct and analyze cloud-resolving model simulations to investigate the importance of radiative processes to mesoscale convective organization, process relationships between precipitation, humidity, and convective organization, and/or other topics of mutual interest related to organization of convection and utilizing ORCESTRA data. Position 2 – Moist
Thermodynamics
The successful candidate will develop and apply novel observational approaches to study the entropy budget of the tropical atmosphere, by combining SEA-POL radar observations of the three-dimensional precipitation field with radiosonde data and high-resolution idealized simulations. |
Application Deadline: Interviews by videoconference are expected to take place in February 2024 The "Team Leader - Land Modeling" position at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) will be responsible for land and hydrology modeling and therefore one of the main components of ECMWF's Weather Forecast system.
The role is essential to maintain the leading role of ECMWF in global numerical weather predictions from medium-range to seasonal time scales, and the work will have immediate and substantial impact on the quality of ECMWF's operational weather predictions. The successful candidate will lead a team of highly skilled and motivated scientists working on land and hydrology modeling. This includes the development of research plans for the team for the short, medium, and long-term, the realization of
the research and implementation of objectives and targets, and the deployment of the developments for operational predictions together with the team members. |
Application Deadline: 3 March 2024 The Department of Meteorology at Stockholm University (MISU) seeks a postdoctoral fellow to work on a project aiming to understand the response of tropical precipitation over land to external factors such as global warming or deforestation. The focus is on atmospheric processes and
feedbacks, but can be extended to also involve vegetation feedbacks. The position will be associated with the Swedish Research Council project Tropical Precipitation Tipping Points (TPTP). |
Application Deadline: March 17, 2024 The Stockholm Resilience Centre is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the project “ReForMit – Understanding and securing the resilience of forest-based climate change mitigation” (https://reformit.org), funded by the Swedish Research Council (FORMAS). The overall aim of the project is to generate knowledge on safeguarding the biophysical and social-ecological resilience of forest-based climate change mitigation measures (such as reforestation and prevention of deforestation) under changing hydroclimatic conditions including ecological droughts. |
Application Deadline: Open until filled The University of Washington (UW) invites applications for a joint full-time, 9-month (100% FTE), tenure-track Assistant Professor faculty position. Candidates at the Associate Professor level may also be considered. It is anticipated that the successful candidate will utilize, develop, and
advance methods in the areas of AI, machine learning, computational sensing, or data science to improve our understanding of atmospherically relevant processes. Example applications include, but are not limited to, climate extremes, severe weather, and sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction. |
Application Deadline: Open until filled The Environmental Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory is seeking a postdoctoral scholar to model and analyze convective clouds and their interactions with environmental factors including aerosols and urbanization with field measurements and models across scales. |
Application Deadline: Not specified The Climate, Ecology, and Environment Group in the Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES) Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has an immediate opening for a postdoctoral research associate with experience in modeling either vegetation, snow, or hydrology modeling. You will work as part
of the DOE’s Next Ecosystem Experiment Arctic team, assessing the impact of future climate change on shrub-snow-permafrost interactions across pan-Arctic ecosystems using cutting-edge modeling environments. |
Application Deadline: Open until filled The Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Program at Princeton University, in cooperation with NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL), seeks a postdoctoral research associate or more senior research scientist to join a team working on quantifying and understanding changes in Earth’s
Radiation Budget (ERB). The incumbent will develop a methodology to quantify and map the past and future annual changes in ERB using NOAA’s state-of-the-art global climate models, and explain the contributions to the changing solar, longwave, and net radiation budget of the Earth system from anthropogenic and natural drivers, and consequent feedbacks. For further information, please contact Dr. David Paynter ( David.Paynter@noaa.gov). |
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