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- Commentary introducing GEWEX's new Science Plan
- An overview of the new WCRP Lighthouse Activities: five ambitious programs to advance the science and technology needed to manage climate risk and provide robust climate information
- A summary of INTENSE, a global research effort focused on sub-daily rainfall extremes that came to a close with progress on many fronts, including the creation of a sub-daily precipitation database
- A behind-the-scenes history of the Baseline Surface Radiation Network
- A look at essential water variables (EWVs), which address water information needs for water cycle and other research
- An examination of aerosol effects on low clouds through natural laboratories and aerosol effects on deep convective clouds through the TRACER campaign at the ACPC annual meeting
- Identifying progress and results in efforts to deliver risk management solutions for Canada and other cold regions’ water futures at the GWF2021 meeting
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Open Invitation to Join the US-Regional Hydroclimate Project Affinity Group
We have formed an Affinity Group to support the development of a new Regional Hydroclimate Project (RHP) in the United States. The group is open to the community and its purpose is to provide a mechanism for the community to get directly engaged in and informed about the development of the US-RHP, and to provide a forum to discuss the key science questions and issues of the day. The group began in July, 2021, and will meet bi-weekly for the foreseeable future. Sarah
Tessendorf and Tim Schneider (NCAR) are hosting this group, which you are cordially invited to join. Notes, videos, and presentations from the past meetings are available to those who sign up. In future meetings, we are inviting technical presentations from the community (you), and based on the initial presentations, we anticipate lively and engaging discussions. These presentations and discussions will help to inform the development of the science plan as requested by the GEWEX
Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP).
If you would like to participate in the Affinity Group and/or be added to an email distribution list about the US-RHP, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/wFrAFajxwSMqV499A. It asks for some basic information and it is short.
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The recording of the first discussion, which provided an introduction to the topic, is now available online: video link. |
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WCRP Academy is one of the new lighthouse activities of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), designed to make positive steps towards giving more scientists access to the
training they need to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
This survey is for anyone who is currently a climate scientist or those looking to become one, through formal or informal training. WCRP wants to hear from people at different stages of their careers to get a broad picture of where gaps exist so that we can help the community fill those gaps. The survey will be available until 26 November 2021.
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An overview of Calls for Papers can be found on GEWEX.org.
Dates: 5–9 December 2021
Location: Online platform and in Sydney, Australia (hybrid event)
Abstract Submission Deadline: 11 October 2021 for extended abstracts only
With the increase in data availability and recognition of uncertainty, MODSIM2021 will focus on how modeling and simulation can be used to translate data into action.
Building on the traditional modeling and simulation papers in diverse areas, papers will explore the conference theme from a wide spectrum of disciplinary perspectives organized in different streams. Special themes of the conference will include methods that take advantage of large datasets, scenario modeling of uncertain futures under climate change, resource constraints, and conflicting objectives.
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Dates: 8–10 February 2022
Location: Virtual event
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 October 2021
The Risk Modeling and Insurance Working Group of the Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (Risk KAN) is organizing a three-day workshop to bring together scientists and practitioners in the field of modeling risk in human and environmental systems. The first day will focus on systemic risks due to tipping points, the second
day will focus on advances in modeling socio-economic impacts, and the third day will focus on resilience and adaptation.
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Deadline: 31 December 2021
Earth's surface and its biological organisms exchange heat, momentum, carbon, and water with the overlying atmosphere at a multitude of scales. However, capturing those interactions across scales remains a challenge for observing systems and Earth system models. Here, the editors solicit papers highlighting recent investigations from land-atmosphere field campaigns, including observational analyses, tests of theoretical approaches to scaling or modeling these processes, and
model-based evaluation and diagnostic studies.
Papers can be submitted to JGR: Biogeosciences, JGR: Atmospheres, Earth and Space Sciences, or Journal of Advances in Modeling of Earth Systems (JAMES). The latter two are gold open-access and the first two have open-access options.
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Deadline: 31 December 2021
In this special issue, studies are sought that investigate the facts and mechanisms related to the processes from surface evapotranspiration to precipitation. The topics covered by this special issue will include, but not be limited to, the following:
- Land–atmosphere interactions and the hydrological cycle;
- Atmospheric boundary layer processes, cloud physics, and precipitation;
- Atmospheric moisture transport and tracking;
- Impact of human activities on the hydrological cycle;
- Aerosol–cloud–climate interactions.
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Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: 28 February 2022
This Special Issue will publish contributions from research, operational products, and data assimilation capabilities of microwave satellites used in support of the investigation of severe storms. Studies that address connections with essential climate variables are particularly welcome. Contributions from CubeSat applications and theoretical studies with new microwave sensors onboard future satellite missions are also strongly encouraged.
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Dates: 4–6 October 2021
Location: Virtual event
This workshop will build from an online survey on climate change in Central Asia that GEWEX and the SysTem for Analysis, Research and Training ( START) recently initiated with assistance from the American University of Central Asia ( AUCA) in Bishkek. The survey report can be found here.
An important outcome of this workshop will be to collaboratively identify key priorities for research and capacity development, regionally-based individuals who can provide provisional leadership, and a plan for mobilizing resources that builds towards a GEWEX Regional Hydroclimate Project ( RHP), and that serves to inform the emerging WCRP Regional Information for
Society (RIFS) core project. |
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Dates: 20–21 October 2021
Location: Virtual event
NASA’s ACTIVATE airborne field mission focuses on aerosol-cloud-meteorology interactions and it will hold an online open data workshop to encourage the use of its observations by the broad community. ACTIVATE is an on-going multi-year mission to collect remote sensing and in situ observations of aerosols, clouds, and the atmosphere using two aircraft centered over the western North Atlantic Ocean.
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Dates: 25–28 October 2021
Location: Virtual event
By invitation only
The Global Land/Atmosphere System Study ( GLASS) is a volunteer-based research coordination panel focusing on land surface model development and evaluation in three core areas: process-understanding, benchmarking, and model intercomparisons. GLASS encourages and coordinates community-based activities in these areas, covering climate and weather timescales in both offline and coupled
modeling environments, across the coupled water, energy, and carbon cycles.
This year’s annual GLASS Panel Meeting will review progress of the GLASS working groups and projects, as well as those with similar related research interests. As one of the four panels of GEWEX, the new GEWEX Science Plan and the WCRP Lighthouse Activities will be at the heart of these discussions. |
Dates: 8–9 November 2021
Location: Virtual event
By invitation only
The GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel ( GHP) aims to understand and predict continental to local-scale hydroclimates for hydrologic applications. GHP will meet online this year to evaluate progress in its Regional Hydroclimate Projects (RHPs), Cross-Cutting projects (CCs), Regional Data Centers, and GHP Networks. A portion of the meeting will be dedicated to discussing the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)'s new
Lighthouse Activities and the draft GEWEX Science Plan. |
To advertise a career or training opportunity, please send us an email.
Application Deadline: Open until filled
The Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Science at the University of Arizona seeks a postdoc with experience in global or regional atmospheric modeling. This candidate will join a diverse team directed by Prof. Xubin Zeng to innovatively work on various issues related to atmospheric modeling, such as atmospheric model dynamics-physics and physics-physics interactions, atmosphere-land interactions, weather prediction from a few days to seasonal time scales, application of machine
learning in atmospheric modeling and weather prediction. A Ph.D. in atmospheric science or related fields is required, as is research experience in global or regional atmospheric modeling (e.g., E3SM, CESM, WRF). Applications should be submitted at: https://arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/careersite/4/home/requisition/7008?c=arizona. |
Application Deadline: Open until filled
The Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is seeking a highly-motivated postdoctoral research associate to work on analyzing aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) and cloud feedbacks in climate models. The postdoctoral research associate will contribute to (1) understanding the process representations and sensitivities that affect cloud feedback and ACI; and (2) developing new diagnostics and metrics of ACI that can be applied to a
collection of Earth system models.
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Application Deadline: Open until filled
The Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB) Project in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Washington is seeking Postdoctoral Scholars to undertake cloud resolving modeling studies to test the efficacy of cloud brightening with deliberate injections of sea-salt aerosol. MCB is especially interested in candidates who have experience in one or more of the following areas: numerical modeling, aerosol-cloud interactions, cloud physics, and observationally-based model
evaluation.
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Application Deadline: Open until filled
The Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science (EOAS) at the Florida State University (FSU) seeks an Atmospheric Scientist for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank. The incumbent will study microphysics and aerosols, and their impacts on weather, climate, and the environment.
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Application Deadline: 8 October 2021
Management and Engineering Technologies International, Inc. (METI), in support of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Office of International Programs, is looking to hire a Vietnam Climate Fellow to provide long-term technical assistance for forest and climate change Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) systems.
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Application Deadline: 30 October 2021
The WCRP Academy Lighthouse Activity is the recently-formed research training advisory and coordination arm of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). It is led by two co-chairs and a core science team, who will oversee the work of the activity and further advance its science plan.
The WCRP Academy co-chair will direct the development of this important new Lighthouse Activity, with the key aim of increasing the breadth and quality of climate research training available.
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Application Deadline: 1 November 2021
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Academy Lighthouse Activity is seeking an individual or research group to conduct approximately six months of research and analysis into climate science training opportunities across the globe on a part-time basis. The ideal candidate will have a background in climate science and experience with qualitative data analysis. Key tasks are scanning climate training
opportunities, survey analysis and writing, and providing lessons learned for the next stocktake survey.
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Application Deadline: Open until filled
The Agricultural Sciences Department, within the College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Life Sciences (CAFLS) at Clemson University, is seeking to fill a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in the area of Climate Resilience. This position is foundational to a state-wide, strategic water initiative. The successful candidate will be expected to develop a nationally recognized, externally-funded research program on water and climate resilience.
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