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GEWEX Finds New Home at George Mason University
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GEWEX and the International GEWEX Project Office (IGPO) have moved to a new host institution, George Mason University (GMU). As part of the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA), the IGPO's new setting will foster even closer ties to academia and
the research community. We look forward to working through COLA and GMU to continue our mission of furthering water and energy cycle research. |
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The Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC) Data Download portal has been completed! In situ river discharge data, collected since 1988 in the Global Runoff Database, are now available online.
The Global Runoff Database of quality-controlled “historical” mean daily and monthly discharge data has developed into the most comprehensive global river discharge data archive supporting climate-related programs and projects of the United Nations and the scientific and research communities at large. The new portal will allow users to select and download river discharge data online without data ordering procedures.
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The new Heat Health Masterclass series will provide rapid, interactive learning of best practices and science for essential applications in heat health, taught by leading experts in the field. Classes will stream live from 17:00-18:30 CEST (11-12:30pm ET). Dates and topics can be found at http://www.ghhin.org/learning-center/masterclasses. |
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has extended the cut-off date for scientific literature to be included in the contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of Working Group I, which deals with the physical science basis of climate change, by four months from 30 September 2020 in the original Working Group I schedule to 31 January
2021.
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Letter of Intent Deadline: 18 September 2020
Scientists working in Earth observation are invited to submit ideas for ESA’s 11th Earth Explorer mission.
Earth Explorer missions are built in response to the needs of the scientific community in their quest to understand different aspects of the Earth system and the interactions that bind the system as a whole. The procedure for submitting an initial idea for this future mission begins with a letter of intent, which must be received by 18 September 2020. This will be followed with a workshop with Proposers on 5 October 2020 to explain the proposal guidelines. The deadline for submitting the
final proposal is 4 December 2020 at noon European time. More information about the Call and how to submit letters of intent can be found at ESA’s Earth Observation Proposal System. |
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We want to hear from you! This quick survey should take around 3 minutes, and your input will help us produce an email newsletter that better serves the GEWEX community.
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An overview of Calls for Papers can be found on GEWEX.org.
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Dates: 7–11 December 2020
Location: Virtual Meeting
Abstract Submission Deadline: 29 July 2020
This year's Fall Meeting will be mostly virtual, with featured meeting content held during the 7–11 December 2020 dates and additional content scheduled to best meet the needs of attendees around the world.
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Dates: 10–14 January 2021
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Abstract Deadline: 3 August 2020
Sessions and symposia of interest to the GEWEX community are listed below. Email us at gewex@gewex.org if you have a GEWEX-related session that you'd like us to include.
- Session Title: A New GEWEX Regional Hydroclimate Project: Understanding the Water & Energy Cycles of the Continental United States in the Anthropocene
Conference: 35th Conference on Hydrology
- Kevin E. Trenberth Symposium
Papers for the Kevin E. Trenberth Symposium are solicited on all aspects of climate science, but are especially encouraged on the following topics:
- Global Water Cycle
- Global Energy Budget
- Climate Analysis: Observations and Reanalyses
- Climate Modeling: Advances and Challenges
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Paper Submission Deadline: 30 September 2020
The goal of this Research Topic is to showcase work that will lead to improved estimation and understanding of the fluxes that couple the atmosphere with the ocean, land, and ice. It will cover observational, theoretical, and modeling aspects of fluxes of energy (heat and momentum), water, and carbon dioxide at the Earth’s surface, including at the air-sea, air-land and air-ice interfaces.
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Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: 31 December 2020
The journal Remote Sensing will feature a Special Issue (SI) on “Remote Sensing of Water Cycle Essential Climate Variables and their Applications” (ISSN 2072-4292, IF 4.118). The main topics of the SI are related to:
- New water cycle Climate Data Records (CDRs): development and generation procedures;
- Validation, capability assessment, and intercomparisons of water cycle CDRs;
- CDR exploitation in long-term analyses: regional climatology, variability and trends, extreme event projections;
- Droughts and floods: climatology and climatic driver identification;
- Capability of CDRs to capture extremes;
- Water cycle CDR exploitation in climate services for societal benefits;
- Exploratory studies of the connections among the water cycle, agriculture and food, public health, and energy
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For an extensive list of GEWEX-related meetings that have been cancelled, postponed, or changed to an online format, see our webpage at https://www.gewex.org/events/.
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Rescheduled Dates: 10–12 February 2021
Location: Wageningen, The Netherlands
By Invitation Only
The 2nd Evapotranspiration Workshop has been rescheduled from 26–28 August 2020 to 10–12 February 2021. This workshop will focus on process understanding, with a strong observational component aided by process modeling studies, along the five lines defined in the first workshop: i) open-water evaporation, ii) interception, iii) soil evaporation, iv) transpiration, and v) landscape ET.
The sessions will be devoted to organized discussion after an introductory talk summarizing the state-of-the art of the subject of the session. The attendees will have the opportunity to discuss their ET related activities in poster sessions.
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Rescheduled Dates: 16–18 March 2021
Location: Toledo, Spain
Organizers have rescheduled the workshop for one year from its original date with the same location, times, and format, and they plan to save previously-submitted abstracts. The goal of the workshop is to better understand the uses and limitations of the newly released GEWEX Global, 1 degree, 3-hourly Integrated Water and Energy products for use in understanding land surface-atmosphere interactions. The workshop seeks to both assess the overall consistency of the GEWEX
integrated product, as well as identify additional parameters that should be included in the product going forward.
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Rescheduled Dates: 12–16 April 2021
Location: Toulouse, France
Organizers have postponed the meeting to 12–16 April 2021. Abstracts already submitted will be retained, and authors will be able to modify them. The abstract submission and registration site will remain open through the end of the year.
The goal of this workshop is to discuss and share the latest improvements of atmospheric parameterizations for the representation of clouds with a focus on turbulence, convection, cloud microphysics, and radiation. This concerns any type of models, including regional or global models with numerical weather prediction or climate applications. One focus of the workshop will be on the use of LES for the advancement of the representation of clouds.
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Dates: 12–14 October 2021
Location: Darmstadt, Germany
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), along with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and supported by EUMETSAT, will be holding a conference that aims to assess how well the current global climate observing system supports current and near-term user needs for climate information. In particular, the meeting will examine how well observations of the global Earth cycles (the global energy balance, global water and carbon cycles, and explaining changing conditions of the
biosphere) support users’ needs for climate data.
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To advertise a career or training opportunity, please send us an email.
Dates: 30 August 4–September 2020
Location: Virtual (conducted via Zoom)
The Catchment Science Summer School is a 5-day short course intended for post-graduate students and post-docs interested in a hands-on catchment science curriculum, focusing on northern catchments, runoff processes and combined hydrometric, isotope/chemical tracer and modeling techniques in catchment hydrology. The course will run virtually from 30 Aug to 4 Sept 2020. Enrollment is limited and is on a first come, first serve basis.
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Application Deadline: Position open until filled
The Physical and Life Sciences directorate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has an opening for a Satellite Meteorologist and Climate Modeler in the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis & Intercomparison (PCMDI) project with expertise in satellite measurements and derived datasets for Earth system model evaluation. The research will span topics in model-observation comparison, including the construction of model evaluation datasets, statistical evaluation of observational
uncertainty, the design and execution of global model simulations, and the analysis of single and multi-model ensembles to quantify and constrain uncertainty in predictions of Earth system behavior.
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Application Deadline: 12 July 2020
The University of Reading is offering a post for a talented and imaginative research scientist on a project which aims to reduce uncertainty in projections of anthropogenic climate change, through understanding of forced and unforced variations in the coupled atmosphere–ocean climate system, especially the interactions between climate feedback, ocean heat uptake, and the spatiotemporal patterns of climate change. The work may involve analyses of results from the latest generation of global
atmosphere-ocean climate models and comparable observational datasets, complementary and novel model experiments, and development of conceptual models and theories.
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Application Deadline: 25 July 2020
The University of Innsbruck's Department of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences seeks a senior scientist to actively contribute to the institute’s recently-established research focus on regional climate modeling with experience in numerical modeling of atmospheric dynamics processes over mountainous areas. The main task of the successful candidate will be the management of data and code,
performing simulations and basic as well as advanced data analysis in relation to a recent Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) project on km-scale regional climate simulation over major mountain ranges. |
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Application Deadline: 17 August 2020
The Science Directorate at NASA’s Langley Research Center provides essential science leadership to NASA, with decades of intellectual expertise in the areas of atmospheric composition, air quality, Earth’s energy budget, and lidar remote sensing that supports Earth Science, Planetary Science, and Heliophysics. The successful candidate will lead a Directorate of approximately 105 civil servants and over 200 on-site contractors including scientists, engineers, data science
specialists, project managers, and administrative professionals that support the NASA Science mission.
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Application Deadline: Position open until filled
The Meteorology Section of the Institute for Geosciences at the University of Bonn invites applications for a fixed-term 2.5-year position in the Hans-Ertel-Centre for Weather Research (HErZ) research area of “Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics” as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist. The successful candidate will explore a post-processed reanalysis data set (i.e., surface reanalysis) with the aim of increasing the quality of the regional and local representation of climate in regional
reanalysis data sets. The position involves developing a post-processing data assimilation system at or below 1km horizontal grid spacing and applying it to existing high-resolution regional reanalysis data (especially the COSMO reanalyses formerly developed in the research group) with observations not previously assimilated.
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