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Nominations for All Regional Groups: 21 August 2020
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is performing consultations as part of its new implementation plan, and we seek volunteers or nominees from the GEWEX community to act as Regional
Focal Points (RFPs). The task for these RFPs is to form a local organizing committee for each Region, drawing on WCRP and other networks, and to work with this committee to roll out a Regional Consultation. |
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Nomination Deadline: 31 August 2020
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) is performing consultations as part of its new WCRP implementation plan, and we're looking for nominees to be part of the task teams that will
develop science plans for the proposed Lighthouse Activities (LHA).
LHAs are intended to be:
- Major experiments, high-visibility projects, and/or infrastructure building blocks
- Activities that truly bring together the capabilities (scientific, technical, infrastructure) from across the whole of WCRP and with partners.
We're particularly seeking under-represented groups and early- or mid-career scientists.
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International Data and Model Development Prizes
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Nomination Deadline: 30 September 2020
WCRP, partnering with GCOS and WWRP, seeks nominations for this year's two international prizes in data and model development.
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Congratulations to the members of the GEWEX community who received honors from the American Meteorological Society (AMS)!
| Honorary Member: |
William H. Hooke |
| Award Winners: |
Soroosh Sorooshian (Former GEWEX SSG Chair) |
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Eric A. Smith (ISCCP/Precipitation) |
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Sarah Gille (former WCRP JSC member) |
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Jim Hurrell (WCRP JSC member and GEWEX liaison) |
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Xubin Zeng (GASS Co-Chair) |
| Lecturer: |
Wade Crow (former GLASS Panel member) |
| Fellows: |
Adrian J. Simmons (former GCOS chair) |
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Susan C. van den Heever (GAP) |
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NOAA’s Climate Program Office (CPO) is seeking applications for 6 individual research competitions in FY2021. The following programs are participating: Adaptation Sciences (AdSci), Atmospheric Chemistry Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4), Climate Observations and Monitoring (COM), Climate Variability & Predictability (CVP), Global Ocean Monitoring and
Observing (GOMO), Modeling, Analysis, Predictions and Projections (MAPP).
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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: 10–14 January 2021
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Abstract Deadline: 23 August 2020
The world’s largest yearly gathering for the weather, water, and climate community will convene from 10–14 January 2021 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. One session of interest to the GEWEX community is listed below. Email us at gewex@gewex.org with your GEWEX-related session to be included in the list.
Note: The Kevin E. Trenberth Symposium has been moved to the January 2022 meeting.
- 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
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Dates: 16–18 November 2020
Location: Geneva, Switzerland (Virtual participation possible)
Abstract Deadline: 23 August 2020
The WMO Data Conference aims to develop a common understanding among entities from all sectors of society of the roles, requirements and arrangements for international exchange of observations and other data for monitoring and prediction of the Earth System environment, including weather, climate and water. The Conference is expected to formulate recommendations to WMO and its partner organizations and stakeholders regarding current needs and modalities for data exchange and specifically
regarding the ongoing WMO review of its data policies. For information, registration, or to submit an abstract, please contact: DataConference@wmo.int. |
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Dates: 12–16 April 2021
Location: Toulouse, France
Abstract Deadline: 31 January 2021
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 January 2021.
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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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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Manuscript submission deadline: 31 December 2020
The aim of this special issue is to address different approaches and methodologies in analyzing climate extremes in the Pannonian Basin, which is the focus area of the Pannonian Basin Experiment (PannEx), a Regional Hydroclimate Project of the Global Energy and Water Exchanges Project of the World Meteorological Organization (GEWEX). This special issue intends to cover topics to support our ability to understand and predict climate extremes on both continental and local scales by improving
the knowledge of environmental water and energy exchanges on a regional scale related to:
- the analysis of observation data;
- synoptic and seasonal conditions generating climate extremes and their impact on a local scale;
- changes detected in the historical records or estimated based on the modeled data;
- the social, economic, and environmental impacts of climate extremes;
- perception, public policies and strategies to be implemented at urban, local and/or regional levels.
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Paper Submission Deadline: 31 April 2021
The journal Water (IF: 2.544, ISSN 2073-4441) will feature a Special Issue on "Hydrological Extremes in a Warming Climate: Nonstationarity, Uncertainties and Impacts". The topics covered by this special issue will include but not limited to the following:
- Analysis of historical variability and trends in streamflow extremes (e.g., peak flow, low flow, timing) and teleconnections to hydroclimatic drivers
- Model based studies on future changes in hydrologic extremes and the role of internal variability and anthropogenic forcings
- Development and application of nonstationary methods for the evaluation of hydrologic extreme events
- Evaluation of uncertainties of extreme value projections
- Methods to quantify flood and drought risks
- Implications of changes in hydrologic extreme events on water resources management
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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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Dates: 2–4 September 2020
Location: Virtual meeting
The main focus of the virtual workshop is the simulation of mesoscale processes and extreme events with convection-permitting models (CPMs) and the use of CPM data for hazard and impact assessments. The online meeting will highlight recent advancements in CPM simulations, facilitate community interactions, and identify key challenges that will help with the planning of the postponed in-person 2021 workshop. Due to the limited nature of the workshop, organizers are currently mainly planning
on invited presentations.
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Dates: 14–17 September 2020
Location: Virtual meeting
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 2020 CFMIP meeting will be held online. Each day's 1.5 hour session will feature 2–3 invited speakers and discussion moderated by the session conveners. All sessions will be available both live at times convenient for many time zones and recorded. The organizers are encouraging and will provide suggestions for "local hubs," i.e., groups of scientists who discuss/present at times and within forums that are locally convenient. Topics
for each day are listed below.
Day 1: Updates on CFMIP and the WCRP Climate Sensitivity Assessment
Day 2: Does convective organization matter for climate?
Day 3: Does atmosphere-ocean coupling matter for climate?
Day 4: Do extratropical cloud feedbacks matter for climate?
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Dates: 13–15 October 2020
Location: Virtual meeting
By Invitation Only
GDAP was organized to bring together theoretical and experimental insights into the radiative interactions and climate feedbacks associated with cloud processes. The central question that governs the GDAP mission is: “how sensitive is the Earth’s climate to changes in radiative and other forcings?” Answering this question will enable improved prediction of transient natural climate variations, such as El Niño, and provide better understanding of the consequences of
natural and human-induced climate changes.
This year’s annual GDAP Meeting will review progress of the ongoing GDAP Assessments and Projects. As one of the four panels of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX), a core program of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), the GEWEX Science Questions and the WCRP Grand Challenges will be at the heart of these discussions.
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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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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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Dates: 30 August–4 September 2020
Location: Virtual (conducted via Zoom)
Registration Deadline: 28 August 2020
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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Dates: 18–24 January 2021
Location: Valdivia, Chile
Application Deadline: 31 August 2020
The goal of this summer school is to provide a holistic concept of anthropogenic climate change, including its impacts on socio-ecological systems and the role that both local and global governance play in mitigation and adaptation. The summer school has a basis in Earth sciences, and in 2021 will focus on a particular subject: water scarcity.
Dedicated lectures will examine the changing frequency of drought with anthropogenic forcing, drought propagation to continental hydrology, and interplay with social systems. Experts will lead groups of students in tackling a specific research question over the course of the school.
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Application Deadline: 21 August 2020
Job ID: 310898
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is recruiting a postdoctoral scientist to conduct innovative research in aerosol-climate modeling with a focus on the roles of light-absorbing aerosols in controls on melting of snow and ice. The selected candidate will work on quantifying the radiative impact of light-absorbing particles and temperature changes on the melting of snowpack and glaciers and the consequent effect on ecosystem and hydrological cycles using remote sensing retrievals
and a regional model coupled with aerosol, radiation, land surface, and snow components.
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Application Deadline: 2 September 2020
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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: 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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