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The first 2021 edition of GEWEX Quarterly is now online, and includes:
- Tributes to Peter Eagleson, Franco Einaudi, and Jim Shuttleworth
- The science and contributions of Françoise Guichard
- Effects of soil moisture conditions on upstream circulation, influencing an approaching hurricane's track
- A new Tibetan Plateau land surface processes data set
- Reviews of projects and assessments at the annual GEWEX Data and Assessments Panel (GDAP) Meeting
- Evaluations of old and new activities at the GEWEX Hydrcoclimatology Panel (GHP) 2020 meeting
- A deep dive into convection-permitting modeling (CPM) and its ability to improve our understanding of precipitation, aid in hazard assessment, and help estimate meteorological phenomena and hazardous weather in Asia at the 4th International Convection-Permitting Modeling Workshop
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Everyone interested is invited to take part in a public review of the draft of the 2021 Status Report on the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS). This report provides an overview of the adequacy of the observing system as a whole and considers the status of observations of each Essential Climate Variable (ECV). It covers atmospheric, oceanic, terrestrial,
cryospheric, and hydrological variables. Its publication will be followed by an implementation plan in 2022 that will address gaps and new and developing needs.
The deadline for comments is 2 April 2021.
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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: 1–6 August 2021
Location: Virtual meeting
Extended Abstract Deadline: 9 March 2021
The Asia Oceania Geosciences Society 2021 Meeting (AOGS2021) will be held online this year. The GEWEX community might find the sessions below of interest. If you would like to have your session included in the list, please email us at gewex@gewex.org.
Session HS02: The Third Pole Environment and High Mountains of Central Asia - Hydrometeorological Processes and Human Dimension
This session invites contributions dealing with advances in improving the understanding of the interactions of the Asian monsoon, glaciers, and the Tibetan Plateau in terms of water and energy exchanges. Such advances will aid in assessing and understanding the causes of changes in the cryosphere and hydrosphere in relation to changes in the plateau atmosphere in the Asian monsoon system, to predict possible changes in water resources, and to explore the pattern and mechanisms of environment
change on the Tibetan Plateau and surroundings. A special emphasis is on new projects in the region addressing precipitation in a changing climate as well as those activities that address the human influence on the water cycle.
Session AS05: Regional Climate Downscaling and Cordex: Challenges and Prospects
This session covers the following themes: 1) Evaluation of regional downscaling techniques (dynamical and statistical methods); 2) Regional climate projection and understanding of climate sensitivity; 3) Comparison between CORDEX phase 1 and 2; 4) Added-values in regional climate downscaling by comparison with high-quality observation datasets; 5) Development of regional earth system model; 6) Process-based studies on sensitivity to the large-scale forcing, regional forcing, domain size,
resolution, physics, etc.; 7) Impact studies of regional anthropogenic forcings such as land-use change, aerosol, and urbanization; and 8) Other issues relevant to regional climate downscaling including application to application sectors.
Session AS28: Asian Precipitation Experiment: Process and Predictability of Asian Hydroclimate System
The Asian Precipitation Experiment (AsiaPEX), a prospective Regional Hydroclimate Project within the GEWEX framework, has launched. AsiaPEX aims to understand Asian land precipitation over diverse hydroclimatological conditions for better prediction, disaster reduction, and sustainable development. Research plans, new sub-projects, recent scientific results and outcomes from these approaches will be exchanged. We will place special focus on discussing predictability on S2S scales and the process
study on land surface-convection coupling, which will be major AsiaPEX activities in upcoming years.
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Dates: 18–22 May 2021
Location: Virtual meeting
Abstract Deadline: 15 March 2021
The 3rd International Soil Moisture Consortium (ISMC) conference program addresses recent research in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere continuum centered around soils over all spatial scales, time scales, and elements, from processes to prediction.
Scientific Sessions:
- Integration of Soil Processes in Global Land Surface/Earth System Models
- Modeling soil formation as a function of critical zone processes
- Modeling at the interface of soil and plant
- Model soil contamination and transport of pollutants
- Scaling soil biogeochemical models
- Modeling surface runoff and soil erosion at various scales: data, process, and mathematical representation
- Landscape heterogeneity: pragmatic modeling, methodology standards, harmonized measurements – and related challenges
- Modeling and evaluation of soil functions at all scales
- Modeling biogeochemical fluxes and soil organic carbon dynamics in soil systems
- Advances in soil modeling through data analytics, machine learning and prediction
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Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: 31 March 2021
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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Deadline for Manuscript Submissions: 31 March 2021
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.
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Extended Deadline for Paper Submissions: 31 March 2021
Due to COVID-19-related delays, the submission deadline for this special issue has been extended from the end of September 2020 to 31 March 2021. 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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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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Paper Submission Deadline: 31 May 2021
This special issue will showcase recent and ongoing research progress in (1) cloud observation techniques and remote sensing inversion algorithm development for cloud properties, and (2) cloud–aerosol–radiation–precipitation interactions and their potential underlying mechanisms. The compilation of research papers in this special issue is expected to improve our understanding of cloud properties and cloud-process-associated issues, as well as assist with the development of cloud-associated
parameterization in weather and climate models.
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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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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: 29–31 March 2021
Location: Virtual meeting
The Workshop of the Inter-Commission Committee on "Geodesy for Climate Research" (ICCC) runs from 29–31 March 2021 online, and is free to participants. The goals of the meeting are to:
- Highlight the potential of geodesy for climate research by showcasing and discussing climate-related studies that make use of geodetic observations, and
- Bring together geodetic and climate communities to facilitate exchange of their experience and possibly establish a mutual cooperation.
Presentations on all aspects related to using geodesy for climate research are welcome. The meeting format will be a mix of live presentations and asynchronous content, generally with a strong emphasis on virtual discussions.
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Dates: 12–16 April 2021
Location: Virtual meeting
The workshop will take place online from 12–16 April 2021. The goal of this meeting 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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GEWEX Integrated Product Workshop
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Dates: To Be Rescheduled
Location: Toledo, Spain
Organizers are awaiting progress with the global pandemic before setting a new date for the meeting, which had been rescheduled for 16–18 March 2021 but will take place another time. 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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To advertise a career or training opportunity, please send us an email.
Application Deadline: 11 March 2021
Under the guidance of the Director of the Science and Innovation (D/SI) and the direct supervision of the Head of the World Climate Research Division (H/WCR), the incumbent will provide overall programmatic support to key World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) science activities. Duties include:
- Supporting the WCRP Science Objective on “Fundamental understanding of the climate system”
- Supporting the Head of the Division with regard to the development and realization of the WCRP Implementation and Transition process;
- Working closely with the staff in the Division to jointly meet key objectives;
- Coordinating with the WCRP International Project Offices, as necessary;
- Working with relevant activities to provide regular budget and funding updates, and assist the Head of Division in identifying possible sources of funding;
- Liaising and coordinating with the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) and the Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW), as well as other activities
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Application Deadline: 15 March 2021
The Department of Geology at William & Mary invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level to begin in the 2021–2022 academic year. We seek a broadly-trained geoscientist whose research and teaching interests may include hydrology, surface processes, sedimentology, and/or watershed processes.
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Application Deadline: 15 March 2021
The Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics at the Université de Lausanne seeks a postdoctoral researcher in dynamical atmospheric modeling. The successful candidate will work within the research project “Rainfall and Floods in Future Cities”. The overarching goal of the project is to improve the knowledge of how the magnitude and occurrence of floods will change in future cities, following the changes that are foreseen in extreme rainfall events and intensities. For this position, the
postdoctoral researcher will focus on high space-time resolution modeling of rainfall in urban environments using convective-permitting models (CPM), and on understanding the urban climate processes that affect extreme rainfall.
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Application Deadline: 15 March 2021
The Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics of the Faculty of Geosciences and Environment at the Université de Lausanne has a Ph.D. student opening in Urban Rainfall. The doctoral thesis will be part of the project “Rainfall and Floods in Future Cities”. The overarching goal of the project is to improve the knowledge of how the magnitude and occurrence of floods will change in future cities, following the changes that are foreseen to extreme rainfall events and intensities. The candidate
will focus on analyzing the space-time rainfall variability in urban environments using remote-sensing devices and ground sensors, and on understanding the urban climate processes that affect extreme rainfall.
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Application Deadline: 19 March 2021
The Hydrology and Water Resources Laboratory at Imperial College London seeks a Ph.D. student to quantify the actual and potential contributions of nature-based solutions to global water security. The project involves a combination of field experiments in the tropical Andes and the UK, and advanced computational modeling using the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator. The student will also work closely with our international partners to operationalize the use of nature-based
solutions for water security in Peru.
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