GEWEX E-News Update - 6 December 2016

Published: Tue, 12/06/16

 

Inside the November Issue:
  • 10 Years of MAHASRI Accomplishments Summarized
  • Results from MAHASRI Project Used in Hydrological Models to Simulate Impacts of Reservoir Operation for Mitigating Floods
  • Human Regulation of the Water Cycle (HRWC)—a new GHP/GLASS Crosscutting Project to address the Grand Challenge of Water for the Food Baskets of the World
  • New Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) monthly analysis product corrects satellite data shifts
  • GEWEX Convection-Permitting Climate Modeling Workshop addresses major challenges and future research strategies
  • Robust Response of Global Mean Precipitation to Anthropogenic Aerosols
  • Third Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop recommends that passive microwave L-Band measurements be continued in new constellations of satellites



Help the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) improve its communication plan and strengthen its support to climate science by taking this survey. Your responses will shape the program’s communications strategy moving forward, and we’re looking for input from the GEWEX community. The deadline is 15 January 2017.



The American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2016 Fall Meeting in San Francisco is quickly approaching and there are a number of events that early career scientists (ECS)–from students to postdocs to junior researchers–will not want to miss. Events including pop-up talks and a volunteer water quality monitoring outing are being organized by the Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee (H3S) and supported by AGU. There's also a Student and Early Career Scientist Conference (SECC) scheduled for Sunday, December 11th; be sure to register for the SECC when you register online for the 2016 Fall Meeting. For more up-to-date information on times and places for these events, Fall Meeting attendees can follow H3S on Twitter at @AGU_H3S or visit the AGU site at http://fallmeeting.agu.org/2016/students/.
 



Dates: 18-21 April 2017
Location: Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract Submission Deadline: 16 December 2016

The 3rd International A-Train Symposium will be an opportunity to exchange information and learn about A-Train scientific breakthroughs and to highlight how Earth science has benefitted from the long, continuous, multi-sensor data set. The Symposium will emphasize science capabilities and advancements realized from 10+ years’ worth of data gathered by the A-Train’s multi-sensor system. Particular emphasis will be placed on analyses of climatic trends and inter-annual variability. Morning plenary sessions will include invited keynote talks, while afternoon sessions will include selected oral talks and posters aligned with the four theme areas: 
  • Atmospheric composition and chemistry
  • Aerosol particles, clouds, radiation, and the hydrological cycle
  • Oceanic, terrestrial, and atmospheric components of the carbon cycle
  • Weather prediction and other operational applications



Deadline: 11 January 2017
Dates: 23-28 April 2017
Location: Vienna, Austria

Sessions at the upcoming EGU 2017 meeting related to GEWEX science are listed below. Feel free to send us your session (email gewex@gewex.org) and we’ll add it here.



Abstract Deadline: 27 January 2017
Dates: June 6-8, 2017
Location: Columbia University, New York, New York

NASA/GISS, CCNY/CREST, and Columbia University are organizing a scientific symposium with the overall theme of “Clouds, their Properties, and their Climate Feedbacks”. The motivation for the symposium is the recent retirement of William B. Rossow, after 40 years of exceptional contributions in a wide range of planetary and atmospheric science fields. The objective of the symposium is to stimulate discussion on the progress we have made over the past decades in understanding cloud properties, processes, and feedbacks, and to explore strategies to tackle the issues that remain unresolved.  The symposium will take place over a 3-day period at the Davies Auditorium of the Schapiro Hall, Columbia University. It will consist of oral and, if needed, poster presentations as well as extensive discussion sessions.  To submit a contribution to the symposium, please send a 1-page abstract to George Tselioudis (George.tselioudis@nasa.gov) and Johnny Luo (zluo@ccny.cuny.edu) by January 27, 2017.
 



The Atmospheric Sciences and Global Change Division at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is recruiting a research scientist and three postdoctoral scientists to conduct innovative research in climate modeling of the water cycle.
  • Research Scientist – Modeling Water Cycle and Climate Extremes
    To apply, visit http://jobs.pnnl.gov and search for job ID 305976. The application deadline is 28 December 2016.
  • Postdoctoral Scientist – Modeling Mesoscale Organized Convection and its Response to Global Warming
    To apply, visit http://jobs.pnnl.gov and search for job ID 305988. The application deadline is not given.
  • Postdoctoral Scientist – Advancing a Multiscale Modeling Framework (MMF)
    To apply, visit http://jobs.pnnl.gov and search for job ID 305989. The application deadline is not given.
  • Postdoctoral Scientist – Modeling Regional Climate Change and Impacts
    To apply, visit http://jobs.pnnl.gov and search for job ID 305987. The application deadline is not given.



Application Deadline: Open until filled

The SUNY University at Albany Atmospheric Sciences Research Center invites applications for a research scientist position in Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) soil moisture data assimilation. The planned weather- and climate-relevant research will involve extensive numerical weather forecast model (WRF) evaluation and code modification to implement satellite data assimilation of NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) soil moisture retrievals. The successful candidate will:
  • Conduct WRF and NASA Land Information System (LIS) simulations
  • Carry out data analysis and visualization using Python, NCL or similar scripting language
  • Design and write creative and innovative peer-reviewed journal articles on soil moisture data assimilation and WRF configuration sensitivity in the context of short-term (9-30 h) weather (incl. wind) predictability over the U.S.
For additional details and to apply, please visit: http://rfhr.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdetails.jsp?JOBID=75105.
 

This section features GEWEX science-related articles submitted by the community at http://www.gewex.org/latest-news/research-highlights/.



Dr. Oumarou Nikiéma, UQAM/ESCER Centre

The key sciences accomplished include (i) the development of a formalism suitable for the study of atmospheric energetics applicable over a limited region, and (ii) its application by studying the energy budgets of specific weather systems over a domain centered on the eastern portion of North America.

Regional Climate Models (RCMs) are known to be a good tool that can be used to study the impacts of climate changes at regional scales. The present methodology allows studying the energetic characteristics of storms regarding their intensity, duration, occurrence, and spatial distributions at regional and synoptic scales since RCM simulations provide all variables required for such study.