The most recent edition of GEWEX News is now online! Highlights from the issue include:
- GEOGLOWS coordinates Group on Earth Observations projects that use Earth observations for improved water resource management
- Baseline Surface Radiation Network convenes to review observations, discuss improvements in instrumentation, and consider data management issues and ways data are used by the larger community
- ANDEX meets for its first workshop to continue planning its research program on the hydroclimatology of the Andes
- Convection-Permitting Climate Modeling Workshop makes progress in transitioning to larger model domains and simulating land-atmosphere interactions
New GEWEX-WGNE Model Comparison Study on Orographic Processes
A new model comparison activity on orographic processes, operating under the framework of GEWEX’s Global Atmospheric System Studies (GASS) Panel and the Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE), is being launched. COORDE is based on a study by Annelize van Niekerk, Irina Sandu, and Simon Vesper, and will evaluate complex mountains and their effects on atmospheric flow by looking at the differences in orographic drag parametrizations across
models. If you’d like to participate, contact Annelize van Niekerk or Irina Sandu.
Global Runoff Data Centre Turns 30
The Global Runoff Data Centre (GRDC), which maintains the most comprehensive global river discharge data archive supporting climate-related programs and projects, has reached its 30th year of operation. Established at the German Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) in November 1988 under the auspices of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), GRDC manages a valuable collection of river discharge data and metadata currently from more than
9500 stations from 161 countries with an average timeseries length of 43 years.
The exchange of hydrological data and information on a global scale is the principal reason for operating GRDC. It connects national hydrological and hydro-meteorological services, the primary providers of river discharge data and associated metadata, and the scientific research community utilizing this unique data collection. GEWEX Regional Hydroclimate Projects (RHPs) are also taking advantage of these services, as GRDC as has been recognized as one of the
global data centers affiliated with the GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP) for more than 20 years.
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Dates: 31 January - 1 February
Location: Canberra, Australia
The 5th national OzEWEX workshop will explore how well we understand stores and fluxes of water and energy at the landscape scale subject human influences including greenhouse gas emissions, landscape, soil and vegetation modification, water extraction and river regulation. The topic will be approached from a biophysical perspective but also from social, economic, ecological, engineering and policy perspectives.
Dates: 25 February - 1 March 2019
Location: Berlin, Germany
Clouds, through their influence on radiative transfer, help determine Earth's energy budget and its susceptibility to perturbations. Clouds and their associated precipitation influence the dynamics of circulation systems, especially in the tropics. Increasingly cloud radiative effects are recognized as an additional mechanism for organizing circulation systems. UCP2019, as part of the WCRP Grand Science Challenge on Clouds,
Circulation and Climate Sensitivity and the German National Project High-Resolution Clouds and Precipitation for Climate Prediction (HD(CP)²) will bring together leading scientists from the observational and modeling communities working on these topics to present their latest findings, and coordinate future activities to advance understanding of the role of clouds and precipitation in the climate system.
Dates: 25 February - 1 March 2019
Location: Geneva, Switzerland
BY INVITATION ONLY
The 31st Session of the GEWEX Scientific Steering Group will take place from 25 February to 1 March 2019 at the headquarters of the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. During the meeting, the progress of the four GEWEX Panels will be reviewed, and changes in the WCRP program will be discussed. More details on the agenda will be posted at https://www.gewexevents.org/events/ssg-31-by-invitation-only/agenda/.
Dates: 7-12 April 2019
Location: Vienna, Austria
Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 January 2019, 13:00 CET
Sessions relevant to GEWEX science are listed below. If you know of or are involved in a session that you’d like to have included, please email us at gewex@gewex.org.
- Townhall on "Water for the Food Baskets of the World," A WCRP Grand Challenge
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Convener: Peter van Oevelen
- Convection-Permitting Atmospheric Modelling
This session explores advances and challenges in convection-permitting atmospheric modeling using the newest generation of atmospheric models that allow for the explicit treatment of convective processes (grid spacing ≤ 4 km).
- Earth Radiation Budget, Radiative Forcing and Climate Change
Observational and modeling papers on all aspects of radiation in the climate system are invited. A specific aim of this session is to bring together newly available information on the spatial and temporal variation of radiative and energy fluxes at the surface, within the atmosphere and at the top of atmosphere.
- Impact of Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks on Weather and Climate
In this session, current research activities contributing to this understanding, including L-A interaction and feedback to the diurnal cycle of the PBL, clouds, and precipitation as well as surface fluxes such as evapotranspiration and entrainment, will be presented and discussed.
- Physical Processes of Air-Sea Interaction and Their Representation
This session aims at fostering exchanges and discussions on the physical processes at work at the air-sea interface, their observation, and their representation in coupled numerical models.
- The Third Pole Environment (TPE) Under Global Changes
This session is dedicated to studies of the Pan Third Pole atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere, and their interactions with global change.
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Program Scientist at the NASA Earth Science Research and Analysis Program
Application Deadline: 28 December 2018
The Earth Science Division (ESD) in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters is looking for a Program Scientist to manage the portfolio of radar-related and geodetic imaging tasks as well as natural-hazards related research within the Research and Analysis program, typically within the Earth surface and interior focus area. This position involves collaboration and coordination with the disasters element of the Applied Sciences Program within ESD. If
you are currently a US federal employee, please visit https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517965100 to apply. If not, please go to https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/517965400.
Deputy Division Chief of NASA’s Earth Science Division
Application Deadline: 31 December 2018
The Earth Science Division in the Science Directorate is seeking interested applicants for the position of Deputy Division Chief. The Deputy co-manages Division operations and provides technical and programmatic leadership over research portfolios in atmospheric science and terrestrial and ocean ecosystem science. The Deputy supervises personnel, coordinates with Division management to forecast and plan Division priorities, and evaluates and facilitates research
activities. For more information and to apply, visit https://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/519086600.
Professor and Chair of Meteorology at Wageningen University and Research
Application Deadline: 4 January 2019
The Meteorology faculty of Wageningen University and Research is looking for an innovative, dynamic, and inspiring scholar in the field of Meteorology to join the faculty and lead the Meteorology section within the Meteorology and Air Quality Group. You are invited to send your complete application to Johan Feenstra. Your application should include:
- An application letter with curriculum vitae
- A separate list of publications
- Your vision on research and education in the domain of the Chair (maximum of 2 pages).
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