WCRP achievements and future plans summary document
More than meets the eye: climate prediction extends beyond the newsworthy
See you at #CLIVAR2016!

WCRP NEWS: Sep 2016 (3)

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Our September issue of WCRP News brings you information on a WCRP summary document that will be produced over the next few months. As 2016 shatters global temperature, CO₂ and sea ice extent records, Dave discusses what this means for the climate research community. Are you going to the CLIVAR Open Science Conference? If so, discover highlights that you will not want to miss. If you are looking for an exciting opportunity in international science coordination and planning, find out about the CLIVAR Executive Director position that is currently open at CLIVAR. Nominations are now open for two prizes, in data coordination and model development, and we share the latest news about the WCRP website upgrade.

WCRP achievements and future plans summary document

Over the next few months we intend to prepare a useful and accessible WCRP summary document. JPS will produce a very rough first draft by end of September 2016, to show what we have and what we need. Find out more here. We would like to produce a friendly document for internal and external purposes. We look forward to your contributions and cooperation.

David Carlson, Director WCRP

More than meets the eye

Print, broadcast media and the blogosphere carry urgent news about the climate system. But what does this mean for the climate research community? David Carlson explains that as well as sharpening our forecast skills for ‘surface’ events we must also build prediction skills for less visible features. Read more...

David Carlson, Director WCRP

See you at #CLIVAR2016

The CLIVAR Open Science Conference starts on September 18 and is gearing up to be a fantastic meeting. If you are lucky enough to be going to Qingdao, we share an overview of key events that you should not miss. Read more...

Tweet about #CLIVAR2016

Fantastic career opportunity: Executive Director of
CLIVAR International Project Office

The First Institute of Oceanography (FIO) and WCRP invite applications for the post of Executive Director of the International CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean - Variability, Predictability, and Change) Project Office, based in Qingdao, China. For more see the Position Announcement.

Data coordination and model development prizes 2016

The WCRP/GCOS* International Data Prize and the WCRP/WWRP** International Prize for Model Development, recognize the need to advance climate observations and their coordination and recognize the essential role model development plays in weather and climate science, respectively. For more information and the nomination form click one of the links above. Nomination deadline: 1 October 2016.

* Global Climate Observing System
**World Weather Research Programme

Website upgrade

The WCRP website is currently being upgraded, both to be more secure and responsive and to have a fresh new look. When the upgraded website goes live in late September the homepage will look something like the design draft on the left. Some pages will need to be moved, but we will provide redirections from the old to new pages to minimize disruption. Any issues or queries can be directed to Narelle van der Wel.

Upcoming meeting deadlines

PAGES Young Scientists Meeting
"Global challenges for our common future: a paleoscience perspective."
7–9 May 2017
Morillo de Tou, Spain
Registration and abstract deadline:
1 October 2016

WCRP/SPARC Workshop:
"Challenges for Climate Science - Synergies between SPARC and the WCRP Grand Challenges"
31 October – 1 November, 2016
Berlin, Germany

Registration deadline:
30 September 2016

S2S Extremes Workshop 2016
"Workshop on Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Predictability of Extreme Weather and Climate"
6–7 December 2016
Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA

Abstract deadline: 15 October 2016

International Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

13 – 18 February 2017
Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract deadline: 17 October 2016

Community calendar

★ Events of special interest to early career researchers

September 2016
12–15	WGNE/SPARC Workshop on Drag Processes and Links to Large Scale Circulation
12–16	16th EMS Annual Meeting & 11th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC)
14–16	International Symposium on the Whole Atmosphere (ISWA)
17–18	2nd Session of the Climate Dynamics Panel
17–18	15th Session of the Atlantic Region Panel
17–18	11th Session of the CLIVAR Pacific Panel
17–18	3rd Session of the CLIVAR Ocean Model Development Panel
17–18	11th Session of the CLIVAR/CliC/SCAR Southern Ocean Region Panel
18	"nd Session of the CONCEPT-HEAT Research Focus
18	2nd Session of the DCVP Research Focus
18	9th Session of the Global Synthesis and Observations Panel
18–25	★CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium
18–25	CLIVAR Open Science Conference
19–23	Southern Ocean Region Panel Workshop at CLIVAR OSC
20–22	Physics Dynamics Coupling in Weather and Climate Models
21	C3S Meeting
21–22	3rd Satellite Soil Moisture Validation and Application Workshop
23–24	22nd Session of the CLIVAR Scientific Steering Committee
25–28	The Geological Society of America Annual Meeting
26–30	MedCLIVAR conference
26–30	International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project 2016 Science Conference
26–30	SPARC QBO Workshop 'The QBO and its Global Influence - Past, Present and Future'
28–30	Workshop on Including Water Management in Large Scale Models
October 2016
3–5	GEWEX Global Land/Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Meeting 2016
3–5	GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP) Meeting 2016
5–7	Planet Ocean Meeting
7–9	Arctic Circle
9–13	2016 World Water Congress and Exhibition
10–14	The Global Ocean Week: : What can ocean monitoring bring to society ?
11–13	A Connected Ocean (ACO) / The challenge of observation data integration
17–19	2nd ANNUAL Workshop of GEWEX's INARCH - "French Alps"

17–19	SPARC Data Assimilation Workshop
18–21	International workshop on coupled data assimilation
19–21	S-RIP 2016 Workshop
19–28	★Training School: Convective and volcanic clouds detection, monitoring and modeling
24–27	Global Land Project Third Open Science Meeting
25–27	8th EGU Leonardo Conference on 'From evaporation to precipitation: The atmospheric moisture transport'
26–27	11th MIPAS-IMK/IAA data user meeting
26–27	SOLAS Science and Society Workshop
26–28	International Glaciological Society (IGS) Nordic Branch Meeting
28–30	★The Graduate Climate Conference
31–1 Nov	WCRP/SPARC workshop: "Challenges for Climate Science - Synergies between SPARC and the WCRP Grand Challenges"
31–2 Nov	20th Session of WCRP Working Group on Coupled Modeling
31–4 Nov	24th SPARC Scientific Steering Group meeting
November 2016
2–4	WCRP Model Hierarchies Workshop
2–3	Northeast Regional Operational Workshop
2–13	PICES 25th Anniversary Annual Meeting
3–11	Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference
7–18	WCRP Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (WGSIP) Session 18
7–18	WCRP Working Group on Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (WGSIP) Summer School
7–11	28th Conference on Severe Local Storms
10–12	Low Carbon Earth Summit (LCES-2016)
21–25	★School on Climate System Prediction and Regional Climate Information
26–3 Dec	International Conference on African Large River Basins Hydrology
28–30	Arctic CORDEX Meeting
28–30	Climate Variability Across Scales (CVAS)
28–1 Dec	PREFACE-PIRATA-CLIVAR Tropical Atlantic Variability Conference
28–3 Dec	★Summer School on Atmospheric Composition and Dynamics
30–2 Dec	WAVAS II Meeting
30–2 Dec	World Ocean Council Sustainable Ocean Summit
December 2016
2	Hans Sigrist Symposium 2016 - The Human Fingerprint on the Earth System
6–7	S2S Extremes Workshop 2016 Workshop on Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Predictability of Extreme Weather and Climate

6–8	★CommOCEAN 2016: 2nd International Marine Science Communication Conference and Training Course
10–11	GReenland Ice Sheet-Ocean interactions (GRISO) Network Meeting
10–11	Ice Sheet Model Intercomparison for CMIP6 (ISMIP6) Meeting
11	Earth System Model-Snow Model Intercomparison Project (ESM-SnowMIP) Meeting
12–16	American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting
January 2017
11–9 Feb	25th session of European Research Course on Atmospheres (ERCA)
16–21	★WCRP-JNU Training School on Monsoon Variability in Changing Climate
22–26	97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting: 'Obsevations lead the way'
February 2017
6–10	GEWEX Scientific Steering Group Meeting 29
12–17	Glacier Model Intercomparison Project (MIP) Meeting
13–18	International Symposium on the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
March 2017
14–17	20th Panel Meeting of the Ocean Observations Panel for Climate (OOPC-20)
22–23	WDAC6 Session
27–29	4th Polar Prediction Workshop
April 2017
2–6	Aerosols, Clouds, Precipitation and Climate (ACPC) Workshop
3–5	Sea Ice Biogeochemistry Forum Meeting
19–21	Third A-Train Symposium
23–28	European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2017
May 2017
7–9	★PAGES 3rd Young Scientists Meeting (YSM)
9–13	PAGES' 5th Open Science Meeting
30–2 Jun	★Climate, Oceans and Society Challenges & Opportunities
July 2017
10–14	Regional Sea-level Changes and Coastal Impacts
31–4 Aug	WCRP Earth System Model Evaluation Workshop
August 2017
28–1 Sep	Fourth International Conference on Earth System Modelling (4ICESM)
October 2017
2–6	IMBER IMBIZO V
9–13	Pan-WCRP modelling meeting
9–13	WCRP Joint WGCM-WGSIP-WGNE-OMDP Meeting

For more information see the WCRP Calendar
Organizing a WCRP-related meeting or event that is not listed here? Let us know!

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