Welcome to the latest edition of WCRP News!
In this issue:
- Find out about the development of WCRP's 2019-2029 Strategic Plan
- Breaking news: 2017 Modelling and Data Prizes awarded
- Core Project spotlight: SPARC and how it fosters atmospheric research
- Science-policy nexus: WCRP's engagement with the Antarctic Treaty and Arctic Council
- Missed a meeting? Read the summary here:
- 5th International Conference on Reanalysis (13-17 November)
- WCRP at COP23 (6-17 November)
- Science Summit on Seamless Research for Weather, Climate, Water and Environment (20-22 October)
- Pan-WCRP modelling meeting (9-13 September)
- Sea Level Statement (outcome of the Sea Level Conference, 10-14 July)
- Highlights from WCRP partners:
- ICSU and ISSC to merge into the "International Science Council"
- Global Carbon Budget published
- Science portraits: Women leaders in weather, water and climate research
- News from WCRP projects and activities
- WCRP Science Spotlight
- News from partner initiatives
- WCRP meetings and calendar
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WCRP Strategic Plan
The development of the next WCRP Strategic Plan (for the period 2019-2029) is now underway. WCRP community consultation began in September and will soon extend to external partners. We thank all those who responded to the initial survey, which received around 50 responses and will be highly useful for the writing stages. The Strategic Plan's first draft will be made widely available for comment. You can keep informed on schedule and progress – as well as on the accompanying 2019-2024 implementation plan – on the WCRP website.
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2017 Modelling and Data Prizes awarded
In breaking news, the 2017 WCRP/WWRP International Prize for Model Development has been awarded to Dr Martin Vancoppenolle (left photo) from Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, France; and the WCRP/GCOS International Data Prize 2017 been awarded to Dr Markus Donat (right photo) from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Click the respective links for details.
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SPARC:
Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate
SPARC, one of WCRP's four core projects, provides intellectual leadership to address key issues in atmospheric dynamics and predictability, chemistry and climate, and long-term records for climate understanding. SPARC contributes significantly to international assessments, providing cutting-edge knowledge of direct relevance to decision-makers. Find out all about SPARC in this edition of WCRP's core project spotlight.
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Highlighting WCRP policy relevance:
the Antarctic Treaty and Arctic Council
WCRP regularly provides scientific input to high-level policy fora. Through the World Meteorological Organization, one of WCRP's sponsors, WCRP science is considered in two major policy processes for the polar regions: the Antarctic Treaty and the Arctic Council. Read a full highlight of WCRP input to the Antarctic Treaty and the Arctic Council here.
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2. Meeting summaries and outcomes
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5th International Conference on Reanalysis (ICR5)
From 13–17 November, 250 participants gathered at the Angelicum in Rome to present latest research on all aspects of reanalyses. For links to video recordings from ICR5 and a full conference report, click here.
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WCRP involvement at COP23
WCRP was represented at COP23 by its science chair, its acting director, and several contributing WCRP scientists. Read an overview over WCRP involvement at COP23 here, and a detailed account of a side event on habitability limits (co-organized with ICSU) here.
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Science Summit on Seamless Research for Weather, Climate, Water and Environment
From 20–22 October, the WMO’s Commission for Atmospheric Sciences held a “Science Summit” at WMO headquarters. It was attended by both the Chair and Vice-Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. To read the full summary, click here.
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1st Pan-WCRP Modelling Meeting
At the initiative of the WCRP Modelling Advisory Council (WMAC), a Pan-WCRP modelling meeting took place from 9–13 September at the UK MetOffice. The meeting brought together – for the first time in WCRP history – all its modelling working groups. To read the full summary, click here.
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Sea Level Statement
The "Sea Level 2017 Conference Statement" is an output of the WCRP/IOC Sea Level 2017 Conference. 273 signatories from 37 countries recognize that sea-level rise has accelerated over the past 100 years due to global warming. Find out more by clicking here.
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3. Highlights from WCRP partners
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Global Carbon Budget published
The Global Carbon Budget 2017 has been published last month by the Global Carbon Project. It estimates that global CO2 emissions in 2017 will increase by 2%, after three years of almost no growth. Global atmospheric CO2 concentration, averaged over 2016, reached 402.8 ppm. The Project's researchers include several scientists from the WCRP community. See the WCRP news article here.
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Present and future women leaders in climate science
A recent article in the WMO Bulletin spotlights the career paths of six present and future female leaders in weather, water and climate science. The article links up their career experiences with WMO's commitment to SDG #5 on gender equality and empowerment and discusses gender parity in climate science.
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4. News from WCRP projects and activities
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- CliC is soliciting offers to host its International Project Office from 1 July, 2018. See the full call for details.
- GEWEX is inviting abstract submissions for its 8th GEWEX Science Conference from 6-11 May 2018 in Canmore, Canada, themed "Extremes and Water on the Edge". Deadline: 18 Dec. 2018.
- CLIVAR is calling for applications for a 6-month internship in its international Global Project Office in Qingdao, China. Apply until 20 December.
- CORDEX recently relaunched its homepage, see www.cordex.org to even better find all CORDEX-related information.
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5. WCRP Science Spotlight
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- WCRP's Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP) just published an overview article of their work in AGU's Eos Earth & Space Science News, titled "Advancing Climate Forecasting".
- WCRP JSC member Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen and his team just published a paper on statistical considerations around Multimodel-Based Regional Climate Projections which has both implications for the way many modelling results are presented as well as connections to the work of CORDEX.
- A report on the 5th WGNE workshop on systematic errors in weather and climate models (held 19-23 June 2017 in Montreal, Canada) was recently published as early online release article in BAMS.
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6. News from partner initiatives
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- IOC/UNESCO, IMBER and SOLAS are among the co-sponsors of the 2018 symposium on "The Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans" (4th ECCWO Symposium). Submit your abstract until 15 December.
- The Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) invite nominations for the Scientific Steering Committee of the Southern Ocean Observing System (SOOS). Deadline: 1 Feb. 2018.
- With the EGU General Assembly 2018 deadline for abstract submission (10 Jan. 2018) around the corner, many WCRP-related programs prepare for special sessions. – For example, see an overview over PAGES' sessions at EGU2018 on the PAGES homepage ; and also see session AS3.24/CL2.07 which is inspired by two ongoing SPARC activities on ozone trends.
- IPCC issued a call for Volunteer Chapter Scientists for the upcoming IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), aimed primarily at both graduate students and recent graduates from developing countries. Apply until 17 December.
- Future Earth's Annual Report 2016/2017 was published in September this year.
- SOLAS announced its 2019 Open Science Conference for 21-25 April 2019 in Sapporo, Japan.
- The OceanObs'19 conference, which will take place in September 2019, has announced further details on the OceanObs'19 homepage.
- PAGES announced a four-day workshop for early-career researchers on "Impact of sea-level rise from past to future (iSLR)", in Utrecht, The Netherlands, from 26-29 August 2018.
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7. WCRP Meeting Highlights
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