Welcome to the AGU special edition of WCRP News!

This issue of WCRP News is focused on the WCRP community's presence at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, which will take place in Washington D.C. from 10-14 December 2018.

Below, we invite you to our Town Hall on 'International Climate Science in the Next Decade', which is presented together with the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), where we will discuss the future of climate science including in the context of the WCRP Strategic Plan. We provide details on how to meet members of the WCRP community at the WCRP exhibition booth and at a range of WCRP-related sessions and side meetings.

We also wish all of you the very best for the upcoming holidays!

WCRP Joint Planning Staff

Town Hall at AGU 2018

WCRP, USGCRP, and NASEM jointly invite you to a Town Hall discussion at the upcoming AGU Fall Meeting. The Town Hall will take place on Tuesday, 11 December, 6:15-7:15 pm, in the "Archives" room of the Marriott Marquis Hotel adjacent to the conference venue. Please find the abstract and a link to the corresponding AGU programme entry below.

International Climate Science in the Next Decade: A Vision from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM)

Guy P Brasseur (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Amanda H Lynch (Brown University), J Michael Kuperberg (US Global Change Research Program), Amanda C Staudt (National Academy of Sciences)

Abstract: Climate science is already being called upon to provide the knowledge required for wise mitigation and adaptation decision-making in a changing world. This need will grow, and addressing the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities that arise will require a worldwide effort, a prepared scientific workforce, and strong global partnerships.

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), and National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) play important roles in the development and coordination of future climate change research. This Town Hall will: outline and seek input to the WCRP vision and strategic plan as WCRP enters its fifth decade of international climate research coordination; highlight the process and progress of the USGCRP triennial strategic plan update and opportunities for engagement; and review the recent work of the NASEM in engaging the scientific community and identifying future research needs. Together we welcome AGU community input into the development and implementation of these plans, as well as ideas for how best to conduct international climate science into the future.

Link to the AGU schedule

Registration is not mandatory, but you can inform us in advance by registering here:

WCRP Strategic Plan Update

The draft WCRP Strategic Plan 2019-2028 has now been finalized by the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) and is awaiting approval from the WCRP Co-sponsors: the World Meteorological Organization, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO and the International Science Council. Until this approval is obtained, the document remains in draft status.

We thank everyone who provided suggestions and feedback on the draft WCRP Strategic Plan in the last year. To those of you who submitted comments as part of the public consultation, those comments (in anonymous form) and JSC responses to them are now available online: WCRP Strategic Plan public consultation responses.

AGU Exhibition Booth

Please come and see us at Exhibition Booth 557 at the following times:

Monday	December 10	6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Tuesday	December 11	10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Wednesday	December 12	10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Thursday	December 13	10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
Friday	December 14	9:30 AM – 1:30 PM

See the map of AGU exhibition booths

The WCRP booth is located in the bottom row, five booths from the far left.

From Tuesday to Friday (12:00-13:30), WCRP invites you to a "Meet & Greet" with WCRP activity leaders. Please stop by at the WCRP booth during or outside these Meet & Greet hours. Details will be continuously updated at www.wcrp-climate.org/wcrp-agu2018/booth

WCRP-related Sessions and side meetings at AGU

We have compiled a list of WCRP-related sessions and side meetings taking place at the AGU Fall Meeting 2018. A continuously updated list is available on the WCRP website.

Know of a session or meeting that we missed? Please let us know.

Pre-AGU Meetings

Start time	End time	Session ID	Title and link
Sunday, 9 December
08:00	16:00	WS31	8th Annual Meeting of the Permafrost Carbon Network
08:30	17:00	input4MIPs	input4MIPs planning meeting
08:30	19:00	Workshop on Greenland Freshwater Fluxes	Workshop on Greenland Freshwater Fluxes
		ISMIP6	ISMIP6

Monday, 10 December

Start time	End time	Session ID	Title and link
08:00	10:00	H11B	Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Environment
08:00	10:00	C11A	Advances in Ice Sheet-Ocean Interactions: From Measurements to Climate Impacts I
08:00	08:15	A11C-01	A Multi-model Operational Forecasting System for Air Quality in Eastern China (Highlighted)
10:20	12:20	H12B	Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Environment
10:20	12:20	C12B	Advances in Ice Sheet-Ocean Interactions: From Measurements to Climate Impacts II
13:40	18:00	H13H	Advances in Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Environment
13:40	18:00	A13M	Progress in Reanalysis: Development, Evaluation, and Application II Posters
13:40	15:40	A13B	Air Pollution, Aerosol, and Climate Interactions in Asia III
16:00	18:00	GC14C	From Hazard to Risk: Indicators of Climate and Weather Extremes for Impacts I
16:00	18:00	A14G	Progress in Reanalysis: Development, Evaluation, and Application I
16:45	19:00	A14G-04	WCRP Task team for the Intercomparison of ReAnalyses (TIRA): Motivation and Progress
		GlacierMIP meeting at AGU	GlacierMIP meeting at AGU

Tuesday, 11 December

Start time	End time	Session ID	Title and link
08:00	10:00	B21A	Agricultural systems: links between hydrology and biogeochemical cycling
08:00	10:00	H21A	Advances in quantifying impacts and extents of land-use/land-cover change on hydrology
08:00	12:20	C21C	Advances in Ice Sheet-Ocean Interactions: From Measurements to Climate Impacts Posters
10:20	12:20	B22B	Agricultural systems: links between hydrology and biogeochemical cycling
10:20	12:20	B22D	Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change I (Oral)
12:30	13:30	TH23H	Process Understanding and Climate Extremes Analysis for CMIP6
12:30	13:30	TH23K	Using Observationally Based Metrics to Evaluate and Improve Earth System Model Precipitation
12:30	13:30	TH23E	NASA Earth Science Division Town Hall Session
13:40	15:40	H23A	Hydrologic Data Assimilation
13:40	18:00	A23K	Insights on Clouds, Convection, and Climate Sensitivity from Idealized Modeling Studies I Posters
13:40	18:00	A23N	Weather and Climate Modeling Across Scales: From Global to Convection-Permitting I (Posters)
16:00	18:00	GC24C	Taking the temperature of the Earth: Challenges, trends, and applications across all Earth surface domains
16:00	18:00	IN24A	Climate Informatics: Methods and Applications I

Wednesday, 12 December

Start time	End time	Session ID	Title and link
08:00	10:00	A31A	Atmospheric Trace Species in the Stratosphere: Distribution, trends, variability, and processes related to stratospheric ozone and climate
08:00	10:00	A31F	Urban and regional air quality: Emissions, land surface forcing, and meteorological impacts
08:00	10:00	GC31C	The Rate of Global Warming on Decadal to Multidecadal Timescales: Hiatus Events, Surge Events, and Climate Sensitivity
08:00	10:00	A31E	Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction of Weather and Climate I
08:00	12:20	B31E	Vulnerability of Permafrost Carbon to Climate Change II (Posters)
08:00	12:20	IN31C	Climate Informatics: Methods and Applications Posters
08:00	12:20	GC31G	The Human Process and Wicked Problems in Earth’s Future Posters
08:00	12:20	GC31F-1319	Step or Trend? Detecting and Analyzing Structural Breaks in the Evolution of Arctic Open Water
09:00	09:15	A31B-05	Evolution of surface emissions in China and impact on changes in air quality
10:20	12:20	A32A	Atmospheric Trace Species in the Stratosphere: Distribution, trends, variability, and processes related to stratospheric ozone and climate
10:20	12:20	A32E	Urban and regional air quality: Emissions, land surface forcing, and meteorological impacts
10:20	12:20	A32C	Mesoscale and severe convective storms: understanding, and model development and evaluation
10:20	12:20	A32F	Weather and Climate Modeling across Scales: from Global to Convection-Permitting
10:20	12:20	GC32A	Environmental, Socioeconomic, and Climatic Changes in Northern Eurasia I
10:20	12:20	GC32B	Large Ensemble Climate Model Simulations: Exploring Natural Variability, Climate Change Signal, Extremes, and Compound Events at Various Spatiotemporal Scales
10:20	12:20	A32D	Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction of Weather and Climate II
10:20	12:20	A32F	Weather and Climate Modeling Across Scales: From Global to Convection-Permitting II
12:05	12:20	A32F-08	The WCRP Water for the Food Baskets Grand Challenge and Convection-Permitting modelling
13:40	15:40	A33F	Urban and regional air quality: Emissions, land surface forcing, and meteorological impacts
13:40	18:00	B33G	Agricultural systems: links between hydrology and biogeochemical cycling
13:40	15:40	GC33B	How Can Global Change Research Inform National Security Decision-Making?
13:40	15:40	H33D	Global Synthesis of Land-surface Fluxes under Natural and Human-altered Watersheds using Budyko Framework
13:40	18:00	ED33E-1131	The Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) community (POSTER)
13:40	15:40	A33E	Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction of Weather and Climate III
13:40	15:40	A33D	High-Resolution Weather and Climate Modeling on Large Supercomputers II
16:00	18:00	H34A	Advances in Integrated Observations, Modeling and Predictions for Weather, Climate, and Impact Assessments
16:00	18:00	A34F	Insights on Clouds, Convection, and Climate Sensitivity from Idealized Modeling Studies II
19:00	20:30	Water for the Food Baskets	AGU side meeting on Water for the Food Baskets of the World Grand Challenge

Thursday, 13 December

Start time	End time	Session ID	Title and link
08:00	12:20	A41I	Atmospheric Trace Species in the Stratosphere: Distribution, trends, variability, and processes related to stratospheric ozone and climate
08:00	10:00	A41D	Interactions between Land-surface, Convective Boundary Layer, Clouds and Aerosols – Linking Observations with Models
08:00	10:00	A41E	Multi-sensor, Model, and Measurement Synergy: Aerosol Sources and Their Environmental Effects
08:00	10:00	C41B	Modeling of the Cryosphere: Seasonal Snow
08:00	12:20	A41L	Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction of Weather and Climate IV Posters
10:20	12:20	A42C	Land-atmosphere interactions of the Tibetan Plateau and their impacts on weather and climate
13:40	15:40	A43F	Observations and Modeling of the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
13:40	15:40	A43G	Quantifying and reducing the uncertainties in the aerosol forcing of climate
13:40	18:00	C43C	Observing, Modelling, Diagnosing, and Predicting Hydrological and Earth System Change in Cold Regions
13:40	15:40	OS43B	Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts and Flooding I
16:00	18:00	A44D	Quantifying and reducing the uncertainties in the aerosol forcing of climate
16:00	18:00	H44A	Applications of GRACE / GRACE-FO Missions in Terrestrial Hydrology
16:00	18:00	H44C	Coupling water and carbon cycles in a changing environment
16:00	18:00	H44E	Monitoring and modeling spatial patterns in hydrology: Integrating distributed earth observations for the seamless calibration and evaluation of hydrological and land surface models
16:00	18:00	A44F	Role of Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction in Regional Climate Variability and Change I
16:00	18:00	OS44B	Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts and Flooding II

Friday, 14 December

Start time	End time	Session ID	Title and link
08:00	12:20	A51Q	Quantifying and reducing the uncertainties in the aerosol forcing of climate
08:00	10:00	C51B	Observing, Modelling, Diagnosing, and Predicting Hydrological and Earth System Change in Cold Regions
08:00	10:00	GC51B	The Third Pole Environment (TPE) under Global Changes
08:00	12:20	OS51E	Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts and Flooding Posters
10:20	12:20	A52B	Arctic Energy Balance and Relevant Atmosphere and Surface Processes: Current Understanding and Challenges
10:20	12:20	C52B	Observing, Modelling, Diagnosing, and Predicting Hydrological and Earth System Change in Cold Regions
10:20	12:20	GC52C	The Third Pole Environment (TPE) under Global Changes
13:40	15:40	A53D	Polar Atmospheric Processes and Their Interactions with Land, Ice, and Ocean
15:25	15:40	A53D-08	The Response of Polar Cyclone Intensification to Changing Sea Ice and Sea Surface Temperature
16:00	18:00	A54E	Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling: Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics and Transport
16:00	18:00	GC54C	The Third Pole Environment (TPE) under Global Changes
16:00	18:00	GC54B	The Global Water Cycle: linkages of ocean salinity with the atmosphere and terrestrial hydrology
16:00	18:00	PA54B	International Science Addressing Global Agenda 2030

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