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In this issue, we meet the new WCRP Joint Scientific Committee leadership, share our plans to celebrate the 40th anniversary of WCRP with a Climate Science Week at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting in December and highlight Dame Julia Slingo's vision for climate science in the 21st century.
WCRP Joint Planning Staff
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We are delighted to announce that the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) has elected Professor Detlef Stammer as its Chair and Dr Helen Cleugh as its Vice-chair for the next two years. Detlef Stammer is a Professor at the Institute of Oceanography and the Director of the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN), both at the University of Hamburg, Germany. Helen Cleugh is Director of the Climate Science Centre in the Ocean and Atmosphere Division of CSIRO, Australia’s national science agency.
One of the main goals of the JSC in 2019 will be to implement the WCRP Strategic Plan and transition WCRP into a new phase of operation. This builds on the work of the previous JSC, under the leadership of Professors Guy Brasseur (Chair) and Amanda Lynch (Vice-chair). We thank Guy Brasseur, Amanda Lynch and all the previous members of the WCRP JSC for their dedication and hard work in developing the Strategic Plan and in successfully leading WCRP in its role as a voice of the international climate science community. More information is available on the WCRP website.
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Credits: UHH/CEN/D. Außerhofer (Detlef Stammer), CSIRO (Helen Cleugh).
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8 May 2019
WMO Headquarters, Geneva
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is launching a series of public science lectures, under the leadership of WMO Chief Scientist Pavel Kabat. World-leading experts in the fields of weather, climate, water, the environment, and other related areas will be invited under this initiative to lecture and dialogue with the WMO community, partner organizations and other Earth system professionals.
We cordially invite you to join us for the inaugural lecture, which will be co-organized with WCRP. Professor Thomas Stocker, Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern and former Co-chair of Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will present a lecture, which will be followed by a panel discussion that will include representatives of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee.
More details on the event will follow. Please save the date and register below.
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American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 2019, San Francisco, USA
8-13 December
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) was founded in 1980 as a follow up to deliberations at the first World Climate Conference in 1979. Over the next four decades, WCRP would bring scientists together to address the most challenging questions about our climate and continues to ensure that the best climate science is available for the benefit of society.
The coming year will be both a time of celebration, looking back at the many success stories of WCRP, and a time to refocus and look to the future. As part of a series of WCRP events to mark this great milestone, we invite you to join our 'WCRP Climate Science Week' that will take place at the AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco this December. This will include a WCRP 40th Anniversary Symposium and WCRP-branded science sessions, town halls and a union session on WCRP themes — all within the AGU Fall Meeting program. More details are provided below.
We hope to see you there!
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The WCRP Climate Science Week will include:
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WCRP 40th Anniversary Symposium
Sunday 8 December
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In collaboration with AGU, we invite you to take part in our event to celebrate 40 years of WCRP climate science. The symposium will include keynote talks and will officially launch a new phase of WCRP Science. The perfect start to your AGU Fall Meeting week!
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Image: Opening of the World Climate Conference 1979 (WMO), cover of the resulting report (WMO) and a news snippet about the conference in the New York Times.
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Science Sessions and Workshops
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Please consider proposing WCRP-branded science sessions and workshops at the AGU Fall Meeting. To mark your session proposal as WCRP-branded, just select WCRP as a sponsoring organization (see how).
Session proposals are now open and close on 17 April 2019. Please let us know if you plan to propose a WCRP branded session by emailing wcrp@wmo.int.
Find out how to:
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Town Halls and AGU Union Session
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As part of the WCRP Climate Science Week at the AGU Fall Meeting, we will be proposing a number of town halls to discuss:
- Fundamental understanding of the climate system
- Prediction of the short and near-term evolution of climate
- Future evolution of the climate system
- Bridging climate science and society
An AGU Union Session is also proposed to discuss ways in which the climate research community, across the many sections of AGU, can move forward on a new research agenda for the coming decades.
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Nature Climate Change talks to Dame Julia Slingo, leader of the 2018 Review of the World Climate Research Programme, about the achievements and future directions of WCRP.
Dame Slingo highlights WCRP's strength in community engagement, stating that it is essential that WCRP "addresses key scientific problems with explicit societal relevance, which need to be addressed urgently, through international cooperation." She says that "WCRP is needed more now than ever before" and "must continue to play its critical advocacy role, interacting strategically with research funders and governments to ensure that society has access to the best possible scientific evidence." Read more on the WCRP website. |
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The Working Group 1 (WG1) contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th Assessment Report (AR6) is now well underway. There are some key areas where further contributions are needed, such as on the closure of important budgets and cycles (the energy budget and the carbon and hydrological cycles) and, particularly, on the distinction between sea surface temperatures and near-surface air temperatures over the oceans.
You can find out more about how to contribute on the WCRP website. It is important to note that the cutoff date for literature submission for inclusion in AR6 WG1 is 31st December 2019.
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A few selected science highlights:
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CMIP6 Model Analysis Workshop. 25-28 March 2019, Barcelona, Spain.
Workshop on physical modeling supporting a “storyline approach”. 24-26 April 2019. Oslo, Norway.
40th Session of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee. 6-10 May 2019. Geneva, Switzerland.
Workshop on Correlated Extremes at Columbia University. 28-31 May 2019. New York, USA. Registration open until April 30.
International Conference on Regional Climate, ICRC-CORDEX 2019. 14-18 October 2019, Beijing, China. Abstract submission now open. Deadline: April 30, 2019
Summer School at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Climate Extremes and Risk Management. 21 October - 1 November 2019. Nanjing, China. Deadline for applications is 28 March 2019.
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We are delighted to announce that Dr. Beatriz Balino (left) has been appointed as the new science coordinator of the WCRP Coordination Office of Regional Activities (CORA) hosted at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR) in Bergen, Norway. Please see the full news item.
We would also like to wish Lawrence Hislop, previous Executive Director of the Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) International Project Office (IPO), all the best for his new endeavors. Lawrence did an excellent job of leading the CliC office and will be very much missed. Gwénaëlle Hamon will be in charge of the CliC IPO until a new Director is appointed.
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Thank you for your continued interest in WCRP and our newsletter! We are always eager to feature news from WCRP projects, scientists, or partners in our newsletter. In case you would like to contribute an article, please let us know.
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