The RFI (RFI is NNH23ZDA010L) requests information concerning data product continuity needs, capabilities, and gaps following the eventual loss/termination of the Terra, Aqua, and Aura satellite missions, and will be used in the planning of a data continuity workshop currently scheduled for 23–25 May 2023, to determine needs, evaluate current capabilities,
identify gaps, and specify potential actions. Please consider submitting a response. The deadline for responses is April 4, 2023.
If you have an idea for a novel, space-related activity (early technology development, a study, or co-sponsored research), submit it to the European Space Agency (ESA)'s OSIP. ESA will choose the most innovative ideas and help the selected applications channel their work into the most suitable implementation mechanism within ESA.
Evaluations are monthly, so there is no deadline for submission.
Baltic Earth calls for participation in a new Working Group on Teleconnection between the North Atlantic and Northern Europe and the Baltic Sea Region. Find out more about the working group at https://baltic.earth/working_groups/teleconnections/.
An initial meeting is planned where Baltic Earth will select a speaker and a co-speaker, agree on the scope of the working group, and then focus on the scientific output. A result of this first meeting could be identifying knowledge gaps and a first outline of a review article with dedicated author teams for the respective chapters. Interested
scientists are asked to notify Florian Börgel ([email protected]).
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 March 2023
The upcoming joint Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) and Global
Atmospheric System Studies (GASS) Meeting will focus on the following topics, considering process and climate studies, and models and observations across a range of scales:
Convective organization: What controls the organization of shallow and deep convection, and what role does it play in weather and climate?
Cloud processes: How do micro- to meso-scale processes control cloud phase, precipitation and cloud-radiative effects?
Clouds-circulation coupling: How do clouds couple to circulations and what role does this coupling play in weather and climate?
Climate feedbacks and sensitivity: How do clouds respond to external perturbations and what role does it play in climate change?
The conference will highlight the complementarity, for
answering those questions, of the suite of available models (LES, CRMs, GCMs, global CRMs, conceptual models) and observations (field campaigns, observatories, satellites).
The tropospheric lapse rate is the gradient of temperature though the troposphere. How will lapse rate change with global warming? How as it changed in a recent past? What mechanisms control the lapse
rate and its spatial distribution? Can past climate reconstructions of lapse rate better constrain its controlling mechanisms and its future variations?
The goal of this workshop is to investigate these questions by gathering different communities working on tropospheric lapse rate in tropical and subtropical regions. The idea of this workshop is to bolster interactions between different communities that seldomly interact, but who share the same science
objectives.
Precipitation drives the atmospheric storage, movement, and quality of water. It comprises the most challenging processes to estimate, model, and predict, because of its variability at all scales
and its evolving interactions with the water, energy, and carbon cycles under a changing climate. It is therefore a major component of uncertainty in weather predictions and climate projections, with significant implications for our ability to quantify water cycle dynamics, inform decision making, and predict hydro-geomorphic hazards in response to extremes. A key to these efforts is model-observations synergy to advance precipitation science by jointly enhancing the accuracy of modeled
processes and our insight into observations across space and time scales.
The agenda and other details on the conference are forthcoming. A free online IPC14 Early Career and Student Workshop will take place on May 24th, 2023, ahead of the in-person conference to facilitate an open, inclusive, and collaborative environment for students and young scientists in the field.
Global Water Futures (GWF) is delighted to announce the final in-person GWF Annual Open Science Meeting. At this meeting, GWF
will present the its penultimate results and start to outline the final synthesis of results into a user question-centric framework. As GWF projects and core teams near completion of their work, this meeting will focus on synthesizing the major outcomes of the program by bringing the community together to share activities, results, impacts, and stories. It will also be the launch of the newly funded Global Water Futures Observatories (GWFO) project that will allow many of the field and
laboratory research sites to continue operations and data management to 2029.
This Convection Permitting Climate Modeling (CPCM) Workshop aims to communicate advances in CPCM and our understanding of fine scale processes, how these influence/are influenced by larger
scale features, and to elucidate how climate change and its impacts are experienced at local scales. It will also address barriers to continued advancement and discuss how researchers can tailor CPCM advances to support adaptation efforts, vulnerability and impacts assessments, and downstream climate services.
Topics include:
Mountainous and high-latitude regions
Extremes and impacts
Model development (SRMs,
CPCMs, hybrid techniques)
CPCM for society, adaptation planning, and mitigating risk
Data access, accessibility and equitability in CPCM research
What have we learned from CPCM modeling and what is next
The purpose of the Baltic Sea Science Congress is to bring together scientists working on issues related to the Baltic Sea Region to present the most recent research and to discuss
status, trends, and the future of the Baltic Sea as well as future research needs. The specific focus is on the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The target audience of the Congress is scientists working within the field of natural science in relation to the Baltic Sea Region, or other coastal seas that are of general relevance to the topic of the Congress.
The International Conference on Regional Climate-CORDEX 2023 (ICRC-CORDEX 2023) will bring together the international regional climate research community,
focusing on high resolution climate information and its applications to vulnerability, impacts and adaptation, and the full spectrum of potential end users of regional climate information. It will promote the CORDEX vision to advance and coordinate the science and application of regional climate downscaling through global partnerships.
This special issue aims to improve the knowledge of Atmospheric Rivers (ARs) through the publication of groundbreaking papers that focus on innovative and original approaches to research; an example is an evaluation of the effects of AR-forced rainfall on small–medium-sized hydrological basins.
Submitted articles may address, but are not limited to, the following scientific topics:
Impact of ARs on heavy rainfall, heavy snowfall and associated floods over the midlatitude areas
Changes in the hydrological response of complex terrain due to ARs
A special focus on the Mediterranean basin: the features, occurrence, seasonality, and effects of ARs in this complex domain
AR-related storms in the contest of climate change
ARs as a key
operational product for nowcasting applications and flood risk management.
The main objective of the GEWEX-supported Land surface Interactions with the Atmosphere over the Iberian Semi-arid Environment (LIAISE) project is to improve the understanding of land-atmosphere-hydrology interactions in a semi-arid region characterized by strong surface heterogeneity owing to contrasts between the natural landscape and intensive agriculture. This conference invites contributions on topics that include:
Modeling studies
aimed at including anthropogenic processes (land surface, meteorological, or hydrological) within or including the LIAISE area addressing the main project objectives
Studies using observational data from the LIAISE field campaign
Applications using remote sensing data (from planes, drones, or satellites) to estimate irrigation requirements or evapotranspiration over the region
The evaluation of climate data records related to water and energy fluxes are often complicated by assumptions in satellite algorithms that lead to state dependent errors. These errors are notoriously difficult to quantify as their dependence on state variables
is rarely understood. This GEWEX-sponsored workshop will attempt to make progress in one area by focusing on the consistency, closure, and the underlying processes from both a satellite and a land model perspective. The workshop is thus intended not simply the components of the terrestrial water cycle, but how consistent it is as a function of state variables, including soil moisture, land surface temperature, turbulent fluxes, the boundary layer, and precipitation
processes.
In this session of the 5th Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) Symposium, space scientists and engineers are invited to share their expertise, vision, and predictions of the status and trends of small satellite missions for Earth observation with a focus on environmental monitoring.
Lagrangian analyses of clouds and other atmospheric phenomena provide significant potential to understand and constrain their full lifecycle. There exist a wide range of tools to detect and track clouds in observations and models. However,
most existing tools are restricted to specific data sources or use cases, limiting their broad applicability. The aim of this workshop is to discuss scientific applications and opportunities emerging from cloud tracking while at the same time providing an overview of key tools and datasets. Such key tools and datasets are expected to play an important role in the analysis of the observations from upcoming space missions focused on clouds and convection including EarthCare and others, as well as
with the model datasets arising from revolutionary development of k-scale models.
The aim of the workshop is to engage a wide community with expertise in radiometric remote sensing, satellite altimetry, space gravimetry, ocean in situ measurements, and ocean reanalysis to assess and intercompare
estimates of Earth’s energy imbalance (EEI) and their time variability and uncertainties. Topics addressed during the workshop include:
Status of the different EEI records and their associated uncertainty
The overarching goal of this workshop is to establish a regional project in Central Asia on hydroclimate, water resources, food security, conservation, and land use, led by regional scientists and stakeholders. An
important driver for that ambition is to better observe and predict climate change and its effects and to support adaptation and mitigation measures, in support of land use planning and sustainable food supply. Specific objectives include:
Identifying strengths and gaps in climate related agricultural research
Scenario building for a vision on mid long-term future (2050) on integrated water management and food security.
Starting to
build a regional network that includes early career researchers and students and identifies their current priorities for study
Convening climate, agricultural and hydrological researchers to share ongoing climate-related wicked problems and related actions
Sharing knowledge about remote sensing approaches to complement on-the-ground measurements of climate-related stresses to agriculture.
Identifying what is being measured and what is not
being measured, particularly in the areas of soil and water stresses from increasing temperatures and changes in precipitation and its consequences for land use, food security and biodiversity
Identifying connections with regional level climate projects
AOGS 2023 is the 20th AOGS annual convention, and will provide a unique opportunity to exchange scientific knowledge and discussion to address important geoscientific issues among academia, research institutions, and the public. A session of
interest to the GEWEX community is listed below:
Session HS03: The third pole environment and high mountains of Central Asia–Hydrometeorological processes and human dimension
The thematic core of the conference will circle around data exploitation, modeling, and management in a world of ever-increasing amount of geodata. A Baltic Earth-themed session on “Marginal
Seas Dynamics and Modeling” (including the Baltic Sea) is planned.
WCRP OSC 2023, Advancing Climate Science for a Sustainable Future, will take place in Rwanda. This conference is a once-in-a-decade opportunity for the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) communities to come together
and jointly explore the transformative actions urgently needed to ensure a sustainable future. It will showcase advances in climate science, identify gaps and opportunities, and provide a forum for communities to jointly develop future activities.
The ninth iteration of the Baltic Earth international Summer School will take place on the beautiful island of Askö in the Swedish skerries south of Stockholm. The course will focus on past and future changes in climate of the Baltic Sea region. Students will be
introduced to fundamental processes of the atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice, and land surface with relevance for the climate system. The school will start from basic principles and equations of motion that describe the circulation and dynamics in the atmosphere, ocean and sea-ice. The available knowledge in the literature about water and energy balances will be presented. Further basic methods of the analysis and modeling of the regional climate system will be introduced. A holistic Earth System
approach will be presented, although the main focus of the course is on the physical aspects of changing climate.
Baltic Earth is the international and interdisciplinary network of scientists and institutions for regional Earth system science in the Baltic Sea region. There is an open call for a young scientist to join the Baltic Earth Science Steering Group (BESSG) for a period of 3
years with the possibility of renewal. Young scientists (Ph.D. degree date plus up to 6 years) from any of the Baltic Earth research fields are encouraged to apply for this task. The full description of tasks can be seen in the BESSG Terms of Reference: https://baltic.earth/bessg. Interested candidates are asked to send a short (maximum 1 page) letter of motivation, a short scientific CV, a publication list as
well as names and e-mail addresses of two references to [email protected].
The Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University seeks a postdoctoral scientist to work with the Hurrell and Rasmussen research teams to conduct independent and collaborative research in the exciting and new interdisciplinary area of how climate variability and change influence
mesoscale weather systems, including proposed climate intervention strategies. This will include observational analyses and modeling studies assessing the future risk of extreme weather events, and how these events might be impacted by proposed climate intervention strategies.
The institute of Physics and Meteorology (IPM) at the University of Hohenheim is seeking a postdoc for the Land Atmosphere Feedback Observatory (LAFO) with a target start date
in early 2023, in order to perform research studies on land-atmosphere (L-A) interaction.
LAFO operates a worldwide unique synergy of in situ sensors, scanning wind, humidity and temperature lidar systems as well as radar systems. Due to its configuration as observatory, a characterization of the diurnal cycle, transitions, the mesoscale and seasonal variability of the cloud-free and cloudy planetary boundary layer (PBL) as well as the moisture and energy budgets will
be achieved. The results will be applied to study L-A feedback and to develop new parameterizations of L-A fluxes and turbulence including entrainment.
These objectives will be addressed in cooperation with an international research team that includes, among others, e.g., NOAA and NASA in the U.S., the GEWEX Global
Land/Atmosphere System Study (GLASS), and the Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling (LoCo) Working Group of the World Climate Research Programme.
McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is searching for an assistant professor. The successful candidate is expected to pursue research in various aspects of tropical-extratropical processes, such as but not limited to dynamics, moist processes, impacts on forecasting at all scales,
atmosphere-ocean interactions, and their changing nature under climate change, employing observations, modeling and/or theory.
The Department of Hydrology and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Arizona (UA) is seeking 3 motivated postdoctoral scholars in hydrology and atmospheric sciences. As part of the effort, the successful candidates will work with a team of investigators from the University of Arizona, other
universities, and/or federal agencies to improve hydrologic models and forecasting, as well as the coupling of land surface and atmospheric models to support Earth System Predictions.