Find calls for abstracts in areas of GEWEX-related science below. Meetings with abstract submission deadlines list sessions of interest to the GEWEX community.
Meetings
- 2nd GEWEX Earth’s Energy Imbalance Assessment Workshop
- 46th Scientific Assembly of the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) and Associated Events (COSPAR 2026)
Journals/Reports
- Special Issue Earth System Science Data: Hydrometeorological data from mountain and alpine research catchments
- Special Edition on Recent Advances in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX) Sciences
- Special Issue for the 5th Baltic Earth Conference
- Scientific Reports on Compound extreme events Collection
2nd GEWEX Earth’s Energy Imbalance Assessment Workshop
Dates: 1–5 June 2026
Location: Pasadena, CA, USA
Abstract Submission: Opens in November 2025
The approach adopted in the GEWEX-Earth Energy Imbalance (EEI) assessment is to design an intercomparison of EEI estimates and associated uncertainty. This intercomparison enables progress on:
- Assessing the quality of different EEI records
- Understanding the sources of uncertainty in different EEI estimates
- Understanding the causes for the spread in EEI estimates
- Quantifying and understanding EEI time variability including trends
- Improving regional earth energy and heat uptake estimates
Main Goals for this workshop:
- Assess closure of Earth’s energy budget from the top of the atmosphere to the bottom of the ocean.
- Advance our understanding of the causes of ocean heat content and energy balance variations.
- Explain the spread across EEI estimates; derive and recommend methods that reduce and quantify EEI uncertainty.
- Identify gaps, challenges and opportunities for the EEI observing system of the future.
EEI assessment Workshop Themes include:
- Theme 1: Science of Earth’s Energy Imbalance
- Theme 2: Advances in global and regional estimation of ocean heat content
- Theme 3: Earth radiation at the TOA, surface and in the atmosphere
- Theme 4: Earth’s heat inventory – deep ocean, land, atmosphere and cryosphere
- Theme 5: Energy and Water Cycle Linkages and their impact on EEI
- Theme 6: Future Ocean, ERB & EEI Observing Systems
Dates: 1–9 August 2026
Location: Florence, Italy
Abstract Submission Deadline: 13 February 2026 (submission opens 8 November 2025)
The theme of COSPAR 2026, “Sustainable Space Research for the Planet”, underscores the collective responsibility to pursue scientific advancement with a deep awareness of our environmental impact. Approximately 150 meetings will cover the fields of COSPAR Scientific Commissions, Panels, and Task Groups, including “The Earth’s Surface, Meteorology and Climate”.
Topics:
- SC A: The Earth’s Surface, Meteorology and Climate
- SC B: The Earth-Moon System, Planets, and Small Bodies of the Solar System
- SC C: The Upper Atmospheres of the Earth and Planets Including Reference Atmospheres
- SC D: Space Plasmas in the Solar System, Including Planetary Magnetospheres
- SC E: Research in Astrophysics from Space
- SC F: Life Sciences as Related to Space
- SC G: Materials Sciences in Space
- SC H: Fundamental Physics in Space
- Panel on Satellite Dynamics (PSD)
- Panel on Scientific Ballooning (PSB)
- Panel on Potentially Environmentally Detrimental Activities in Space (PEDAS)
- Panel on Radiation Belt Environment Modelling (PRBEM)
- Panel on Space Weather (PSW)
- Panel on Planetary Protection (PPP)
- Panel on Capacity Building (PCB)
- Panel on Education (PE)
- Panel on Exploration (PEX)
- Panel on Interstellar Research (PIR)
- Panel on Innovative Solutions (PoIS)
- Panel on IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility) (PIDEA)
- Panel on Establishing a Constellation of Small Satellites (PCSS)
- Panel on Machine Learning and Data Science (PMLDS)
- Panel on Early Careers and International Space Societies (PECISS)
- Task Group on Establishing an International Geospace Systems Program (TGIGSP)
Special Issue for the 5th Baltic Earth Conference
Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science
Research Topic: New Challenges for Baltic Sea Earth System Research
Deadlines:
Manuscript Summary Submission: 10 December 2024 and,
Manuscript Submission: 30 March 2025 Extended, no date specified
The Baltic Sea is an intracontinental marginal sea in Northern Europe, with particular properties which set it apart from most other marginal seas and coastal regions, such as its pronounced salinity dynamics and unique biogeochemical features. But at the same time, it has been one of the best observed and modeled marine and coastal regions in the world and it can serve as an example and provide case studies for other heavily populated coastal regions worldwide.
The Research Topic is rooted in the 5th Baltic Earth Conference in Jurmala, Latvia, 13-17 May 2024, inciting “New Challenges for Baltic Sea Earth System Research”. Contributions from the conference but also welcome manuscripts from other coastal sea regions worldwide related to:
- Biogeochemistry of the Baltic Sea
- Natural hazards and extreme events
- Sea level dynamics, sediment dynamics, coastal processes and impacts on coasts
- Human impacts, interactions and management options
- Modeling past and future climate changes and teleconnections
- Small scale processes not yet resolved and their impact on the large scale dynamics and patterns
- Comparing marginal seas worldwide
- Philosophical aspects of Baltic Sea Earth system research
For more information, see the conference website: https://baltic.earth/jurmala2024
Special Edition on Recent Advances in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX) Sciences
The Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ) and Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA) announce a joint special edition on “Recent Advances in the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Sciences.”
In coordination with the 9th GEWEX Open Science Conference (OSC) held in Sapporo, Japan, in July 2024, this special edition aims to be a forum to accommodate the latest research, methodologies, and advancements in GEWEX-related studies, with broad focus on their atmospheric or meteorological aspects as appropriate to JMSJ and SOLA. Any paper topically relevant to the Global Energy and Water Exchanges is welcome regardless of the authors’ participation in the 9th GEWEX OSC.
Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ)
- Submission at https://link.springer.com/journal/44394/updates/27729594
- Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025
- Expected Publication in 2026
Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere
- Submission at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sola
- Submission deadlines: 31 October 2025 (SOLA)
- Expected publication in 2025
Special Issue on Hydrometeorological data from mountain and alpine research catchments
Submission Opens: January 2025
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025
Editors: J. Pomeroy and D. Marks
The Journal on Earth System Scienc Data (ESSD) special issue responded to an international need to improve the understanding and modelling of mountain snow and ice hydrological processes. This initiative arises from a new GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel cross-cut project – INARCH, the International Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology (www.usask.ca/inarch ). The guest editors invite contributions of openly available detailed meteorological and hydrological observational archives from long-term research catchments at high temporal resolution (at least 5 years of continuous data with hourly sampling intervals for meteorological data, daily precipitation and streamflow, and regular snow and/or glacier mass balance surveys) in well-instrumented mountain regions around the world. Contributors and researchers will use this mountain hydrology data publication special issue for the benefit of global alpine hydrological research.
Scientific Reports for the Compound extreme events Collection
Journal: Scientific Reports – Springer Nature Group Programme
Research: Compound extreme events Collection
Submission deadline: 30 April 2026
This Collection welcomes original research on compound extreme events, including dynamics, forecasting and risk assessment, but also strategies to mitigate their impact. Modelling and estimation studies supported by observational data will also be considered.
