Central Asia as a region is extremely vulnerable to Earth system change. The majority of its water resources are from summer melting of the regions’ mountain glaciers and annual snowpack. In a warming world, glacial extent and volume, as well as the snowpack, are declining.
Initial steps for the proposed Regional Hydroclimate Project (RHP) in Central Asia have been to identify the relevant scientific and socio-economic community, its interests, priorities, and current capabilities and capacities. For more information about the Central Asia initiative visit https://www.gewex.org/central-asia-initiative/.
Information and to register for he 4th Workshop on Central Asia can be found at https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/central_asia_2026/
The 9th GEWEX Water Vapor Assessment (G-VAP) Workshop is hosted by the Danish Meteorological Institute (DMI) in Copenhagen, Denmark and will take place from 22-23 April 2026.
The main objectives of the G-VAP are:
- Quantifying the state of the art in water vapour products being constructed for climate applications, and, by this
- Supporting GEWEX Data and Analysis Panel ‘s (GDAP’s) selection process of water vapor products for its generation of globally consistent water and energy cycle products.
All three GCOS Essential Climate Variables on water vapor are considered.
It has been a while since the G-VAP community last met. Thus, a key objective is to finally meet again and catch up. Else, the objectives of the 9th G-VAP workshop are to:
- Discuss latest results from analysis of atmospheric water vapour and its role in the climate system
- Finalize the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) report on G-VAP results
- Discuss and plan the future of G-VAP
- Liaise with related initiatives and projects
For additional information and to register and to submit your abstract, please visit https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/gvap2026/
The 2026 S2S Land-atmosphere Interactions Workshop, Advancing Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Processes on S2S Predictability, is a follow-on to the 2025 summer workshop.
The 2026 Workshop will focus on the role of land–atmosphere interactions in predictability at subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) timescales (here defined as two weeks to three months). Building on last year’s outcomes, the workshop will bring together researchers, modelers and practitioners working on:
- Process-oriented metrics for evaluating land–atmosphere interactions in S2S models
- Application-oriented metrics to assess user-relevant aspects of S2S prediction
- Experimental protocols for coordinated S2S land–atmosphere experiments
- Demonstrations and early results applying these metrics and protocols in S2S modeling systems
- Community regionally refined simulations
- Applications of S2S forecasts to agriculture, water resources, wildfire, heatwave, extreme rainfall, and more
The program will include a mix of science and applications talks, working-group showcases, discussion of coordinated experiments, and planning for future community efforts.
2026 Pan-GLASS Conference
Back to the Drawing Board: From Fundamentals to Improved Models of the Coupled Land-Atmosphere System
The GEWEX Global Land-Atmosphere System Studies Panel (GLASS) will hold its first Pan-GLASS Conference “Back to the Drawing Board: From Fundamentals to Improved Models of the Coupled Land-Atmosphere System” (Pan-GLASS 2026). This conference is organized and performed by the Institute of Physics and Meteorology of the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart, Germany, and the GLASS Panel with support of the International GEWEX Project Office of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) and will take place in Stuttgart from 06-09 July 2026.
Pan-GLASS 2026 will bring together experts on earth system, weather, and climate research, soil and vegetation processes, surface fluxes, planetary boundary layer transport processes, clouds and precipitation, and machine learning. At the conference, observationalists, theoreticians, and modelers will join to discuss the key issues of land-atmosphere science. The program will include all aspects and methods of modeling and observing land-atmosphere interactions across different temporal-spatial scales: e.g., from diurnal to decadal; from ground-based measurements to satellite data; from large-eddy simulations to global earth system models. The topical areas will cover a wide spectrum from process understanding to parametrization development such as surface fluxes and their driving variables, the effects of land surface heterogeneity, evapotranspiration and entrainment, cloud and precipitation feedbacks; advanced observations including data processing and quality control; and idealized modeling to operational forecasting from subseasonal to seasonal, and prediction from seasonal to decadal and century and even longer timescales. The key objectives of this conference are to connect the land-atmosphere interactions community as well as to achieve progress in the understanding and modeling of the land-atmosphere system, to coordinate current international initiatives and make plans for the future.
EGU26 Dates: 3–8 May 2026 Location: Vienna, Austria, and Online The EGU General Assembly 2026 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience.
Session of interest to the GEWEX Community:
Measurement and Modeling of Soil Processes Across Scales Co-organized by GI5/HS13 Convener: Mahyar NaseriECS Co-conveners: Nima Shokri, Lutz Weihermueller, Yan Jin
This session focuses on the measurement and modeling of soil properties and processes across landscapes, from the pore scale to the field or watershed scale. Organized in collaboration with the International Soil Modeling Consortium (ISMC), the session invites contributions that:
- Measure soil physical and chemical properties in the lab, field, or watershed using tools such as micro-scale imaging, in-situ soil sensors, drones, geophysical methods, radars, and remote sensing platforms.
- Model soil processes using analytical, empirical, statistical, or numerical approaches that link processes across scales, including upscaling and downscaling strategies to address heterogeneity in infiltration, evaporation, salinity dynamics, gas transport, and subsurface mass and energy fluxes.
- Investigate spatiotemporal changes in vadose zone properties at different scales through measurement or modeling campaigns, focusing on natural variability or human-driven changes such as climate variability, sea level rise and salinity intrusion, droughts, freeze-thaw cycles, heavy agricultural machinery impacts, and land management practices in forests, agricultural fields, wetlands, coastal zones, grasslands, deserts, urban soils, and mountainous regions.
Impact of Extreme Events on Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchanges Conveners: Pramit Kumar, Inke Forbrich, Rahul Kashyap, Kazuhito Ichii
This session invites submissions addressing the different aspects of the influence of extreme events on the ecosystem-atmosphere exchanges of gases and energy across scales. Encouraged are long-term measurements to identify such episodes of ‘disturbance’ and examine their impacts on the biosphere-atmosphere exchanges. In addition, submissions are encouraged that leverage in-situ or remotely sensed observations, and ecosystem or Earth system models to identify, measure, and simulate suc
The topic of the next session of the Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change (EPESC) Webinar Series is Characterising observational uncertainties.
Speakers: Duo Chan, Lijing Cheng & Stephanie Fiedler
To register click here.
The annual INARCH workshop 2026 will be held September 7-9, 2026, at the Barrier Lake field station in Kananaskis, AB, Canada within the Front Ranges of the Canadian Rockies. This is the location of the inaugural INARCH workshop in 2015. Plans are to visit local field sites of the Global Water Futures Observatories facility and hold scientific sessions and discussions. Completion of our INARCH COPE data management and science, and planning for further common activities will be priorities for the workshop.
From 02 to 07 August, 2026, a few thousand geoscientists across diverse disciplines will gather at the 23rd annual meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society at the Fukuoka International Congress Centre, Japan.
Experience 5 days of inspiring talks, exciting discussions and exclusive networking events
- Showcases pioneering research on Asia Oceania’s geoscience challenges
- Features high-level key lectures by leading experts
- Unmatched networking and includes student competitions judged by global leaders, fostering early-career recognition
- Award opportunities enhance academic visibility and career acceleration
For more information visit www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2026
The 10th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM10) is dedicated to promoting a comprehensive and collaborative strategy in flood management, acknowledging that effectively addressing this intricate challenge necessitates the combined expertise and cooperation of diverse fields and stakeholders.
The conference will convene participants from various disciplines, including:
· Hydrology and Water Resources Engineering
· Civil and Environmental Engineering
· Urban Planning and Design
· Climate Science and Meteorology
· Social Sciences and Community Development
· Information Technology and Data Science
· Public Policy and Governance
For more information and to register visit https://icfm10.com/?about
ParaChute Conference
13-17 July 2026 | Reading, UK
The ParaChute: “Understanding turbulent and convective processes” conference will focus on representing turbulence and convection in models and will be held at the University of Reading.
The ParaChute Conference brings together scientists, model developers, and observational experts to advance our understanding and representation of turbulence in high-resolution weather and climate models. Building on the goals of the UKRI–Met Office ParaChute programme, this event focuses on the challenges that arise at kilometre and sub-kilometre scales, where turbulent motions are partly resolved but still require improved physics parameterisations. Through a combination of observational insights, theoretical advances, and innovative modelling approaches, ParaChute aims to improve the representation of convective processes, boundary-layer dynamics, stochastic methods, and physics–dynamics coupling.
The conference will cover the following themes:
- Observing turbulence
- Representing the turbulent grey zone
- Representing the convective grey zone
- Interactions between microphysics and turbulence
- Role of dynamics representation in representing turbulent processes
- Upscale transfer of turbulence-driven uncertainty in predictability
