The Topical Webinar Series hosted by the Core Modelling and Forecasting Team of the Global Water Futures program is a weekly event from May to August. In constrast to thematic webinars, this series highlights science advances from across the globe and aims to spur critical discusssions that will improve our understanding and capability in modelling and managing cold-region hydrology.
Schedule
- June 3, 2021 – Hydrological modeling in high mountains of Central Asia – Zhihua He, University of Saskatchewan
- June 10, 2021 – All that glitters is not gold: error compensation in climate models – Alejandro Di Luca, Université du Québec à Montréal
- June 17, 2021 – Advances in large-domain hydrometeorological modeling and prediction to support water management – Andy Wood, National Centre for Atmospheric Research
- June 24, 2021 – Snow mass remote sensing: current capabilities and future opportunities – Chris Derksen, Environment and Climate Change Canada
- July 8, 2021 – Spatial droughts and floods: understanding, modeling, and prediction – Manuela Brunner, University of Freiburg
- July 15, 2021 – Collaborative and reproducible modeling – Jerad Bales, CUAHSI
- July 22, 2021 – Advances in stochastic methods in hydrometeorology – Simon Papalexiou, University of Saskatchewan
- July 29, 2021 – Vanishing weekly hydropeaking cycles in American and Canadian regulated rivers – Stephen Dery, University of Northern British Columbia
- August 5, 2021 – TBD – TBD
- August 12, 2021 – The quality and value of hydrological forecasts and predictions – Maria-Helena Ramos, INRAE, France
- August 19, 2021 – Making the most out of models and observations for a better portrait of snow in Quebec and Canada – Marie-Amélie Boucher, Université de Sherbrooke
- August 26, 2021 – Hydrological data assimilation – Hamid Moradkhani, University of Alabama
For more information, please visit the official webpage.
The aim of this workshop on “Attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system” is to document current research, identify challenges, and explore potential pathways towards building an operational capability to attribute multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system on global-to-regional scales.
Key areas to be addressed include:
- To what extent is the observing system adequate for the task and how best to use the observations
- Approaches to assess the roles of internal variability and external factors including greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar variations, volcanic eruptions, ozone and land use.
- To what extent are models adequate for the task and how to account for model errors, including underestimated signals
- To what extent do responses to different forcings add linearly
- How to account for forcing uncertainties?
- Analysis of physical processes
- Linking large scale circulation to regional weather and climate hazards
- Steps needed to build an operational capability
For more information, please visit the official website at
https://wcrp-epesc.sciencesconf.org
AmeriGEO Week aims to bring communities together to identify the synergies and paths toward collaboration among regional efforts related to the integration of Earth Observations, Geographic, Statistical and other information.
Objective #1:
Demonstrate accomplishments on promoting the use of EO in the decision-making process .
Objective #2:
Gather relevant information about National and Regional activities in the region.
Objective #3:
Discuss the different thematic areas efforts to promote the Aguascalientes Declaration.
For more information, please visit the official webpage.
The international Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Prediction Project (https://lnkd.in/d-Ukxsu) is hosting a Webinar on Land Sub-project on Wednesday 26th May at 14:00 UTC.
There will be presentations on :
- Systematic biases and skill of the ECMWF spring and summer subseasonal forecasts in the Northern Hemisphere midlatitudes (Emanuel Dutra, IPMA; Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera)
- Satellite-based microwave data assimilation to estimate soil moisture, vegetation and snow (Gabriëlle de Lannoy, U. Leuven)
- The role of land-atmosphere interactions in drought prediction (Joshua Roundy, U. Kansas)
- Connecting S2S climate predictions to US water management (Andy Wood, NCAR)
For more details and the Webex link please visit the announcement page.
The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS), with the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), and supported by European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), will be holding a conference that aims to assess how well the current global climate observing system supports current and near-term user needs for climate information. The outputs will provide inputs into the next GCOS implementation plan, which will make recommendations to meteorological networks, major observing systems, and satellite agencies.
For more information visit the official webpage
From 29 June to 1 July 2021, ECMWF will host a 3-day virtual workshop on Global hydrological modelling and forecasting.
The workshop will be organized under the umbrella of ECMWF, the Copernicus services CEMS and C3S, the Hydrological Ensemble Prediction EXperiment (HEPEX) and the Global Flood Partnership (GFP).
Day 1 aims at presenting and discussing recent advances in global and large-scale hydrological modelling used in water cycle predictions up to medium-range, and in monitoring applications such as regional and global reanalyses. It will discuss the challenges involved in attaining skilful estimations of the water fluxes and reservoirs in the range of 1 to 25 km resolutions, making best use of Earth Observations to calibrate, validate or verify the model output.
Day 2 and 3 will focus on connecting large scale to local needs and decision making, as well as catchment-scale advances in hydrometeorological forecasting, addressing challenges of hydrological ensemble forecasting and monitoring.
For more information, please visit the official website
The European Space Agency, in the context of the “Earth Observations Science for Society” Programme, and CNES are organising a sequel event to Hydrospace2015, called 4th Space for Hydrology Workshop – “Inland Water Storage and Runoff: Modeling, In Situ Data and Remote Sensing”, Monday 7 – Friday 11 June 2021, hosted at ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. This time around the Hydrospace Workshop is organised in collaboration with the GEO Global Water Sustainability Initiative (GEOGloWS).
The aim of getting together during 4~4.5 days is to strengthen the collaboration between the four critical water communities: in situ, modelling and space observation scientists as well as “non-scientific” users such as water managers to address the needs of the application community.
The expected outcome of the workshop is to define an action plan for the future and converge on recommendations from the Scientific Community.
For more information, please visit the official webpage at https://www.hydrospace2021.org/
Theme of 102nd AMS annual meeting is Environmental Security: weather, water and climate for a more secure world.
For more information, please visit the official website at https://annual.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/2022/
Todays topic: New Observing Strategies for Earth Science
Panelist Presentations:
- D-SHIELD: Distributed Spacecraft with Heuristic Intelligence to Enable Logistical Decisions – Sreeja Nag, NASA Ames Research Center
- Ground Stations as a Service (GSaaS) for Near Real-time Direct Broadcast Earth Science Satellite Data – Louis Nguyen, NASA Langley Research Center
- SPCTOR: Sensing-Policy Controller and OptimizeR – Mahta Moghaddam, University of Southern California
- New Observing Strategies Testbed (NOS-T) Design and Development – Paul Grogan, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Historical Flood Demonstration as a Proof-of-Concept for future New Observing Strategies Technologies and Testbed – Ben Smith, ESTO / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Additional NASA Panelists:
- David Green, Applied Sciences, Disasters Program
- Michael Seablom, ESTO Advanced Information Systems Technology Program
Next Sessions:
- Thursday, June 17 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Atmospheric Gases
- Thursday, June 24 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – The Water Cycle
- Thursday, July 1 (1:00-3:30 EDT) – Earth Surface Deformation and Change
For more information and registration click here.
The 18th event of its kind hosted by the NASA Earth Science Technology Office (ESTO), ESTF2021 aims to showcase a broad array of technology research and development projects related to NASA’s Earth science endeavors. From May through early July eight virtual sessions will be held on Thursdays.
These 2.5-hour sessions will include a targeted set of technology presentations around an Earth science theme, followed by a panel discussion.
Todays topic: Earth Surface Deformation and Change
Panelist Presentations:
- An Automated Smart Tasking System to Support NASA Urgent Response – Cathleen Jones, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Simplified Gravitational Reference Sensors for Future Earth Geodesy Missions – John Conklin, University of Florida
- Quantifying Uncertainty and Kinematics of Earthquake Systems (QUAKES) Analytic Center Framework – Andrea Donnellan, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Geodetic Reference Instrument Transponder for Small Satellites (GRITSS) – Christopher Beaudoin, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- Smart On-Demand Analysis of Multi-Temporal and Full Resolution SAR ARDs in Multi-Cloud & HPC – Hook Hua, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Additional NASA Panelists:
- Ben Phillips, Earth Surface and Interior Focus Area
- Pam Millar, Earth Science Technology Office
For more information and registration click here.
