The course will focus on past and future changes in climate of the Baltic Sea region. The Baltic Sea is a semi-enclosed sea with a large freshwater supply from rivers of the adjacent catchment area in the transition zone between maritime and continental climates in northern Europe.
Students will be introduced into fundamental processes of the atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice and land surface with relevance for the climate system.
Further basic methods of the analysis and modeling of the regional climate system will be introduced, including the statistical analysis of time series to identify changes in regional climate. students will also be introduced into the functioning of the wind-driven and thermohaline circulations of the Baltic Sea. Furthermore, the course will deal with coupled atmosphere-ocean climate models, climate change, the greenhouse gas effect and other drivers of regional climate, dynamical downscaling, and the variability of circulation and regional climate.
Application Deadline: 1 May 2021
Students will be introduced to the analysis of climate variability from years to millennia as recorded from instrumental data, historical documents and proxy data such as tree ring data or sediment cores. The focus will be on the climate of the Baltic Sea region but an overview on global climate variability and processes in the atmosphere, ocean, sea-ice and land surface relevant for the climate system will be introduced as well. For the analysis of climate variability, both statistical methods and numerical modeling are used. Methods for the detection of systematic changes in climate and for the attribution of drivers to these changes will be presented and discussed. The course will introduce fundamentals of statistics, time series analysis, multivariate data analysis, uncertainty analysis in statistical methods and strategies of statistical analysis.
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The conference programme addresses recent research in the soil-vegetation-atmosphere continuum centered around soils over all spatial scales, time scales, and elements – from processes to prediction.
Scientific Sessions:
- Integration of Soil Processes in Global Land Surface/Earth System Models
- Modelling soil formation as a function of critical zone processes
- Modelling at the interface of soil and plant
- Model soil contamination and transport of pollutants
- Scaling soil biogeochemical models
- Modeling surface runoff and soil erosion at various scales: data, process, and mathematical representation
- Landscape heterogeneity: pragmatic modelling, methodology standards, harmonized measurements – and related challenges
- Modelling and evaluation of soil functions at all scales
- Modelling biogeochemical fluxes and soil organic carbon dynamics in soil systems
- Advances in soil modeling through data analytics, machine learning and prediction
Programme and abstract submission:
https://soil-modeling.org/ismc-conference/ismc-conference
The Organizing Committee of the International Radiation Symposium 2020, originally planned for 6–10 July 2020 in Thessaloniki, Greece, has decided to further postpone the Symposium to 4–8 July 2022, hoping that by that time conditions will allow for the organization of a successful meeting. The procedures and deadlines for re-confirmation, update or cancellation of already submitted abstracts, as well as for submission of new abstracts, will be announced later in 2021.
The purpose of ACCESS is to bring together young researchers in atmospheric chemistry and representatives of the principal federal government agencies that fund atmospheric chemistry research to engage in scientific discussion and interaction. The meetings will forge future professional relationships, and the entire atmospheric science community will benefit by becoming more aware of innovations in atmospheric chemistry through presentations by ACCESS participants and through these interactions.
Attendance at ACCESS is limited to 25 participants, who are selected by a committee based on the significance and achievement of the applicant’s thesis or postdoctoral research, the application, and a letter of recommendation from the applicant’s primary thesis advisor or postdoctoral advisor.
The application Deadline is 31 March 2021.
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The GEWEX Global Atmospheric System Studies Panel (GASS) will hold its 3rd Pan-GASS Meeting, Understanding and Modeling Atmospheric Processes (UMAP 2022), at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Monterey, CA, USA, from 25–29 July 2022.
UMAP 2022 aims to bring together weather and climate scientists, including both observationalists and modelers, to discuss the key issues of atmospheric science. The program will include all aspects and methods of model development from deterministic numerics to stochastic forcing; process modeling to parametrization; observational constraints to diagnostic techniques; and idealized modeling to operational forecasting and climate predictions. The purpose of the conference is to discuss progress in understanding atmospheric processes and representing them in models, to coordinate current initiatives and make plans for the future.
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The Workshop of the Inter-Commission Committee on “Geodesy for Climate Research” (ICCC) runs from 29-31 March 2021 online, and is free to participants. The goals of the meeting are to:
Highlight the potential of geodesy for climate research by showcasing and discussing climate-related studies that make use of geodetic observations, and
Bring together geodetic and climate communities to facilitate exchange of their experience and possibly establish a mutual cooperation.
Presentations on all aspects related to using geodesy for climate research are welcome. The meeting format will be a mix of live presentations and asynchronous content, generally with a strong emphasis on virtual discussions.
Due to the COVID19 pandemic, the The 2020 GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel (GHP) meeting will be held online.
The 2020 GHP meeting will be used to review the state of the current ongoing actions (Regional Hydroclimate Projects, Cross-Cut actions and the links with the Data Centers). GHP participants will evaluate ongoing and planned GHP activities and asses future actions to ensure that the Panel contributes effectively to the leading role that GEWEX plays in the hydrological and climate sciences and related modeling activities.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the annual The Global Land/Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) Panel meeting will be held Online.
This year’s annual GLASS Panel Meeting will review progress of the GLASS working groups and projects, as well as those with similar related research interests.
The NOAA-DOE Precipitation Processes and Predictability Workshop will focus on advancing understanding of precipitation predictability and physical processes key to precipitation biases. The workshop will bring together the observational, modeling, and research communities to address the following questions:
- What are the sources of predictability that have the biggest influences on precipitation at weather, subseasonal-to-seasonal to multi-decadal timescales, including extremes?
- What are the key physical processes that have the strongest imprint on the model biases and precipitation predictions and projections?
- How can we most effectively take advantage of existing observations and data (satellite and in-situ) to advance process-level understanding of the key processes and predictability?
- What are the gaps and needs for targeted observations and process studies to improve understanding and model representations of those key processes?
- How do we benefit from national and international collaboration to make significant progress?
The workshop is virtual and runs from 10:00 – 15:00 hrs EDT. Please visit the workshop website to learn more about the workshop and register for attendance.
