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.
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. In particular the meeting will examine how well observations of the global Earth cycles (the global energy balance, global water and carbon cycles, and explaining changing conditions of the biosphere) support users’ needs for climate data. The outputs will provide inputs into the next GCOS implementation plan which will make recommendations to meteorological networks, major observing systems and satellite agencies and also it will be presented to the UNFCCC in 2022 as a contribution towards the UNFCCC’s Global Stocktake.
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2020 Virtual CFMIP Meeting on Clouds, Precipitation, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity will be held virtually and at local hubs.
For more information go to http://www.cgd.ucar.edu/events/2020/CFMIP/
GDAP was organized to bring together theoretical and experimental insights into the radiative interactions and climate feedbacks associated with cloud processes. The central question that governs the GDAP mission is: “how sensitive is the Earth’s climate to changes in radiative and other forcings?” Answering this question will enable improved prediction of transient natural climate variations, such as El Niño, and provide better understanding of the consequences of natural and human-induced climate changes.
This year’s annual GDAP Meeting will review progress of the ongoing GDAP Assessments and Projects. As one of the four Panels of the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX), a core program of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), the GEWEX Science Questions and the WCRP Grand Challenges will be at the heart of these discussions.
The WMO Data Conference aims to develop a common understanding among entities from all sectors of society of the roles, requirements, and arrangements for international exchange of observations and other data for monitoring and prediction of the Earth System environment, including weather, climate, and water.
First results from the test simulations, and other aspects of the Grey Zone Project, were discussed at informal side meetings at the UCP2019 conference in Berlin in February 2019, and at the ParaCon Convection Workshop 2019 at the Met Office in Exeter in July 2019.
Another preparation meeting is planned on 12 April, 2021, in the context of the conference on Improvement and calibration of clouds in models in Toulouse, France.
This workshop was formally scheduled to take place from 16 – 18 March 2020, but is postponed due to COVID-19 pandemic.
This workshop seeks to better understand the uses and limitations of the newly released GEWEX Global, 1 degree, 3-hourly Integrated Water and Energy products for use in understanding land surface–atmosphere interactions. By examining the relationship between surface properties (including temperature, moisture, and albedo) with estimated surface fluxes, the boundary layer, convection and the movement of energy, the workshop seeks to both assess the overall consistency of the GEWEX integrated product, as well as identify additional parameters that should be included in the product going forward.
Talks are expected to address the consistency both from the global satellite perspective, as well as existing ground based measurement sites such as ARM that can shed additional light on critical processes at a local scale. Talks that highlight the benefit of adding particular datasets to the Integrated product for new process insight are also welcomed.
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The Earth Observations for Water Cycle Science 2020 meeting is an On-Line event!
The European Space Agency and GEWEX are organising the “Earth Observation for Water Cycle Science Conference 2020” in collaboration with the European Commission (DG-RTD), CNES, CNRS/IPSL, UNESCO and the University of Versailles.
This Conference aims at reviewing the latest advances in the use of EO technology for scientific questions related to the water cycle and its applications, exploring the potential offered by the coming EO as well as the main challenges and opportunities for the coming decade. The ultimate target of the event is to contribute to define a scientific agenda that may drive future scientific activities of ESA and other partners in the coming few years.
The Conference is open to EO scientists, water researchers and students, modellers, Earth system and climate scientists, industry, operational agencies, policy makers, representatives of local communities and other stakeholders interested in sharing their knowledge and experience and in contributing to drive the scientific agenda for advancing EO water research and applications.
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This second ET workshop will focus on process understanding, with a strong observational component aided by process modelling studies. The meeting will be scheduled based along the 5 lines defined at the end of the 1st workshop:
| I) | open-water evaporation, |
| II) | interception, |
| III) | soil evaporation, |
| IV) | transpiration and |
| V) | landscape ET. |
The aim of this workshop is to define working groups and have a proposition on the organization within the GEWEX framework. The initiative may explore becoming:
a PROES action, which has the goal to advance process understanding and process representation in models through new efforts and in collaboration with already existing key groups, or,
a GHP Cross-Cut scheme, if the goal is to address the ET scientific topic relevant to many regions, propagate knowledge from one region to another, and synthesize results at the global scale
This workshop seeks to better understand the uses and limitations of the newly released GEWEX Global, 1 degree, 3-hourly Integrated Water and Energy products for use in understanding land surface–atmosphere interactions. By examining the relationship between surface properties (including temperature, moisture, and albedo) with estimated surface fluxes, the boundary layer, convection and the movement of energy, the workshop seeks to both assess the overall consistency of the GEWEX integrated product, as well as identify additional parameters that should be included in the product going forward.
Talks are expected to address the consistency both from the global satellite perspective, as well as existing ground based measurement sites such as ARM that can shed additional light on critical processes at a local scale. Talks that highlight the benefit of adding particular datasets to the Integrated product for new process insight are also welcomed.
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