Background
The Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (WV_cci) is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) with the overall goal to generate climate data records (CDRs) of atmospheric water vapour for use in climate applications. The project develops, validates, and releases quality-controlled, long-term CDRs of total column water vapour (TCWV) and water vapour profiles in the stratosphere (2D), as well as a five-year data record of water vapour profiles in the troposphere and lower stratosphere (3D).
Objectives
The aim of the workshop is to bring together the broader water vapour community, including those interested in the generation of water vapour CDRs and data users (such as climate modellers and NWP researchers) in order to discuss the most recent scientific applications and challenges in processing and using water vapour CDRs.
Topics of the workshop include:
- Discuss challenges related to the generation of water vapour CDRs.
- Show-case climate user applications of water vapour CDRs (with focus on WV_cci CDRs).
- Collect and update user requirements for atmospheric water vapour.
- Present and discuss results from climate analysis, climate applications, and process studies using water vapour CDRs.
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The 2021 Annual Seminar on Observations will be held jointly with the WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis in Bonn, Germany. The event is likely to combine elements of a face-to-face and virtual event. If the pandemic continues to cause restrictions for travel and it is not possible to meet in person, the seminar will be held online.
The Annual Seminar will provide an Earth System view of observations, identifying where the current global observing system is meeting new and existing Earth System requirements. How effectively the current observing system is being used for NWP and reanalysis will be explored, as well as consideration to gaps and how they may be addressed in the future. The seminar will consider science and technical issues common to observations across multiple components, and also issues specific to these components.
The seminar is part of ECMWF’s educational programme and is aimed at early career scientists as well as those who are more established in their field.
For more information, please visit the official website.
Hosted by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), the WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis will be held in Bonn (Germany), 13-18 September 2021 alongside the 2021 ECMWF Annual Seminar on Observations. Both events are scheduled as an in-person meeting with the possibility for anyone to join remotely as well. If the pandemic would cause important travel restrictions and it is not possible to meet in person, the meeting will be held virtually.
The overall objective of WCRP-WWRP Symposium on Data Assimilation and Reanalysis, with local organization let by DWD is to review latest developments and address issues of common interest to data assimilation and reanalysis communities, such as Earth system and coupled approaches, ensemble techniques and covariances, process studies, handling of systematic errors, diagnostics and verification, emerging AI and Machine learning techniques, open science and collaborative platforms. The Symposium will build on the program of the Annual Seminar focusing on an Earth system view of observations.
For more information, please visit the official website.
The Open and Virtual Workshop, “Improving understanding of land-atmosphere interactions through integration of surface flux and atmospheric boundary layer measurements”, is organized in support of the AmeriFlux “Year of Water Fluxes”, and in collaboration with community representation from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program.
The workshop will address the following questions:
- What are the high-priority research questions that can be addressed with existing measurements (e.g., data from AmeriFlux sites with collocated instrumentation for boundary layer measurements, or nearby radiosonde/profile measurements)?
- What new boundary layer measurements should be prioritized, and where? What are the cutting-edge research questions that could be addressed with these new measurements?
- What is needed to increase interdisciplinary collaboration between ecologists/biogeoscientists and atmospheric scientists? How can we best share tools that are necessary to process, analyze, and interpret boundary layer measurements?
- How can this kind of collaboration improve predictive understanding of biosphere-atmosphere interactions and land-atmosphere coupling?
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The 2021 Global Water Futures (GWF) Annual Open Science Meeting, May 17 – 19, will bring together the GWF community (researchers, affiliates, partners, collaborators, and stakeholders) in a virtual setting to share our latest scientific achievements and success stories, provide updates on end user solutions, and support the actions needed to secure Canada’s water future.
Themes
- Climate-driven changes of water environments in cold regions
- From anthropogenic pressures to ecosystem services
- Turning research into policy and management solutions
- Innovations in water science and technology
- Knowledge co-creation with Indigenous communities
The themes are supported by the following cross-cutting challenges and opportunities:
- Transferable knowledge and tools
- Predictive modelling and forecasting
- (Big) data science and management
- Social, economic and health determinants and impacts
- Stakeholder engagement and knowledge mobilization
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The objectives of the Committe on Space Research (COSPAR) Assemblies are to promote scientific research in space on an international level, with emphasis on the exchange of results, information and opinions and to provide a forum, open to all scientists, for the discussion of problems that may affect scientific space research”.
Of special interest to the GEWEX community are the topics of the Scientific Commission A:
- Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interaction
- The Group on Earth Observations (GEO)
- Big Earth Observation Data for Resiliance and Sustainability of Social and Economic Sectors
- Space-based and Sub-orbital Observations of Atmospheric Physics and Chemistry: Vital Information on the Health of Our Planet
- Science and Applications Enabled by Satellite Missions for the Ocean and Sea Ice
- Update on Copernicus Land Products Validation Activities
- New Developments and Applications of Land Surface Phenology (LSP)
- Earth Observation for Monitoring Photosynthetic Variables in Mangrove Forests.
For more information go to the official website of COSPAR 2022 44th Scientific Assembly or check out the information on the COSPAR website
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.
