Digital Belt and Road Program (DBAR) is an international science program for the sustainable development of the Belt and Road Region using Big Earth Data. DBAR advocates for the integration of Big Earth Data applications in the design, planning and monitoring of different aspects of human activities.
Themes of the 4th DBAR Conference:
- For SDG 2: Big Earth Data Applications in Agriculture and Food Security
- For SDG 6: Big Earth Data Applications in Sustainable Water Resource Management
- For SDG 11: Big Earth Data Applications in Urban Environment and Sustainable Urban Development
- For SDG 11: Big Earth Data Applications in Natural and Cultural Heritage Conservation
- For SDG 13: Big Earth Data Applications in Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change
- For SDG 14: Big Earth Data Applications Sustainable Management of Coast and Sea
- For SDG 15: Big Earth Data Applications in Environmental Change and Sustainability
- For SDG 15: Observations of Changes in High Mountain and Arctic Cold Regions and Adaptation strategies
- Data Infrastructure and Platform for Bit Earth Data
- Big Earth Data to Support the Assessment of SDG indicators
Topics:
- Overview of the 2019 Mississippi and Missouri Basins flooding – Justin Palmer, NOAA North Central River Forecast Center
- Could America’s Wettest Winter of 2018-19 Have Been Anticipated? – Andy Hoell, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory/Physical Sciences Division
- Understanding Extreme Precipitation and Characterizing Flood Risk in Climate Models – Sarah Kapnick, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
- Observed and Projected Changes in Flood Events – Gabriele Villarini, University of Iow
- Modeling Land and Hydrologic Processes Associated with Flooding in Climate Models – Elena Sheliakova, NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
For the 10th anniversary of the Nansen Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research, a symposium is organized with the following themes:
- regional oceanography
- operational oceanography
- the role of the ocean on climate and weather
- regional marine ecosystems
- air-sea interaction
- the Southern Ocean
- biogeochemistry and the CO2 cycle
Parallel to the symposium, the Ocean Observation Panel for Climate meeting (WMO, GOOS and WCRP) will take place.
This year’s workshop will focus on extreme heat, one of the climate risk areas, to facilitate in-depth discussions. The workshop will focus on the following questions:
- What are the most critical problems for decision makers when it comes to the impacts of extreme heat on air quality, water resources, environmental quality, agriculture, energy, transportation, public health, and coastal ocean resources?
- What climate information and Earth system modeling capabilities are required for addressing those problems?
- What capabilities already exist, especially in terms of observing, monitoring, understanding of the forcing and mechanisms, modeling, prediction and application products?
- What are the gaps and opportunities for further research and engagement?
- bringing together leading experts in modelling soil processes within all major soil disciplines
- addressing major scientific gaps in describing key processes and their long term impacts with respect to the different functions and ecosystem services provided by soil
- promoting integration of soil modelling expertise in neighboring disciplines (climate, land surface, eco, hydro, and other models)
- performing soil model intercomparison studies at local to global scales
- consolidating soil and other data platforms for modeling purposes
- integrating societal and environmental considerations into soil and ecosystem functioning
From 28–30 October 2019, a workshop will be held to discuss priorities for the future direction of the International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project – Next Generation (ISCCP-NG), which will be held at EUMETSAT in Darmstadt, Germany. The local organization of the workshop is led by EUMETSAT in coordination with partners.
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Some of the topics that will be highlighted at The International Conference on Regional Climate (ICRC)-CORDEX 2019 are: benefits of downscaling, including biases and uncertainties; further development of earth system models; and the human factor and impacts and applications. The conference will also provide a platform for scientists and users from all parts of the globe to meet and advance capacity development, training and
knowledge exchange as well as to build new and enhance existing co-operations.
The EGU General Assembly 2020 will bring 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.
The International Soil Modeling Consortium (ISMC) aims to integrate and advance soil systems modeling, data gathering, and observational capabilities, through:
Mountain regions cover about a quarter of the Earth’s land surface and are home to a quarter of the world’s population. They are important sources of freshwater and centres of biological and cultural diversity. Rising global temperatures are causing unprecedented changes and are accompanied by an increased risk of disasters.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) is therefore convening a High Mountain Summit to foster high-level dialogue and engage decision-makers and local actors to develop a roadmap to science-based, user-driven knowledge and information systems supporting sustainable development and risk reduction in mountain and downstream regions.
All stakeholders are encouraged to attend this global event.
Integrating Global Change knowledge to decision-making processes: a transdisciplinary approach in the La Plata Basin: a transdisciplinary approach
The purpose of the graduate course and international seminar is to provide early career scientists in Master and Doctoral programs, as well as decision-makers, managers and other public/private sector professionals with scientific information, other types of knowledge, practical experiences, and inter and transdiciplinary approaches to address complex global environmental change problems of socio-economic relevance. The aim is to offer an integrated view of global change sciences combined with water resources, agriculture, and risk management to support better informed decisions towards sustainable environmental management in the La Plata Basin
