The GEWEX-ISMC* SoilWat Initiative brings together two research communities to improve the representation of soil and subsurface processes in climate models. The soil and groundwater community and the climate modeling community (the latter represented by GEWEX) are working together to identify the most pressing challenges and topics related to this effort.
*International Soil Modelling Consortium
Meeting details will follow soon
The 7th International COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS) Workshop will take place at Royal Hillsborough, a historic town just outside Belfast in Northern Ireland. The event will be a platform for young scientists and international experts in the area of soil moisture observation research to come together and share knowledge, experience, and expertise.
The cosmic-ray neutron sensing technique of COSMOS, which has evolved over the past decade, has catalyzed a paradigm shift in soil water content measurement. As a result of the significant progress made over the past 10 years, we are poised to transition “From Research to Operations.” This event provides the opportunity to gather again, as a community, to share progress and knowledge, and celebrate the successes of applications using the technology for the 7th International COSMOS Workshop.
The Micro2Macro workshop will develop the foundation of a new framework to confront and evaluate climate models using observations to improve our process-based understanding and strategically reduce climate projection uncertainty. The workshop is organized around four driving questions spread over 2.5 days of the meeting:
- What’s Wrong with Microphysics in Climate Models?
- Can We Even Observe Microphysics?
- How are Observations Being Used to Improve Models?
- How Can We Plan Future Process Observations to Reduce Climate Change Uncertainty?
Within these major topical questions, the Micro2Macro workshop solicits presentations related (but not limited) to topics described in detail on the “Sessions and Topics” page.
The school will be focused on the radiation theory and principles of satellite remote sensing, microphysics of clouds and precipitation as well as the fundamentals of retrieval methods, satellite imagery interpretation and products for science and operational meteorology. A special focus will be on sensor technology and satellite development, launch, and in-orbit management.
The initiative is open to Ph.D. students in physical, environmental, atmospheric, or related sciences, and early career operational meteorologists and researchers. Applications from talented M.Sc. students will be accepted as well. The training program will be organized through the scheme “frontal lectures – in-depth labs”.
ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative (WV_cci) 2nd User Workshop
Following the success of the first ESA Water Vapor Climate Change Initiative User workshop, we are pleased to announce a 2nd User workshop.
Dates: 14th to 16th October 2024
Topic: Challenges around atmospheric water vapour
Location: Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) and online
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 vapor for use in climate applications. The project develops, validates, and releases quality-controlled, long-term CDRs of total column water vapour (TCWV) and water vapor profile across troposphere and stratosphere (2D, 3D). More details on the project are available at: https://climate.esa.int/en/projects/water-vapour/.
The 15th Annual Catchment Science Summer School will run Sept 1-6, 2024 live and in person at the University of Birmingham, UK. The course is designed for PhD students and Post Docs in catchment science. The course is taught by Jeff McDonnell, Chris Soulsby, Jan Seibert, Ilja van Meerveld, David Hannah, Stefan Krause and many others. It is co-sponsored by the Global Institute for Water Security at the University of Saskatchewan, the University of Aberdeen, the University of Zurich, and Humboldt University. Course details and registration can be found at: https://water.usask.ca/hillslope/teaching/catchment-summer-school/home.php.
The 2024 Annual Workshop of the International Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology (INARCH) will take place from October 14 – 19, 2024. The meeting will be held in Lanzhou and Zhangye, in central China and the Qilian Mountains, and will be hosted by Dr. Tao CHE and Dr. Xin Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
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. |
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Side Meeting of the GEWEX GASS Panel on The Grey Zone Project.
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