Find calls for abstracts in areas of GEWEX-related science below. Meetings with abstract submission deadlines list sessions of interest to the GEWEX community.
Meetings
- Bridging Frontier Observations and Modeling across Scales for Insights into Radiation and Climate (Gordon Research Seminar)
- Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference 2026
- Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Community Workshop 2026 (CMIP2026)
- Workshop on Disasters due to Premonsoon Severe Local Storms (SLSs) over the Northeastern Indian Subcontinent
Journals/Reports
- Special Issue on Advances in dynamic soil modelling across scales
- Special Issue Earth System Science Data: Hydrometeorological data from mountain and alpine research catchments
- Special Edition on Recent Advances in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX) Sciences
- Special Issue for the 5th Baltic Earth Conference
Dates: 19–20 July 2025
Location: Bates College, Lewiston, MA, USA
Application Deadline: June 21, 2025
Abstract Submission Deadline: 21 June 2025 (poster only)
The crossroads of observations and modeling motivate the theme of the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) this year: advancing physical understanding of radiation and climate through observations, models, and other methodologies at the nexus of these approaches.
The Radiation and Climate GRS provides a unique forum for young doctoral and post-doctoral researchers to present their work, discuss new methods, cutting edge ideas, and pre-published data, as well as to build collaborative relationships with their peers. Experienced mentors and trainee moderators will facilitate active participation in scientific discussion to allow all attendees to be engaged participants rather than spectators.
This GRC will be held in conjunction with the “Radiation and Climate” Gordon Research Conference (GRC).
Dates: 23 May 2025
Location: DPRI Kyoto University, Japan
Application Deadline: tbd
Pre-monsoon rainfall in Northeastern (NE) Indian subcontinent (NEIS) is now emerging as new hotspot of Asian monsoon research of climate change impact. Devastating tornadoes, floods and lightning activities due to extreme Severe Local Storms (SLSs) are increasing in recent decade showing a possible signal of extreme pre-monsoon climate in the near future. Further, recent climate change science elucidated the unique strong land-atmosphere coupling in premonsoon system over the NE India can be a key factor to induce significant uncertainties in future climate change projection.
In this workshop, we would like to advance our understanding of pre-monsoon SLSs for mitigation of disasters under the upcoming climate change over this region.
Our primary topics of the workshop will be:
- Historical database for pre-monsoon hazards over NEIS
- Developments of modelling strategies for the pre-monsoon SLSs over NEIS
- Innovative understanding of the concept of “pre-monsoon”
- Future projection of pre-monsoon SLSs over NEIS under the climate change
- Analysis of passed pre-monsoon SLSs over NEIS
- Future plans for observational field campaign for pre-monsoon SLSs over NEIS
- Strategies for enhancement of preparedness for pre-monsoon hazards over NEIS
Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Communitity Workshop 2026 (CMIP2026)
Dates: 9–13 March 2026
Location: Kyoto International Conference Centre, Japan
The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will be an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in Earth system and coupled modelling, leverage the wealth of the CMIP6 analyses and explore the updated forcings and early results from CMIP7 simulations, including new experimental designs and MIPs. It will also highlight the expanding observation-modelling interface, address strategies for streamlining the climate information chain, and forge a vision and global partnerships to deliver sustained and high quality climate information to all users.
Call for Side Sessions
Submission deadline: 21 July 2025
Workshop side sessions can be up to 90 minutes long and may be in-person only or hybrid. Acceptable session formats are: Townhalls, Panel discussion, World cafés and Training session/learning lab.
Workshop Main Themes are:
- Progress in understanding historical climate variability and change
- Understanding climate system responses, feedbacks and thresholds
- Synthesising information across the multiverse of models
Call for Abstract
Submission deadline: 13 August 2025
You can submit your abstract to one or more of the workshop sessions listed below
- Earth System Forcings: CMIP7 and beyond
- Confronting Earth System Model Trends with Observations
- Understanding reactive gases, aerosols, and land use for air quality and climate change
- Exploring Radiative Forcing in Models and Observations to Understand Climate Change
- Confronting models with observed changes in the Earth’s energy imbalance
- The role of fire in the Earth System
- Gridded Population Data and CMIP: Challenges and Opportunities
- Evaluating models at regional scales using novel methods and multi-source observations
- Persistent Biases in Climate Model Performance: Insights from CMIP5 to CMIP6
- The CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework – first results and applications
- Precipitation observations for model assessment of precipitation types, scales, and processes: advances, methods, and current needs
- Improvements and challenges in simulating precipitation in CMIP-class models
- Past to Future: Integrating paleo archives to inform CMIP7 model evaluation and insights
- Observations for coupled model evaluation: Uncertainties and opportunities
- Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
- AMOC in CMIP: Progress, Challenges, and Tipping Point Risks
- Modelling Earth system tipping points, extreme outcomes, and the Tipping Points Modelling Intercomparison Project.
- Progress in modelling solar radiation modification through GeoMIP
- Global land carbon cycle dynamics: Understanding and constraining uncertainties
- C4MIP scientific plans for CMIP7
- Assessing TCRE and ZEC in CMIP7 simulations
- Emission-driven ESMs for CMIP7 and beyond: analysis, performance and comparison with concentration-driven simulations
- Modelling Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
- Impacts and Adaptation Data and Applications
- Marine ecosystem projections: improving mechanistic understanding to reduce uncertainty
- Extreme Events: Observations and Modelling
- Emergence and Projection of Extreme Events: from Forcing/Teleconnection and from Tropical to Polar Regions
- Advancing climate modelling and science through high-resolution simulations
- Can we emulate CMIP now or in the future?
- Emerging technologies in ESM and changes in observational data requirements
- Science requirements for next generation model evaluation : from observations to advanced diagnostics and AI.
- Responsible Use of CMIP Data in Regional Decision Contexts
- Growing the connectivity between CMIP with the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX)
- Understanding the South American Monsoon System’s Response to Climate Change: Feedbacks, Thresholds, and Evolving Circulation Patterns in Observations and CMIP Models
- What can we learn from single model large ensembles (SMLEs)?
Climate and Cryosphere Open Science Conference 2026
Dates: 9–12 February 2026
Location: Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July 2025
For the 30th anniversary since the beginning of the Climate and Cryosphere (CLiC), this Open Science Conference will contribute to the UN Decade of Action for Cryospheric Sciences (2025-2034) and prepare the community for the 5th International Polar Year (2032-2033) with a diverse and cross-discipline town hall meeting.
This conference will focus on themes related to The Changing Cryosphere: Science, Impacts, and Adaptation. The three main themes are:
Special Issue for the 5th Baltic Earth Conference
Journal: Frontiers in Earth Science
Research Topic: New Challenges for Baltic Sea Earth System Research
Deadlines:
Manuscript Summary Submission: 10 December 2024 and,
Manuscript Submission: 30 March 2025 31 May 2025 (Extended)
The Baltic Sea is an intracontinental marginal sea in Northern Europe, with particular properties which set it apart from most other marginal seas and coastal regions, such as its pronounced salinity dynamics and unique biogeochemical features. But at the same time, it has been one of the best observed and modeled marine and coastal regions in the world and it can serve as an example and provide case studies for other heavily populated coastal regions worldwide.
The Research Topic is rooted in the 5th Baltic Earth Conference in Jurmala, Latvia, 13-17 May 2024, inciting “New Challenges for Baltic Sea Earth System Research”. Contributions from the conference but also welcome manuscripts from other coastal sea regions worldwide related to:
- Biogeochemistry of the Baltic Sea
- Natural hazards and extreme events
- Sea level dynamics, sediment dynamics, coastal processes and impacts on coasts
- Human impacts, interactions and management options
- Modeling past and future climate changes and teleconnections
- Small scale processes not yet resolved and their impact on the large scale dynamics and patterns
- Comparing marginal seas worldwide
- Philosophical aspects of Baltic Sea Earth system research
For more information, see the conference website: https://baltic.earth/jurmala2024
Special Issue in SOIL on Advances in dynamic soil modelling across scales
Journal: Soil
Submission Opens: 01 October 2024
Submission Deadline: 01 October 2025
This special issue (SI) invites papers that study soil dynamics using numerical and statistical models. The focus will be on the development of model-based representations, or digital twins, of soil systems to study soil processes, dynamics, and functions from the pore to the landscape scale and from diurnal dynamics to millennial evolution. By bringing together modellers and models that work on different spatiotemporal scales, we aim at synergies between soil hydrology, soil physics, soil geography, and soil ecology to develop holistic models that consider soils and their functions as dynamic systems. This SI is an initiative of the International Soil Modeling Consortium (ISMC, https://soil-modeling.org/) and the 3-4D Soil models working group (https://dbges.de/en/commissions-and-working-groups/working-groups/wg-3-4d-soil-models), part of the German Soil Science Society.
Special Edition on Recent Advances in the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX) Sciences
The Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ) and Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere (SOLA) announce a joint special edition on “Recent Advances in the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Sciences.”
In coordination with the 9th GEWEX Open Science Conference (OSC) held in Sapporo, Japan, in July 2024, this special edition aims to be a forum to accommodate the latest research, methodologies, and advancements in GEWEX-related studies, with broad focus on their atmospheric or meteorological aspects as appropriate to JMSJ and SOLA. Any paper topically relevant to the Global Energy and Water Exchanges is welcome regardless of the authors’ participation in the 9th GEWEX OSC.
Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan (JMSJ)
- Submission at https://link.springer.com/journal/44394/updates/27729594
- Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025
- Expected Publication in 2026
Scientific Online Letters on the Atmosphere
- Submission at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sola
- Submission deadlines: 31 August 2025 (SOLA)
- Expected publication in 2025
Special Issue on Hydrometeorological data from mountain and alpine research catchments
Submission Opens: January 2025
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2025
Editors: J. Pomeroy and D. Marks
The Journal on Earth System Scienc Data (ESSD) special issue responded to an international need to improve the understanding and modelling of mountain snow and ice hydrological processes. This initiative arises from a new GEWEX Hydroclimatology Panel cross-cut project – INARCH, the International Network for Alpine Research Catchment Hydrology (www.usask.ca/inarch ). The guest editors invite contributions of openly available detailed meteorological and hydrological observational archives from long-term research catchments at high temporal resolution (at least 5 years of continuous data with hourly sampling intervals for meteorological data, daily precipitation and streamflow, and regular snow and/or glacier mass balance surveys) in well-instrumented mountain regions around the world. Contributors and researchers will use this mountain hydrology data publication special issue for the benefit of global alpine hydrological research.
