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
Journals/Reports
WCRP Workshop on Attribution of Multi-Annual to Decadal Changes in the Climate System
Dates: 22-24 September 2021
Location: Online
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30 June 2021
The aim of this workshop on “Attribution of multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system” is to document current research, identify challenges, and explore potential pathways towards building an operational capability to attribute multi-annual to decadal changes in the climate system on global-to-regional scales.
Key areas to be addressed include:
- To what extent is the observing system adequate for the task and how best to use the observations
- Approaches to assess the roles of internal variability and external factors including greenhouse gases, aerosols, solar variations, volcanic eruptions, ozone and land use.
- To what extent are models adequate for the task and how to account for model errors, including underestimated signals
- To what extent do responses to different forcings add linearly
- How to account for forcing uncertainties?
- Analysis of physical processes
- Linking large scale circulation to regional weather and climate hazards
- Steps needed to build an operational capability
Fifth Convection-Permitting Modeling Workshop 2021 (CPM2021)
High-Resolution Climate Modeling and Hazards
Dates: 7-10 & 14 September 2021
Location: Online Event
Abstract Submission Deadline: 16 July 2021 Extended to 23 July 2021
The main focus of the workshop is on simulating mesoscale processes and extreme events with CPMs at local to global scales and the use of high-resolution climate models for hazard and impact assessments.
Main discussion Topics:
- Advancements in high-resolution regional and global climate modeling
- Computer science and next generation supercomputers
- Toward global CPMs
- Extreme events and hazards assessments
- Ensemble based on high-resolution modeling
Registration for the workshop is free and you are encouraged to submit a poster for presentation.
INTROMET-2021 – International Symposium on Tropical Meteorology
Dates: 23-26 November 2021
Location: Online Platform
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July 2021 Hosted by the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT), the proposed theme of The International Symposium on Tropical Meteorology (INTROMET-2021) is Changing Climate: Consequences and Challenges.
It will provide an excellent opportunity for the national and international community of Atmospheric Scientists to discuss various issues of the changing climate and their consequences and challenges.
102nd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting
Dates: 23–27 January 2022
Location: Houston, Texas, USA
Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 September 2021
The 102nd American Meteorological Society (AMS) Meeting will take place in late January 2022 at the George R. Brown Convention Center. A special symposium and several sessions of interest to the GEWEX community are listed below.
Kevin E. Trenberth Symposium
We invite and encourage you to attend this symposium honoring Dr. Kevin E. Trenberth as he enters into retirement after many years of influential research and community service. Papers for the Kevin E. Trenberth Symposium are solicited on all aspects of climate science, but are especially encouraged on the following topics:
- Global Water Cycle
- Global Energy Budget
- Climate Analysis: Observations and Reanalyses
- Climate Modeling: Advances and Challenges
Sessions of Interest
- Improved Monitoring, Modeling, and Prediction of Water Availability Across Scales
The session is a forum to bring the observational and modeling communities together to advance the state of the science and our predictive capabilities. As such submissions are invited that explore interdisciplinary and integrated approaches to water cycle science that lead to a better understanding of water availability now and in the changing future. - Land-Atmosphere and Land-Ocean Interactions
Conveners: Yongkang Xue (UCLA); Randy Koster (NASA GSFC); Michael Ek (UCAR); Craig R. Ferguson (State Uni of NY); Justin S. Mankin (Dartmouth College).
This session focuses on:- interfaces between climate, ecosystems, and the land branches of the energy, water, and carbon cycles and the impact of associated land processes on climate variability and change, including extreme events (such as droughts and flooding);
- the dynamic, physical, and biogeochemical mechanisms by which the land surface (e.g., soil moisture and temperature, albedo, snow, aerosol in snow, vegetation, and streamflow) influence land, atmosphere, and ocean processes and their interactions at subseasonal to decadal time scales;
- predictability associated with land initialization and land–atmosphere/ocean interactions from subseasonal to decadal time scales; and
- application and analyses of large scale field campaign data, observational networks, satellite remote sensing, and reanalysis for land model development and interaction studies.
- Process-based Testing and Evaluation of Weather and Climate Models.
Conveners: Weiwei Li (NCAR/RAL & DTC), Ligia Bernardet (NOAA/GSL & DTC), James Doyle (NRL), Louisa Nance (NCAR/RAL & DTC)
The session will focus on: - testing and evaluation of model physics components, their interactions, and the impact on the overall performance of a model, and
- using process-based testing and evaluation to advance understanding of physical processes. Abstracts that apply hierarchical testing approaches and process-based model verification and evaluation methods are particularly encouraged
American Geophysical Union 2021 Fall Meeting
Dates: 13-17 December 2021
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Abstract Submission Deadline: 4 August 2021
Sessions of interest to the GEWEX community are listed below.
- A003. Advanced remote sensing in preparation for NASA’s PACE mission. The goal of this session is to showcase new and improved remote sensing techniques that make use of the type of multi-angle, hyperspectral and polarimetric observations provided by the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission, together with applications that are facilitated by these enhanced remote sensing capabilities.
- A006. Advances in Radar Remote Sensing of Clouds and Precipitation: Observations, Data Processing, Weather and Water Model Applications. This session focuses on the state-of-the-art radar observations, as well as radar related weather, water, and/or cloud resolving model applications. This session will also feature presentations devoted to data sciences in hydrometeorology remote sensing, orographic and extreme winter precipitation.
- A007. Advances in remote sensing and modeling of vertical distributions of aerosols and clouds. This session seeks research presentations that highlight recent advances in remote sensing and modeling of aerosol and cloud vertical distributions.
- A011. Aerosols, Clouds, Convection and Precipitation. This session focuses on the science associated with the aerosols (A) and clouds, convection, and precipitation (CCP) designated observables.
- A018. Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Interactions with Clouds, Radiation, and Climate on Regional Scale. Conveners welcome all theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies that present new knowledge of aerosols and aerosol-climate interactions on the regional scale.
- A020. Atmospheric Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate. This session aims to explore aspects of boundary layer, shallow, and deep convective clouds, considering fundamental processes as well as links to self-aggregation, land surface interactions, and their role in weather and climate.
- A027. Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change. This session provides a platform for observational, theoretical, and modeling work on warm, supercooled, and mixed-phase boundary layer clouds from the microscale to the global scale.
- A029. Bridging the Gap from Climate to Extreme Weather: Observations, Theory, and Modeling. This session seeks novel research bridging the gap between climate and extreme weather with an emphasis on understanding both the underlying climate physics that generate such events and the mechanisms by which their statistics vary across climate states, including global warming.
- A030. Building Confidence in Future Projections of Regional Precipitation: Identifying Dynamic Sources of Certainty and Uncertainty. As a foundation for building confidence in regional precipitation changes, this session will highlight the state of current understanding about dynamic contributors to regional precipitation changes, from synoptic-scale circulations like storm tracks, monsoons, atmospheric rivers, and extratropical cyclones, to local-scale convective processes.
- A034. Climate change and extreme winter weather: insights from the US cold wave of February 2021. This session seeks contributions of observational analysis and modeling experiments, that elucidate whether climate change, especially amplified Arctic warming, is contributing to extreme mid-latitude weather.
- A035. Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms. This session explores recent advances in understanding large-scale climate response to climate forcings. Conveners welcome submissions on theory, observations, and modeling studies of climate feedbacks, climate sensitivity, and climate responses of precipitation and large-scale dynamics.
- A036. Cloud observations and measurements from remote sensing instruments. This session invites papers that provide results from radar, lidar, satellite, cameras, scientific campaigns, etc., and networking efforts dealing with cloud measurements.
- A037. CMIP6 Climate Model Evaluation. This session aims to bring together scientists who work in the Obs4MIPs, the COSP, and the CMIP6 climate models for their latest results.
- A039. Convection Processes and Their Environmental and Aerosol Interactions: Theory, Observation, and Modeling. The session invites theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies that advance the process-level understanding of convection and its representation in models.
- A043. Decision-relevant understanding of precipitation extremes and their impacts. Conveners invite contributions that focus on the statistics of precipitation extremes and events driven by those extremes in observations, reanalyses, and regional and global climate models; projected changes in the statistics of extreme precipitation indices; process-based characterization of precipitation extremes as well as prediction, predictability, detection, and attribution of extreme precipitation events.
- A045. Diagnostic tools and metrics for improving subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) prediction. Conveners welcome contributions that advance the diagnostics and metrics of Earth System models for improving S2S prediction.
- A053. Extreme Events: Observations and Modeling. This session invites abstracts on observational and numerical modeling studies to enhance the understanding of the spatiotemporal characteristics and predictability of the extreme events such as flash floods, droughts, heat waves, cold waves, strong winds, tropical cyclones, etc.
- A054. Extreme Precipitation in Past, Present, and Future Climates. This session will focus on precipitation extremes, including their driving dynamic and thermodynamic processes, external drivers, impacts, statistical properties, and changes in their occurrence related to climate variability and climate change.
- A056. Extreme Weather Events: Forecast skill, Uncertainty Quantification and Impact Modeling. This session is dedicated to the assessment of extreme weather prediction and associated impacts and solicits abstracts from a broad range of research.
- A060. General Session: Atmospheric Dynamics & Climate. Papers on all physical processes within Earth’s atmosphere and climate are encouraged, including global and regional-scale circulation, convection and its interactions with circulation, tropical and extratropical cyclones, variability from subseasonal-to-decadal time scales, and longer-term climate change.
- A061. General Session: Atmospheric Physics, Radiation, Clouds, and Aerosols. This session aims to stimulate discussion across a broad spectrum of atmospheric physics, radiation, clouds, and aerosols fields, and to provide a forum for innovative and exciting ideas and approaches that address long-standing, emerging, and cross-cutting scientific problems, especially those that contribute to the main sources of uncertainty in understanding, predicting, and projecting climate variability and change.
- A065. High resolution Earth system modeling on large supercomputers. With submissions particularly encouraged on ~10 km and ultra-high (order km) scales, this session welcomes contributions on development of parameterizations to improve model components and the coupled system at these resolutions.
- A070. Lagrangian and Climatological Transitions of Warm Boundary Layer Clouds. Organizers seek a balance of observational and modeling-oriented perspectives and studies that integrate results across multiple platforms/field campaigns. They particularly welcome submissions from early-career scientists and members of underrepresented groups in atmospheric/climate science.
- A071. Large Ensemble Climate Model Simulations as Tools for Exploring Natural Variability, Change Signals, and Impacts. Conveners invite studies using single model initial-condition large ensemble (SMILE) simulations to look at: reinterpretation of the observed record in light of internal variability; forced changes and impacts of natural climate variability in past and in future projections; new approaches to attribute observed events or trends; assessment of extreme and compound event occurrence’ combining SMILEs with CMIP ensembles for robust decision making; and large ensembles as testbeds for method development.
- A073. Light Scattering and Radiative Transfer: Basic Research and Applications. This session provides a forum for the presentation of recent advances in electromagnetic scattering, such as the scattering properties of nonspherical aerosol particles and ice crystals, 3-D radiative transfer, vector radiative transfer simulations, fast radiative transfer models for the interpretation of hyperspectral measurements, and the applications of fundamental light scattering and radiative transfer theories in active and passive remote sensing applications and in climate science.
- A076. Mega-LES for Atmospheric Discovery: What Have We Learned and How Can We Improve? Growing computational capabilities have made running large-domain, real-world, atmospheric large-eddy simulations (LES) increasingly common. This session focuses on the past and future of mega-LES of the atmosphere.
- A086. Numerical coupling of atmospheric processes in current and future models: Challenges and paths forward. This session discusses process coupling in weather and climate models, with an emphasis on addressing computational and numerical concerns. Relevant topics include, e.g., (1) identification of crucial interactions in numerical simulations, (2) computational methods for coupling different processes and/or scales, (3) problems to be solved in current and emerging models, (4) idealized models and test cases to facilitate the development of complex models, and (5) model reduction studies that produce alternative model formulations or novel computational methods to improve solution accuracy and efficiency.
- A087. Observation and model studies of cloud properties and associated processes. This session invites papers focusing on cloud properties, cloud processes, and cloud-associated models and parameterizations.
- A088. Planetary Boundary Layer Science-Focused Remote Sensing. Conveners encourage presentations on recent advances in modeling the PBL, in observing the PBL, and in concepts to observe the PBL from space.
- A089. Process-based Testing and Evaluation of Weather and Climate Models. this session aims to bring together scientists who work on a variety of numerical models (weather/climate, regional/global, coupled/uncoupled, deterministic/ensemble, etc.). It will focus on: 1) T&E of model physics, their interactions, and impacts on the overall performance of a model, and 2) applying process-based T&E to advance understanding of physical processes.
- A090. Process-level Understanding of Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions and Their Parameterizations in Weather and Climate Models. This session invites all theoretical, observational, experimental, and modeling studies of cloud-aerosol-precipitation interactions (CAPI) that advance the process-level understanding of CAPI mechanisms using either the traditional microphysical approach or the more recent approach involving those microphysical and dynamical feedbacks.
- A091. Process-Oriented Analysis of Cloud and Precipitation Physics. In this session, organizers solicit presentations that advance process understanding of cloud and precipitation physics and their representation in weather and climate models using observations and modeling.
- A092. Progress in Reanalysis: Development, Evaluation, and Application. The session invites contributions on new developments, evaluation, and intercomparison (especially with respect to energy, water or carbon cycle) as well as applications of reanalyses.
- A093. Regional climate: modeling, analysis, and impacts. This session focuses on the state of the art in modeling and analysis of regional climate and regional climate impacts on subseasonal-to-multidecadal timescales.
- A100. Subseasonal to Seasonal Climate Prediction, Processes, and Services. This session welcomes contributions on all aspects of S2S science, including physical mechanisms (e.g. tropospheric interactions with the ocean/sea-ice, land surface, stratosphere, prognostic aerosols, MJO, tropics-midlatitude-poles teleconnections, cross-timescale interactions), predictability and prediction studies, extreme events, forecast verification, Model Output Statistics (calibration, including Machine Learning), and climate services development (forecast formats, user-selected thresholds for exceedance probabilities), value and communication.
- A103. The Dynamics of the Large-Scale Atmospheric Circulation in Past, Present, and Future Climate: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons. Conveners welcome contributions covering theory, idealized and comprehensive modeling, and novel diagnostic frameworks for observations and CMIP model outputs to improve our understanding of the large-scale atmospheric circulation and how it may respond to future climate change.
- A105. The Madden-Julian Oscillation and Convectively Coupled Waves in the Tropics: Observations, Theory, Modeling, and Prediction. Conveners solicit presentations of observational, theoretical, modeling, and predictability studies that target process-level understanding of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and convectively coupled tropical waves (CCTWs) and enhanced representation of them in the weather and climate models.
- A109. Understanding and Modeling of Mesoscale and Severe Local Convective Storm Processes. This session invites recent studies that use theory, observations, and/or model simulations at various spatiotemporal scales that aim to improve our understanding, parameterization, and predictability of convective systems.
- B042. Improving Understanding of Land-Atmosphere Interactions through Integration of Surface Layer, Atmospheric Composition, and Atmospheric Boundary Layer Measurements. This session investigates how integration of soil, vegetation, surface flux, atmospheric composition and ABL measurements can 1) improve our understanding of land-atmosphere interactions, feedbacks, and coupling, 2) foster new cross-disciplinary collaborations between atmospheric and surface flux scientists, and 3) open up forward-thinking avenues for integrated cutting-edge research.
- GC004. Advancements, Gaps and Needs in Observing, Understanding and Modeling the High-Latitude Earth Systems. Conveners invite presentations focused on observing or modeling high latitude Earth systems (HLES) from local events/processes, such as polar storms, moisture intrusions, polynya events and spring phytoplankton blooms, through their roles in the coupled system, to hemispheric/global perspectives. They also encourage presentations that advance understanding and modeling of extreme events, internal variability and forced trends of polar climate.
- GC035. Drivers and Mechanisms of Terrestrial Water Cycle Changes at Global and Regional Scales. The session seeks to bring the latest advances in climate modeling, network measurements, statistical techniques, and theoretical underpinning of the spatiotemporal variability and changes in the water cycle at global and regional scales.
- GC013. Advancing Research on the Hydro-climate of South America. This session invites abstracts on the South American hydro-climate, including studies using the newly performed Convective Permitting Climate Model simulations created with the Weather, Research and Forecasting (WRF) modeling system to investigate the mesoscale factors impacting the hydro-climate for typical and extreme events in South America.
- GC084. The Flows of Energy Through the Climate System. This session concerns various aspects of Earth’s energy budget and the variability in its radiative and non-radiative components, as well as the processes yielding such changes and their implications on multiple time and spatial scales.
- GC085. The global water cycle: coupling and exchanges between the ocean, land, and atmosphere. Contributions are invited on all aspects of water cycle research including analyses undertaken using in situ and spaceborne observations from current (e.g., GO-SHIP, Argo, SMAP, SMOS, GRACE-FO, GPM, GCOM-W), past (e.g., Aquarius, TRMM, GRACE), and future (e.g., SWOT, CIMR) satellite missions, estimates based on numerical models, data assimilation systems, as well as climate model projections and theoretical contributions.
- H010. Advances in quantifying impacts and extents of land-use/land-cover change on hydrology and climate change. This session invites submissions that use emerging geospatial techniques such as remote sensing, modeling, artificial intelligence, assimilation of observed vegetation characteristics, and in situ observations like isotopes to quantify hydrologically-relevant landscape change and/or examine their impacts on: (i) Interactions and feedbacks across surface and groundwater interfaces (ii) Regional climate/drought characteristics; (iii) Carbon emissions, iv) Hydro-chemical fluxes and nutrient cycling.
- H021. Advancing Land Surface Models for Hydrological and Environmental Applications. This session will highlight the latest developments in land surface models (LSMs), diagnosis techniques and datasets.
- H023. Advancing Soil Moisture Science via Monitoring, Modeling, and Remote Sensing. Papers are called for on all aspects of soil moisture science, including in situ monitoring, remote sensing, and modeling. Soil moisture is an essential climate and agricultural variable, impacting many applications, therefore also of interest are studies using large-scale soil moisture estimates.
- H032. Atmospheric water resources: remote sensing, AI, mechanisms, and technologies. It is valuable to explore non-traditional water resources (e.g., atmospheric water resources, AWR), and some related challenges and issues are: (1) spatial-temporal evolution of AWR based on multi-source data; (2) variation features of AWR at different atmospheric levels; (3) physical mechanisms, effectiveness, and development potential of AWR utilization; and (4) key technologies of AWR utilization. Conveners welcome all contributions that address the supplementary and complementary role of each of these challenges.
- H036. Changing water cycles in African drylands to global change. This session invites contributions that: (1) analyze the amplification of hydrological extremes and its impacts on the water cycle; (2) provide new insight into the hydrological dynamics, processes and interactions of the critical zone across a range of spatio-temporal scales; and (3) inform adaptive strategies to water cycle changes to enable realization of UN Sustainable Development Goals.
- H037. Characterizing human management features with remote sensing. This session solicits innovative contributions on remote sensing approaches focused on capturing the impact of human footprint on the terrestrial water cycle.
- H049. Essential Water Variables (EWVs) observations and applications for research, water resources management, and operational decision support. Papers are invited that demonstrate the use of priority EWVs in critical water research, operational water resources management and prediction/mitigation of impacts of water cycle extremes, or that identify existing deficiencies and necessary improvements in observing, data exchange and modeling systems.
- H050. Evapotranspiration (ET): Advances in In Situ ET Measurements and Remote Sensing-Based ET Estimation, Mapping, and Evaluation. The scope of the session will include: (1) ET estimation with in situ techniques: improved methods and analysis of long time-series, (2) ET modeling using optical and thermal sensors, (3) applications for a range of ecosystems and spatiotemporal scales, and (4) accuracy evaluation for decision making.
- H052. Flood Analytics, Operational Forecasting, and Adaptive Flood Management for an Uncertain Future: Challenges and Innovations. This interactive session aims to bridge the gap between science, engineering, and practice in the modeling and operational forecasting of flooding events, techniques for flood warning and communication, and system analysis approaches for adaptive management of flood risks in an uncertain and changing world.
- H056. GRACE/GRACE-FO Science in Terrestrial Hydrology. This session invites presentations from studies that advance or enable the utilization of the 15+ year GRACE record and current GRACE Follow-On measurements in combination with models and/or observations to: 1) demonstrate utility in measuring changing water resources such as groundwater, soil moisture, or snow, 2) improve understanding of water cycle extremes such as droughts and floods, 3) advance numerical modeling and data assimilation applications, and 4) explore new interdisciplinary directions.
- H062. Hydroinformatics: Computational Intelligence, Sensing, Data Analytics, Machine Learning, and Scientific Computing. The goal of this session is to provide an active forum to discuss scientific ideas and technical solutions to the advancement of (i) predictive and analytical models based on computational intelligence, machine learning, and data science, (ii) workflow automation techniques through the use of modern computing, crowdsourced data, sensing, and web services, (iii) methods for the analysis of big datasets, including remote sensing, time series, and synthetic/real-time monitoring data, and (iv) Artificial Intelligence in digital analysis and natural language processing for water resources decision making.
- H065. Integrated soil modeling. This session will focus on computational and mathematical soil models that address integration of multiple soil processes across scales; approaches for providing data and parameters and upscaling strategies for application of such models to address contemporary climatic, agronomic and hydrologic issues.
- H068. Land-Atmosphere Interactions: From Bedrock to Boundary Layer. This session invites studies that take advantage of these new opportunities to provide novel insights into the spatial and temporal variability of land-atmosphere interactions and associated processes.
- H093. Remote Sensing, Modeling and Data Assimilation of the Terrestrial Water Cycle. Conveners invite multi-scale, multi-variable, and multi-sensor studies that aim to assess spatiotemporal variability in water resources, improve errors and uncertainty estimation, and those that integrate models with observations across a range of spatial and temporal scales.
- H097. Space-Based Precipitation Observations: Innovations for Science and Applications. This session invites innovative contributions in all areas of precipitation science, including research on physical processes, extremes, missions, instrumentation, models, algorithms, products, applications, and validation.
- H100. Subgrid parameterization of physical processes in Earth System Models. This session welcomes submissions focusing on any processes related to subgrid variability across the various components of Earth System Models, including the soil, snow, ice, hydrologic, oceanic, wave, and atmospheric components and their coupling.
- H102. Surface Water Hydrology from SWOT, NISAR, and ICESat-2. Conveners will feature scientific results and technical advances in the development and use of ICESat-2, NISAR, SWOT and other emerging satellite technologies. They will highlight the potential for synergistic use of data from all three satellites
- H113. Utilizing Precipitation Datasets and Quantifying Associated Uncertainties in Hydrometeorological and Climate Impact Applications. This session seeks contributions from the research, operational, and user communities that utilize precipitation datasets in applications that address scientific and societal needs from flood forecasts to climate impact studies.
- H126. Earth System Science Results Based on NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission Measurements. The NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission continues to produce science data products based on global low-frequency microwave radiometry with science applications across Earth System science, and this session solicits contributions related to this.
- IN004. Adopting Principles to Enhance Capabilities for Using Earth Science Data. Principles offer recommendations for data centers, archives, and repositories to improve infrastructure for scientific data stewardship, curation and sharing. Session presentations describe how adoption of capabilities enable, facilitate, and/or enhance use of Earth science data.
24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM2021)
Dates: 5-9 December 2021 Location: Online Platform and at the University of Sydney and International Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia (hybrid event)
Abstract Submission Deadline: 23 August 2021
With the increase in data availability and recognition of uncertainty, MODSIM2021 will focus on how modeling and simulation can be used to translate data into action.
Building on the traditional modeling and simulation papers in diverse areas, papers will explore the conference theme from a wide spectrum of disciplinary perspectives organized in different streams. Special themes of the conference will include methods that take advantage of large datasets, scenario modeling of uncertain futures under climate change, resource constraints, and conflicting objectives.
CFMIP 2021 Virtual Meeting
Dates: 14-16 September 2021 Location: Virtual Meeting
Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 September 2021
Due to the ongoing pandemic, the 2021 meeting of the Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP 2021) will be held online. Continuing the themes from previous years, contributions related to Clouds, Precipitation, Circulation, and Climate Sensitivity are welcome.
Scientific Themes
- Forcing, Feedbacks, and Climate Sensitivity
- Observations and Model Evaluation
- Precipitation and Hydrological Sensitivity
- Coupling Clouds with Atmospheric and Oceanic Circulation
- Extratropical Cloud Processes and Feedbacks
- Convective Processes
Special Collection on “Advances in Scaling and Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Interactions”
Special Section Organizers:
David S Schimel (NASA JPL), Benjamin Poulter (NASA GSFC), Natasha Stavros (NASA JPL), Phil Townsend (University of Wisconsin), Nancy Glenn (Boise State University)
Deadline: 31 December 2021 Earth’s surface and its biological organisms exchange heat, momentum, carbon, and water with the overlying atmosphere at a multitude of scales. However, capturing those interactions across scales remains a challenge for observing systems and Earth system models. Here, the editors solicit papers highlighting recent investigations from land-atmosphere field campaigns, including observational analyses, tests of theoretical approaches to scaling or modeling these processes, and model-based evaluation and diagnostic studies. Papers can be submitted to JGR: Biogeosciences, JGR: Atmospheres, Earth and Space Sciences, or Journal of Advances in Modeling of Earth Systems (JAMES). The latter two are gold open-access and the first two have open-access options.
Water Special Issue “Hydrological Cycle and Land-Atmosphere Interactions: From Evapotranspiration to Precipitation”
Special Issue Editors:
Prof. Dr. Jiangfeng Wei (School of Atmospheric Science, Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology) and Prof. Dr. Min-Hui Lo (Department of Atmospheric Sciences, National Taiwan University)
Deadline: 31 December 2021
In this Special Issue, studies are sought that investigate the facts and mechanisms related to the processes from surface evapotranspiration to precipitation. The topics covered by this Special Issue will include but not be limited to the following:
- Land–atmosphere interactions and the hydrological cycle;
- Atmospheric boundary layer processes, cloud physics, and precipitation;
- Atmospheric moisture transport and tracking;
- Impact of human activities on the hydrological cycle;
- Aerosol–cloud–climate interactions.
