Find calls for abstracts in areas of GEWEX-related science below. Meetings with abstract submission deadlines list sessions of interest to the GEWEX community.
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Dates: 9–13 December 2024
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 July 2024
Find a non-inclusive list of sessions relevant to the GEWEX community below, including some sessions convened by GEWEX Panel and project members. If you’d like to have your session listed here, send us at email at contact@gewex.org.
- A005 – Advances and Challenges in Reducing Model Errors and Biases at Subseasonal to Seasonal Scales
This session will examine the persistent challenges and recent advancements in mitigating the model errors and biases that are a common problem in S2S systems. - A017 – Processes of (Sub) Cloud Scales: Modeling, Observations and Parameterizations
Chunsong Lu, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology; Yangang Liu, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Lulin Xue, NCAR, RAL; and Alexei Korolev, Environment Canada Toronto
This session focuses on process-level modeling, observations (both laboratory and field), machine learning and parameterizations of cloud processes. Also invited are studies on unified treatment of different processes, process coupling, and integration from observations, theories to models. - A021 – Advances in Theoretical Understanding of Atmospheric Convection across Scales
Qiu Yang, Peking University; Angel Adames-Corraliza, University of Wisconsin Madison, John Peters, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus; and Mitchell W. Moncrieff, National Center for Atmospheric Research
This session invites abstracts utilizing theories, idealized models, and conceptual frameworks to demonstrate fundamental mechanisms and properties of atmospheric convection across scales. - A026 – Advancing Understanding of Atmosphere-Land-Hydrology Interactions in Cold Environments
Lele Shu and Xianhong Meng, Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources, Chinese Academy of Science; Lingcheng Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and Wei Tian, Lanzhou University
This session brings together researchers studying atmosphere-land-hydrology interactions in cold regions to share latest findings, discuss challenges, and identify future research directions. - A042 – Atmospheric Convection: Processes, Dynamics, and Links to Weather and Climate
Giuseppe Torri, University of Hawaii at Manoa; Yang Tian, NCAR; and Rachel L Storer and Hanii Takahashi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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. - A051 – Boundary Layer Clouds and Climate Change
Hailong Wang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Ewan Crosbie, NASA Langley Research Center; David Painemal, NASA Langley Research Center and Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc.; Xiaoli Zhou, McGill University; and Hongwei Sun, University of Washington
This session provides a platform for observational, theoretical, and modeling work on liquid, ice, and mixed-phase boundary layer clouds from microscale to regional and global scales. Topics include mechanisms by which boundary layer clouds interact with climate in the context of trends and variations in atmospheric circulation, temperature, humidity, and composition. - A052 – Boundary Layer Processes and Turbulence
Mostafa Momen, University of Houston; Qi Li, Cornell University; and Tirtha Banerjee, University of California Irvine
This session will present contemporary themes in turbulent boundary layer studies based on theoretical, experimental, and numerical viewpoints. - A058 – City and Climate Extremes: Scientific and Community Perspectives
Xinxin Sui, University of Texas at Austin; Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Jessica Abbie Eisma, University of Texas at Arlington; and Alka Tiwari, Purdue university
This session provides a platform for scientists and community partners to discuss extreme weather in global cities, and invites abstracts studying mechanisms or social impacts of extreme weather in urban environments. - A060 – Climate Sensitivity and Feedbacks: Advances and New Paradigms
Ivy Tan, McGill University; Mark Richardson, NASA JPL; Chad Thackeray, UCLA; and Nicholas Lutsko, UCSD
This session explores recent advances in understanding large-scale climate response to climate forcings. We welcome submissions on theory, observations and modelling studies of climate feedbacks, climate sensitivity, and climate responses of precipitation and large-scale dynamics, especially those exploring novel evaluation techniques such as emergent constraints, and new ways of thinking about processes that govern climate’s response to external forcing. - A061 – Climate Variability and Predictability on Subseasonal to Centennial Timescales
Yoko Yamagami, JAMSTEC Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology; Yushi Morioka, JAMSTEC/APL; and Hiroyuki Murakami and V Ramaswamy, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
This session welcomes all research activities related to subseasonal to centennial climate variabilities and/or predictability utilizing observational data, theoretical/modeling approaches, and artificial intelligence/machine learning frameworks. - A063 – Clouds, Precipitation, Aerosol and Air Quality in the Coastal Urban Environment of Southeastern, TX
Michael P Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory; James H Flynn III, University of Houston; Prathap Ramamurthy, City College of New York; and Pawel Misztal, University of Texas at Austin
This session solicits presentations on modeling and observational studies across different spatiotemporal scales including field, laboratory, and remote sensing measurements of cloud and precipitation processes, aerosol processes, air quality, urban meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions and related topics in the coastal urban environment of Southeastern, Texas (including studies related to the 2021-2022 TRACER, TRACER-AQ, ESCAPE and CUBE field campaigns). - A074 – Dynamics, Variability, and Predictability of North American Precipitation
Wenhao Dong, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory; Yi Ming, Schiller Institute for Integrated Science and Society; Yi Deng, Georgia Institute of Technology
This session aims to explore precipitation variability and change across various spatiotemporal scales over North America. Contributions are invited that examine the underlying dynamic and thermodynamic processes, responses to external forcing and internal drivers, as well as the associated societal and climatic impacts. - A083 – Extreme Events: Observations and Modeling
Sridhara Nayak, Japan Meteorological Corporation; Satoshi Iizuka, National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience; Tetsuya Takemi, Disaster Prevention Research Institute; and Mukesh Kumar, University of California Irvine
We particularly encourage abstracts that explore extreme events and related hazards in past years, as well as near or far future scenarios (30-100 years), which could assist policymakers in building potentially more resilient societies. - A092 – High Resolution Earth System Modeling on Large Supercomputers
L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Gokhan Danabasoglu, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Pier Luigi Vidale, University of Reading; and Malcolm J Roberts, Met Office Hadley Center for Climate Change
Submissions are particularly encouraged on ~10 km and ultra-high (order km) scales, with contributions on developments to improve the speed, scalability, and accuracy of dynamical cores, as well as parameterization suitable for the 10-1km range. The session also encourages presentations on model intercomparison projects such as HighResMIP, DYAMOND, and OMIP, ensemble modeling at high resolution, and modeling experiments and analysis to address the balance of simulation length, resolution, and ensemble size. - A096 – Improving Representation of Processes in Earth System Models for Weather and Climate to Address Systematic Biases
Weiwei Li, Michael B Ek, and Kathryn Newman, NSF NCAR
This session aims to bring together researchers/scientists across the community who work on a range of numerical modeling/infrastructure advancements for model physics. Abstracts are encouraged to highlight work conducted 1) by various physics developmental and assessment groups, 2) in field campaigns that leverage observing infrastructures to constrain parameterized processes, and 3) by testbeds and operational centers. - A116 – Observation, Modeling and Parameterization of Cloud Properties and Processes
Peng Wu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Chuanfeng Zhao, Peking University; Jonathan H. Jiang, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Kuan-Man Xu, NASA Langley Research Center; and Jingjing Tian, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
This session invites presentations on topics related to cloud properties and cloud processes, including but are not limited to 1) theoretical exploration of basic cloud physics; 2) analysis of cloud observations and simulations that address cloud processes; 3) quantification of cloud-related uncertainties in models and their climatic implications; 4) physical-based and/or machine learning-assisted parameterization developments; 5) interactions of clouds with aerosol perturbations, radiation, turbulence, and mesoscale dynamics. - A117 – Promoting the implications of advanced modeling and experiment design for extreme events
Zeyu Xue, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Guangxing Lin, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Jingyu Wang, National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University; Jianfeng Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and Yusuke Hiraga, Tohoku University - A120 – Regional Extreme Precipitation Assessments, Impacts, and Adaptation Strategies
Natalie Teale, Miami University Oxford; Jonathan Winter, Dartmouth College; Aubrey L Dugger, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Manuel Hernandez Jr, Liberty Mutual, Raleigh, NC, United States
This session focuses on advances in characterizing regional extreme precipitation, evaluating regional extreme precipitation impacts, and developing stakeholder-engaged adaptations to regional extreme precipitation. - A123 – Remote Sensing of the Planetary Boundary Layer from Ground, Air, and Space
Amin R Nehrir, NASA Langley Research Center; Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Kelly A. Lombardo, Pennsylvania State University Main Campus; and Jeffrey R. Piepmeier, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
In this session presentations are encouraged on recent advances to observe and model PBL thermodynamics from space, air, and ground-based perspectives, serving as a platform to discuss the optimal architecture to measure the PBL across scales. - A136 – Theory and observations of atmospheric convective downdrafts
Steven C Sherwood, University of New South Wales; Lianet Hernández Pardo, CPTEC Center for Weather Forecasts and Climate Research; Jake Mulholland, Naval Postgraduate School; Thijs Heus, Cleveland State University; and Greeshma Surendran, UNSW Sydney
Contributions are invited that address questions around downdrafts, including new observations or observing systems; numerical modeling studies of downdraft properties or driving mechanisms; and studies of the dynamics of downdrafts, theories for predicting their properties or how to represent them in global models. - A142 – Understanding Land-Atmosphere Interactions: The Role of Surface Fluxes, Boundary Layer Processes, and the Free Atmosphere
Manuel Helbig, Dalhousie University and Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences; Zhao Yang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and Tianning SU, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
This session invites studies that provide novel insights into the spatio-temporal variability of land-atmosphere interactions, with an emphasis on interactions across the land-boundary layer-free atmosphere continuum and from local to continental scales. Studies that investigate the role of soil moisture, heat fluxes, vegetation, vapor pressure deficit, boundary-layer turbulence, clouds, and free atmospheric conditions are of particular interest. - B001 – Addressing and Understanding Uncertainties in CMIP: Key Insights and Future Directions
Lina Teckentrup, Barcelona Supercomputing Center; Indrani Roy, UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction; Alexander J Winkler, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Wandi Yu, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Camilla Mathison, Met Office
In this session, we invite studies that investigate uncertainties and model disagreements across all facets associated with Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) projections. - GC045 – Climate Downscaling and Weather Post-Processing: Development, Evaluation, and Applications
Mimi Hughes, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory; Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Ethan D Gutmann, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Jeffrey Richard Arnold, MITRE Corporation
Presentations are invited that evaluate our confidence in downscaled products; enhance utility through developers-user communication; develop new downscaling approaches including with machine- and deep-learning methods; evaluate the historical skill, statistical reliability, and representativeness of downscaled products; and advance the application of downscaled products in real-world decision-making. - GC046 – Climate forcing: quantifying the roles and responses of anthropogenic and natural climate drivers
Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Vaishali Naik, NOAA/ Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, United States
This session invites contributions on all climate forcing research aspects, including the development of historical and future forcing time-series, analyses that use idealized, single- or multi-model approaches, or observational methods to evaluate the climate change impacts. - GC080 – Hemispheric (A)symmetries in Earth’s Climate
Clare Singer, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Michael Diamond, Florida State University; Sarah Kang, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology; Aiden Jönsson, Stockholm University
This session explores these hemispheric (a)symmetries of the climate. In particular, submissions are invited on theory, observations, idealized and comprehensive modeling of hemispheric (a)symmetries in albedo, precipitation, surface temperature, polar amplification, and more. - GC120 – Planning and Evaluating Climate Observing Systems
Betsy Weatherhead, University of Colorado; Eduardo Araujo-Pradere, Miami Dade College; Alan Blumberg, Jupiter Intelligence; Ann Fridlind, NASA GISS; Ryan Kramer, NOAA GFDL
A variety of recommendations have been produced in the last few years (WMO, BIPM, KISS, Decadal Survey mid-term, GISS, etc.) with the goal of making future climate observations “fit for purpose.” Presentations on these activities, on current plans for continued observations and on evaluation techniques for planned observations are all welcome. - GC122 – Regional Climate: Modeling, Analysis, and Impacts
Melissa S Bukovsky, University of Wyoming; L. Ruby Leung, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Rachel Rose McCrary, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Paul Aaron Ullrich, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and Eli J. Dennis, University of California Los Angeles
Contributions are sought on coordinated modeling experiments such as CORDEX; new developments in coupled regional Earth system modeling, convection-permitting simulations, and variable resolution approaches; ensemble methods, uncertainty analyses, and methods that innovatively differentiate projection credibility in ensembles; as well as process-informed analyses of climate extremes in observations and simulations. - GC128 – Robustness of Climate Change Information for Decisions
Naomi L Goldenson, WCRP Regional Information for Society (RIfS); Lincoln M Alves, INPE – National Institute for Space Research; Monica Ainhorn Ainhorn Morrison, National Center for Atmospheric Research; and Bruce Hewitson, University of Cape Town
This session will delve into the robustness of climate change information for decisions, engaging the climate science community and stakeholders from diverse sectors. It will explore challenges in information exchange and foster new dialogues on regional climate information. Contributions on successful outcomes, cross-cultural experiences, and methods of uncertainty communication are encouraged. - GC149 – The global water cycle: coupling and exchanges of mass and energy between the ocean, land, cryosphere, and atmosphere
Paul James Durack, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; John T Reager II, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Nadya Vinogradova Shiffer, NASA Headquarters; and Francis H Lambert, University of Exeter
This session highlights water cycle research emphasizing the Earth as a connected system, describing linkages between the ocean, atmosphere, cryosphere, and land surface and subsurface processes. - H035 – An Integrated Community Approach to Modeling, Observations, and Prediction of the Water Energy and Carbon Cycles Across Climate Timescales over the CONUS
Peter J van Oevelen, George Mason University; and Timothy Schneider, Sarah A Tessendorf, and Diamond Tachera, National Center for Atmospheric Research
A developing GEWEX Regional Hydroclimate Project (H2US) over the CONUS is to bring the observational, modeling, and social science communities together to advance the state of the science and our predictive capabilities to better characterize the water, energy, and carbon cycles. Submissions are invited that explore co-design, inter-, and transdisciplinary approaches to water cycle science for a better understanding and quantification of water availability now and in the future. Especially relevant are papers that explore ways to evaluate, improve and integrate existing surface observational networks across regional to continental scales, in the context of terrestrial-based and spaceborne remote sensing, to support of Earth system modeling of the water-cycle, and regional, national and global operational weather and hydroclimate monitoring and modeling efforts. An outcome of this work is envisioned as a ‘Digital Earth’ representation of the water cycle over the US. - GC039 – Building Climate Resilience through Inclusive Action
Emily Caitlin Adams, University of Alabama in Huntsville and NASA-SERVIR; Jason B Roberts, NASA Marshall Space Flight Cente; Michelle D Hawkins and Nancy D Searby, NASA Headquarters
This session solicits inter- and transdisciplinary climate research, case studies, and implementations of climate resilience approaches that bridge the human-natural systems divide and feature or prioritize inclusivity. - GC053 – Cracking the Puzzle of the Anomalous Temperatures in 2023: Observational and Modeling Studies to Identify and Understand Potential Factors and Future Implications
Gavin A Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Zeke Hausfather, Stripe; Daniele Visioni, Cornell University; and Margot Clyne, University of Colorado at Boulder
Beginning in March 2023, regional, and then global, surface temperature anomalies started to break records. Studies are invited that explore potential causes of these anomalies based on internal or external factors; observational results, modeling studies and statistical analyses that focus on these specific factors or holistic overviews, as well as analyses that put this in the context of future science and policy are also welcome. - GC068 – Earth Observations (EO) applications supporting UN-Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)–monitoring indicators, analytics & assessments
Sushel Unninayar, NASA/GSFC & Morgan State University; Corena Pincham, Booz Allen Hamilton DC; Danielle Wood, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Jared Keith Entin, NASA Headquarters
This session showcases the application of integrated Earth Observations together with complementary in-situ and model-derived information to determine the baseline states and changes in the SDG indicators as a guide to policy level decision making for the strategic management of resources through public and non-public partnerships. - GC115 – New and emerging perspectives in Observing Earth from Space
Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi, University of Virginia; Ana Paula Barros, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign; and Lori A Magruder, University of Texas at Austin
Submissions are welcome that study any aspect of the Earth system using remote sensing along with modeling tools and societal applications. Contributions are invited that articulate critical science needs and priorities for the next decade that can most benefit from remote sensing observations and concepts for future earth observations using different remote sensing platforms and architectures, and their integration with modeling and decision support are strongly encouraged. - GC120 – Planning and Evaluating Climate Observing Systems
Elizabeth C Weatherhead, University of Colorado; Eduardo Araujo-Pradere, Miami Dade College; Alan F Blumberg, Jupiter; Ann M Fridlind, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies; Ryan J Kramer, University of Miami; and INCUS Cal/Val
A variety of recommendations have been produced in the last few years (WMO, BIPM, KISS, Decadal Survey mid-term, GISS, etc.) with the goal of making future long-term observations “fit for purpose.” Presentations on these activities, on current plans for continued observations, and on evaluation techniques for planned observations are all welcome. - GC128 – Robustness of Climate Change Information for Decisions
Naomi L Goldenson, WCRP Regional Information for Society (RIfS); Lincoln M Alves, INPE; Monica Ainhorn Morrison, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Bruce Hewitson, University of Cape Town
This session will delve into the robustness of climate change information for decisions, engaging the climate science community and stakeholders from diverse sectors. It will explore challenges in information exchange and foster new dialogues on regional climate information. Aligned with the World Climate Research Programme’s RIfS project, the session underscores context-specific actionable information and stakeholder engagement. - GC142 – Systematic Benchmarking and Evaluation of Climate and Earth System Models
Jiwoo Lee and Paul Ullrich, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Elizabeth Maroon, University of Wisconsin Madison; and Fiaz Ahmed, University of California, Los Angeles
To advance the integration of benchmarking and evaluation into routine simulation or model development workflows, this session invites studies that explore benchmarking of ESMs, new and informative diagnostics (including process-oriented diagnostics), science performance metrics, development of evaluation tools or database, and model versus observational uncertainties. - GC154 – The Third Pole Environment (TPE) under Global Changes
Shilong Piao, Peking University; Lonnie G Thompson, Ohio State University Main Campus; Andreas Mulch, Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F); and Fan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Co-sponsored by TPE (www.tpe.ac.cn), this session is dedicated to studies of Pan Third Pole atmosphere, cryosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere and their interactions with global change. - H001 – Achievements in soil moisture science: in situ, modeling, and remote sensing
Michael H Cosh, USDA-ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory and Todd G Caldwell, USGS Nevada Water Science Center
The National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network was developed to provide a framework for national scale soil moisture monitoring activities, with a focus on utility and resilience. Papers are called for on all aspects of soil moisture science, including in situ monitoring, remote sensing, data quality, calibration, validation, and modeling. - H006 – Advancements in Remote Sensing, Hydrologic Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Machine Learning for Terrestrial Water Cycle
Hyunglok Kim, GIST Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology; Venkataraman (Venkat) Lakshmi, University of Virginia; Kristen Whitney, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Iliana E Mladenova, USDA/ARS BARC-W; and ManhHung Le, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
This session aims to highlight advancements in hydrologic modeling, remote sensing, data assimilation, and machine learning. Contributions are sought exploring spatio-temporal water resource variability. - H025 – Advancing Hydrologic Modeling and Prediction Using Large-Domain Meteorological and Hydrologic Datasets
Hongli Liu, University of Alberta; Guoqiang Tang, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Martyn P Clark, University of Calgary; and Andy Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research and Colorado School of Mines
Contributions are invited that tackle challenges related to advancing hydrologic modeling and prediction using large-domain datasets. - H027 – Advancing Land Surface Models for Hydrological and Environmental Applications
Bailing Li, University of Maryland College Park; Nathaniel W Chaney, Duke University; Jifu Yin, NOAA College Park, NESDIS-STAR/University of Maryland CICS; and Guo-Yue Niu, University of Arizona
Conveners encourage contributions in these areas: (1) model developments and improvements that address issues facing hydrology and the earth science community; (2) use of observations for improving simulation of land surface processes (3) diagnosis that provide insights on model performance and future directions on model improvement; and (4) development of meteorological forcing and other datasets for land surface modeling. - H044 – Chapman Conference 2025: The Energy Balance Closure Problem: Causes, Corrections, and Implications
William P Kustas, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory; Joseph G Alfieri, U.S. Department of Agriculture and Remote Sensing Laboratory; Jose D Fuentes, Penn State University; Martha Anderson, USDA ARS Hydrology and Remote Sensing Laboratory; and Tianxin Wang, UC Berkeley
The Chapman Conference will focus on the longstanding questions surrounding the lack of closure of the surface energy budget that has plagued the eddy-covariance (EC) community for decades. - H054 – Earth System Science and Applications Based on the NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) Satellite Mission Science Data Products
Dara Entekhabi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Simon H Yueh, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); Rajat Bindlish, Goddard Earth Sciences Technology and Research; and Mark Garcia, JPL/CalTech
This session includes presentations on the uses of NASA Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) satellite mission data in Earth System science and applications. - H062 – Evapotranspiration (ET): Advances in In Situ ET Measurements and Remote Sensing-Based ET Estimation, Mapping, and Evaluation
Gabriel B Senay, U.S. Geological Survey Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center; Kyle Knipper, U.S. Department of Agriculture; Naga Manohar Velpuri, International Water Management Institute; Nicolas E Bambach, University of California Davis; and Kul B Khand, USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
The scope of the session includes: (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 relevant decision making in water resources management. - H123 – Space-Based Precipitation Observations: Innovations for Science and Applications
Sarah Ringerud, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; George John Huffman, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Claire Pettersen, University of Michigan Ann Arbor; and Brenda Dolan, Colorado State University
This session invites innovative contributions in all areas of precipitation science and applications with emphasis on the use of space-based observations, including missions, instrumentation, algorithms, products, validation, extremes, physical processes, and models. - H128 – Terrestrial Water Storage: science and applications using NASA’s GRACE and GRACE-FO missions
John T Reager II, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Bridget R Scanlon, University of Texas at Austin; Di Long, Tsinghua University; and Karem Fathy Abdelmohsen, Arizona State University
This session seeks to explore the synergistic use of GRACE and GRACE-FO observations with other datasets to expand fundamental process understanding in relationships between terrestrial water storage and other thematic areas in the Earth system, including: solid earth (geodetic), ecosystems atmosphere, natural hazards, water resources, or climate/energy. - H141 – Utilizing Precipitation Datasets and Quantifying Associated Uncertainties in Hydrometeorological and Climate Impact Applications
Paul A Kucera, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, COMET; Ali Behrangi, University of Arizona; Emad H Habib, University of Louisiana at Lafayette; and Andrew James Newman, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
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.
Dates: 12–16 January 2025
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 August 2024
Sessions of interest (some convened by GEWEX Panel and project members: see sessions in bold text) to the GEWEX community below are listed below. If you’d like to see your session listed here, please send us an email at contact@gewex.org.
Gerald A Meehl Symposium
The Gerald A. Meehl Symposium honors Dr. Gerald (Jerry) Meehl’s extraordinary 40+ year career at NCAR, marked by his outstanding service to the climate research community and pioneering use of coupled climate models to tackle complex climate challenges. The symposium welcomes any abstracts within climate modeling, variability and change with specific focus on four major areas of Jerry’s research: improvement in climate model fidelity through improved model physics and machine learning; detection and attribution of the observed climate variability across different timescales using models; climate predictability and prediction on subseasonal to decadal timescales; and climate projection and changes in extremes.
- Session 69041: A Convergent Community Approach to Modeling, Observations, and Prediction of the Water Energy and Carbon Cycles Across Climate Timescales over the United States
- Session 69099: Advancements in Analysis and Prediction of Drought
- Session 69283: Advancements in Hydrologic Modeling: Integrating Surface and Subsurface Hydrology across the Atmosphere-Land-Ocean Continuum
- Session 69283: Advances in Large-scale Flood Modeling, Monitoring, Forecasting, Analysis, and Management
- Session 69022: Extreme Precipitation
- Session 69421: Field Observations, Remote Sensing, and Modeling of Hydrology and Its Change in High-Altitude Complex Terrain
- Session 69360: High-Latitude Water and Carbon Cycles in a Warming Climate
- Session 69737: Land Data Assimilation for Improved Hydrological Simulations
- Session 69027: Land-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Climate
- Session 69318: Precipitation Processes and Observations for Atmospheric, Land Surface, and Hydrological Modeling
- Session 69325: The Earth’s Water Cycle: Variability, Changes, and Extremes
38th Conference on Climate Variability and Change
- Session 69304: Frontiers in Earth System Modeling
- Session 68812: Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons
- Session 69249: Multiyear to Decadal Climate Variability: Mechanisms, Predictability and Prediction
17th Symposium on Aerosol–Cloud–Climate Interactions
- Session 69189: Bridging Process Observations and Global Model Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions
- Session 69069: Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in Deep Convection (Joint with Second Symposium on Cloud Physics)
13th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
- Session 69833: Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Climate Predictability, Prediction, and Applications
- Session 69122: Understanding Subseasonal Extremes through the Lens of Global Monsoons and MJO
- Session 69903: Other Topics in Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability
4th Symposium of Community Modeling and Innovation
- Session 68891: Advancing Data Assimilation: Community Innovations Towards Accelerating Implementation of Novel Capabilities in Numerical Weather Prediction Modeling
- Session 69023: Improving Representation of Processes in Earth System Models for Weather and Climate to Address Systematic Biases
2nd Symposium on Cloud Physics
- Session 69784: Convective Evolution: Processes, Dynamics, Environment, and Links to Weather and Climate (Joint between the 17th Symposium on Aerosol Cloud Climate Interactions and the Second Symposium on Cloud Physics)
- Session 68982: Mesoscale Cloud Organization
- Session 69032: Parameterization of Cloud Microphysics Across Scales
ESA Water Vapour Climate Change Initiative – 2nd User Workshop
Dates: 14–16 October 2024
Location: Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany) and online
Abstract Submission Deadline: 15 August 2024
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 vapor (TCWV) and water vapor profile across troposphere and stratosphere (2D, 3D).
The aim of this second User 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 vapor CDRs.
Topics of the workshop include:
- Discuss challenges related to the generation of water vapor CDRs.
- Show-case climate applications of water vapor CDRs.
- Collect and update user requirements for atmospheric water vapour.
- Present and discuss results from climate analysis, climate applications, and process studies using water vapor CDRs.
- The effect of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption on the stratosphere and resulting impacts on the troposphere.
- Water vapor in NWP models.
