The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) supported by EUMETSAT will be holding a conference to assess how the current global climate observing system can be improved to better support current and near-term user needs for climate information. This conference follows on from the first climate observation conference, Global Climate Observation: The Road to The Future held on 2–4 March 2016 in Amsterdam.

The conference will take into account the GCOS Status Report 2021 as well as the GCOS Implementation Plan 2022 (in preparation), which will make recommendations to meteorological networks, ocean and land major observing systems and satellite agencies and will be presented to the UNFCCC in 2022.

A scientific committee is being setup under the leadership of Prof. Sabrina Speich, and an invitation for abstracts will be issued in March 2022. 

Please mark your calendars now for this important conference from 17 to 19 October 2022. We hope that in spite of COVID-19 pandemic the meeting will be held in person, but hybrid options will be considered too. The registration page for the conference will open in March 2022 and more detail on the programme will be available at that time. All information will be made available at our meeting website: https://www.eventsforce.net/gcos-coc

Please also feel free to pass this announcement on to colleagues and contacts who would also be interested in participating. 

In the meantime, if you have any questions related to the conference, do not hesitate to contact us via email: .

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Darmstadt in October!

The WCRP Working Group on Coupled Modelling (WGCM) and the CMIP Panel are already working hard in preparation for the next phase of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP). Specifically, we need to hear from everyone their views on the positive aspects and challenges they faced in CMIP6, and how they would like to see future phases of CMIP structured and delivered.

For that, we are inviting the community to take part in the “CMIP Community next steps survey”.  It is your chance to help us shape the future of CMIP!

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/VHK8FJQ

Deadline for completing the survey: 28^th February 2022

We strongly encourage you to share this survey as broadly as you can. We are in particular very keen to have responses from users of the data, from the academic and policy-making world.

For more Information please visit the WCRP website. If you have any questions, please get in touch with Nico Caltabiano () in the WCRP Secretariat.

Thanks for helping us in making CMIP better!

The IPCC is encouraging Experts to participate as Expert Reviewers in the AR6 Synthesis Report Government and Expert Review of the First Order Draft. More information can be found here.

An online registration process has been prepared and is open for prospective Expert reviewers via the IPCC web site. Registration will close on 13 March 2021, one week before the end of the review period:

https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/ar6syr/fod/register.php

The deadline for submission of proposals is extended to January 31 2022.

The Climate and Cryosphere (CliC) project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) announces an open call for CliC Fellowships & Grants 2021.

Goal: The goal of CliC fellowships and grants is to increase the engagement of Early Career Scientists in CliC activities and to promote participation of scientists from regions currently underrepresented in CliC, i.e., South America, Asia and Africa.

Objectives: Applications for CliC fellowships and grants shall address CliC´s new vision and objectives as described in the  CliC Strategic Plan 2022-2031.

Proposed activities may include:  

Fellowships:

• Research visits to laboratories, research groups, etc
• Research synthesis, fieldwork or analysis

Grants

• Promotion of best practice protocols on research in cryosphere regions attentive to societal and community needs and expectations
• Educational activities/capacity exchange related to cryosphere research
• Activities to promote leadership and project management skills
• Research/activities to support participation in policy decision processes
• Science communication efforts aimed at policy making
• Dissemination and outreach activities, e.g., production of media pieces about CliC activities, research highlights, etc

Proposals that are motivated by clearly articulated COVID-induced delays or thwarted activities will also be considered.

CliC fellowship and grant awards up to a maximum amount of 20 000 Swiss Francs (CHF) are welcomed. If a strong case is made for a larger grant, it should not exceed 30 000 CHF. Co-funding with other sources is encouraged.

 Timeline: Activities must be completed in 2022.

 Eligibility

• PhD candidates: Applicants should be currently enrolled in a PhD program 
• ECR: those who have obtained a PhD within 7 years by the deadline January 21, 2022. The period excludes career breaks due to parental leave, health issues, etc.
• Applicants from underrepresented nations or regions in CliC, e.g. South America, Asia, Africa
• For fellowships: the visiting facility must differ from the applicant´s country of origin and current country of residence

 Deadline: 31 January 2022 at 13:00 / 1 pm UTC

To apply click here

Jointly with Future Earth and The Earth League, WCRP has been asked to nominate experts to be part of the Editorial Board for the 2022 10 New Insights in Climate Science (NICS).

The 10 NICS became very well known and a paper is being produced out of it every year. To assure that the 10 NICS continue to have the standard and quality that we intent it to have (it does have the WCRP co-ownership) we have to assure that sufficient involvement from WCRP exists, not just in terms of chapter authors, but also in terms of deciding which topics belong into the document. I therefore strongly encourage everybody to consider participating. 10 NICS are being presented at the COP of every year in a well attended press conference and published as a reviewed paper. 

Find out more on the website.

Our upcoming General Assembly is planned for the 8th and 9th March 2022, as an in-person meeting in Brussels.

Keep an open eye for updates on the Agenda and Planning (also in light of COVID) on the event website: http://ecra-climate.eu/GA22

Updated information about the upcoming Climate Coffee talks, and invite to join:

Neven Fuckar – On land and population exposure to heatwaves in a changing climate Dim Coumou – Is global warming making summer circulation more persistent?

Erik Kusch – Climate Data Pipelines – Efficient Data Retrieval and Processing

See our website http://ecra-climate.eu/ClimateCoffee for more information, and register for updates at http://eepurl.com/hRIWdb .

We are welcoming new speakers, so please contact us if you want to present your work!

The Climate Coffees are co-organised by ECRA and BlueAction.

For questions:

We are pleased to announce that the next ECRA (European Climate Research Alliance) General Assembly will be held from 8 to 9 March 2022 in Brussels, Belgium. This meeting has been postponed from 10-11 March 2021.

Conference theme will be “Extreme events under climate change
– understanding, communicating, and managing the risks“.

This meeting is open to all and more information can be found here.

Rutgers University–New Brunswick

The Department of Environmental Sciences (DES) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in environmental engineering working at the interface of atmospheric science, air quality, and sustainability, with a focus on local and regional air quality issues related to atmospheric conditions and climate change. The successful candidate is expected to
(1) develop an innovative, vigorous, and externally-funded research program and (2) teach existing or new undergraduate or graduate courses in air quality modeling, air pollution control systems, instrumental methods and design, or other courses in our ABET-accredited Environmental Engineering program relevant to research interests. Rutgers-New Brunswick hosts one of the most diverse student bodies in the United
States. Our institutional commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), including our priority of diversifying our faculty ranks, is outlined in the Rutgers DEI strategic plan (https://diversity.rutgers.edu/university-plan). We especially encourage applications from backgrounds underrepresented in environmental engineering including Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and LGBTQ+ scientists or engineers.

We know many of you are participating in-person or remotely in the 2021 AGU conference. We would love to connect with you at this conference! 

In-person
The IGAC Director Langley DeWitt and IGAC co-chair Jim Crawford will be at the Convention Center  Poster Hall in Pod 2 from 15:30-16:00 CST on Tuesday, 14 December and 16:00-16:30 CST on Thursday, 16 December. Come join us at the pod to chat about international atmospheric chemistry! 

Additionally, if you see either of us around in New Orleans, please say hi!!

Online
Zoom rooms will be open for chatting at the same time as the in-person pods. If you feel like it, pop in and say hello virtually! 

15:30-16:00 CST (UTC -6) Tuesday, 14 December:  
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96794499945
16:00-16:30 CST (UTC – 6) Thursday, 16 December:
https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/95968184970

On social media
Please tweet us @igacproject if you would like us to highlight your #atmoschem related presentations at AGU on twitter!

Wishing everyone at AGU an inspiring, fun, productive, and safe conference.