PAGES is excited to be hosting a one-day symposium on 1 June in Bern, Switzerland, which will showcase PAGES working group activities. Everyone is welcome to attend either in-person or online. Participation is free, but registration is compulsory via the webform – space is limited, so please do register, even if you are attending online. The deadline for registration is 4 May.
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The Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity is an exploration of the routes to “safe landing” spaces for human and natural systems. It will explore future pathways that avoid dangerous climate change while at the same time contributing to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Lighthouse Activity has five Working Groups, the details of which can be found on the Safe Landing Climates webpage.
In this open call, we are seeking new members for two of the Safe Landing Climates Working Groups. These are:
1. Perturbed Carbon Cycle
The Perturbed Carbon Cycle Working Group has several ongoing activities, focussing on the climate response to CO2 and CH4 emissions, the risk of extreme events and associated rapid change in Greenhouse Gas (GHG) sources and sinks, overshoot scenarios, and the reversibility of the anthropogenic perturbation in the context of negative emissions (Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR), but potentially also methane removal)
We seek self-nominations from experts in the broad fields related to climate and the global biogeochemical cycles, including but not limited to the disciplines of Earth system science, global biogeochemistry, land and ocean ecosystems, atmospheric chemistry, climate mitigation, and Integrated assessments. All interested individuals from the global community are encouraged to apply, particularly individuals from Africa, South America, Asia, and the Small Island States.
2. Safe Landing Pathways
The Safe Landing Pathways Working Group has activities that explore what climate trajectories and destinations are safe or unsafe, for whom, and why.
We seek applications and self-nominations from experts in the broad fields related to Safe Landing Pathways, including but not limited to the disciplines of economics, human geography, public health, biodiversity, conservation and ecosystem management, Earth system governance, and international policy. All interested individuals from the global community are encouraged to apply, particularly individuals from Africa, South America, Asia, and Small Island States.
If you think that you would make a useful contribution to the work of these two Working Groups, please complete the following application form:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SLCWG2023
The deadline for applications is 2 April 2023.
Please see the online call: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/opportunities/open-call-slc-wg-2023
Would you like to be an affiliate member?
Please also note that we are always looking for new affiliate members for all of the Safe Landing Climates Working Groups. Affiliate members are researchers who are interested in being kept up to date with our Working Group activities and to whom we send relevant invitations and information. There is no time commitment or expectation.
Should you wish to be an affiliate member of any of the Working Groups, please send your name, affiliation, country of residence, a short overview of your research interests, and the names of the Working Groups that you are interested in being an affiliate member of to: . An overview of all the Working Groups can be found on the Safe Landing Climates webpage.
A Joint SPARC DynVar · SNAP Meeting
9-13 October 2023 · Munich, Germany
Organized by the Meteorological Institute at Ludwig-Maximilians-University MunichThe Role of Atmospheric Dynamics for Climate and ExtremesScientific
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Program
● Links of atmospheric circulation to weather and climate on subseasonal to centennial timescales
● The role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in predictability of tropospheric climate andsurface weather extremes
● The influence of climate model biases on uncertainty in predictions and projections
● Emerging dynamical constraints to understand and reduce projection uncertainties
● Mechanistic understanding of dynamic coupling, teleconnections, and trends
Keynote speaker: Paul Kushner, University of Toronto, Canada
Invited Speakers: Christiane Jablonowski (USA), Marta Abalos (Spain), Noel Keenlyside (Norway), Marina Friedel (Switzerland), Dillon Elsbury (USA), Tim Woollings (UK), Peter Hitchcock (USA), Hera Kim (South Korea), William Seviour (UK), Blanca Ayarzagüena (Spain), Hamid Pahlavan (USA), and Zachary Lawrence (USA)
Travel support for early career scientists and attendees from developing nations will be available.
Abstract + Travel Support Deadline: 15 May 2023
For additional information and abstract submission, please see: https://www.aparc-climate.org/meetings/the-role-of-atmospheric-dynamics-for-climate-and-extremes/
28 March 2023
ECMWF, Reading (UK)
This symposium, organized by the WCRP Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP), aims to highlight cutting-edge developments occurring in the international research and services communities.
The symposium is open to all interested researchers and practitioners in the international climate prediction community, either remotely or (for those based in Reading) in person at ECMWF. For further details on how to attend, including the agenda and, please complete the registration form before 26 March to receive the joining information.
A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
Aeolus wind lidar observations of the 2019/2020 Quasi-Biennial Oscillation disruption with comparison to radiosondes and reanalysis. By T.P. Banyard et al. in the EGUsphere.
Usability of climate information: Toward a new scientific framework. By J. Jebeile and J. Roussos in WIREs Climate Change.
South Pole Station ozonesondes: variability and trends in the springtime Antarctic ozone hole 1986–2021. By B.J. Johnson et al. in Atmospheric Composition and Physics.
Indicators of the ozone recovery for selected sites in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes derived from various total column ozone datasets (1980–2020). By J. Krzyścin in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
The influence of solar-modulated regional circulations and galactic cosmic rays on global cloud distribution. By V. Kumar, S.K. Dhaka, M.H. Hitchman, and S. Yoden in the Scientific Reports.
Large Contribution of Ozone-Depleting Substances to Global and Arctic Warming in the Late 20th Century. By M. Sigmond et al. in the the Geophysical Research Letters.
Discussion papers – open for comment:
ESD Ideas: A 6-year oscillation in the whole Earth system? By A. Cazenave, J. Pfeffer, M. Mandea, and V. Dehant in the EGUsphere.
We have just another week for abstract submissions to the WCRP Open Science Conference (https://wcrp-osc2023.org): deadline on 14th March! The same deadline also applies to financial support requests and expressions of interest to attend the Early and Mid-Career Researchers Symposium (EMCR) Symposium.
We are building an exciting program, with many topical sessions (https://wcrp-osc2023.org/program/program-sessions) that will bring together the work of the WCRP Core Projects and Lighthouse Activities, while reaching out to different communities in a transdisciplinary event. It also features many contributions from our partners, in terms of scientific research and organizational co-design.
Highlighting also the poster clusters (https://wcrp-osc2023.org/program/program-poster-clusters), which are designed to bring together a community working on a specific topic within the broader conference themes. Posters will form a very important part of the OSC, particularly for early career researchers. In addition to dedicated on-site poster sessions, all posters will be posted on the hybrid platform poster gallery at least two weeks before the conference. Virtual poster sessions will be organized during these two weeks.
The EMCR Symposium programme is taking shape (https://wcrp-osc2023.org/emcr). It will be an excellent opportunity for EMCRs to network with colleagues from different regions and disciplines. We highlight that EMCRs wanting to attend the Symposium must submit an abstract. Applicants will be notified of their selection in May 2023.
There are lots of promotional material on the OSC website (https://wcrp-osc2023.org/about-conference/resources)! Please make use of those and share the information within your networks.
Meet us in remarkable Rwanda! #WCRPOSC23
Nico
(on behalf of the WCRP OSC 2023 Organising Committee)
A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
An inconsistency in aviation emissions between CMIP5 and CMIP6 and the implications for short-lived species and their radiative forcing. By R.N. Thor et al. in Geoscientific Model Development.
Airborne coherent wind lidar measurements of the momentum flux profile from orographically induced gravity waves. By B. Witschas et al. in Atmospheric measurement Techniques.
Discussion papers – open for comment:
Opinion: Atmospheric Multiphase Chemistry: Past, Present, and Future. By J. Abbatt and A. Ravishankarain the EGUshere.
Comment on “An approach to sulfate geoengineering with surface emissions of carbonyl sulfide” by Quaglia et al. (2022). By M. von Hobe et al. in the EGUshpere.
Atmospheric composition and climate impacts of a future hydrogen economy. By N.J. Warwick et al. in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
Using large ensembles to quantify the impact of sudden stratospheric warmings and their precursors on the North Atlantic Oscillation. By P.E. Bett et al. in Weather and Climate Dynamics.
Stratospheric Aerosol and Ozone Responses to the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcanic Eruption. By J. Lu et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Kelvin-Helmholtz Billows in the Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere Detected by the PANSY Radar at Syowa station in the Antarctic. By Y. Minamihara, K. Sato, and M. Tsutsumi in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
GNSS radio occultation soundings from commercial off-the-shelf receivers on board balloon platforms. By K.J. Nelson et al. in Atmospheric measurement Techniques.
The Cross Equatorial Transport of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Eruption Plume. By M.R. Schoeberl, et al. in the Geophysical Research Letters.
Important role of stratosphere-troposphere coupling in the Arctic mid-to-upper tropospheric warming in response to sea-ice loss. By M. Xu et al. in njp climate and atmospheric science.
Discussion papers – open for comment:
Short and long-term stratospheric impact of smoke from the 2019/2020 Australian wildfires. By J. Friberg, B.G. Martinsson, and M.K. Sporre in the EGUsphere.
How do different pathways connect the stratospheric polar vortex to its tropospheric precursors? By R.H. Köhler, R. Jaiser, and D. Handorf in Weather and Climate Dynamics.
The EarthCARE Mission – Science and System Overview. By T. Wehr et al. in the EGUsphere.
Thank you to everyone who is working hard behind the scenes to make the WCRP Open Science Conference 2023 a success! We have two updates:
1. We have had a number of requests to extend the abstract submission deadline by a few weeks. After careful consideration, we are pleased to announce that we can extend the deadline to 14 March 2023. This includes an extension to financial support applications and requests to participate in the EMCR Symposium, which will also close on 14 March. To help the organizing committee, please do not leave your submissions until the last minute.
2. We can report that there is no further availability of rooms for side events. Please see the excellent side-event program on the WCRP OSC website.
Please find all information and the latest updates on the WCRP OSC website (https://wcrp-osc2023.org). And please share these news within your networks.
We look forward to seeing you in Kigali in October.
A selection of new science articles from the past week of interest to the SPARC community (a SPARC Office choice).
Climate processes and drivers in the Pacific and global warming: a review for informing Pacific planning agencies. By S. Chand et al. in Climatic Change.
Assimilation of Aircraft observations over the Indian monsoon region: Investigation of Covid-19 effects on a reanalysis. By S.I. Rani et al. in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
Long-term prediction of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings with Geomagnetic and Solar Activity. By M. Vokhmyanin, T. Asikainen, A. Salminen, and K. Mursula in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Enhancement of Arctic surface ozone during the 2020–2021 winter associated with the sudden stratospheric warming. By Y. Xia, F. Xie, and X. Lu in the Environmental Research Letters.