Some of the most exciting new ideas being developed as part of the new WCRP are the Lighthouse Activities. They are intended to be: Major experiments, high-visibility projects, or infrastructure building blocks Activities that truly integrate the capabilities (scientific, technical, infrastructure) across WCRP and with partners.…
The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) leads the way in addressing frontier scientific questions about the coupled climate system — questions that are too large and too complex to be tackled by a single nation, agency, or scientific discipline.…
With impacts from climate change threatening to be as abrupt and far-reaching in the coming years as the current pandemic, leading scientists have released a compilation of the 10 most important insights on the climate from the last year to help inform collective action on the ongoing climate crisis.…
The World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), in the framework of their joint Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project (S2S) are planning to organize a competition to stimulate Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML)/Deep Learning (DL) approaches to improve the forecast skill at the subseasonal to seasonal time scale and to promote the use of their S2S database.…
It is with deep regret that we have learnt of the passing away of Professor Paul Josef Crutzen. Paul Crutzen, a prominent atmospheric chemist, former Director at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz, Germany, and of the Atmospheric Chemistry Division at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, USA, passed away on 28 January 2021.…
In the past 15 years the media impact of the annual Global Carbon Budget has increased significantly. However, as the narrative on the global emissions trajectory starts to change, and the demand for scrutiny of emissions reduction efforts increases, the role of the Global Carbon Budget may need to shift.…
You are warmly invited to the inaugural WCRP Climate Research Forum “Climate research priorities for the next decade”, which will be held as an online forum at the 2021 Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) Conference on 10 February 2021, 14.00 – 15.30 AEDT.…