Meetings of Interest

The Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP) is the flagship activity of the WWRP Polar Prediction Project, with the aim of enabling a significant improvement in environmental prediction capabilities for the polar regions and beyond, by coordinating a period of intensive observing, modelling, verification, user-engagement and education activities.

The Final Summit themes will address:

• Advancements in polar prediction during YOPP and their operationalizations
• Representation of polar processes in numerical models, with focus on coupling of the atmosphere, ocean and sea ice
• Ocean and sea ice modelling and services
• The MOSAiC expedition and polar observation campaigns
• Supersite multi-variate observations and process studies (YOPPsiteMIP Observing System Experiments and reanalyses in polar regions
• Teleconnections linking polar weather to mid-latitudes predictability
• Science to services: tailoring polar forecasting products and services to meet user needs
• Societal and economic implications of accessible, relevant, and useable forecasts
• Building polar prediction international cooperation and the YOPP legacy.

Sponsored by the International Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (iCACGP), the iCACGP-IGAC (International Global Atmospheric Chemistry) Joint International Atmospheric Chemistry Conference conference will be held in Manchester, UK from September 10 to 15, 2022.

See https://www.icacgp-igac-2022.org/side-meeting-request-forms/ and let organizers know if you would be interested in submitting a meeting request. An abstract submission for late-breaking posters will open soon.

The early career short course (https://www.icacgp-igac-2022.org/early-career-researchers/) is also a great way to get more early career scientists involved.

View the scientific program here: https://www.icacgp-igac-2022.org/scientific-program/. More than 450 abstracts have been submitted by mid-July, so organizers are anticipating an interesting, well-attended conference.

The MtnClim research conferences are sponsored by the Consortium for Integrated Climate Research in the Western Mountains (CIRMOUNT) and is dedicated to mountain climate sciences and the effects of climate variability on ecosystems, natural resources, and conservation in western North American mountains.

MtnClim conferences feature invited and contributed talks, poster sessions, field trips, and working-group sessions. Post-conference workshops address topics of interest for further discussion.

This year’s MtnClim meeting will be at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Gothic, Colorado between Monday, September 12 to Friday, September 16, 2022.

The Metrology for Climate Action virtual workshop, hosted by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (Bureau international des poids et mesures) and the World Meteorological Organization, is open to experts and stakeholders active in the fields of climate science, observations, GHG mitigation and measurement, modelling, and measurement science willing to contribute to the development of recommendations on key technical challenge areas for metrology in these fields.

Register for the workshop here.

The AGES (AEROMMA+CUPiDS, GOTHAAM, EPCAPE, and STAQS) workshop will bring together researchers and stakeholders from all of the different field activities occurring during the summer of 2023, including the Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Areas (AEROMMA) + Coastal Urban Plume Dynamics Study (CUPiDS), the Greater New York Oxidant, Tropospheric Halogens, and Aerosol Measurements and Modeling (GOTHAMM) field study, the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE), and the Synergistic TEMPO Air Quality Science (STAQS) mission to discuss science goals, planning, and coordination.

Objectives:

• Provide a platform to discuss the science goals for all the different activities occurring during the summer of 2023 and identify overlapping science goals
• Increase collaboration both logistically and scientifically across the different campaigns
• Increase collaboration between researchers collecting the measurements and researchers using the measurements for model and/or satellite evaluation
• Increase collaboration between researchers and environmental managers/stakeholders

The AGES workshop will be a hybrid meeting, held at the Sustainability, Energy, and Environmental Community (SEEC) building at the University of Colorado Boulder. Registrants are encouraged to attend in person, but there is also a virtual component. The virtual component will allow participants to give presentations, listen to all discussions, including the breakout sessions, and ask questions through a chat application like Slido.

The 40th AAAR Annual Conference is scheduled for October 3 to 7 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Visit the organizer’s website for key dates and deadlines.

An exciting array of Plenary Lectures, Special Symposia, Poster Sessions, Oral Platform Sessions, Tutorials, and Special Events will take place from Monday through Friday at 12:30pm.  Our Tutorial Chairs, Yue Zhang and Michael Schuit, have put together a list of 18 Tutorials on a wide range of aerosol science topics.  It is set to include some new topics as well as some of our old favorites.  Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning will all start with an 8am Plenary Lecture.  Our outstanding lineup of Speakers includes John Volckens, Sarah Henderson, and Jeff Siegel.  This year we will try something new for Friday by having our Plenary Lecture close the Conference.  This Plenary, which will be delivered by Susanne Hering, will be part of a group of activities the History of Aerosol Science Working Group is helping to coordinate to celebrate 40 years of AAAR.

The technical program will feature parallel Platform and Poster Sessions being seamlessly blended together by our 20 Working Group Chairs and Vice Chairs.  We will have 4 Special Symposia designed to bridge multiple areas and promote cross-disciplinary interaction on the following topics:

1. Biomass Combustion: outdoor/indoor transport and indoor air quality
2. Aerosol Physical Chemistry and Microphysics
3. Aerosol Science of Infectious Diseases: What we’ve learned and still need to know about transmission, prevention, and the one health concept
4. Aerosol sources and constituents of emerging importance and their impacts across spatial scales

The 2022 Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators (PI) Meeting will be held in-person (in Rockville, MD) and virtually.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility provides the climate research community with strategically located in situ and remote sensing observatories designed to improve the understanding and representation, in climate and earth system models, of clouds and aerosols as well as their interactions and coupling with the Earth’s surface. The Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program supports an improved understanding of key cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and radiation processes that affect the Earth’s radiative balance and hydrological cycle, especially processes that limit the predictive ability of regional and global models. ASR has four priority research areas that correspond to atmospheric regimes with large uncertainties in Earth system prediction: aerosol processes, warm boundary-layer processes, convective processes, and high-latitude processes. The ASR principal investigators (PIs) are an important user group for the ARM facility, contributing 75% of scientific publications resulting from ARM data.

The 2022 joint user facility/PI meeting will provide a venue for ASR PIs and ARM scientific facility users to report on progress from their research and provide input on scientific priorities, needs, and gaps to the ARM facility.

The 2022 meeting will include plenary sessions, breakout sessions, and poster sessions for ASR scientists and ARM facility users to present their research results and for the ARM facility to present updates on ARM capabilities. Additionally, the meeting will provide opportunities for informal networking and for ARM users to interact with ARM facility staff and learn more about ARM capabilities.

The meeting will be a hybrid in-person and virtual meeting. Plenary and breakout sessions will allow participation by both in-person and virtual attendees. The meeting will have both in-person and virtual poster sessions. In-person poster presenters are encouraged to also submit an electronic version of their poster before the meeting so that virtual attendees may view it during the meeting.

The DOE Office of Science (SC) is fully committed to fostering safe, diverse, equitable, and inclusive work, research, and funding environments that value mutual respect and personal integrity. Effective stewardship and promotion of diverse and inclusive workplaces that value and celebrate a diversity of people, ideas, cultures, and educational backgrounds is foundational to delivering on the SC mission. The scientific community engaged in SC-sponsored activities is expected to be respectful, ethical, and professional. For more information, please see the SC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion web page.

The AGU Fall Meeting is the most influential event in the world dedicated to the advancement of Earth and space sciences. Every year, AGU Fall Meeting unites the Earth and space science community to share findings, connect like-minded scientists from around the world, and advance our profession and shared passion for the impact of science.

AGU Fall Meeting 2022 will be held in Chicago and online everywhere 12 – 16 December 2022. More than 25,000 attendees from more than 100 countries will convene to explore how Science Leads the Future. We will welcome a diverse community of scientists, students, journalists, policymakers, educators and organizations who are working toward a world where scientific discovery leads to scientific solutions, and where our global collaborations and partnerships can carry us into a sustainable future.

The 2023 AMS Annual Meeting will be held 8–12 January 2023 in Denver, Colorado at the Colorado Convention Center.

The theme: Data: Driving Science. Informing Decisions. Enriching Humanity.

We observe, create, measure, simulate, collect, and process data at a prodigious rate, propelled by modern digital technology, and use it to create new knowledge and insights; inform and validate models and hypotheses; guide policies and decisions; and advance the scientific, environmental, and societal dimensions of the weather, water, and climate enterprise (WWC).

This theme uses data as the locus for interlinking heterogeneous disciplines across the WWC enterprise along braids of commonality to propel new science, expand and empower the stakeholder ecosystem across all sectors, and ameliorate bias and socioeconomic inequity, through the suffusion of both theory and data centric approaches.