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WCRP Climate Research Forum - Europe and Western Asia
WCRP Climate Research Forum - Europe and Western Asia
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About this event
The Climate Research Forum for Europe and Western Asia will begin with an overview of WCRP from the Chair and Vice Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (the scientific steering body of WCRP), Detlef Stammer and Helen Cleugh, followed by presentations highlighting key WCRP Activities, including several of the WCRP Core Projects, the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), the Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX), and the WCRP Lighthouse Activities (My Climate Risk, Safe Landing Climates, Explaining and Predicting Earth System Change, and the WCRP Academy). This will be followed by two panel discussions:
Panel 1: Opportunities to broaden WCRP science engagement
Panelists will include:
- Wendy Broadgate, Future Earth Global Hub Director, Sweden
- Alexander Chernokulsky, Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Russia
- Panos Hadjinicolaou, Climate and Atmosphere Research Center, The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus
- Orli Lachmy, Open University of Israel, Israel
- Gaby Langendijk, GERICS Climate Service Center, Germany, and Young Earth System Scientists (YESS) Community
Panel 2: Opportunities to strengthen support for WCRP science
Panelists will include:
- Antonios Gypakis, General Secretariat for Research and Innovation, Greece
- Susanne Mecklenburg, European Space Agency (ESA), UK
- Jean-Noël Thépaut, Copernicus Services, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK
- Philippe Tulkens, Climate and Planetary Boundaries Unit, European Commission, Belgium
- Sarah Webb, Natural Environment Research Council, UK
This will be followed by a moderated question and answer session.
The Forum is without charge and is open to all, but we do ask that you register.
Note: Please check the on-line event page or your email from Eventbrite for the joining details
Note also that this Forum will be recorded and will be available on the WCRP website for download.
Forum webpage: https://www.wcrp-climate.org/crf-events/ewa-june-2021
We thank the following WCRP Regional Focal Points for organizing this Forum: Ségolène Berthou (Met Office Hadley Centre, UK), Masa Kageyama (Laboratoire des sciences du climat et de l’environnement (LSCE), France), Eleni Katragkou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), Frank Kreienkamp (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany), Hauke Schmidt (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology (MPI), Germany), Stefan Sobolowski (NORCE and the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Norway), Andrea Steiner (Center for Climate and Global Change, University of Graz, Austria), Andrea Storto (Institute of Marine Sciences (ISMAR), National Research of Council (CNR), Italy), Svetlana Travova (Hydrometeorological Research Centre of the Russian Federation, Russia), Orli Lachmy (Open University of Israel, Israel).
We also would like to thank the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee Chair, Vice Chair, Officers, and Members: Detlef Stammer, Helen Cleugh, Pascale Braconnot, Martin Visbeck, and Thomas Peter.
The Forum is kindly hosted by the Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD) (Frank Kreienkamp and Miriam Tivig) and supported by the SPARC International Project Office (Mareike Heckl), the CliC International Project Office (Beatriz Balino), and the WCRP Secretariat (Narelle van der Wel).