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🚨 Call for Papers: Special Issue on "Our Changing Cryosphere: Understanding its Dynamics, Hazards, and Implications for Water Security" 🚨The deadline for manuscript submissions is 30 January 2025 – it's fast approaching! This special issue aims to explore diverse aspects of cryospheric science, climate change impacts, and related hazards, with the following goals: ✅ Enhance our understanding of cryospheric processes and climate change responses. ✅ Advance multi-hazard risk assessment frameworks and Early Warning Systems (EWS). ✅ Develop strategies for sustainable water resource management in cryosphere-dependent areas. ✅ Advocate for climate-resilient practices and policies. 🌟 Article Types Accepted: Original Research, Reviews, Policy Briefs, Data Reports, and more. 🌍 Keywords: Glacier Dynamics, GLOFs, Snow Melt Modelling, Remote Sensing, Machine Learning, and Climate Resilience. 🔗 For more details on author guidelines and submission: https://lnkd.in/g5h53SAr Don't miss the opportunity to contribute to this vital and interdisciplinary Research Topic!

Heather Leslie asked if I would write a reflection about my recent experience working with a group of scientists to organize and write the report that is the scientific backbone for climate decision making in Maine. Think National Climate Assessment or IPCC comprehensive report, but for Maine--and we only had eight months! It was a monumental lift, and in the end, we have a document that has all the technical information, but can also be scanned in five minutes for the need-to-know science. I ended up thinking about what I learned, and would have like to have known from the beginning of the process. In this reflection, I hope my insights can be useful to anyone working on a collaboration across fields, sectors, and topics to generate a synthetic report. I want to open the door and demystify the climate reporting process, and invite others into these important tasks.

Knowledge brokers A role that has been emerging over the last few years is that of "Knowledge Broker" - a person that bridges between climate science, climate models, climate data and a stakeholder. This role has been, in my view, undervalued but the more we invest in these roles the better. In particular, a good knowledge broken helps stakeholders avoid misusing climate information, and feeds back to the scientists stakeholder needs that would make difference and that can influence the research being planned. I note a few organisations have invested in knowledge brokers. The National Environmental Science Program Climate Systems hub for example, and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes. Our knowledge broker - Angela Kaplish - has recently penned the following for The policymaker: https://lnkd.in/grM2ZjNJ Some of you will find it interesting. However, I would add one more thing to this - there are major roles out there (Knowledge Broker, data wrangler, data custodians, software engineers and there are more) that exist within projects but not in established positions that can develop long-term solutions to the partnering of researchers with stakeholders. I think this is creates a major vulnerability going forward that requires Universities, government research agencies and so on to update their career planning pathways.

This opinion in Financial Times, citing the Climate Overchoot Commission, aligns with our pragmatic and approach to SRM governance and research. Read more here https://lnkd.in/etJAQKiy

I am delighted that this perspective paper as part of a World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) concept paper series is finally out! We argue that #impact understanding and modeling are the connector between #climate #science and #decision-making. The proposed framework comprises three pillars: climate science, impact science, and decision-making, focusing on generating #seamless climate #information from #subseasonal, #seasonal, #decadal to century timescales informed by observed climate events and their impacts. Using past impacts and iterative #knowledge gained through experience, combined with predictions and projections of #hazard, #exposure, and #vulnerability changes, and taking #uncertainty into account, decisions can be tailored to balance #risk and impact for each individual circumstance. In the perspective, we outline challenges and #opportunities in climate sciences, impact sciences, and decision-making, and provide a rich literature basis of current state-of-the-art science as was presented at the last WCRP open science conference. 👇 https://lnkd.in/gYCsHk5Q Tim Raupach Erich Fischer Carlo Buontempo Ed Hawkins Marjolijn Haasnoot Prof. Dr. Daniela Jacob Alex Ruane Christian Franzke Dr. Leonard Borchert Josipa Zupanic Narelle van der Wel Lincoln Alves Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN)

Need to find a source of open access climate data and understand the differences between them? 📊🌍 I am delighted to share the Climate Data 111+ : Synthesis of Hazard Data Sources. Developed in collaboration with Met Office for Climate Financial Risk Forum (CFRF) Adaptation Working Group, and aimed to collect mostly open access climate data sources, understand what they are and how to use them for specific questions. A guide to selecting the best scenarios will be shared later by The Met Office and University of Leeds team. Climate data sources for now. Created by: Anna Freeman Michael Szczepanski Dr Nicola Ranger Jason Lowe Mark Bernhofen Supported by Ingrid Holmes Cassie Bremner Tom Harwood The list of data sources includes: 🔍 111+ sources/providers of climate hazard data (droughts, floods, heatwaves, indicators etc.) 📈 Historical, present, and future projections from hourly to annual scales 🌐 Climate scenarios from business-as-usual to mitigation pathways 📜 Available for unrestricted use ➡ Find it here: https://lnkd.in/dKHhBknc DOI: https://lnkd.in/dQjCRJMA Special thanks to Climate Arc and NERC: Natural Environment Research Council for their funding support. A big thank you to all collaborators, your expertise and dedication. After spending a portion of my life surfing the waves of climate data, their methodologies, and how to tailor tools for multi-sectoral questions, I feel optimistic about the future of applied climate science. Need any help, please give me a shout from any corner of the world. Resilient Planet Data Hub University of Oxford #ClimateData #HazardData #ClimateRisk #ClimateAdaptation #OpenData 🚀

Siloed climate data needs to be opened up and shared The-14 Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) #Economy #Tech #ClimateChange #EnergyPolicy #FossilFuels #ClimateData #NetZero2050 #OpenScience #CloudComputing #ClimateAction #Sustainability #GreenTech #DataSharing #CanadaClimate #EnvironmentalJustice

Australia’s most comprehensive regional climate projections are now available to everyone Our latest update in the NSW and Australian Regional Climate Modelling project – NARCliM2.0 – is here! 5 CMIP6 global climate models 4 km projections over southeast Australia 3 years of modelling on @National Computational Infrastructure 2 redesigned regional climate models 1 of the biggest datasets in @NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water NARCliM goes beyond NSW, and we are very proud of the NARCliM partnership, which spans the nation. What started out as a project between the NSW Government and ACT Government and the UNSW Climate Change Research Centre, has now grown to include the South Australian (Department for Environment and Water) and Western Australian (Department of Water and Environmental Regulation) Governments with support from Murdoch University and the National Computational Infrastructure. This milestone has been years in the making, as our team of dedicated climate scientists has re-engineered workflows and tools to make a project of this size possible. Nowhere else in the world has this much convection-permitting climate modelling been delivered by a single project. Ready to explore the data? Head to AdaptNSW for new regional snapshots and an interactive climate projection map. If you’re a scientist ready to dive deeper into the data, it’s available now via NCI’s Data Services. https://lnkd.in/gKfig_qa

A large reason for cofounding the Climate Science Breakthrough was that I wanted the public to hear the same message from climate scientists that had such an impact on me. Unfortunately, these messages were/are not part of the public discourse and their work is usually buried in academic reports or touched on in a minority of mostly left wing media. Our Climate Science Translated series aims to connect the public with these scientists, both in terms of their message, but also with them as human beings. So this The Guardian by Damian Carrington piece really resonates. It also supports our own research that showed climate scientists were significantly more pessimistic about the next 20 years than the public, with nearly 88% expressing pessimism compared to 39% of the public. However you read this, we need to hear and connect with these voices. Clearly not just to hear the scary science (yes, it’s worse than we many people are aware), but to help us focus on prioritising this solvable problem. So it's time society gave climate scientists a voice and allowed them to be part of building a clear pathway to action - and a healthier safer more equitable future. #climate #science #climatescientists

You need good data to make good decisions. Join us on June 5th at 1000h EST for this important discussion on how to leverage climate change data to make more effective decisions on infrastructure. https://lnkd.in/gN5GDUV7