Webinars
Upcoming webinars are listed below and login details can be found in the calendar.
Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis Webinar Series
This series will feature experts, with a focus on early career researchers, who are working on research topics of interest to the US CLIVAR Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis (POS) Panel. The Panel's mission is to improve understanding of climate variations in the past, present, and future, and to develop syntheses of critical climate parameters while sustaining and improving the global climate observing system. The webinars are held on the first Wednesday of the month @ 12pm ET.
Process Study Webinar Series
The Process Studies and Model Improvement Panel hosted webinar series aims to provide feedback to process studies. The goals of this webinar series are 1) to provide feedback on the plans and challenges for individual process studies and 2) to distill programmatic lessons from process studies and field campaigns to help current and future observational programs to effectively meet the broader goals of improving the understanding of physical processes in the ocean and the atmosphere and to translate this understanding into improved observational and modeling capabilities. The webinars are typically held on the fourth Tuesday of the month @ 3pm ET.
Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface Webinar Series
This series features experts who are working on research topics of interest to the Predictability, Predictions, and Applications Interface (PPAI) Panel. The Panel's mission is to foster improved practices in the provision, validation and uses of climate information and forecasts through coordinated participation within the US and international climate science and applications communities. The Panel members act as facilitators, assisting in moving climate science forward. The webinars are held on the third Wednesday of the month @ 2pm ET.
Upcoming Webinars
Shane Coffield (University of Maryland Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center)
Wildfires represent an increasingly critical challenge in many parts of the globe where extreme fire behavior continues to emerge, driven by changing climate and land management practices. Fire science is also a complex intersection of ecology, physics, meteorology, atmospheric chemistry, and human behavior, where both improved observations and prediction are clearly needed. In this presentation I'll highlight an array of ongoing research from our group at NASA and the University of Maryland, primarily focused on using satellite data for global wildfire tracking. This work involves improving active fire detection and burned area estimation, as well as building datasets to better characterize fire spread, its drivers, and predictability. I will share updates on our Fire Events Data Suite (FEDS) and the Global Fire Emissions Database v5 (GFED5-NRT), with implications for weather and air quality forecasting. I'll also briefly discuss some efforts to understand the linkages between multi-year drought and extreme fire seasons across boreal, temperate, and tropical forests.
Variations Webinar Series
This series features presentations from the most recent edition of the quarterly publication, Variations. Hear from a variety of speakers on topics related to climate variability and predictability on interseasonal-to-centennial time scales. The webinars will be held quarterly upon release of next Variations edition.
Usable Climate Risk Science Webinar Series
Hosted by the US CLIVAR Working Group on Accelerating Research on the Scientific Foundations of Regional Climate Risk Information, this webinar series explores the growing demand for actionable information on climate hazards and risks.