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- ICSU is a sponsor of CliC’s parent programme, the WCRP The ICSU (International Council for Science) newsletter is now…

- This workshop is co-sponsored by CliC 

The International Sea Ice Concentration and Thickness Evaluation and Inter-comparison Workshop will be held at University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany on September 18-19, 2014

The registration for this workshop is open under the workshops' web page: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/meetings/seaice-conc-2014 where you will also find more information about the location and the workshop.

Results from inter-comparison studies, independent validation and consistency checks, model experiments and assimilation to the topic of the workshop are all welcome. Specifically we would appreciate workshop participants to present results obtained by using and/or including the prototype products for sea ice concentration (SIC) and sea ice thickness (SIT) of the ESA CCI Sea Ice ECV project (SICCI) into their analysis. This prototype products can be downloaded from http://icdc.zmaw.de/esa-cci_sea-ice-ecv0.html?&L=1. The SICCI team will also present its own results with regard to data quality assessment.

- CliC’s Director, Jenny Baeseman, and SSG member, Nalan Koc, are on the organizing committee for Session 1 of the…

Sea ice and Climate Modeling Forum Workshop on large-scale sea-ice simulations September 26th, University of Reading, UK

This one-day workshop brings together users and developers of sea-ice models to start a joint effort for improving sea-ice models. We will discuss the analysis of sea-ice biases in CMIP5 models, determine the most pressing needs for model development, identify the most helpful observational data, and compile a list of the most useful sea ice variables to be saved for CMIP6. The workshop is the first in a series of planned activities from the Sea ice and Climate Modeling Forum, which is a WCRP-CliC initiative that aims at improving and better understanding large-scale sea-ice simulations by coordinating a joint effort of the international sea ice modeling community. Following a few short plenary talks, the workshop will consist of breakout group and discussion sessions. For further information about the workshop and to register for it (by June 30th 2014), please go to: http://www.climate-cryosphere.org/activities/groups/seaicemodeling.

Meetings in 2012 [original SSG report] 1) The ESA/CliC Conference Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science” (Frascati, Italy, 13 - 16…

- CliC connection to the ESA Data User Element Call for Proposals

European Space Agency (ESA) has released its call for proposals for the next projects in the Data User Element (DUE) INNOVATOR arena. Projects are expected to contributed to various international efforts, and CliC and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate Grand Challenge are specifically mentioned. We encourage those of you interested in submitting a proposal to consider tying your efforts to some of the ongoing and developing CliC activities.  

The full call for proposals can be downloaded here. A short summary follows: The DUE INNOVATOR III will consist in a suite of up to 12 projects of maximum two year time duration and of value up to 200 K euro each. The  DUE INNOVATOR III projects will give to the end-users, industry and research communities the opportunity to develop and demonstrate innovative Earth Observation (EO) services and products using existing ESA, ESA third-party mission and other EO datasets. These original projects, if successful, may constitute future large scale activities within the Agency's Data User Element (DUE) programme. The DUE INNOVATOR III application areas and service themes are open, but require a targeted end-user community that will directly benefit from these new services and products. At least one end-user entity shall be actively involved in each DUE INNOVATOR III project and will be responsible for providing the detailed service and product requirements, as well as support the interpretation and validation of the service products, and assess the adequacy of and benefits of the service.

- The CliC director is chair on the committee

Nominations to the IUGG Early Career Scientist Award (Deadline: 22 June 2014)

The Early Career Scientist Award (ECSA) of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics honors early career scientists for their outstanding research in Earth and space sciences and international research cooperation. Submission of nominations for ECSA closes on 22 June 2014. The awardees are bestowed an IUGG plague and certificate, which will be presented at the Opening Ceremony of the XXVI IUGG General Assembly in Prague, Czech Republic, June 2015, following the announcement of the awards on 5 November 2014. IUGG covers travel expenses of the awardees to attend the General Assembly. The awardees will be invited to give a talk at the General Assembly.