LAST DATE OF ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: 30 AUGUST 2021.

    The Cochin Chapter of the Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) is hosting INTROMET-2021 with the theme Changing Climate: Consequences and Challenges. It will provide an excellent opportunity for the national and international  community of Atmospheric Scientists to discuss various issues of the changing climate and their consequences and challenges.

    Please visit https://www.intromet2021.org/ for more details.

2. S2S Webinar on “S2S Forecast and its applications in South Asia”:

    WMO S2S Working Group and International CLIVAR Monsoon Project Office (ICMPO) with active support from Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), India organized a one-day webinar on “S2S Forecast and its applications in South      Asia” on 28 July 2021 during 1100-1300 UTC (1630-1830 IST)at IITM, Pune, India.

    The webinar had four talks from scientists and users who are from the S2S prediction and application areas. This was a part of the monthly webinar series organized by the WMO S2S Prediction Project.

    The recording of the webinar is available at:  https://youtu.be/-A15D1pl0BY

    For details of the webinar, please visit https://icmpo.tropmet.res.in/webinarseries.php

3. ONLINE TRAINING WORKSHOP ON "SUBSEASONAL TO SEASONAL (S2S) PREDICTION OF MONSOONS", 1 - 12 November 2021

    in Conjunction with the Seventh WMO International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-7) to be held in early 2022 in India

    LAST DATE FOR ONLINE REGISTRATION: 15 AUGUST 2021

    The IWM series provides a forum for researchers and forecasters to discuss recent advances and current issues involving monsoons as an example of an earth-system phenomenon covering weather-to-climate time scales affecting large populations around the world. The emphasis is to address monsoon impacts as part of the societal challenges of the WWRP: high-impact weather, water, agriculture, urbanization, and new technologies, in monsoon regions around the world. The outcomes of IWM are sought to transfer new science and technology to National Meteorological and Hydrological Services over the relevant monsoon regions. The IWM-7 has two components, an online training workshop in November 2021 and a scientific workshop in spring 2022 (the exact date, venue, and format to be decided).

    The training workshop will be focused on the subseasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction of monsoons and will offer short courses to NMHS forecasters. Specific topics will include
    1.S2S predictability sources.
    2.Access to the S2S database and tools
    3.Model validation and forecast verification
    4.Calibration and ensemble techniques.

    A pre-workshop orientation course will be offered before the main training workshop to introduce and facilitate the data and tools to be compiled by the trainees in advance and to familiarize the trainees with the workshop procedures including the practical sessions.

    Please visit https://icmpo.tropmet.res.in/iwm7training.php for more details on the workshop.

4. Seventh WMO International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-7), 23-26 March 2022, New Delhi, India

The International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM) is a major quadrennial symposia/workshops series under the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The seventh workshop in this series, the IWM-7, is being organized at New Delhi, India, jointly by the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES), Government of India, and the WWRP Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research (WGTMR), in cooperation with the CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) and the International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) hosted by the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM). The workshop is scheduled to be held during 23-26 March 2022.

The IWM provides a forum for researchers and forecasters to discuss recent advances and current issues involving monsoons as key features of earth-system phenomena covering weather-to-climate time scales affecting large populations around the world. The emphasis is to address monsoon impacts as part of the societal challenges prioritized by the WWRP: high-impact weather, water, agriculture, urbanization and new technologies, in monsoon regions around the world. Outcomes from the workshop are expected to facilitate the transfer of new science and technology to National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHSs) in these regions.

For more details, please visit https://community.wmo.int/news/wgtmr1st-circular-and-call-papers-seventh-wmo-international-workshop-monsoons-iwm-7 

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2. Multi-physics schema for sub-seasonal prediction of Indian summer monsoon; Manpreet Kaur, A. K. Sahai, R. Phani, Susmitha Joseph, Raju Mandal, Avijit Dey & Rajib Chattopadhyay,  Clim Dyn (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-021-05926-2