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The CMIP Community Workshop 2026 will bring together a growing, and increasingly diverse, community of Earth system scientists, partners, and stakeholders. It will be an opportunity to discuss the latest developments in Earth system and coupled modelling, leverage the wealth of the CMIP6 analyses and explore the updated forcings and early results from CMIP7 simulations, including new experimental designs and MIPs. It will also highlight the expanding observation-modelling interface, address strategies for streamlining the climate information chain, and forge a vision and global partnerships to deliver sustained and high quality climate information to all users. The workshop will also provide ample opportunities for networking, collaboration, and knowledge exchange, fostering new partnerships with the CMIP community. In addition, there will be an Early-Career Scientist hackathon, designed and developed by our Fresh Eyes on CMIP community.
The Scientific Organising Committee seeks to co-create the workshop as a bottom-up community-driven effort driven by scientists, practitioners and stakeholders. As a first step we are asking you to take an active part in organising the scientific programme of the workshop by proposing sessions and providing a description relevant to the workshop themes by 12:00 UTC, 25 April 2025.
Workshop themes and sub-themes
Progress in understanding historical climate change and associated impacts
- Improvements and biases in model performance
- Characterising model behaviour
- CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework
- Use of observations and proxies for evaluating models
- Natural and anthropogenic climate forcing and attributing causes of change in the historical record
Understanding climate system responses, feedbacks and thresholds
- Patterns of sea surface temperature change
- Changing weather patterns
- Water-carbon-climate nexus
- Points of no return/ratcheting including tipping points and overshoots
- Uncertainty quantification in climate projections
- Regional applications including but not limited to Asia and North-East Pacific
- Impacts on social-ecological systems
Synthesising information across the multiverse of models
- Making data accessible for users and stakeholders
- Models at high resolution
- Emulators of CMIP models
- Applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning in CMIP
- Evaluating risk under different storylines
Session formats
Workshop sessions will be either 90 mins or half day (two 90 mins sessions with a break). Most sessions will be predominantly poster sessions, with the chance for some longer talks and lightning talks. We cannot guarantee which format you will be assigned at this stage.
A further call for additional session formats (ECS hackathon, side events, networking sessions, world cafes etc.) will be launched in April 2025.
Guidelines for session convenors
Before submitting your proposal please review the following guidelines:
- Convener teams should follow the WCRP diversity and inclusivity principals, ensuring sufficient diversity across across scientific disciplines, career stage, geography and gender. This will be included as a proposal review metric.
- When submitting a session proposal, keep in mind that a convener team consists of a minimum of two conveners (one convener and one co-convener) and a maximum of five conveners (one convener and four co-conveners) per session. We ask at least one convener to plan to attend the workshop in-person.
- The member of the convener team who submits a session proposal agrees to become the point of contact for the session for session-specific communication with authors and workshop organisers. Changes to the point of contact and/or additional points of contact can be appointed at a later stage.
- If similar sessions are proposed, the Scientific Organising Committee may request for you to merge the sessions.
- Session conveners will conduct the abstract review for their sessions.
- Conveners and co-conveners cannot be solicited speakers in the session they convene.
- In line with WCRP principles we ask conveners to commit to embracing diversity, demanding equality, and building capacity for the future when reviewing and selecting the session presentors.
- All convenor teams must align with the WCRP Code of Conduct.
- Respect the session submission deadline. Last-minute submissions make it challenging for our organising committee.
- Proposals will be reviewed by the Scientific Organising Committee, and session convenors will be notified of the outcome by the specified due date.
How to submit
Your proposal should be submitted via the form*, accessed below. The information requested on the form is:
- Convenor names and contact (including ECS** identification)
- We require minimum two and maximum five conveners per session proposal
- Confirmation that at least one convener plans to attend the workshop in-person, if the proposal is accepted.
- Session title
- Session proposal description (300 words maximum)
- Identify link to workshop themes
- Identify link to other WCRP activities
* If you have issues accessing the form above, please contact the IPO.
**Early Career Scientist (ECS) = within seven years of highest degree (excluding career breaks).
Submission deadline
Please submit your session proposal through this form by 12:00 UTC, 25 April 2025.
Contact
If you have questions about the appropriateness of a specific session topic please contact cmip-ipo@esa.int who will direct your query to the relevant theme leads.
