CMIP Community Workshop 2026
9 March, 2026 @ 08:00 – 13 March, 2026 @ 17:00 Kyoto, Japan
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.
Full details, including the workshop website, are coming soon.
Workshop format, hosts and funding
The Workshop will have both in-person and remote participation options to ensure inclusion and engagement while minimizing our carbon footprint. In-person participation will be kindly hosted by the Japanese SENTAN project and the Advanced Institute for Marine Ecosystem Change (AIMEC) in Kyoto, Japan at the Kyoto International Conference Centre. In addition, the European Space Agency is providing generous event funding as host of the CMIP International Project Office. We also thank Australia’s Climate Simulator (ACCESS NRI) for their sponsorship.
Registration details
Registration for the workshop will open soon. The registration fees are outlined in the table below. Please note these are an approximate value, and may be subject to slight changes due to exchange rate changes.
| Registration type | Cost |
|---|---|
| Regular registration | JPY 42,000 (~€250) |
| Reduced registration (for Early Career Researchers*) | JPY 25,000 (~€150) |
| Registration waiver (for participants working in countries in lists below**) | Free |
* Early career researchers (ECRs) are master and PhD students, researchers, and practitioners within 7 years of highest obtained degree (excluding parental and care leave). Practitioners are those working at the interface of society, policy, practice, and research
** UN lists of Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island Developing States.
Workshop themes
Theme 1: Progress in understanding historical climate variability and change
- Improvements and biases in model performance
- Characterising model behaviour
- CMIP Rapid Evaluation Framework (REF)
- Use of observations and proxies for evaluating models
- Natural and anthropogenic climate forcing and attributing causes of change in the historical record
Theme 2: 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
- Impacts on social-ecological systems
Theme 3: 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
- Impacts and extremes
- Evaluating risk under different storylines
Key dates
The list of dates below will be expanded as the Scientific Organising Committee confirms key events.
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 25 March – 25 April 2025 | Session proposal call open |
| May 2025 | Session notifications |
| 23 May – 21 July 2025 | Side session proposal call open |
| 23 May -13 August 2025 | Abstract submissions open |
| 18 September 2025 | Abstract decision notifications and programme overview release |
| 9 March – 13 March 2025 | CMIP Community Workshop 2026 |
Announcements
Call for Side Session Proposals – open until 21 July 2025
The Scientific Organising Committee seeks to co-create CMIP26 as a bottom-up community effort driven by scientists, practitioners and stakeholders. We are asking you to take an active part in organising the scientific programme of the workshop by proposing engaging side sessions by 12:00 UTC, 21 July 2025.
Call for Abstracts – open until 13 August 2025
The call for abstracts for CMIP26 is now open! You can submit your abstract through our online system – please note you will need to set up an Oxford Abstracts account if you do not already have one. Details of the workshop sessions can be found on the Call for abstracts page.
The deadline for abstract submission is 12:00 UTC, 13 August 2025.
Scientific Organising Committee
- Helene Hewitt (workshop co-chair; Met Office, UK)
- John Dunne (workshop co-chair; NOAA-GFDL, US)
- Julie Arblaster (Monash University, Australia)
- Tim Andrews (Met Office, UK)
- Qing Bao (IAP, China)
- Paul Durack (PCMDI/LLNL, US)
- Cheikh Modou Noreyni Fall (UCAD, Senegal)
- Sedat Gözlet (GEOMAR, Germany)
- Mujtaba Hassan (IST, Pakistan)
- Birgit Hassler (DLR, Germany)
- Saurabh Kelkar (Watershed Organization Trust, India)
- André Lanfer Marque (INPE, Brazil)
- Yiwen Li (China University of Geosciences, China)
- Fang Li (IAP, China)
- Tomoki Miyakawa (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Bette Otto-Bliesner (UCAR, US)
- Juliano Palacios (UBC, Spain)
- Natassa Romanou (NASA, US)
- Ankur Srivastava (IITM, India)
- Ranjini Swaminathan (University of Reading, UK)
- Maureen Wanzala (WCRP Secretariat)
Local Organising Committee
From University of Tokyo
- Tomoki Miyakawa,
- Masahiro Watanabe,
- Yukiko Imada,
- Masaki Satoh,
- Yu Kosaka
- Chie Yokoyama
From JAMSTEC
- Michio Kawamiya,
- Hiroaki Tatebe,
- Tomohiro Hajima,
- Chihiro Kodama
- Ryusuke Masunaga
Other
- Hideaki Kawai (MRI)
- Nagio Hirota (NIES)
- Nobuhito Mori (Kyoto University)
