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At the newly formed CMIP International Project Office (IPO), we are working hard to make CMIP a more open, inclusive community. Part of this work is focussing on our communications so that we can advertise our opportunities, news, and events to anyone who might interested.
To achieve this we have set up new mailing lists which are open to everyone. To sign up for our mailing lists please fill in this form.
On the form you will find eight different mailing lists you can sign up for. If you have previously signed up to any of mailing lists using the above form, and now wish to add your name to others without filling in the form again, please email the IPO using the contact details at the bottom of the page.
CMIP Community News
The CMIP Community News mailing list is our primary list for sending out communications across the CMIP network. On here, we will advertise opportunities to get involved with CMIP7 and give feedback on previous phases of CMIP, promote events we are organising, and share news from colleagues around our community.
Task Team mailing lists
There is also the opportunity to join specific CMIP7 Task Team mailing lists. These mailing lists will be utilised by our Task Teams to share any specific collaboration opportunities they may have available. Details on the scope of each task team can be found on their relevant webpages here.
Sustainable CMIP
We look forward to engaging more closely on the sustainability of CMIP with the climate modelling and science communities as we work towards preparing future phases of CMIP.
We are following closely the work, and publications, of the H2020 IS-ENES3 dedicated project and CPMIP activities (Acosta et al 2022; Balaji et al 2017). If you are aware of others, let us know -contact details in the footer.
We’re currently reviewing how to calculate the carbon footprint from the modelling activities of CMIP6. This is would have been much easier if it had been planned in advance. Therefore, we also want to get ahead of the curve when planning CMIP7.
Whilst the computational carbon footprint for CMIP is significant, it is not the only activity which emits CO2. We also must consider additional activities such as travel and online meetings.
If you’re interested with being involved in discussions around making CMIP sustainable for the future, register your interest by joining our Sustainable CMIP mailing list and let us know your ideas -and upvote those you like here!
CMIP Seminars
We hold a monthly seminar series! There are monthly seminars held on the last Wednesday of each month. The time will alternate between 08:00-09:00UTC and 15:30-16:30 UTC to allow for global participation.
Speakers can register for a 20-minute talk here (15 minutes presentation, 5 minutes questions). We’ll be in touch to let you know if/when your talk has been scheduled for.
If you would like to register to receive joining details for the seminars, sign up here.
We encourage anyone doing research involving CMIP data to sign-up to present their results.
CMIP Tools
We’ve compiled a range of different tools, coding languages, and other softwares which might be useful when working with climate data and CMIP data. This is a community initiative to pool together existing resources and make them easier to find for users.
Check out the tools gallery here. See a tool that is missing? Add it to the gallery here.
Vacancies and open membership calls
Please sign up to our mailing lists to be informed when opportunities do arise.
1. Fresh Eyes Directory
We’re also delighted to announce that we’ve launched the Fresh Eyes Directory. This a new initiative to ensure that opportunities and collaboration within the CMIP Early Career Researcher (ECR) community is as open as possible.
Any ECR can now register to join the Fresh Eyes Directory. This will lead to your name, email, and short biography becoming available to others in the Fresh Eyes Directory. Any member of the directory can then find other scientists to collaborate and network with.
Joining the directory will also ensure that you will always hear about new CMIP-relevant opportunities, events, and job adverts straight into your inbox. The Fresh Eyes on CMIP group may also reach out to the Fresh Eyes Directory with consultations and other engagement opportunities, as well as advertising when new positions in the Fresh Eyes on CMIP group become available.
Find more details on joining the Fresh Eyes Directory by following this link.
2. WIP open call for members
The WGCM Infrastructure Panel (WIP) is a Working Group on Climate Modelling (WGCM) subcommittee charged with coordinating and promoting a robust and sustainable global data infrastructure. This infrastructure supports the development, dissemination and evaluation of Model Intercomparison Project (MIP) data through the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP), as well as other WCRP and community modelling activities as resources are available. This coordination role includes interaction with infrastructure delivery partners, most notably the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF), ensuring that the technical requirements of infrastructure contributors meet CMIP project infrastructure delivery. Both the WIP and WGCM are part of the WCRP Earth System Modelling and Observations (ESMO) core project.
The demands on this global data infrastructure are growing with an ever wider and more diverse users, rapidly advancing data technologies, and increasing numbers of climate data portals and platforms. The WIP is seeking new members to help address these and the many other challenges in preparing the infrastructure for CMIP7, and beyond, and offer new insight and fresh thinking.
Application deadline: 08:00 UTC, Friday 10th January 2025
See more details and find out how to apply.
3. Model Benchmarking Task Team open call for members
The Model Benchmarking Task Team is a CMIP Panel Task Team charged with designing and integrating systematic and comprehensive model evaluation methods and related tools into the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP).
There are two positions available on the task team, which now has an updated set of objectives (see dedicated task team page). The Task team are looking for individuals with experience in use of, or developing, evaluation tools for CMIP data who have a passion for improving access, software architecture experience and/or possible new evaluation approaches. Those currently underrepresented on the task team will be prioritised.
Application deadline: 09:00 UTC Monday 13th January 2025
See more details and find out how to apply.
4. Controlled Vocabularies open call for members
The MIP Controlled Vocabularies (CVs) are a standard nomenclature supporting CMIP7 and other MIPs, which are used to uniquely define datasets, record information about participating groups experiments, activities, and certain dataset characteristics useful in discovering data of interest and interpreting it.
The CMIP7 CVs will anchor many of the downstream infrastructure services relied on by modelling groups in generating output conforming to CMIP standards (e.g. CMIP7 Data Request, CMOR and other data preparation tools), along with the ESGF publisher which will index contributions available for download. In addition to these two examples, numerous other services and tools will also rely on the CVs.
Application deadline: 09:00 UTC, Friday 17th January 2025
See more details and find out how to apply.
Task Team Stakeholders
If you are happy to engage more closely with the CMIP7 Task Teams as an invited stakeholder, please register your interest by joining the relevant task team’s mailing list above.
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