This community roadmap is compiled from ideas shared, challenges identified, and suggestions for collective action to strengthen the observational-modelling interface critical to our understanding of climate change.
Roadmap status: Live and is open for new contributions.
The roadmap
A summary of the roadmap is available below (select view larger version in bottom right-hand corner to view in full screen):
A detailed overview of the challenges identified and actions proposed:
Submit an idea
To submit an idea for the community roadmap, the form below. Alternatively you can open the form in a new tab by following this link. Ideas are welcomed that identify:
- Existing challenge areas/emerging challenges.
- Key scientific/technological/capability frontiers.
- Collaborations required/existing/to be developed.
- Game-changers -ground-breaking/if no limits to resources
Related events
The roadmap was initially developed from ideas submitted and discussed during a World Café at the 2nd Climate Observation Conference on 17 – 19 October 2022 which took place in Darmstadt, Germany. Find out more about the event and publications relating to the event by following this link (opens in new tab).
The roadmap is live and will remain open for new submissions until the WCRP Open Science Conference in Rwanda, 23-27 October 2023. A second World Café will be run by the event partners with a focus on the Global South and on prioritisation to inform a detailed extract of the roadmap for the next 3 years.
