CMIP Seminars

The CMIP Seminar series is a monthly event, highlighting science from across the breadth of CMIP-related research.

Upcoming seminars

Seminars are held for one hour on the last Wednesday every month. In 2025, the time alternates between 08:00-09:00 UTC and 16:00-17:00 UTC each month. Each seminar features three speakers.

1. Seminar Series 2025 #1: 26 February 2025, 08:00-09:00 UTC
2. Seminar Series 2025 #2: 26 March 2025, 16:00-17:00 UTC
3. Seminar Series 2025 #3: 30 April 2025, 08:00-09:00 UTC
4. Seminar Series 2025 #4: 28 May 2025, 16:00-17:00 UTC
5. Seminar Series 2025 #5: 25 June 2025, 08:00-09:00 UTC
6. Seminar Series 2025 #6: 30 July 2025, 16:00-17:00 UTC
7. Seminar Series 2025 #7: 27 August 2025, 08:00-09:00 UTC
8. Seminar Series 2025 #8: 24 September 2025, 16:00-17:00 UTC
9. Seminar Series 2025 #9: 29 October 2025, 08:00-09:00 UTC
10. Seminar Series 2025 #10: 26 November 2025, 16:00-17:00 UTC

Past seminars

2024 Seminars:

1. Seminar Series 2024 #1: 24 April 2024, 15:30-16:30 UTC
2. Seminar Series 2024 #2: 29 May 2024, 08:00-09:00 UTC
3. Seminar Series 2024 #3: 26 June 2024, 15:30-16:30 UTC
4. Special seminar: A perspective on WCRP and CMIP and future challenges, 24 July 2024, 15:30-16:00 UTC
5. Seminar Series 2024 #4: 31 July 2024, 08:00-09:00 UTC
6. Seminar Series 2024#5: 28 August 2024, 15:30-16:30 UTC
7. Seminar Series 2024 #6: 25 September 2024, 08:00-09:00 UTC
8. Seminar Series 2024 #7: 30 October 2024, 15:30-16:30 UTC (CANCELLED)
9. Seminar Series 2024 #8: 27 November 2024, 08:00-09:00 UTC

Registration

Click the button below to register. We’ll send out information on how to attend the seminars to this list a few hours before the event starts. Note that, if you have registered for a previous event, you are automatically registered for all future events.  

Speaker sign-up

Interested in speaking at a future seminar? Let us know by clicking the button below. We welcome all researchers in any stage of their career to speak. We aim to highlight work the represents the diversity of scientists using or producing the CMIP data.

Recordings of previous presentations

Recordings of most presentations are available in our YouTube playlist. A list of available recordings is below:

1. AERA-MIP: Emission pathways, remaining budgets and carbon cycle dynamics compatible with 1.5 ºC and 2 ºC global warming stabilization (Thomas Frölicher, University of Bern)
2. The role of sulphur from human emissions in driving climate change (Vichawan Sakulsupich, University of Cambridge)
3. Causal teleconnections to drought and fire risk in Indonesian Borneo in the past and future (Timothy Lam, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK))
4. A CMIP6-based multi-model downscaling ensemble to underpin climate change services in Australia (Michael Grose, CSIRO)
5. Resolving uncertainty in the response of Australia’s terrestrial carbon cycle to projected climate change (Lina Teckentrup, BSC/CLEX)
6. The weakening AMOC under extreme climate change (Gaurav Madan, University of Oslo)
7. Arctic quality metrics based on oceanic transports for CMIP6 (Susanna Winkelbauer, University of Vienna)
8. A sea ice free Arctic at 127ka? CMIP6 and beyond (Louise Sim, British Antarctic Society)
9. A perspective on WCRP and CMIP and future challenges (Cath Senior, UK Met Office)
10. Robust changes in global subtropical circulation under greenhouse warming (Shijie Zhou, Institute of Atmospheric Physics)
11. Greenhouse gas concentrations for CMIP7 (Zebedee Nicholls, IIASA/Climate Resource)
12. Projecting changes in the drivers of compound flooding in Europe using CMIP6 models (Tim Hermans, University of Utrecht)
13. Projecting the future of bee populations under climate change (Melanie R. Kazenel, Earlham College)
14. CMIP6 models overestimate sea ice melt, growth & conduction relative to buoy measurements (Alex West, The Met Office)
15. Intermodel spread of the Southern Hemisphere Hadley Circulation expansion in CMIP6 (Ije Hur, Ewha Womens University)
16. Values of climate models in attributing and projecting large-scale climate changes (Masa Watanabe, University of Tokyo)
17. How to calculate the effects of scenario adjustments (Paul Alkemade, ROECS)
18. Overconfidence in climate overshoot (Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, IIASA)