The science of climate variability and change encompasses a broad range of space and time scales, and brings together a variety of interrelated disciplines. We welcome submissions on all scientific aspects of climate variability and change, including observational, theoretical, and modeling-based approaches.
Call for Papers
We particularly encourage submissions to the following themed sessions:
Heat Waves: Mechanisms, Predictability and Prediction
BAMS State of the Climate 2022, 2023, and beyond
Explaining Extreme Events from a Climate Perspective
Land Use and Land Cover Change—Interactions with Weather and Climate
Large-Scale Atmospheric Dynamics and Climate: Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Stationary Waves, and Monsoons
Winter Weather in a Warming World
El Niño Southern Oscillation: Dynamics, Prediction and Projection
Multiyear to Decadal Climate Variability: Mechanisms, Predictability and Prediction
African Climate Variability and Change
Stratosphere-troposphere coupling and links to climate across time scales
Risk of Climate Change and Natural Hazards
Frontiers in Earth System Modeling
Clouds, Radiation, Climate Sensitivity and the Pattern of Warming
Oscillations and Regimes in Climate Variability
Predicting Sea-Level Rise Using Machine Learning Methodology and Economics Model
Seasonal-to-Decadal Earth System Prediction
Joint Sessions
Atmospheric Rivers: Processes, Impacts, and Communicating Uncertainty (Joint between the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 12th Symposium on Building a Weather-Ready Nation)
Statistics and machine learning for climate science (Joint between the 28th Conference on Probability and Statistics, the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change, and the 23rd Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science)
Panel on Climate, Environment, Health, and Early Warning
Predictions and Projections of Health Impacts in a Changing Climate
Land-Atmosphere Interactions (Joint between the 38th Conference on Hydrology and the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Toward Hydrologically Useful and Actionable Climate and Weather Model Output: Development, Evaluation, and Applications of Downscaling and Post-processing Methods (Joint between the 38th Conference on Hydrology and the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Extreme Precipitation
Communicating Climate Change Uncertainty to the Public
Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Climate Predictability, Prediction, and Applications (Joint between the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability)
Monsoon Dynamics: Variability, Change and Impacts (Joint between the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change and the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability)
Tropical Convective Variability and Climate Change (Joint between the 12th Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability and the 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change)
Student Award Opportunities
Paper Award
The Climate Variability and Change Committee welcomes abstract submissions from students. Awards will recognize four outstanding oral and four outstanding poster presentations given by students. To be eligible for the awards, you must be a full-time undergraduate or graduate student enrolled at a university, and you also must be the lead author and presenter of the work. Registrants should indicate their eligibility for student awards when submitting their abstracts.
Travel Award
The committee is pleased to offer two (2) student awards of $420 each to attend the AMS 104th Annual Meeting in Baltimore, MD 28 January- 01 February 2024. The Student Presenter Travel Allowance is designed to help offset expenses relating to registration fees, transportation costs, food, and lodging for students presenting poster or oral papers. To apply, students should prepare a short written statement (no more than one page) declaring their financial need and circumstance, relevance of their research to the conference, how they will benefit from attending the conference, and a copy of their abstract for the meeting. Travel allowance applications are due 13 October 2023, and should be submitted to [email protected] and j[email protected]. Students selected to receive the travel allowances will be notified by 01 November 2023
Conference Contacts
For additional information, please reach out to the program chairs: Justin Mankin ([email protected]) and Suzana Camargo ([email protected])