37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change

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Abstracts are closed! The deadline was 31 August 2023 at 11:59 PM EDT.

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The 37th Conference on Climate Variability and Change is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Climate Variability and Change.

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

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])