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RIfS is calling for members of the newly established Robust Information Working Group (RIWG), and associated task teams which will contribute to its work.

The group aims to identify attributes of robustness of information, identify processes to generate and apply such information, and produce recommendations about what we need to change in our communities of practice, institutions and structures to allow for the achievement of robust climate change information geared towards context-specific decisions.

The work of the RIWG will be underpinned by two initial task teams addressing how to bring context into the information construction (and vice versa), and attributes of robust information. In the mid-term, we are planning to start two additional task teams: ethics, transparency and user values, and climate literacy, in particular of users of climate information. 

To learn more about the inspiration behind this working group and its task teams, see the report of the expert meeting on Robustness of Climate Change Information for Decisions held in Brussels in April 2024.

Deadline: May 15, 2025

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Updates

RIfS present at the EGU 2025

We co-organized and participated in the panel Innovative Approaches to Observations and Modelling for Improved Climate Information and Services, as part of the European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2025 activities.

The panel featured scientists and representatives from ESMO (Earth System Modelling and Observations) and the two RIfS scientific pillars: CORDEX (Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment) and GEP (Global Extremes Platform). The townhall, held on April 28, included presentations from the experts, sharing some user cases and ‘best practices’, and followed by an open discussion.

Upcoming

Building Actionable Climate Information for Africa Adaptation

We are organizing a workshop jointly with CORDEX Africa and the support of the Climate System Analisys Group of the University of Cape Town. It will take place in South Africa in Septembre 8-11 and it is by invitation only.

This workshop is planned as a pivotal moment for how to address the critical questions of robust, defensible, and actionable climate information to support Africa’s policy and decision makers. It is intended as a first step to new cross-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, and cross regional collaborations.

WCRP Highlights

The WCRP Digital Earths Lighthouse Activity is planning a global pan-hackathon for the analysis of ‘Storm Resolving Models’.

The hackathon will bring together scientists from around the world to jointly analyze the first ever coordinated experiments of climate models simulating a full annual cycle with horizontal grid spacings of 5 km or less.

Participants will gather at one of a number of regional nodes for the hacking, each of which will provide access to a combined data-compute resource hosting the data and proximate computing capbility for its analysis. Each node will host at least one full annual cycle of output data standardized on a common (HEALPix) grid. Standardization will help participants share their analysis workflows with other teams analyzing other models at other nodes, and thereby build global communities around common interests.

Date: May 12-16, 2025

Find the closest node to you and register

The Regional Information for Society (RIfS) is a World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Core Project.