Organized every 4 years by the International Radiation Commission, the International Radiation Symposium (IRS2008) on Current Problems in Atmospheric Radiation will be held during August 3-8, 2008, at Mabu Thermas & Resort-Congress and Exposition Center, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil. This will be the first IRS symposium in South America, and it will be hosted jointly…

The 17th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification, co-sponsored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and the Weather Modification Association (WMA), and organized by the AMS Committee on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification, will be held April 21-25, 2008 in Westminster, Colorado (between Boulder and Denver). Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will…

The Physics of Climate Change program will be at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, April 28-July 11, 2008. KITP programs differ from many conferences and workshops because they create situations where scientists learn from each other and actually do substantive research, often collaborating with other participants.…

Abstracts are now being accepted for the 2007 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) to be held December 10-14 in San Francisco, California. The meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences and is expected to draw a crowd of more than 15,000 from around the world. Many ARM…

The Second International AMMA Conference will take place in Karlsruhe, Germany, November 26-30. Abstracts will be accepted in English and French until August 15. The conference aims to bring together researchers from around the world working on the Western African monsoon and its impacts, to review ongoing research and modeling activities, and to discuss ongoing…

Abstracts for the 2008 American Meteorological Society (AMS) meeting are being accepted until August 1. The meeting will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 20-24, and is being organized around the broad theme of “Enhancing the Connectivity between Research and Applications for the Benefit of Society.” For more information, see the meeting website.

The First U.S.-China Symposium on Meteorology: Mesoscale Meteorology and Data Assimilation will take place February 26-28 in Norman Oklahoma at the National Weather Center. The goals of the symposium are to define the state of knowledge in the two countries for mesoscale meteorology and data assimilation, and to identify the most important challenges for the…

There will be a workshop on Patagonian dust and its climate implications on October 3-5, in Puerto Madryn, Argentina. The objective of this meeting is to share information and promote collaborations among groups from different disciplines to improve understanding of southern South America (notably Patagonia) and its role in influencing the past/present climate and marine…

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) with the Bureau of Meteorology is hosting the 33rd International Conference on Radar Meteorology at the Cairns Convention Centre in Cairns, Australia, August 5-10. This meeting is one of the oldest and most prestigious international meetings undertaken by the AMS. Renowned invited international and local speakers will present their latest…

The 7th International Summer School on Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ISSAOS) will take place September 3-7 in L’Aquila, Italy. The school is aimed at undergraduate and graduate students, young researchers, postdocs, professionals and to all who would like to gain a broad understanding of theory and applications of integrated ground-based observing systems. It will focus…