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…

Nearly 300 participants from countries as far away as Japan, Australia, and Finland attended the 2007 ARM Science Team Meeting. A spring mix of sunny skies and stormy weather provided an appropriate setting for the Seventeenth Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Science Team Meeting, held March 26 through March 30 in Monterey, California. Held annually…

This summer’s Gordon Research Conference, “Radiation and Climate,” will be held at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire and will take place July 29 – August 3. The chairs for this year’s conference are Bill Collins and Phil Russell, and the vice-chairs are Qiang Fu and Christian Jakob. The theme of the fifth Gordon…

The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) will hold its second international conference on the West African Monsoon in Karlsruhe-Leopoldshafen, Germany, November 26-30, 2007. Aiming to bring researchers together from around the world, conference themes will focus on the following: West African monsoon and global climate Water cycle Land surface-atmosphere feedbacks Prediction of climate impacts High…

Papers are now being accepted for the “Polar Clouds and Aerosols: Properties, processes, and climatic significance” session at the joint meeting of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society, Canadian Geophysical Union, and American Meteorological Society (CMOS-CGU-AMS) being held on May 28 – June 1, 2007, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Abstracts must be submitted by…

The 7th Asian Lidar Conference will be held in Bangkok, Thailand, July 31 – August 3, 2007. This year, the conference will be held as a special session during the 4th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS). The AOGS is an international society founded in 2003 to promote cooperation and discussion among…

The JSC/CAS Working Group on Numerical Experimentation (WGNE) and the Program for Climate Model Diagnosis and Intercomparison (PCMDI) will host a Workshop on Systematic Errors in Climate and NWP Models. The workshop will be held in San Francisco, California, February 12-16. The workshop will be held at the newly renovated financial district Hilton and will…

The 10th Conference on Electromagnetic and Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles (ELS10) is set for June 17 – 23, 2007, in Bodrum, Turkey, it is collocated with the 5th International Symposium on Radiative Transfer. This internationally recognized conference will cover all aspects of single and multiple light scattering with special emphasis on scattering by nonspherical…