Reflections on the CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium 2016

Abstract

We present a summary report of the CLIVAR Early Career Scientists Symposium, a three-day event associated with the CLIVAR Open Science Conference held in Qingdao, China during September 2016. The Symposium aimed to capture the ideas of early career researchers on pressing science priorities, imminent challenges, and emerging opportunities to help guide the future evolution of CLIVAR. We identified the need for improving process-based understanding and predictability of regional climate variability and change, moving toward seamless predictions, and improving and expanding global observations. We emphasize the need for increasingly open science, including universal access to data, code, and publications as well as opportunities for international cooperation and exchange. As the next generation of climate scientists, we are dedicated to overcome the challenges outlined in this summary and are looking forward to advancing CLIVAR’s mission and activities.

Three Ways Forward to Improve Regional Information for Extreme Events: An Early Career Perspective

“…ECR networks provide an excellent platform to support ECRs in their leading roles by involving and empowering ECRs within the global community through interactions and collaborations. These networks bring together the fresh and diverse perspectives and enthusiasm from the global ECR community, assets that are crucial to making breakthroughs in the challenges outlined in this paper (Rauser et al, 2017;Dike et al, 2018;Swart et al, 2018). We encourage the global community to support and strengthen their involvement with ECR communities for further advancement in the field of interdisciplinary Earth system science in the upcoming years to decades.…”