Call for abstracts for open workshop “Understanding and predicting annual to multi-decadal climate variations”

Key details

Event date: November 18-20, 2025.

Time: 23:59 CEST.

Event type: Hybrid, Bologna, Italy & online.

Abstract submission: Submit your abstract here by July 15, 2025.

Key messages

The ASPECT, EXPECT and I4C projects are accepting abstract submissions until July 15, 2025, to their open, hybrid workshop to be held in Bologna and online on November 18–20, 2025.

As climate anomalies and extreme weather event become more common, there’s an urgent need for more reliable climate predictions on multiple forecast horizons.

This workshop focuses on climate variations on annual to multi-decadal timescales (1–30 years) and invites contributions on a wide range of topics, including:

• Skill assessments of predictions
• Studies on the role of external forcings and climate variability
• Investigations on the mechanisms underlying specific aspects of predictability
• Prediction and predictability of climate extremes
• Evaluations of novel post-processing methods and new modelling techniques
• Studies on integrated attribution and prediction of climate and extremes.
• Studies employing explainable artificial intelligence and machine learning approaches that relate to the above themes.

This workshop is jointly organised by the three Horizon Europe projects together with the WCRP’s DCPP and EPESC groups working on integrated attribution, prediction and projection.

Agenda

Sessions include:

• Understanding and attributing historical climate variations and extremes
• Forecast evaluation (extremes, anomalies, trends, windows of opportunity)
• New methods in prediction (modelling, initialization, AI/ML, post-processing)
• Mechanisms underlying predictability and their representation in forecast systems

Abstract submission until July 15

Submit your abstract here

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