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6th Annual Land Data Assimilation Community Virtual Workshop
October 27-29, 2026, Virtual
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We are currently accepting abstract submissions for oral and poster presentations that address technical challenges and advances in land data assimilation system development and implementation. This is an excellent opportunity to share your work, connect with colleagues across the community, and contribute to the advancement of the field.
One focus of this year’s workshop will be strengthening engagement with the Earth observation community. Effective land data assimilation depends not only on advances in algorithms and models, but also on a clear understanding of the characteristics, uncertainties, and complementarities of available observations. We encourage presentations and discussions that explore the benefits and trade-offs of different observational datasets and their implications for land DA system development. Register: https://forms.gle/5dkAqsN7gFnd1hvF9
CERESMIP Workshop
December 2–4, 2026, Vancouver, BC
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CERESMIP is a protocol for participating climate model groups to simulate the CERES period (2000 to 2024) with the goal of trying to match the observed trends and variability and diagnose the causes of the ongoing increase in the Earth’s Energy Imbalance. This workshop will bring together an international set of motivated and experienced researchers on this topic to focus on these simulations and analysis, and to finalise efforts to write these results up, and have them submitted for publication in time to be assessed in the upcoming Seventh IPCC Assessment Report (AR7). Submit your abstract by Monday, August 10, 2026: https://forms.gle/ey4jQ8wkwg6A5tVG8
Tipping Elements, Irreversibility and Abrupt Change in the Earth System Discussion Series
Monthly, Virtual Webinar
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AIMES, the Earth Commission Working Group 1 Earth and Human Systems Intercomparison Modelling Project (EHSMIP) under the Global Commons Alliance and the Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity of World Climate Research Program (WCRP) are organizing a discussion series that aims to advance the knowledge about tipping elements, irreversibility, and abrupt changes in the Earth system. It supports efforts to increase consistency in treatment of tipping elements in the scientific community, develop a research agenda, and design joint experiments and ideas for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project (TipMip). The primary objective is to create an international science platform for the study of climatic, ecological and social tipping elements and their interactions in the Earth system.
Past Events
Land Use & Ecosystem Change Summer School
August 3-12, 2026, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – Campus Alpin in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) – Campus Alpin in Garmisch-Partenkirchen offers a 7.5-day international Summer School (3 ECTS) focused on land-use and ecosystem change. Participants will explore a broad range of topics, including land-use change, socio-ecological systems, ecosystem functioning, and modelling techniques, through lectures, discussions, and a field excursion. The KIT Summer School is free of charge and includes lunches, course materials, and the field excursion. Travel and accommodation must be covered by participants. Applications are open to MSc and PhD students in environmental sciences, geography, economics, geo-ecology, meteorology, and ecology. Participation is limited to 35 students for 2026.
Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference
April 8-10, 2026, MBL, Woods Hole, MA
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Submit your abstracts for the 4th Annual Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference (DVMOC) — a dedicated forum for advancing the science of dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs). DVMOC brings together scientists, postdocs, and students engaged in modeling, laboratory and field studies, remote sensing, and data science to deepen our understanding of vegetation and land surface dynamics — from molecular to global scales. This year’s theme: Bringing together modelers and empiricists to advance process-based models.
Characterizing Historical and Paleoclimate Aerosol Radiative Effects
October 20-22, 2025, New York, NY
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Constraining uncertainty in past radiative effects for non-CO₂ components like dust and other aerosols play a critical role in understanding climate feedbacks and effective climate sensitivity, yet their contributions remain poorly quantified. Paleoclimate reconstructions reveal that natural aerosol emissions, including wildfire and dust, varied from the Last Glacial Maximum through the preindustrial era to today, and these variations are not captured in the latest CMIP6 simulationsIn this workshop, we seek to bring together experts in paleoclimate, aerosol radiative forcing, and climate sensitivity to develop coordinated strategies to assess observational and modeling constraints on past emissions and to characterize the resulting radiative forcing uncertainties.
5th Annual Land Data Assimilation Community Virtual Workshop
October 27-28, 2025, Virtual
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Technical challenges are the focus of this annual meeting as the scientific questions that lie behind those technical developments are typically the focus of other professional meetings and conferences. To strengthen communication between modeling groups, this workshop will bring together land DA scientists to highlight a range of DA methods used within the community, discuss challenges facing different modeling communities, and identify strategies for addressing those challenges.
Calibrated Land Model Intercomparison Project (CalLMIP) – Planning Workshop
March-April 2025, 3 virtual sessions
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This virtual workshop will bring together land modelers to help plan and develop the experimental design for the Calibrated Land Model Intercomparison Project (CalLMIP), which aims to improve our understanding of global land model calibration and uncertainty quantification. The first workshop will be held virtually in three 1.5-hour sessions during March and April. Learn more and register using the above link.
Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference
9-11 April 2025, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA, USA
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The 3rd annual Dynamic Vegetation Modeling and Observations Conference (DVMOC, formerly the Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference, ER-DGVM-C)! This conference fosters interchange among scientists, postdocs, and students who conduct research in modeling, lab and field studies, remote sensing, and data science related to understanding vegetation and land biophysical and biogeochemical dynamics from the molecular to global scales. The conference focus is on both dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs) that couple with surface hydrology and/or atmosphere models, and the data, process studies, and theoretical explorations that are needed to inform model physics, parameters, and provide boundary conditions. The conference especially encourages early career scientists to gain valuable feedback on their work in a supportive environment. It provides a forum for all to have the opportunity to connect with others with diverse expertise in the very multidisciplinary endeavor of understanding terrestrial ecosystem dynamics in the context of the Earth system. Sign up for the mailing list to get updates in your inbox!
High-Impact Climate Events, Tipping Points, and Irreversible Regional Impacts Assessment Writing Meeting
5-8 May 2025, NASA GISS, New York, NY, USA
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This joint WCRP-AIMES activity aims to provide an authoritative review paper that will systematically assess our understanding of threshold breaching, irreversibility, and tipping in the climate system. The paper will also provide key recommendations for how Earth systems models can be improved to better understand these processes and identify potential early warnings. This review paper that will contribute to the seventh assessment report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). These topics are expected to be important across IPCC working groups. Hence, consensus building and a solid knowledge base will be important to contribute to the IPCC process.
Terrestrial Community Carbon Assimilation System (TCCAS) Training
7-8 October 2024, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy and online
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The TCCAS project team is providing a training on the terrestrial carbon cycle, D&B terrestrial biosphere model, observation operators, and the terrestrial community carbon assimilation system (DALEC-BETHY). The training will include lectures and hands-on work on a central computing platform and will take place both online and at ESA-ESRIN in Italy. Participation is free. However, on-site participants need to organise their travel and accomodation. To participate, submit an application by July 31, 2024. Notification of acceptance will be on August 28, 2024.
Tipping Point Model Intercomparison Project (TIPMIP) General Assembly 2024
4-7 December 2024, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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The 2024 TIPMIP General Assembly will bring together researchers contributing to a growing body of evidence that suggests key components of the Earth system might be subject to tipping dynamics or may respond abruptly and/or irreversibly on human-relevant time scales to anthropogenic forcing. Over three days, attendees will participate in plenary sessions, breakout groups, poster sessions, and networking events that will bring together this diverse field of researchers and preactitioners to address the state-of-the-art science relating to modeling, detection, and observation of tipping points and their impacts on the Earth system.
2nd Annual Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference
April 5-7, 2024 at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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The ER-DGVM-C will bring together vegetation/land modelers primarily in the U.S. Eastern region for an annual regional conference to share science and foster collaborations. This collegial, weekend conference is geared toward scientists, postdocs, and students who work with dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs), particularly models that couple with surface hydrology and the atmosphere models. Scientists who conduct research on field sites, with satellite data, or other process-based models that inform model physics and parameters and provide boundary conditions are also encouraged to participate. Participants from outside the U.S. Eastern region are welcome. This year’s conference will be chaired by Paul Moorcroft (Harvard University) and Nancy Kiang (NASA GISS) and organized by the AIMES international project office. Sign up for the ER-DGVM-C mailing list to receive updates about participating in the conference here.
AIMES Scientific Steering Committee Meeting
November 6-8, 2023 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
The AIMES Scientific Steering Committee meets annually to review the activies of AIMES and to strategically plan for the coming year. This year the steering committee meeting will be hosted by AIMES co-chair, Mark Rounsevell, at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT IMK-IFU) in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
AIMES Workshop on Climate Neutrality and the Role of Nature-Based Solutions
November 8-10, 2023 at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research Atmospheric Environmental Research (KIT IMK-IFU), Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
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This AIMES workshop seeks to identify key gaps in nature-based solutions research with an emphasis on process-based modeling and will build interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral efforts to bridge these gaps and advance our knowledge of interactions in human and natural systems. Participants will (1) Assess how to mitigate climate change through nature-based solutions (e.g. improved management, nature conservation, and ecological restoration), accounting for biodiversity science and interactions with society; (2) Explore the expanding opportunity space for nature-based climate options to reduce adaptation gaps; (3) Highlight ways in which an integrated, multi-disciplinary approach may be used to constrain and quantify potential maladaptation and risks associated with nature-based solutions; and (4) Identify entry points in process-based modeling and ways to integrate evolving observational datasets and knowledge products into modeling frameworks.
Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference
March 24-26, 2023, Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA
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The Eastern Regional Dynamic Global Vegetation Modeling Conference (ER-DGVM-C) brings together vegetation/land modelers primarily in the U.S. Eastern region for an annual regional conference to share science and foster collaborations. 2023 marks the inaugural meeting. This collegial, weekend conference is geared toward scientists, postdocs, and students who work with dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs), particularly models that couple with surface hydrology and the atmosphere models. Scientists who conduct research on field sites, with satellite data, or other process-based models that inform model physics and parameters and provide boundary conditions are also encouraged to participate. Participants from outside the U.S. Eastern region are welcome.
Tipping Points and Understanding Earth Observation Data Needs for a Tipping Element Model Intercomparison Project
October 10-14, 2022
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Building on the successful Forum on “Tipping points in the Earth’s Climate” in January of 2021, this Workshop involves Earth Observation experts in the planning of the experimental protocol and in understanding needs and co-design data-use strategies for modelling of tipping elements and their interactions. Discussions during the Workshop are expected to include the broader data requirements of the community working on climate feedbacks and abrupt climate change.
Land Surface Modeling Summit
September 12-14, 2022
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The Land Surface Modeling Summit will take place for four days at the University of Oxford, UK. It is the first international modelling meeting to bring together the international land modelling community to discuss development priorities and challenges and ways in which the community can work together to build the next-generation land models needed to address the pressing scientific and societal questions of the 21st century.
Land Use and Ecosystem Change Summer School
August 16 – 23, 2022
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The AIMES/GLP Working Group on Large-Scale Behavioural Modeling of Land Use Change helped to organize an international summer school at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) ‘Campus Alpin’ in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. The summer school will introduce students to a wide range of issues related to land use change, socio-ecological systems, and ecosystem functioning.
Tropical Forest Degradation: Observations, Modeling, and Socio-ecological Implications
11-13 November 2019
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Workshop: Linking Earth System Dynamics and Social System Modeling, Boulder CO
23-25 May 2016
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