1. WCRP update DCPP meeting, Barcelona, 12 May 2016 M. Rixen, mrixen@wmo
WCRP update DCPP meeting, Barcelona, 12 May M. Rixen,
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, dear colleagues,
Thank you very much for the opportunity to provide you with a brief overview of a new initiative of the World Climate Research Programme: the WCRP Polar Challenge

2. (WCRP Strategic Framework 2005-2015).
Mission & Objectives
World Climate Research Programme supports climate-related decision making and adaptation planning by coordinating research required to improve
climate predictions and
understanding of human influence on climate
“for use in an increasing range of practical applications of direct relevance, benefit and value to society”
(WCRP Strategic Framework ).

3. The big picture UNFCCC: Paris agreement, 1.5 degC aim
GFCS: research, modeling and prediction
Sendai Framework on Disaster Risk Reduction
Expected new UN Urban Agenda
IPCC: AR6, ocean, land use, 1.5 degC, regional, urban

4. Week Century Decade Season
Models
Observations
Reanalyses
Week
Century
Decade
Season
WCRP combines, uniquely, observations and modeling. WCRP conducts the important periodic community activity CMIP.

5. Week
Century
Decade
Season

6. Troposphere -Stratosphere CORDEX
CliC
Cryosphere-
Climate
CLIVAR
Ocean-
Atmosphere
GEWEX
Land-
SPARC
Troposphere -Stratosphere
CORDEX
Regional
Downscaling
Joint Scientific Committee
Joint Planning Staff
Modeling Advisory Council
Data Advisory Council
Working Groups on: Coupled Modeling (WGCM), Numerical Experiment (WGNE), Regional Climate (WGRC), Seasonal to Interannual Prediction (WGSIP)
Regional Sea-Level Change and Coastal Impacts
Melting Ice and Global Consequences
Changes in Water Availability
Cloud Circulation and Climate Sensitivity
Understanding and Predicting Weather and Climate Extremes
WCRP engages the international climate research community in a number of Grand Science Challenges through community organized workshops, conferences and strategic planning meetings:
WCRP’s six Grand Challenges as a mechanism to certify and focus WCRP’s attention on urgent and actionable issues
Water Availability, Regional Sea Level Rise, Snow and Ice, Clouds and Circulation, Climate Extremes and Regional Climate
visioning, definition and implementation, with several already submitting large-scale multinational proposals to external funding sources
the role of the Grand Challenges: to help identify areas for significant progress and especially to recognise and prioritise cross-cutting limitations - in fundamental modelling skill, for example
all the challenges fit a paradigm of global processes with regional and local impact and recognised additional positive impact as the WCRP Grand Challenges propagate into the organising structures of climate conferences and workshops and into the planning processes of funding agencies.
The broad aim of the WCRP is to coordinate and enhance these national efforts, in order to constitute a comprehensive international research programme implemented through concerted actions of participating institutions. The principal functions of the WCRP are then: 
To initiate specific regional or global experiments for the study of particular phenomena or processes;
To identify research priorities for recommendation to national scientific institutes and funding agencies;
To propose and facilitate the implementation of relevant international research activities as required;
To arrange for the rapid and effective dissemination of information on current results and new developments in climate research;
To facilitate translation and interpretation of scientifically complex information into useful information and knowledge for practical applications in sustainable development and climate services;
To support training and development of next generation of climate experts, especially for developing regions of the world.

7. WCRP vision for a data infrastructure: Earth System Grid Federation
Observations+ε
Simulations+ε
Reanalyses+ε

8. JSC37 2 new Grand Challenges
New WCRP strategy: inputs from community will be sought
Coordination of regional activities: TBD
Approved slight redefinition of WGSIP

9. WMAC5 Pan-WCRP modeling meeting: week 2, 9 or 16 Oct 2017, UKMO
Model development school: CPTEC Spring 2017
Recommendation 1: decadal activities as part of slightly refined WGSIP
Recommendation 2: consolidation of decadal activities
WCRP-WWRP International Model Development Prize: call for year 3 out soon

10. WDAC5
Establishment of a WCRP-GCOS Data Prize: 1st call out with Model Prize
Data policy being finalized
Renalysis Task Team: CREATE-IP, Reanalysis Conference
Flux Task Team: plans to publish selected data sets on ESGF
obs4MIPs: 50+ data sets published, another 100+ in the pipe

11. Some upcoming events ICRC CORDEX Conference, Stockholm, 16-20 May 2016
CLIVAR Open Science Conference, Qingdao, China,18-25 September 2016
S2D Conference, Spring 2017, TBD
WGNE systematic error workshop, Montreal, June 2017
International conference on reanalysis, UK?, fall 2017

12. Many thanks to BSC, Paco and colleagues!