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Dear Colleagues,

We are happy to announce the 14th International Precipitation Conference (IPC14) which will take place on June 5-9, 2023 at the National Weather Center at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma. The theme of IPC14 is “Emerging directions in precipitation science and applications: going beyond” with emphasis on three main topics: (1) Multi-source observations and modeling of precipitation; (2) Water cycle dynamics from regional to global scales; and (3) Precipitation extremes and hydrological hazards including floods, droughts, and landslides. More information can be found on the IPC14 website.

The goal of this conference is to create a discussion platform for all scientists to define challenges and opportunities, and craft directions for future research in precipitation. The IPC14 organizing committee put together a survey to identify the most critical questions to address during the conference. We would love to hear your thoughts and feedback to improve your experience. The conference agenda and discussions will be designed accordingly to maximize the benefit of IPC14. Please fill out the survey by April 7 to indicate your interest in participating and identify the most critical topics to discuss during the conference.

Please contact the IPC14 Organizing Committee at ipc14@arrc.ou.edu with any questions. Reminders will be sent out periodically.

We look forward to seeing you in Norman on June 5-9, 2023.

Best regards,

Pierre Kirstetter

on behalf of the IPC14 organizing committee

Workshop ‘Clouds containing Ice Particles’
                   23. – 26 July, 2023

Where: Johannes-Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz, Germany
https://www.uni-mainz.de/, https://www.mainz.de/en/index.php

When: 23 – 26 July, 2023
(the week after the IUGG 2023 in Berlin)

What:
The intention of the workshop is to discuss all aspects of cirrus and mixed-phased clouds – the least understood cloud types, but contributing significantly to the uncertainty in climate predictions.

The topics of the workshop are intended to be comprehensive, from in-situ and remote sensing observations of clouds to their modeling on all scales. We encourage contributions on the state of knowledge, new findings and open questions, as well as on experimental, theoretical and computational methods used in research.

The workshop will be open for ∼75 guests, registration fees will be around 50 Euro,
Sunday: ice breaker,  Mon-Wed: coffee + cookies and  lunch snack  will be provided.

More information on the registration deadline, abstract submission and further
                   organizational issues will be send around soon.
                                    For the moment,
                       please save the date (23 – 26 July 2023)
                                     and let us know
                         (mail to: m.kraemer@fz-juelich.de)
                                  if you plan to attend
                             until 30 November 2022
            so that we can plan accommodation and catering.



Organizing Committee:
Martina Krämer (Univ. Mainz, Research Center Jülich),
Greg McFarquhar (Univ. Oklahoma)
Peter Spichtinger (Univ. Mainz),
Philipp Reutter (Univ. Mainz)

Location:
                                           
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Uni_Mainz_-_Alte_Mensa_2.jpg)

( https://www.mainz-tourismus.com/en/ )

Funding Organizations:

Gutenberg Research College, University Mainz
(GRC: https://www.grc.uni-mainz.de/)

Institute for Atmospheric Physics, University Mainz
 (IAP: https://www.blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb08-ipa-en/arbeitsgruppen/)

International Commission for Clouds and Precipitation
(ICCP: https://www.iamas.org/iccp/members/)

The ICCP Journal Club is continuing with monthly presentations on the last Wednesday of the month at 15 UTC.

The link to register for the event is https://iamas.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0fbe4492c6a887b504afdf7ca&id=4d15eecec0&e=364b76fa38.

This link allows you to register for the event. Upon registering, you will be sent the zoom meeting link. Note that this link is the same for all weeks. Due to switches during daylight savings time, please check the time conversion for your time zone–the zoom link for the meeting may not show the correct time. The meetings are at 15 UTC.

Note that we are also requesting volunteers for speakers at future meetings in fall 2023.  Please let us know if you would like to make a presentation.

A complete updated list of all the planned sessions for the journal club is included below.

Kind regards,

Martina Krämer, Greg McFarquhar and Odran Sourdeval

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LIST OF JOURNAL CLUB SESSIONS

22 February 2023, 15 UTC: Yuwei Zhang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, PNNL, Richland, WA, USA), Wildfire Effects on Weather Hazards

29 March 2023, 15 UTC: Micael Amore Cecchini (University of São Paulo, Brazil), Quantifying vertical wind shear effects in shallow cumulus clouds over Amazonia

26 April 2023, 15 UTC: Mathieu Lachapelle (L’Université du Québec à Montréal, UQAM), Ice pellets and freezing rain: Microphysical processes and detection

24 May 2023, 15 UTC: Armin Afchine (Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ IEK-7, Jülich, Germany), Agreement of cloud particle size distributions from different airborne instruments

28 June 2023, 15 UTC: Diego Santiago Villanueva (ETH Zürich, Switzerland), Global patterns of cloud phase seasonality

26 July 2023, No presentation this month.

30 August 2023, 15 UTC: Reinhold Spang (Forschungszentrum Jülich, FZJ IEK-7, Jülich, Germany), Microphysical and optical properties of thin to thick cirrus clouds derived from bimodal particle size distributions