The 2026 GLASS Panel Meeting will take place at:
University of Hohenheim
Schloß Hohenheim 1
70599 Stuttgart
Germany
The hotels below are convenient and close to the university:
Christkönigshaus (13 min. walk)
Paracelsusstraße 89
70599 Stuttgart
Telefon 0711 458 282-3
Akademie der Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart
(13 min. walk)
Paracelsusstraße 91
70599 Stuttgart
For other accommodations click here.
By Air
Stuttgart Airport is close to the University of Hohenheim. There are several options to travel from the airport to the your destination. Please click on your preferred method of transportation for additional information.
Public Transportation (15–30 min. and costs €4)
Bike (15 – 20 min.)
Taxi (about 5 min. drive and €18)
By Rail
Stuttgart Central Station is a major railway station (Deutsche Bahn) close to Hohenheim. Please click here for your transport to Hohenheim.
For an overview of visa requirements/exemptions for entry into the Federal Republic of Germany, click here.
Stuttgart, capital of southwest Germany’s Baden-Württemberg state, is known as a manufacturing hub. Mercedes-Benz and Porsche have headquarters and museums here. The city is filled with greenspaces, which wrap around its center. Popular parks include the Schlossgarten, Rosensteinpark and Killesbergpark. Wilhelma, one of the largest zoos and botanical gardens in Europe, is just northeast of Rosenstein Castle.
Hohenheim is one of 18 outer quarters of the city of Stuttgart in the borough of Plieningen that sits on the Filder in central Baden-Württemberg. The quarter was founded in 1782 when Schloss Hohenheim was constructed on the orders of Charles Eugene of Baden-Württemberg. The University of Hohenheim, as the name might imply, is based here and uses much of Schloss Hohenheim for its campus.
A few of the things to go to while in Stuttgart are the Mercedes-Benz and Porsche museums and the Wilhelma Zoologisch-Botanischer Garten or maybe wander through one of the many parks, like the Schlossgarten which threads together the Mittlerer Schlossgarten, with its fine biergarten for summer imbibing, the sculpture-dotted Unterer Schlossgarten, and the Oberer Schlossgarten, home to stately landmarks such as the Staatstheater and the glass-fronted Landtag.
2026 GLASS Annual Report
2026 GLASS Rapporteur Rapport
Coupling of Land and Atmospheric Subgrid Parameterizations (CLASP)
GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study, Phase 5 (GABLS–5)
GEWEX Land/Atmosphere Feedback Observatory (GLAFO)
Irrigation Crosscutting Project
Local Land-Atmosphere Coupling (LoCo) Project
Machine Learning for Land Modeling (ML4LM)
PALS Land Surface Model Benchmarking Evaluation Project, Phase 2 (PLUMBER2)
Solar Induced Fluorescence Model Intercomparison Project (SIF-MIP)
GEWEX Soil and Water (SoilWat)
The 2026 GLASS Panel meeting is by invitation only. If you have received an invitation and want to participate, we ask you to complete the registration form below.
The GEWEX/Global Land-Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) panel is a volunteer-based research coordination panel focusing on land model development and evaluation in three core areas: process-oriented exploration, benchmarking (grid-cell to regional to global scales), and global-scale model experimentation and intercomparison. GLASS encourages and coordinates community-based activities in these areas, covering climate and weather timescales in both offline and coupled modelling environments, across the coupled water, energy and carbon cycles. Activities coordinated in this way, with participants from a wide range of international institutions, reduce the potential for duplication in research and act as a catalyst for international collaborations.
The annual GLASS Panel Meeting, by invitation only, will take place on Friday, 10 July 2026, at the University of Hohenheim, following the 2026 Pan-GLASS Meeting. The main focus is to review the outcomes of the Pan-GLASS event and assess their implications for the GLASS Panel’s objectives, working groups, and ongoing projects. Participants will discuss future directions based on these results.
Meeting objectives
If you have received an invitation for the 2026 GLASS Panel Meeting and plan on attending, please register no later than 15 April 2026. However, if you are requesting travel support, please register as soon as possible at the latest by 31 January 2026.
Please register at the Registration tab.
Venue
The 2026 GLASS Panel Meeting will take place at:
University of Hohenheim
Schloß Hohenheim 1
70599 Stuttgart
Germany
Visa
Germany is part of the Schengen area. Residents of certain countries must apply for a visa in their home country before entering Germany.
For information about visa requirements click here.
Travel & Accommodation
For information about accommodations and transportation visit the Practical Information tab.
Background Image courtesy of Alexander Migi, Gardens in Schloss Hohenheim
Top image courtesy of University of Hohenheim, Arial image of the Castle of Hohenheimen seen from the North
The 8th International Baltic Earth Winter School on “Earth System Science for the Baltic Sea Region” is co-organised by the Tallinn University of Technology and the University of Tartu under the umbrella of Baltic Earth (www.baltic.earth) and will take place from 23 – 27 March 2026 at the Park Inn by Radisson Central Tallinn, Estonia
The interdisciplinary school will provide a broad overview of ongoing research activities on the Earth system in the Baltic Sea region. One of the goals of the school is to provide an overview of the level of knowledge and to assist in future career choices.
The 8th Baltic Earth Winter School will cover the processes and variability from micro- to global scale and from short-term to climate timescale. All compartments of the Earth system, such as the atmosphere, ocean, sea ice, land surface, and terrestrial and marine ecosystems, will be discussed. The holistic view of the Earth system will include the anthroposphere, considering human impacts on climate and environment.
The Winter School is open to PhD students and early career scientists (postdocs) in geosciences such as climate science, environment, physical geography, meteorology, physical, chemical and biological oceanography, hydrology, terrestrial and marine biogeochemistry, and associated fields.
Please send applications with a motivation letter to the following address: secretariat@baltic.earth.
The selection criterion follows the principle of “first come, first served”. PhD students will be given priority.
Deadline for registration: 15 January 2026
Funding
Participation in the Winter School is free of charge. Facilities, lecture materials, coffee breaks, and lunches will be provided by the organizers. However, the participants must cover their travel expenses and accommodation. Rooms can be booked in the hotel (Park Inn by Radisson Central Tallinn, about 65 EUR for a single room and 75 for a double room per night) or nearby (Tallinn city centre).
Click here for additional information and to apply
Venue | Accommodations | Transportation | Visa | Emergency | Explore Bonn
The GEWEX SSG-38 will take place from Monday to Friday, 23–27 March 2026 at:
ECMWF
Temporary location:
Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Klimaschutz, Naturschutz und nukeare Sicherheit
Robert-Schuman-Platz 3,
53175 Bonn
Germany
For information about hotels and other accommodation in Bonn, see the City of Bonn website Accommodation section.
For information (in German and English) about traveling to Bonn by air or train as well as about traveling within Bonn by public transport, rental car, taxi or bicycle, see the City of Bonn website Transport and Travel section: Transport and travel. | English website (bonn.de)
Getting to ECMWF in Bonn
By air
Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt Airports are well connected to Bonn by bus or train.
From Cologne/Bonn Airport using:
From Frankfurt Airport, an Intercity-Express (ICE) train to Cologne stops at the town of Siegburg (travel time approx. 45 minutes). From Siegburg, the underground line 66 (U-Bahn) links to Bonn Central Station (Hauptbahnhof), taking approximately 45 minutes.
From Düsseldorf Airport, a direct regional train connects to Bonn UN Campus or Bonn Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) in approx. 65 minutes.
By train
With Bonn Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) and the train stations in the districts of Bad Godesberg, Beuel, Duisdorf and Oberkassel, Bonn is well integrated in the network of Deutsche Bahn’s long-distance and regional lines. Bonn/Oberkassel train station is just on the other side of the river from ECMWF: from the train station, it is a 7-minute walk to the Oberkassel Nord underground station (U-Bahn), where you can take line 66 to Robert-Schuman Platz.
A taxi from Bonn Central Station (Hauptbahnhof) to ECMWF will take approximately. 20 minutes; taxi fare approx. EUR 20.
By bus
For the long-distance bus lines, there is a bus stop near the Museumsmeile, at the corner of Joseph-Beuys-Allee and Marie-Kahle-Allee.
By public transport
The closest public transport stop to ECMWF is ‘Robert-Schuman-Platz’ (approx. 2-minute walk):
* Underground (U-Bahn) lines 66 and 68
* Bus routes 631 and 638
Stop ‘Deutsche Telekom/Olof-Palme Allee’ (approx. 12-minute walk):
* Underground (U-Bahn) lines 16 and 63
Stop ‘Rheinaue Hauptzugang’ or ‘Rheinaue Parkrestaurant’ (approx. 10-12 minute walk):
* Bus route 610 or 611
By car/taxi
From nearest train station (Bonn UN Campus): approx. 5 minutes by car. Head on Joseph-Beuys Allee bear right onto Nahum-Goldmann Allee, road name changes to August-Bebel Allee. Turn left into Marie-Schlei Allee, which becomes Heinemannstrasse after the crossroad. Turn left into Jean-Monnet Strasse, then turn right on to Kurt-Georg-Kiesinger Allee. The BMUKN building is straight ahead, behind a row of flagpoles where you will see the ECMWF flag among others. Report to security officers at Reception.
The BMUKN ministry has a parking lot accessible to visitors that have been previously announced to Security by email. The entrance is located between the Robert-Schuman-Platz metro exit and the BMUV building. Visitors should ring the bell in the white column and announce their names. It is open from Monday to Friday from 7:00 to 21:00. Cars cannot stay there at night. It can contain about 40 cars and is managed on a first-come, first-served basis. For additional information click here.
If you wish to travel by taxi and pay by card, it is advisable to check with the driver first if card payment is accepted.
Germany is part of the Schengen area. Generally speaking, third-country nationals require a visa to enter the Federal Republic of Germany. An exemption applies to EU nationals and nationals of those countries for which the European Community has with the visa regulation of the European Union abolished the visa requirement for short stays of up to 90 days in a 180‑day period. You can check here to see if you require a visa:
Table of countries whose citizens require/do not require visas to enter Germany.
The emergency number 112 connects you directly to a control center at any time throughout Europe, in North Rhine-Westphalia to an integrated control center for fire and rescue services. Using 112 avoids time delays in an emergency.
For detailed information about emergency services and non-life threatening situations, visit https://www.bonn.de/themen-entdecken/sicherheit-ordnung/notfall-notdienste.php?loc=en.
Bonn is a federal city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, situated on the banks of the Rhine River. It served as the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and remained the seat of government for reunified Germany until 1999, when the capital moved to Berlin. Today, Bonn offers a variety of attractions and cultural sites for visitors to explore. The city combines historical significance with modern amenities and natural beauty. For a comprehensive overview of activities and places to visit, detailed information is available on the official city website at www.bonn.de/bonn-erleben/besichtigen-entdecken/index.php.
