2024 GLASS Panel Meeting

Jul 6, 2024 | Sapporo, Japan

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.

This year’s annual GLASS Panel Meeting, which is by invitation only, will take place prior to the 9th GEWEX Open Science Conference in Sapporo, Japan, on Saturday July 6th. The meeting will be limited to review progress of the GLASS working groups and projects and hear updates from non-GLASS projects with related research objectives. As one of the four panels of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX), a core program of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), the new GEWEX Science Plan and the WCRP Lighthouse activities will be at the heart of these discussions.

Meeting objectives

• Share and discuss progress of existing projects and activities;
• Determine if there are missing elements in the current portfolio of GLASS projects, exposing emerging scientific questions and areas where we should be promoting active coordinated research projects or synergies between existing GLASS projects;
• Discuss areas for closer collaboration with projects and activities of other GEWEX panels
• Discuss structural changes at the World Climate Research Program and their implications for GLASS
• Determine how GLASS can best contribute to the Lighthouse Activities.

Agenda & Documents

The meeting agenda will become available in the second half of June 2024.

All presentations and reports will be available as soon as they are submitted and can be viewed at https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/2024-glass-panel-meeting/documents/meeting-documents/ (password protected). 

Registration

If you have received an invitation for the 2024 GLASS Meeting and plan on attending, please register no later than June 1st, 2024. However, if you are requesting travel support, please register as soon as possible at the latest by March 10th, 2024. 

Please register at the Registration tab.

The 2024 GLASS Panel Meeting is by invitation only. If you haven’t received an invitation yet and think this is in error or, if you have any other questions, please contact us at contact@gewex.org

Venue and Accommodation & Travel Information

Visa

Any foreign visitor entering Japan must have a valid passport for the duration of their stay, and all visitors must comply with the conditions of their visas.

For visa information for a stay of up to 90 days for tourism, business, visiting friends or relatives, etc. that does not include remunerative activities, visit https://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html.
An overview of countries that are visa exempt can be found here.