COWCliP 2025 Workshop – Save the Date! 🇪🇸

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Dear colleagues,

Just a reminder that you are warmly invited to the upcoming COWCliP Workshop, to be held in Santander, Spain, immediately following the 4th International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges, and Coastal Hazards.

:spiral_calendar: Date & Time

:date: Saturday, 27 September 2025
:nine_o_clock: 09:00 – 12:30 (Central European Time – Berlin)

:round_pushpin: Location

:classical_building: University of Cantabria (more details closer to the date)
:round_pushpin: Santander, Cantabria, Spain

:magnifying_glass_tilted_left: Purpose

This workshop will bring together the global ocean wave climate modelling community to:

  • Review recent progress under the COWCLIP framework
  • Discuss future directions and coordination needs
  • Share tools, experiences, and lessons learned

Whether you’re involved in wave climate projections, statistical post-processing, regional applications, or global-scale synthesis — your contributions are welcome!

:receipt: Agenda

09:00–09:10 | Welcome and Purpose of the Meeting
• Meeting objectives: Transition, coordination, future direction

09:10–09:30 | Updates and Announcements
• New COWCliP web page hosted by WMO
• Summary of recent meetings, surveys, and who is leading what
• Discussion prompt: Where do we need stronger coordination?

09:30–10:00 | COWCliP3 Ensemble: Retrospective and Lessons Learned
• What lessons did we learn?
• Scope, datasets, contributors, timeline: how can we make the process easier?
• Python codes availability

10:00–10:30 | Coordinating for CMIP7 and the Next Generation of wave models
• Expectations and timelines for CMIP7 forcing availability
• COWCliP and wind wave variables CMIP7 Data request (update)
• Defining the community protocol for the next phase of modelling coordination.

10:30–10:45 | Coffee / Tea Break

10:45–11:15 | Community tasks
• Quick update: status of tasks added in 2023
• Task 5: Standardisation and Guidance
• Task 6: Extremes – needs, progress, and coordination

11:15–11:45 | Community Showcase – Ongoing Projects
• Regional wave projection studies
• Coupling waves into GCMs and ESMs
• New tools or data sharing platforms

11:45–12:15 | Next Steps
• Opportunities for collaboration, co-supervision, joint publications or data sharing
• COWCliP Leadership transition process and expressions of interest
• Ideas for a lightweight steering group or coordination team
• Planning next meeting (virtual or in-person) and immediate follow-up actions

:laptop: Hybrid Option

We are also considering offering a hybrid format for those who may not be able to attend in person.
:satellite_antenna: If confirmed, connection details will be shared in advance here and by email.

:raising_hands: I look forward to seeing many of this community participating to spark productive and engaging discussions!

Best,
Alberto

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Alberto,

I was looking for the cowclip web page, and following links at WMO and CSIRO, I found that: https://cowclip.org/ which looks like the page does not exist anymore …

Fabrice

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Yes, we’ve lost the domain.

At the moment, we’re being hosted by the WMO at this link:

However, this website is also not updated. We need to reorganize the different places where COWCliP appears online, and this will be part of the upcoming meeting agenda. I’ll probably work with Mark on this after Santander.

Here is the WMO series link where the last workshop report (2023) was published:
https://library.wmo.int/idurl/4/69555

You can download the PDF from that link as a pre-workshop refresh if you’d like.