The Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group, via the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program, under the auspices the U.S. Global Change Research Program, is leading the development of the 2nd State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR-2) as a product of the Sustained National Climate Assessment. A new ad hoc committee of the Academies will conduct an independent review of the SOCCR-2 draft report.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are pleased to announce a new study on Developing a Research Agenda for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Reliable Sequestration. The Academies will convene an ad hoc committee to develop a detailed research and development agenda needed to assess the benefits, risks, and sustainable scale potential for carbon dioxide removal and sequestration approaches; and increase their commercial viability.

This study is designed to help guide government agencies and other institutions in the weather enterprise as they grapple with their roles in the generation of social and behavioral science knowledge and its application to meteorology, weather forecasting, and hazard preparedness.

In advance of the fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4), the U.S. Global Change Research Program is producing a Climate Science Special Report (CSSR) which will contribute to the content of NCA4. A new ad hoc Committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will conduct an independent review of the CSSR, concurrent with the public comment period for the document.

This report identifies priorities and strategic steps forward for atmospheric chemistry research for the next decade.

This workshop reviewed the state of the science of decadal climate variability and its relationship to rates of human-caused global warming and explored opportunities for improvement in modeling and observations and assessing knowledge gaps.