We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate, to be held 25-29 January 2026 at the AMS Annual Meeting in Houston, TX.
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Click to follow link." target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate is a new symposium at the 106th AMS Annual Meeting that combines the previous Symposium on the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Sub-Seasonal Monsoon Variability and the Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones. The aim of this merger is to make the symposium more inclusive to a broad range of research topics related to tropical meteorology and climate. The First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate includes tropical research across all time scales, from the sub-hourly (tropical convection) to multi-day (tropical cyclones and tropical waves) to sub-seasonal oscillations (e.g. MJO) to interannual and multi-decadal (climate) time scales, and also includes interactions between the tropical atmosphere and other parts of the climate system such as the ocean. This symposium is organized by the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones.
Call for papers
Papers for First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate are being solicited on:
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Tropical Cyclones: Data Assimilation and Modelling
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Tropical Cyclones: Forecasting and Predictability
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Machine Learning Applications to Tropical Cyclones
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Tropical Cyclones: Genesis and Intensification
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Tropical Cyclones: Structure
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Tropical Cyclones: Climate Change and Risk
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Response of High-Impact Tropical Weather to a Warming Climate: Bridging Weather and Climate
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Tropical Convection
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Tropical Climate
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Recent Advances in Theory, Modeling, and Observations of Tropical Dynamics
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Equatorial Waves, MJO and Intraseasonal Variability
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Subseasonal-to-Seasonal (S2S) Climate Predictability, Prediction, and Applications
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Tropical-Extratropical Interactions and MJO Teleconnections
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Tropical Air-Sea Interactions
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Other Topics in Tropical Meteorology and Climate
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Connections between tropical convection and the stratosphere (Joint between the 23rd Conference on Middle Atmosphere and the First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate)
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Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) Observations and Applications (Joint with the 30th Conference on Integrated Observing and Assimilation Systems for the Atmosphere, Oceans, and Land Surface (IOAS-AOLS), the 27th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, Oceanography, and Climatology, and the First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate)
Abstracts are due by 14 August 2025 at 5:00 PM ET. Submit your abstract here.
Student Award Opportunities
Student Presentation Awards
The First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate is proud to provide outstanding student presentation awards at the AMS 106th Annual Meeting. Monetary awards of up to $200 will be distributed for oral presentations and poster presentations in addition to a PDF certificate from AMS. Students must be enrolled at a college or university at the time of submission and must be the lead author or presenter of the work. Submitters should indicate their eligibility for student awards when submitting their abstracts. Award recipients will be informed of the committee's decision by late February 2026.
Student Presenter Travel Allowance
The First Symposium on Tropical Meteorology and Climate is awarding two (2) travel grants of $550 each to allow student presenters to attend the AMS 106th Annual Meeting in Houston, Texas, 25-29 January 2026. To apply, students (Undergraduate and Graduate) should prepare a brief written statement (no more than one page) declaring their financial need and circumstance, relevance of their research to the conference, how they will benefit from attending the conference and a copy of their abstract for the meeting. Students who wish to apply must submit their application to the program chairs via email with the subject line "AMS 106th Annual Meeting - Student Presenter Travel Allowance Application": Allison Wing (awing@fsu.edu), Anthony Didlake (didlake@psu.edu) and Juliane Schwendike (j.schwendike@leeds.ac.uk).
Deadline for applications: 31 October 2025
Recipients will be notified on or before: 7 November 2025
Conference Contacts
For additional information, please contact the program chairs: Allison Wing (awing@fsu.edu), Anthony Didlake (didlake@psu.edu) and Juliane Schwendike (j.schwendike@leeds.ac.uk).
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Allison Wing
Associate Professor, Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science (EOAS)
Florida State University
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