Four outstanding Early Career Scientists (ECS) won the ECS Best Poster Award at the recently concluded CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel (CDP) 2022 workshop. Congratulate them! Their names and titles of the presentations are:

•  Benjamin H. Tiger, “Volcanic eruptions and multi-decadal Indo-Pacific variability amplify extreme Indian Ocean Dipole events in Last Millennium Ensemble simulations”
•  Chengfei He, “Recent Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and its tropical impacts are driven by external forcings”
•  Stephen Po-Chedley, “Internal variability influences model-satellite differences in the rate of tropical tropospheric warming”
•  Zachary M. Labe, “Temporary slowdowns in decadal warming predictions by a neural network”

The ECS Best Poster Award is given in recognition of significant works from the ECS, aiming to reinforce the capacity building for young researchers. The winners were selected for their outstanding posters among many excellent ones at the online poster gallery. During the selection procedure, each poster was evaluated by three judges who are senior experts in relevant fields. The factors of scientific merit and presenting skills were both considered. Specific metrics include the description of the objective and background, conclusions supported by data and analysis, the originality and creativity of the approach, organization and visual clarity, as well as oral presentation skills. Based on these scores, four posters were tied top.

CLIVAR CDP 2022 Workshop themed on the External versus internal variability on decadal and longer time scales, and there was one session per week from 14th September to 19th October, including four theme sessions, one poster session and one panel discussion.

This was the first International CLIVAR Climate Dynamics Panel (CDP) annual workshop, which targeted the understanding of internal and externally forced variability in the climate system, their interaction on decadal timescales and longer, and the effects of variability on extreme events. In the future, CDP will organize an annual workshop every year, with different hot-spot topics among the climate community. Next year, the workshop will be carried out with topic on the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC).