Call for submissions: Climate Informatics 2026

[Tom Beucler]

The call for submissions and author instructions for Climate Informatics 2026, which will take place April 27-30, 2026 in Lausanne, Switzerland are now available at: https://wp.unil.ch/ci26/.

We invite contributions at the intersection of climate and weather science, statistics, and machine learning. Topics of interest include:

● Knowledge-guided/hybrid Earth-system modeling

● Prediction, nowcasting, downscaling, and extremes

● Data assimilation, reanalysis, and remote sensing

● Causal discovery, interpretability, calibration, and uncertainty quantification

● Climate impacts, adaptation/mitigation decision support and policy

● Reusable datasets & benchmarks, evaluation tools

● Principled positions on ethics, reproducibility, and open science

Two submission types:

1) Full papers (up to 8 pages): original research considered for an open-access special collection in Environmental Data Science (Cambridge University Press) and for oral or poster presentation.

2) Extended abstracts (300 words to 2 pages, including figures and references): preliminary or ongoing work, considered for posters.

𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐛𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐬: 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 16, 2026.

Instructions, templates, and detailed guidelines are now available on the conference website. The submission portal (Microsoft CMT) will open in late December. Registration will open in mid to late February 2026.

Confirmed invited speakers include: Melissa Chapman, Marlene Kretschmer, Antonios Mamalakis, Nicola Meinshausen, and Redouane Lguensat.

We look forward to your submissions and to welcoming you to Lausanne!