Climate Informatics 2026: Deadline extended to Friday, January 23

[Tom Beucler]

Good news: The deadline for Climate Informatics 2026 has been extended to Friday, Jan 23, 23:59 AoE. 

The call for submissions and author instructions are still available at: https://wp.unil.ch/ci26/ and the submission link is: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ClimateInformatics2026/Submission/Index

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

• Knowledge-guided/hybrid models for 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

You may choose between two submission types:

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

The conference will take place from April 27 to April 30, 2026 in Lausanne, Switzerland, and registration will open by 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 in 3.5 months!