The GEWEX/Global Land-Atmosphere System Study (GLASS) panel is a volunteer-based research coordination panel focusing on land model development and evaluation in three core areas: process-oriented exploration, benchmarking (grid-cell to regional to global scales), and global-scale model experimentation and intercomparison. GLASS encourages and coordinates community-based activities in these areas, covering climate and weather timescales in both offline and coupled modelling environments, across the coupled water, energy and carbon cycles. Activities coordinated in this way, with participants from a wide range of international institutions, reduce the potential for duplication in research and act as a catalyst for international collaborations.
This year’s annual GLASS Panel Meeting, which is by invitation only, will take place after the ISMC – GEWEX SoilWat meeting in Reading, United Kingdom, from Wednesday to Friday, 16–18July 2025. The meeting will be limited to review progress of the GLASS working groups and projects and hear updates from non-GLASS projects with related research objectives. As one of the four panels of the Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges (GEWEX), a core program of the World Climate Research Program (WCRP), the new GEWEX Science Plan and the WCRP Lighthouse activities will be at the heart of these discussions.
Meeting objectives
The meeting agenda will become available in the second half of June at https://www.gewexevents.org/meetings/glass2025/agenda/.
All presentations and reports will be available as soon as they are submitted and can be viewed at (password protected).
If you have received an invitation for the 2025 GLASS Meeting and plan on participating, please register no later than June 16th, 2025. However, if you are requesting travel support, please register as soon as possible at the latest by June 1st, 2025.
Please register at the Registration tab.
The 2025 GLASS Panel Meeting is by invitation only. If you haven’t received an invitation yet and think this is in error or, if you have any other questions, please contact us at contact@gewex.org
The 2025 GLASS meeting will take place at:
University of Reading
Whiteknights Campus,
Reading RG6 6UR,
United Kingdom
Practical information, including visa requirements, lodging and transportation, can be found at Venue & Travel.
Background image courtesy of G Travels – Walking St James Way, Reading to Southampton
Banner image (left to right) courtesy of Nelo Hotsuma – Reading, Neil Thompson – Reading Abbey,
Karen Blakeman – The Reading Buffer Bear Nursery, Loco Steve, Curtis Hylton Street art @Reading
