Latin America and Caribbean Advances on Weather Forecasting Workshop

Workshop Description

Extreme weather and climate hazard forecasting plays a fundamental role in mitigating climate risks across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), a region disproportionately affected by climate change. Increasingly frequent hydrometeorological hazards—including extreme temperatures, droughts, storms, hurricanes, and floods, confirm the urgency of accurate information and predictive tools. However, historical challenges such as fragmented observational networks and limited regional collaboration have hampered progress in developing tailored forecasting models and leveraging high-performance computing (HPC) solutions for climate and atmospheric research. In the meantime, the international community is moving from current-generation modeling tools (e.g., the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model) to next-generation models that can take advantage of modern HPC systems (e.g., the Model for Prediction Across Scales – Atmosphere (MPAS-A). Furthermore, as AI and ML advance their capabilities and are increasingly adopted, questions remain regarding the convergence between weather forecasting and these technologies.

This workshop seeks to establish a collaborative platform for the LAC weather and climate community to address these gaps. It will bring together the community to discuss the strategic and technical future of weather forecasting. We will include presentations by invited speakers, peer-reviewed papers, and technical/user experience talks that will showcase advances in regional modeling, model adaptations and development, use or creation of new models, and the fostering of partnerships. An emphasis will be placed on integrating local climatic characteristics, such as ENSO-related variability, into predictive frameworks.

Submission Types

Full Papers

Submissions for full papers must be unpublished and not under review elsewhere.
Length: 8-15 pages
Language: English (Official language of the CARLA Conference)
Peer Review: Single-blind, reviewed by at least two experts
Proceedings: The selected papers will be published in the Latin American journal Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería (ACI). Submission guidelines (in Spanish) are available on Avances en Ciencias e Ingeniería (ACI) You may use your browser’s translation feature if needed.

Please note that the journal provides its official template only in Microsoft Word format. We have created an initial LaTeX version that aims to match the original as closely as possible, and it is attached for your convenience, if consider you would develop an improved version of it.

Technical/User Experience Talks

Language: English (Official language of the CARLA Conference)

Submissions should include a title and a 1 – 2 page abstract describing the experiences that will be presented in a short talk during the workshop, if selected. The final presentation slides shall be provided to the organizers nearer to the workshop date.

Submission Guidelines

To begin the submission process for either a full paper or a technical/user experience talk, please register an account in the submission site and add your submission, ensuring that you have followed the details given above regarding your submission type.
Submission Website: https://meteor.springer.com/carla2025

Submission Deadlines

• Paper/Technical Talk submission deadline: August 8, 2025.
• Paper/Technical Talk author notification: August 15, 2025.
• Camera-ready version: September 5, 2025.

Topics of Interest

Organizing Committee