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The 12th Workshop on Antarctic Meteorology and Climate (WAMC), formerly known as the Antarctic Meteorological Observation, Modeling, and Forecasting (AMOMF) Workshop (AMOMFW), was held at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, USA on 26–28 June 2017. The annual workshop dates from 2006, and recent meetings have been the 10th AMOMF Workshop held in 2015 in Cambridge, United Kingdom (Colwell et al., 2016) and the 11th AMOMF Workshop held at the Byrd Polar & Climate Research Center at The Ohio State University in 2016. This year, NCAR’s Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory hosted the event. The 12th WAMC was followed by two other meetings related to Southern Hemisphere science: one covering the plans for the Year of Polar Prediction–Southern Hemisphere (YOPP–SH) effort and the other covering the activities of the Southern Ocean Regional Panel (SORP). The WAMC objective is to bring the Antarctic meteorological and climate communities together to share developments, discuss results and issues, and consider collaborative plans. The workshop reviewed current and future Antarctic observation efforts, numerical modeling and forecasting, and a spectrum of polar scientific studies, with an emphasis on atmospheric research. The workshop had approximately 60 attendees from over 10 countries (Fig. 1).