EGU 2012 - European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012

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Deadline: January 17, 2012 | Date: April 22, 2012-April 27, 2012

Venue/Country: Vienna, Austria

Updated: 2011-12-28 10:52:00 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Dear colleagues,(first of all sorry for probable cross posting...)

I wanted to draw your attention to the NEW Session CL5.13, Climate Services - Underpinning Science, at the upcoming EGU General Assembly in Vienna on 22 ? 27 April 2012. This promises to be a very exciting session, especially in view of several new Climate Services initiatives at European and International level.

Increasing the quality, reliability and detail of climate information for societal use has become a major challenge in regions whose economic growth and social development crucially depend on adaptation to climate variability and change. In this regard, the Third World Climate Conference (WCC3) put forward a strong recommendation for the development of a global network of Climate Service Centers.

Climate services must focus on very different productive sectors and on their different requirements, in terms of targeted climate information, forecast time horizon and acceptable level of uncertainty. It is not enough to produce only meteorological information in the services, but it is especially needed to quantify vulnerabilities to climate variability within the sectors and come up with appropriate adaptation solutions.

In this session, we would like to gather all the experiences at the European (starting from ECLISE and CLIMRUN EU FP7 projects) and International level to further develop the underpinning science needed to provide tailored climate information to potential users (private companies, international organization etc …)

I thus encourage you to submit a paper for the session, noting that the deadline for application is not far, 17 January 2012.

The convener of the session is Alessandro Dell’Aquila, the co-conveners are Roeland F van Oss and Paolo M Ruti

and you can find the session details at <http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2012/session/9704>

If you are interested could you also send this announcement around in your other networks?

Hoping to see you in Vienna,

with my best regards,

Alessandro Dell’Aquila