Each year,
geoscientists from all over the world meet in Vienna at the European General
Assembly (EGU). This year, the Baltic Earth Secretariat, together with the
coordinators of the North Sea climate change assessment project NOSCCA, had
organized a joint session which aimed to bring together the recent results of
both recent assessments, BACC II and NOSCCA.
The half-day session was called “Climate
change assessments for the Baltic and North Sea regions: Observations, model
projections and impacts” and was one of the opening sessions of the conference
on Monday 13 April. Despite strong competition, the lecture hall was almost
“sold out”, and we counted nearly 100 participants. The oral session with 12
talks in the morning was complemented by a poster session in the evening,
during which 17 posters were on display.
The concept
to bring together the two assessments proved to be successful, which was shown
by the large number of participants and vivid discussions at both the oral and
poster sessions. Thus, we cannot rule out that we aim at a similar session at
EGU next year…
Conveners
of the session were Marcus Reckermann and Anders Omstedt on behalf of BACC, and
Markus Quante and Corinna Schrum on behalf of NOSCCA.
Unlike pronounced earlier, the BACC II book is already now available and ready for free download from the Springer website, thanks to swift page proof processing by the authors and the formatting people at Springer.
