The BACC Blog: October 2017

Thursday, 12 October 2017

MedCORDEX-Baltic Earth Workshop on Regional Climate System Modelling for the European Sea Regions

Mark it in your calendar...

MedCORDEX-Baltic Earth Workshop on
Regional Climate System Modelling for the European Sea Regions
Universitat de les Illes Balears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
14- 16 March 2018

The aim of this workshop is to share recent progress in the understanding of regional climate variability with special focus on coupled effects between sea, atmosphere, land and anthroposphere. In this workshop, we will focus on European seas and their catchment areas like the Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, North Sea, Baltic Sea and Arctic Ocean - highly sensitive areas where global models fail to give reliable information about changing climate because key processes are not properly resolved.

Contributions related to any aspect of the description and modelling of regional climate are welcome. Some of the topics addressed in the workshop will be the description of present and future regional climates, the development and evaluation of regional climate system models and the assessment of extreme and high impact events.

More infos here:
http://www.baltic.earth/mallorca2018/

New discussion forum on coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling in the North and Baltic Sea regions

Based on requests from colleagues which were present at the recent Baltic Earth Workshop on "Coupled atmosphere-ocean modeling for the Baltic Sea and North Sea" (http://www.baltic.earth/caom2017), we have prepared a forum platform for discussing related subjects. You are welcome to have a look and participate in the discussion on this new forum, and please also spread this information among your colleagues. You just need to register, then you will be able to post messages and open new topics. For a start we have two forums open: "General issues" and "Nemo". More can be added upon request. If you encounter any problems in using the forums let us know as we are just starting this.

http://caom.forumieren.de

BACCground

The BACC Blog is an open platform to exchange views and comments about the BACC project (BALTEX and Baltic Earth Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin).

The regional climate change assessment report for the Baltic Sea basin was published in January 2008 (BACC Author Team, 2008). The assessment is an example for a type of urgently needed reports helping to put global climate change (as portrayed e.g. by the IPCC reports) into a regional perspective, which local stakeholders and politicians can relate to. The so called BACC (BALTEX Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin) report was compiled by a consortium of 84 scientists from 13 countries around the Baltic Sea and covers various disciplines related to climate research and ecological impacts. The book is divided in chapters on past and current climate change, on projected future anthropogenic climate change, and on observed and projected impacts on terrestrial and marine ecosystems of the Baltic Sea basin. It aims to bring together consolidated (published) knowledge which has broad consensus in the scientific community. Still, this consensus may at times take the form of “consensus on dissensus”, as for certain issues, contrary opinions cannot be resolved due to insufficient scientific evidence.

An update to this first book (BACC II), authored by 141 authors from 12 countries, was published in early 2015.