CLIMATE AND EARTH
SYSTEM SCIENCES
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
28 April 2023, by Sophia Haves
Photo: CLICCS/UHH
At this year's conference of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) from 23 to 28 April in Vienna, scientists from the Cluster of Excellence CLICCS and the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability (CEN) presented Hamburg's research in the field of climate and sustainability. The forum focused both on new findings from their basic geoscience research and on sharing their research to address important societal and environmental challenges. A central point of contact for interested parties from all over the world was a joint information booth with the German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ).
One focus of the meeting is climate research. Scientists from different disciplines of CLICCS and CEN have presented their latest results in a variety of presentations and poster sessions. Among them were many young researchers from the CEN School SICCS. Across the board, the new Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook was presented. The study bundles current research results from various disciplines and examines them with regard to the question of climate future scenarios and their plausibility. DKRZ coordinates the technical basis for the extensive climate research in Hamburg. In various presentations, colleagues introduced the necessary high-performance computing systems, data management, and data archives that play a central role in climate science.
15,000 scientists from over one hundred countries come together once a year at the EGU to exchange, inform and network on the latest research results and developments in all disciplines of Earth, planetary and space sciences. Core areas are planetary exploration and earth observation as well as polar science, environmental pollution or natural hazards.
The EGU was founded in 2002 as a merger of the European Geophysical Society (EGS) and the European Union of Geosciences (EUG). Today, Europe's leading nonprofit organization has over 18,000 members from around the world.