Even though Christmas and New Year’s Eve are upon us, and you likely start slowly to make yourself comfortable under the Christmas tree, you should still mark an upcoming event in the calendar for May.

The European Geosciences Union (EGU), Europe’s largest geoscience event, is having its annual general assembly from the 3^rd to the 8^th of May 2020 in Vienna, Austria.

To get you in the swing for the conference before the stress of the new year comes, we have prepared a list of presentations and other interesting events held by APPLICATE scientists, so that you can consider submitting your contribution too.

Make sure you don’t miss them!

• GI4.5 | PICO: Arctic observations: data collection, management, and user engagement

          Convener: Stein Sandven; Co- Convener: Øystein Godoy, Torill Hamre, William F. Manley, Roberta Pirazzini

• CL2.12: Exploiting Polar Observations to Improve Weather and Climate Predictions

          Convener: Luisa Cristini; Co- Convener: Jonathan Day, Thomas Jung, Siri Jodha Khalsa, Jørn Kristiansen

• CL4.15: Climate Variability and Prediction in High Latitudes

          Convener: Torben Koenigk; Co- Convener: Neven-Stjepan Fuckar, Yongqi Gao, Helge Goessling

• SC4.11: Effective project management in Earth sciences – What does that mean?

          Convener: Daniela Henkel; Co- Convener: Luisa Cristini, Sylvia Walter

• SC4.16: Boost your career: become a coordinator

          Convener: Sylvia Walter; Co- Convener: Daniela Henkel, Luisa Cristini

Some of the following sessions might be interesting for you, too!

• CL3.1: Challenges in climate prediction: multiple time-scales and the Earth system dimensions

           Convener: Andrea Alessandri; Co- Convener: Louis-Philippe Caron, Yoshimitsu Chikamoto, June-Yi Lee, Xiaosong Yang

• Initial error dynamics and model error physics in predictability studies of weather and climate

           Convener: Mu Mu; Co- Convener: Wansuo Duan, Stéphane Vannitsem

• CR5.3 | PICO: Developing coupled models in the polar regions - Understanding the feedbacks between land ice-ocean-atmosphere

           Convener: Konstanze Haubner; Co-conveners: Rupert Gladstone, Stefanie Mack, Shuting Yang, Yoshihiro Nakayama

• CL4.12: Regional climate modeling, including CORDEX

           Convener: Filippo Giorgi; Co- Convener: Melissa Bukovsky, Ivan Guettler

• CL4.14: Arctic changes – processes and feedbacks in climate, ocean and cryosphere

           Convener: Marit-Solveig Seidenkrantz; Co- Convener: Anne de Vernal, Michal Kucera, Mimmi Oksman

• CR1.1: Ice sheet mass balance and sea level: ISMASS/ISMIP6

           Convener: Frank Pattyn; Co- Convener: Guðfinna Aðalgeirsdóttir, Helene Seroussi, Donald Slater

• CR5.5: Advances and future opportunities for the integration of ice sheet models with geophysical observations

          Convener: Elisa Mantelli; Co- Convener: Robert Bingham, Tom Jordan, Mathieu Morlighem, Irena Vankova

But of course, there are many more great sessions taking place during these days.

If you are interested in knowing what else will be presented, head over to the EGU’s general assembly website, to search for exciting lectures: https://www.egu2020.eu and https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/sessionprogramme. And don’t forget, the deadline for abstract submission is the 15^th of January!

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