Monthly news from EGU: EGU19 programme, new award, ERC response (February 2019)
- EGU news
- 28 February 2019
The February 2019 edition of the EGU email newsletter, the monthly information service for Union members, is now available.
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EGU Galileo Conference: Perturbations of Earth surface dynamics caused by extreme events
- EGU news
- 20 February 2019
The second EGU Galileo Conference of 2019 will bring together scientists studying a range of rare or extreme events and their broader impacts on Earth surface processes, biogeochemical cycles and human systems. The deadline for applications is 30 April.
EGU’s response to potential changes to the European Research Council
- EGU news
- 11 February 2019
A scheduled re-organisation of the European Commission’s Research and Innovation Directorate General has raised concerns about its potential impact on the European Research Council (ERC). The EGU strongly supports the unique ability that the ERC currently has to respond directly and independently to the needs of the scientific community.
Submit your abstract and register for the EGU General Assembly 2019
- EGU news
- 20 December 2018
The EGU General Assembly 2019 (7–12 April, Vienna, Austria) will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. The deadline for abstract submission is 10 January, 13:00 CET.
More time for all presentation types in the new EGU General Assembly schedule
- EGU news
- 14 November 2018
To provide a better experience for all attendees at its General Assembly, the EGU is making changes to the schedule of its largest annual meeting. The new schedule offers more time for all presentation types by featuring posters, orals and PICOs throughout the day, and includes a dedicated networking slot.
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Evaluation of CloudSat snowfall rate profiles by a comparison with in situ micro-rain radar observations in East Antarctica
- The Cryosphere
- DOI 10.5194/tc-13-943-2019
- 19 March 2019
Evaluation of the vertical precipitation rate profiles of CloudSat radar by comparison with two surface-based micro-rain radars (MRR) located at two antarctic stations gives a near-perfect correlation between both datasets, even though climatic and geographic conditions are different for the stations. A better understanding and reassessment of CloudSat uncertainties ranging from −13 % up to +22 % confirms the robustness of the CloudSat retrievals of snowfall over Antarctica.
Pleistocene glacial history of the New Zealand subantarctic islands
- Climate of the Past
- DOI 10.5194/cp-15-423-2019
- 14 March 2019
The New Zealand subantarctic islands, in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean, provide valuable records of past environmental change. We find that the Auckland Islands hosted a small ice cap around 384 000 years ago, but that there was little glaciation during the Last Glacial Maximum, around 21 000 years ago, in contrast to mainland New Zealand. This shows that the climate here is susceptible to changes in regional factors such as sea-ice expanse and the position of ocean fronts.
Trends in global tropospheric ozone inferred from a composite record of TOMS/OMI/MLS/OMPS satellite measurements and the MERRA-2 GMI simulation
- Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
- DOI 10.5194/acp-19-3257-2019
- 13 March 2019
Both a 38-year merged satellite record of tropospheric ozone from TOMS/OMI/MLS/OMPS and a MERRA-2 GMI model simulation show large increases of 6–7 Dobson units from the Near East to India–East Asia and eastward over the Pacific. These increases in tropospheric ozone are attributed to increases in pollution over the region over the last several decades. Secondary 38-year increases of 4–5 Dobson units with both GMI model and satellite measurements occur over central African–tropical Atlantic.
Attributing the 2017 Bangladesh floods from meteorological and hydrological perspectives
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
- DOI 10.5194/hess-23-1409-2019
- 13 March 2019
In August 2017 Bangladesh faced one of its worst river flooding events in recent history. For the large Brahmaputra basin, using precipitation alone as a proxy for flooding might not be appropriate. In this paper we explicitly test this assumption by performing an attribution of both precipitation and discharge as a flooding-related measure to climate change. We find the change in risk to be of similar order of magnitude (between 1 and 2) for both the meteorological and hydrological approach.
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