EU WATCH - News and Events

SIXTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME

PRIORITY 6.3
Global Change and Ecosystems

Project Duration:
01.02.2007 - 31.01.2011

Project News and Events

2008 WATCH Planned meetings, workshops and presentations WATCH Planned meetings, workshops and presentations for the year 2008.
WATCH, January 01, 2008
Summer School on "Climate Variability & Climate Change: Estimating and Reducing Uncertainties" (8-17 June, 2009) The main objective of the summer school on 8-17 June, 2009 is to bring together practitioners of IPCC-class climate models, the researchers from the theoretical climate dynamics, and dynamical- and complex-system experts to chart a path towards better understanding the sources of uncertainties in climate models, as well as estimating and reducing these uncertainties.
Országos Meteorológiai Szolgálat, November 25, 2008
WATCH General Assembly Bratislava 2008 The second WATCH General Assembly was held in Bratislava, Slovakia, between the 3rd and the 7th of November 2008.
WATCH, November 06, 2008
WATCH General Assembly meeting and Work Block meetings November 4-7, 2008, General Assembly meeting and Work Block meetings, Bratislava, Slovakia
WATCH, November 04, 2008

Climate News

Climate change could dramatically affect water supplies It's no simple matter to figure out how regional changes in precipitation, expected to result from global climate change, may affect water supplies. Now, a new analysis led by MIT researchers has found that the changes in groundwater may actually be much greater than the precipitation changes themselves.
ScienceDaily.com, December 29, 2008
Ecosystem changes in temperate lakes linked to climate warming Unparalleled warming over the last few decades has triggered widespread ecosystem changes in many temperate North American and Western European lakes, say researchers at Queen's University and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment.
ScienceDaily.com, December 27, 2008
Wind beats all in renewables study Wind power has been declared the most environmentally friendly source of renewable energy in a US comparison. The study compared nine electric power sources and two liquid fuel sources.
Carbonpositive, December 22, 2008
2008: 10th warmest year, weather extremes and reduced Arctic ice The year 2008 is likely to rank as the 10th warmest year on record since the beginning of the instrumental climate records in 1850, according to data sources compiled by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
WMO, December 22, 2008