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Baltic Earth Session at EGU 2021

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The European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly, which is usually held in Vienna, Austria, will take place online between 19 and 30 April 2021.

We would like to draw your attention to our specific Baltic Earth session.

We have received 22 abstracts form various disciplines and coastal regions around the world!

CL2.12: Climate change and other drivers of environmental change: Developments, interlinkages and impacts in regional seas and coastal regions

The online presentation format will be vPICO (virtual PICO). For more infos on that, please refer to the EGU2021 website:

EGU 2021 Format

Co-organized by BG4/HS13/OS2. Convener: Marcus Reckermann | Co-conveners: Ute Daewel, Helena Filipsson, Markus Meier, Markus Quante

It has been shown that regional climate change interacts with many other man-made perturbations in both natural and anthropogenic coastal environments. Regional climate change is one of multiple drivers, which have a continuing impact on terrestrial, aquatic and socio-economic (resp. human) environments. These drivers interact with regional climate change in ways, which are not completely understood. Recent assessments all over the world have partly addressed this issue (e.g. Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea region, BACC (2008, 2015); North Sea Climate Change Assessment, NOSCCA (2011); Canada’s Changing Climate Report, CCCR (2019)).

This session invites contributions, which focus on the connections and interrelations between climate change and other drivers of environmental change, be it natural or human-induced, in different regional seas and coastal regions. Observation and modelling studies are welcome, which describe processes and interrelations with climate change in the atmosphere, in marine and freshwater ecosystems and biogeochemistry, coastal and terrestrial ecosystems as well as human systems. In particular, studies on socio-economic factors like aerosols, land cover, fisheries, agriculture and forestry, urban areas, coastal management, offshore energy, air quality and recreation, and their relation to climate change, are welcome.

The aim of this session is to provide an overview over the current state of knowledge of this complicated interplay of different factors, in different regional seas and coastal regions all over the world.

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