Division on Climate: Past, Present & Future

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President: Kerstin Treydte (Emailcl@egu.eu)
Deputy President: Gabriele Messori (Email)
ECS Representative: Shalenys Bedoya Valestt (Emailecs-cl@egu.eu)

The Division on Climate: Past, Present & Future (CL) is one of the larger divisions of the European Geosciences Union. It pools from many disciplines and consequently has many co-organised sessions with other divisions at the EGU General Assembly. The division is very interdisciplinary and covers climate variations on all time scales. CL includes the study of any kind of climate archive from rocks to ocean cores, speleothems, ice cores, chronicles, to instrumental records to name a few. Besides observations, climate modelling on all time scales from the deep past to the future are areas covered by the division. Any aspect of the climate system falls into the realm of the division e.g. atmosphere, ocean, biosphere, cryosphere, and geology. Themes focus on the climate on Earth but may also expand other planets or the Sun.

Latest posts from the CL blog

Modelling the heat mitigation effects of blue roofs and green roofs to assess climate change adaptation potentials in dense urban environments

Climate: Past, Present & Future
posted 6 months ago

Urban areas often show higher temperatures than their surrounding rural areas, especially during heat events. This phenomenon is called the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect. The magnitude of the UHI effect is expressed by the absolute temperature difference between the rural and the urban area and can reach more than 10 °C. During past decades, the magnitude of the UHI effect has intensified in many cities around the world. The UHI effect is mainly caused by a higher heat storage …

Michael Sigl

2024
Hans Oeschger Medal

The 2024 Hans Oeschger Medal is awarded to Michael Sigl for his innovative contributions, which improved ice core chronologies and illuminated the impacts of volcanic eruptions on climate and societies.

Peter U. Clark

2024
Milutin Milanković Medal

The 2024 Milutin Milanković Medal is awarded to Peter U. Clark for exceptional contributions to reconstructing and understanding how the past climate, ice sheets and sea level responded to perturbations, with a perspective on future committed changes.

Maria A. A. Rugenstein

2024
Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award

The 2024 Division Outstanding Early Career Scientist Award is awarded to Maria A. A. Rugenstein for outstanding research in climate dynamics and the ocean’s influences on atmospheric feedbacks.

Dánae Sanz Pérez

2024
Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Dánae Sanz Pérez Paleoenvironmental and paleoecological changes during the early GABI in the Argentine Pampas: a stable isotope approach

Laura Detjen

2024
Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Laura Detjen Heavy and extreme precipitation events in the Sichuan Basin during the 2020 summer season in a set of kilometre-scale simulations

Laura Schild

2024
Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Laura Schild Richness asymmetry with past forest loss and gain in pollen data

Meike D. W. Scherrenberg

2024
Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Meike D. W. Scherrenberg Simulating the ice-sheets during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition: A dance of ice, CO₂and orbital cycles

Bette L. Otto-Bliesner

2023
Milutin Milanković Medal

The 2023 Milutin Milanković Medal is awarded to Bette L. Otto-Bliesner for her exceptionally outstanding contribution to modelling the earth system from deep-time to glacials and interglacials, and leading pioneering work to use palaeoclimate for better future projection.

Hugues Goosse

2023
Hans Oeschger Medal

The 2023 Hans Oeschger Medal is awarded to Hugues Goosse for wide and significant contributions to palaeoclimate modeling and pioneering work in data assimilation in palaeoclimatology.

Ali Serkan Bayar

2023
Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Ali Serkan Bayar Greater rate of climate zone change in CMIP6 Earth System Models due to stronger warming rates

Anika Donner

2023
Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award

The 2023 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Anika Donner Warmer and wetter past interglacials in northeast Greenland recorded in speleothems

Wim Thiery

2023
Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists

The 2023 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Early Career Scientists is awarded to Wim Thiery for his broad-ranging research contributions on the topics of extreme climate events, climate change impacts, energy meteorology, water resources, and land-atmosphere interactions.

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