Climate of the Future

Can we improve our understanding of extreme precipitation events in the Sichuan Basin by using high-resolution regional climate models?

Laura Detjen and Julia Curio April 7, 2025

The Tibetan Plateau is an elevated region with an average height of 4500 m, located in high-mountain Asia (Photo Credit: Julia Curio)

Invited guest from the EGU 2024 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award Context The Sichuan Basin, located at the eastern slope of the Tibetan Plateau in China, is a lowland region that regularly experiences heavy rainfall during the summer months. This is due to its complex topographical features (Fig. 1) and the influence of the East Asian monsoon. The heavy rainfall can ...[Read More]

Spotlighting the Climate Division’s sessions for EGU24

Shalenys Bedoya-Valestt January 31, 2024

Dear community of climate enthusiasts and EGU lovers, We know that being part of the EGU is not just about staying in the loop with the latest geoscience works – especially when it comes to our all-time favorite realm of sciences: climate sciences 🤩. It is also an amazing opportunity to spark exciting collaborations and expand your network with scientists from all over Europe and the world. EGU is ...[Read More]

Put a Climate lab in school and make it better!

Roy Arindam July 6, 2023

Put a Climate lab in school and make it better “The car will not go through this road”, the driver replied. Well, the path, which he was mentioning was a mudslide made up of clay soil, completely wet from the rain the previous day. We were traveling to a small village in Sundarban to establish a climate laboratory. The concrete road ends 2 kilometers before the schools, and then it was a mud bath! ...[Read More]

A glimpse into the INTIMATE’s summer school of 2022

Ricardo N. Santos November 21, 2022

Group photo of the INTIMATE summer school 2022 at Kokkila. Photo Credit: Francesco Muschitiello.

The Earth’s climate has been rapidly changing in the last decades. That’s a fact! Virtually, every one of us has been experiencing those changes in person, but how do we know that Earth’s climate has changed in the past beyond the instrumental data of the last ~200 years? From ancient manuscripts to geologic records, there are many “archives” one might consider “reading” to infer or reconstruct pa ...[Read More]