11 May 2026

Photo: UHH/Climate Modelling group

From 3rd to 8th May the European Geosciences Union held its annual General Assembly in Vienna. Several members of the Climate Modelling group seized the opportunity to present their research, engage in scientific discussions and connect with old and new collaborators.

Posters:

• Machine Learning for Decadal Ocean Prediction — Exploring the Feasibility of Capturing Climate Memory in the Upper Ocean (Felix Meyer, Christopher Kadow, and Johanna Baehr)
• An analysis of the imprint of the global ocean circulation on AMOC dynamics and surface climate during the time period 1958–2014 (Tali Bühl, Sebastian Brune, and Johanna Baehr)
• Multivariate Climate Extremes and Their Impacts on Arctic Land-Atmosphere Carbon Exchange under Future Climate Change (Lukas Fiedler, Armineh Barkhordarian, Victor Brovkin, and Johanna Baehr)
• Assessing the effect of AMOC-induced temperature patterns on the global social cost of carbon (Jordis Hansen, Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo, Felix Schaumann, and Johanna Baehr)
• Explaining neural networks for detection of atmospheric features in gridded data (Tim Radke, Susanne Fuchs, Iuliia Polkova, Christian Wilms, Johanna Baehr, and Marc Rautenhaus)
• The Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in multi-decadal end of century climate predictions (Sebastian Brune, Jordis Hansen, Tali Bühl, Mohammad Basir Uddin, André Düsterhus, and Johanna Baehr)
• The NAO decadal predictability determined by initial ocean heat content anomalies in the subpolar North Atlantic — SST gradients playing a key role. (Panos J. Athanasiadis, Dario Nicolì, Domenico Giaquinto, Casey Patrizio, Stephen Yeager, Leon Hermanson, and Holger Pohlmann)

Pico talks:

• Exploring the usefulness of global warming levels for aligning agricultural productivity impact trajectories across GCMs (Vidur Mithal, Jonas Jägermeyr, Christoph Müller, Jana Sillmann, and Leonard Borchert)
• From Natural Language to Reproducible Climate Analysis: FrevaGPT in the Geosciences (Gizem Ekinci, Koketso Molepo, Sebastian Willmann, Johanna Baehr, Kevin Sieck, Felix Oertel, Bianca Wentzel, Thomas Ludwig, Martin Bergemann, Jan Saynisch-Wagner, and Christopher Kadow)

Orals:

• Mechanisms and seasonal marine biochemical prediction over the Canary upwelling system using the German Climate Forecast System GCFS2.2 (Adama Sylla, Sebastian Brune, Xavier Capet, Juliette Mignot, and Johanna Baehr)
• Underestimated Extended Seasonal Hindcast Skill in Sparsely Observed Periods Revealed Through Hybrid Machine-Learning Initialization (Goratz Beobide-Arsuaga, Jürgen Bader, Simon Lentz, Sebastian Brune, Christopher Kadow, and Johanna Baehr)
• From predictions to projections: A large ensemble of initialised predictions for the end of the century (André Düsterhus and Sebastian Brune)

Session Organisation:

• AMOC changes and impacts on physical, biogeochemical, and societal systems (Convener: Eduardo Alastrué de Asenjo; Co-conveners: Qiyun Ma, Felix Schaumann, Maya Ben Yami, Amber Boot, Wei Liu, Monica Ionita-Scholz)

More information about the EGU26 General Assembly: https://www.egu26.eu/