In its Lisbon Agenda, the European Union has stated its objective to become the most competitive, knowledge-based society in the world by 2010. Central to this effort is scientific knowledge necessary both to compete successfully in the global market place and to promote sustainable development. http://www.fona.de/de/3_akteure/forum_2007/pdf/L2L_Call.pdf The aim of this conference is to position sustainability research as an engine for European competitiveness

IEEE/OES Oceans 07 Conference and EC EurOcean 2007 will take place next June in Aberdeen, Scotland. There are many exciting events planned for this occasion as highlighted on the website: http://www.oceans07ieeeaberdeen.org Abstract Deadline Is Fast Approaching - 15 December 2006

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is a dominant pattern of large-scale variability in the Northern Hemisphere, with important regional effects on the winter climate of Europe. Nested regional climate models (RCMs) can be useful tools for studying the regional signal of the NAO. Therefore, it is important to assess whether they can reproduce the observed NAO signal over Europe when driven by lateral boundary conditions from global climate models.

René Descartes Prizes 2005 Identifier: [FP6-2004-Science-and-society-12] Publication date: 15 December 2004 Budget: € 1, 250 million Closing Date(s): 10 May 2005 at 17.00 (Brussels local time) OJ Reference: OJ C309 of 15.12.2004 Specific programme: [Structuring the European Research Area] Activity area(s): [Science and Society] Restrictions to participation: Provided the conditions set out below are satisfied, any legal entity established in a

Advection of temperature (AT) is used to diagnose the influence of changes in extratropical circulation on air temperature. AT is calculated at 3 different levels (850, 500 and 200 hPa) for the period 1958-98 using NCEP-NCAR reanalysis data.

The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) is the dominant pattern of atmospheric circulation variability in the extratropical Northern Hemisphere and it is a major controlling factor in basic meteorological variables such as surface wind, temperature and precipitation which have large socioeconomic impacts on energy, agriculture, industry, traffic and human health throughout the whole of Europe and eastern North America. Because of this dominant impact

In this article authors explore the relation in the observed data between the Eurasian snow cover anomalies and the NAO variability on interannual to decadal time scales. Results reached in this study suggest that in winter and early spring, NAO type atmospheric circulation influences the extent of snow cover and the snow cover affects the atmosphere in the late spring, summer and early autumn leading to a mechanism that seems to be responsible for

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Precipitation (P) and freshwater (E-P) fluxes at the air-sea interface are investigated in the Atlantic Ocean sector using the reanalyses of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ERA) and of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP). A canonical correlation analysis method between these fields and sea level pressure (SLP) is used to identify patterns. We also test whether precipitation and freshwater fluxes can be