FNK at EGU Conference in Vienna

14 May 2025

Photo: Tim Raupach

The EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2025 took place from 27 April to 2 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria, and online. It's the largest geoscientific conference in Europe. This year it welcomed some 20,000 registered participants from 120 countries at the Austria Center Vienna, including more than 1,000 scientific sessions on current research topics as well as discussions and opportunities for international networking.

The conference brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts from all areas of Geoscience.

Several FNK members contributed to the conference.

Please find more information on the following contributions:

• Prof. Dr. Jana Sillmann: Abstract “Climate Extremes and Risk: Connecting Climate Science and Decision-Making via Interdisciplinary Approaches Focusing on Climate Impacts” & Session chair "Advances in physical climate risk assessment for the financial and insurance sectors."
• Dr. Leonard Borchert: Abstract “The importance of internal variability for climate extreme indices“ & Session chair "Climate predictions from seasonal to multi-decadal timescales and their applications"
• Dr. Malte von Szombathely: Abstract “The communicative power of climate extremes” & Talk "Hamburg Pluvial Flood Risk Map"
• Dr. Lukas Brunner: Abstract “Are global km-scale climate models becoming indistinguishable from observations?“, Talk "Improving extreme temperature definitions until they are wrong", Poster presentations "Quantifying changes in seasonal temperature variations using a functional data analysis approach" & "Output regridding can lead to Moiré pattern in km-scale global climate model data from ICON" (Benjamin Poschlod first author, presented by Lukas Brunner), Session chair "New developments in Earth system modelling: model evaluation, benchmarking, and constraining" & "Up-Goer Five Challenge: Making Big Ideas Simpler by Talking About Them in Words We Use a Lot"
• Dr. Benjamin Poschlod: Talk "How does internal climate variability propagate to the catchment-characteristic flood types? Insights from a hydrological large ensemble"
• Luisa Gensch: “Land of opportunities: Aligning organic farming and conservation targets in Europe”