From 2009-09-22 to 2009-09-25

Venue: Belgrade, Serbia

Summary:
The Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) is organizing this symposium in commemoration of the 130th birth anniversary of Milutin Milankovitch, founder of the mathematical approach to the study of climate change.

The symposium will review the rapid global climate change in progress, including some historical aspects recalling the role of Milankovitch. Also to be presented are invited and contributed papers addressing recent developments in paleoclimate, the use of paleo data to asses the future climate under various greenhouse gas scenarios, and the regional climate change, focusing on its basic modeling issues and on the impacts in the Southeastern Europe-Mediterranean area. This last segment is to include sessions on Climate Change and Hydrological Extremes, and Ecohydrology for Managing Climate Extremes at the River Basin Level. The segment is expected to highlight the contributions less developed countries can make and foster capacity building in the region. The impact of climate change on water resources of the Southeastern Europe-Mediterranean area, and adaptation to expected climate change will be addressed within this last segment of the symposium as well.

Organizers: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), under the patronage of UNESCO-IHP and co-organized by the National Climate Center Milankovitch of the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute of Serbia (RHMI)
Contact Name: Djordje Sijacki
E-mail: sijacki@phy.bg.ac.rs
URL: http://www.sanu.ac.rs/English/Milankovic2009/Milankovic.aspx