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STSM at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Dr. Johanna Malle, a postdoctoral researcher from Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Switzerland spend 2 weeks with different groups at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) on coordinating and enhancing progress of the ISIMIP3a high-resolution experiments.

STSM at ETH-Zürich, Forest Ecology group

Dr Laura Dobor, a postdoctoral researcher from the Czech University of Life Sciences (CZU), Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Prague spent 15 days in Zürich, Switzerland with Prof Dr Harald Bugmann and Dr Olalla Díaz Yáñez on learning about and structural model uncertainties and the LandClim forest landscape model.

STSM with the Land Surface Science Group at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Wallingford, UK & the Climate Impacts Group at the Met Office in Exeter, UK

PhD Candidate Athanasios Tsilimigkras from the Technical University of Crete (TUC) spent three weeks with the Land Surface Science Group at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (UKCEH) and one week with the Climate Impacts Group at the Met Office working on improving the JULES land surface model’s river routing scheme at the global scale.

PROCLIAS-ISIMIP water quality workshop

Finally, a new water quality sector is in the plan for the Intersectoral Impact Model Intercomparison Project (ISIMIP). Following this new effort, several activities were organized within the framework of the COST Action PROCLIAS. Between the 30th and 31st of August roughly 50 participants (40 on-site and around 10 online), met at the Wageningen University & Research in the Netherlands.