Meet Torben Koenigk! 🌍 Head of the global climate group at SMHI, he focuses on Arctic climate & Earth system modeling. As #OptimESM Coordinator & WP8 lead, he champions international collaboration to understand abrupt climate change and its impacts.
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Meet Marco Possega🌍 Post-Doc at CNR-ISAC, working on land–atmosphere interactions, droughts, and soil moisture in climate models. In #OptimESM, he evaluates land-surface and soil-moisture processes and studies drought events, with a focus on the Mediterranean. optimesm-he.eu/about/the-te...
Meet Sara Octenjak! She brings her expertise in stakeholder engagement & climate services to #OptimESM, helping turn science into urgent, just climate action. 🌍
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⏰ Abstract deadline for #EGU26 is getting close!
Several sessions are convened by researchers from the #OptimESM project – a great opportunity to share your work on Earth system & climate modelling.
Submit soon! 🌍📊
Meet George Zittis, Research Scientist at the Cyprus Institute (CARE-C) and lead of the Climate Change Downscaling & Extremes Group. His team brings expertise in regional climate modeling and extremes, supporting #OptimESM with ML downscaling benchmarks and climate insights.
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Meet Annalisa Cherchi! 🌍
She is a senior scientist at CNR-ISAC and in #OptimESM, she contributes to improving hydrological processes in EC-Earth, with a focus on water-limited regions and future climate projections under warmer, drier conditions.
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Meet the people behind OptimESM 🌍 Over the coming weeks, we’ll introduce the team advancing next-generation Earth System Models to better understand climate change, extremes, and tipping points - delivering more credible insights for science, policy, and society. #OptimESM #HorizonEurope
Matteo Mastropierro, Katsumasa Tanaka, Irina Melnikova & Philippe Ciais is Testing GWP* to quantify non-CO2 contributions in the carbon budget framework in overshoot scenarios in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science (2025)🌡️
#ClimateScience #HorizonEurope #OptimESM
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Weiwei Xiong, Katsumasa Tanaka, Philippe Ciais, Daniel J. A. Johansson and Mariliis Lehtveer present emIAM v1.0 in Geoscientific Model Development (2025) 🖥️ — an emulator for Integrated Assessment Models.
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#IAM #EarthSystemModels #HorizonEurope #OptimESM
🌟 Wrapping Up the OptimESM General Assembly! 🌟
The OptimESM General Assembly has ended, and it’s been a productive few days!
Thank you to all participants for their contributions and dedication at the GA and in the project!
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💡 Last day of the OptimESM General Assembly! 💡
We’ve had a productive few days of collaboration!
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🚀 Day 1 of the OptimESM General Assembly is underway! 🚀
We’ve officially kicked off the OptimESM General Assembly that take place in Postdam and online. Looking forward to a productive few days of collaboration and idea-sharing!
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The #OptimESM General Assembly is next week! The project focuses on developing next-gen Earth System Models with higher resolution and realism to deliver long-term climate projections that inform policy and regional climate change under different global warming scenarios.
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#OptimESM will provide progress in 5 key areas: next generation of high-resolution #EarthSystemModels; ii) new policy-relevant emission and land-use scenarios; iii) better uncertainty estimations; iv) #abruptclimatechange; v) regional consequences of global #climatechange. (6/6)
#OptimESM will use,develop and improve the most advanced existing #EarthSystemModels to provide new #futureclimate simulations for a range of new emission scenarios produced by the project's #IntegratedAssessmentModels. (5/6)
#OptimESM will closely colaborate with international partners with expertise on Earth system modelling and on regional climate change (3/6).
WE ARE LIVE at Bluesky! SMHI is the proud coordinator of
@horizoneu.bsky.social project #OptimESM! #OptimESM will develop the next generation of #EarthSystemModels to deliver improved climate projections in support of policy and societal needs. (1/6)
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