European Meteorogical Society 2024 – Annual Meeting

This year’s European Meteorological Society (EMS) Annual Meeting, which will be held in Barcelona from 2-6 September. The EMS is a non-profit organisation comprising 38 Member Societies and 30 Associate Members across Europe. Their Annual Meetings draw approximately 600 attendees from various sectors of the meteorological field.

I4C on the agenda

On Wednesday, 4 September, our project work in Barcelona will be featured alongside another project on stakeholder engagement. On 6 September, we will host a session on ‘Setting, crossing, and transforming scale’. The Friday session will focus on the increasing ability of models to capture environmental phenomena at higher resolutions that blur the traditional boundaries between weather, climate and air quality services. This change highlights the importance of aligning the scale of the problem being modelled with the scale at which it is being governed to promote effective change. However, there is a lack of awareness that the framing of scale varies between scientific disciplines and is a socially and politically constructed process. This has led to isolated approaches within research communities, hindering the deployment of integrated weather, climate and air quality services.

To address this challenge, a trans-disciplinary session is proposed to promote collaboration and discussion on the topic of scale. Professionals and researchers are invited to make presentations that explore the importance of scale in various contexts, such as solving specific environmental phenomena or aligning with decision-making contexts. The session aims to facilitate discussions on defining scale, traversing scale and transforming scale, with the goal of promoting a more integrated and nuanced understanding of scale in environmental modeling and decision-making processes.

Stay tuned on the I4C website and newsletter for more updates from the event next week!