Milutin Milankovitch 130 Anniversary Symposium
Climate Change at the Eve of the Second Decade of the Century

 

 

Programme

 

 

Monday, 21 September
SASA Club, Mezzanine

19.00 Registration & Welcome Cocktail
 

Tuesday, 22 September
SASA Main Lecture Hall

10:00 - 11:00 The Solemn Session of the Academy and the Opening Ceremony of the Symposium
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
The Earth Climate: What is going on? IPCC Assessment Update
11:30 – 12:30 Richard C. J. Somerville
CLIMATE CHANGE SCIENCE AFTER THE IPCC FOURTH ASSESSMENT REPORT
  Stefan Rahmstorf
RISING TIDE: THE SEA LEVEL PROBLEM
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 14:30 Keith Alverson
OBSERVING GLOBAL CHANGE IN THE WORLD OCEANS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Paleoclimate, Part I
14:30 – 15:30 History, Before 1 million years
  Aleksandar Petrović
CANON OF ECCENTRICITY HOW MILANKOVIĆ BUILT A GENERAL MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF INSOLATION?
  Peter Ditlevsen
PLEISTOCENE GLACIAL CYCLES: CLIMATE CHANGE AND MILANKOVITCH THEORY ACROSS THE 41 KYR AND THE 100 KYR WORLDS
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 Last 1 million years
  Andrey Ganopolski, and R. Calov
SIMULATION OF GLACIAL CYCLES WITH AN EARTH SYSTEM MODEL
  André Berger, and Qiuzhen Yin
ORBITAL FORCING AND RESPONSE DURING THE INTERGLACIALS OF THE LAST 1 MA
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 18:00 The Green Book of the Electric Power Industry of Serbia (Sponsor Presentation)
19:00 Reception at the City Hall hosted by the Major Dragan Djilas, Dragoslava Jovanovića 2
 

Wednesday, 23 September
SASA Main Lecture Hall

9:00 – 10:30 Loess and MIS – 13, Last interglacial
  Slobodan Marković, Ulrich Hambach, Thomas Stevens, Björn Machalett, George J. Kukla, Eric A. Oches, William McCoy, Björn Buggle, Ludwig Zöller, and Biljana Basarin
THE LAST MILLION YEARS RECORDED AT THE LOESS-PALEOSOL SEQUENCES IN THE VOJVODINA REGION, SERBIA
  Qiuzhen Yin
AN EXTREMELY STRONG EAST ASIAN SUMMER MONSOON DURING MIS-13 IN RESPONSE TO THE ASTRONOMICAL AND ICE SHEETS FORCINGS
  Bette Otto-Blisner
THE LAST INTERGLACIAL: THE SPATIAL SIGNATURES TO THE EVOLVING MILANKOVITCH VARIATIONS IN INCOMING SOLAR RADIATION
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 IHP Session I: Ecohydrology for Managing Climate Extremes at the River Basin Level
  Shahbaz Khan
IS SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT POSSIBLE GIVEN THE MULTIPLE CRISES?
  Javier Tomasella, Daniel Andrés Rodriguez, Luz Adriana Cuartas, Mônica Ferreira, Julio Cézar Ferreira, and José Marengo
FORECAST OF DISCHARGE AND WATER TABLE VARIATIONS IN THE TOCANTINS BASIN UNDER IPCC A1B SCENARIO CONDITIONS
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break (Sightseeing tour round Belgrade, Studentski trg 1)
14:00 – 15:30 IHP Session II: Climate Change Impact on Hydrological Extremes
  Siegfried Demuth
IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON DROUGHTS
  Biljana Radojević
CAN WE DETECT THE IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON FLOOD REGIMES?
  Emanuela Bruno, I. Portoghese, and M. Vurro
BASIN-SCALE DAILY RAINFALL SCENARIOS FROM A HIGH RESOLUTION RCM: ANALYSIS OF PREDICTIVE PERFORMANCE AND POSTPROCESSING OF MODEL OUTPUT
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00  
  Dejan Dimkić, and J. Despotović
ANALYSIS OF THE CHANGES OF THE STREAMFLOWS IN SERBIAIN FUTURE TIME DUE TO CLIMATE CHANGE - CASE STUDY OF THE PEK AND RESAVA RIVERS
  Georg A. Janauer
AQUATIC VEGETATION IN RIVER FLOODPLAINS: CLIMATE CHANGE EFFECTS, RIVER RESTORATION AND ECOHYDROLOGY ASPECTS
 

Thursday, 24 September
SASA Main Lecture Hall

Paleoclimate, Part II
9:00 – 10:30 Last glacial maximum and Holocene. Modeling
  Didier M. Roche, H. Renssen, S. Weber, T. Dokken, and L. Tarasov
TRANSIENT SIMULATION OF THE LAST DEGLACIATION: RELATIVE IMPACT OF MILANKOVITCH FORCING WITH RESPECT TO OTHER WELL-KNOWN FORCINGS
  Sylvie Joussaume
CLIMATE MODELS: LEARNING FROM THE PAST LONG-TERM CLIMATE VARIABILITY
  André Paul, and Martin Losch
PERSPECTIVES OF PALEO-DATA ASSIMILATION USING THE EXAMPLE OF THE ATLANTIC MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATION DURING THE LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM
  J. Ray Bates
CLIMATE FEEDBACKS: SOME CONCEPTUAL AND PHYSICAL ISSUES
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:20 Extraterrestrial planets
  Dave Spiegel
GENERAL MILANKOVIC CYCLES: A NOVEL WAY TO EXIT A SNOWBALL STATE
Regional climate change: Detection, projections and impact
11:20 – 11:50 Part Ia: Mediterranean and South-Eastern Europe
  Antonio Navarra - TBD
11:50 – 12:50 The Earth Climate: Where are we going?
  James Hansen
WHAT DO MILANKOVITCH CLIMATE VARIATIONS TELL US ABOUT THE PROSPECTS FOR HUMAN-MADE CLIMATE CHANGE?
  Carlos A. Nobre
'TIPPING POINTS' OF THE AMAZON FOREST
12:50 – 14:15 Lunch Break
14:15 – 15:30 Regional climate modeling: Value added – what can we do?
  René Laprise, Maja Rapaic, Dragana Kornic, Martin Leduc, Leo Separovic, Philippe Lucas-Picher, Emilia Diaconescu, Adelina Alexandru, Ramón de Elía, Daniel Caya, and Sébastien Biner
CONSIDERATIONS OF DOMAIN SIZE AND LARGE-SCALE DRIVING FOR NESTED REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS: IMPACT ON INTERNAL VARIABILITY AND THE SKILL AT DEVELOPING SMALL-SCALE DETAILS
  Fedor Mesinger, Katarina Veljović, and Borivoj Rajković
VALUE ADDED IN REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELING: SHOULD ONE ATTEMPT IMPROVING ON THE LARGE SCALES? LATERAL BOUNDARY CONDITION SCHEME: ANY IMPACT?
  Sandra Morelli, and F. Parmiggiani
ETA MODEL SIMULATIONS AND AMSR IMAGES TO STUDY A REAL EVENT OF POLYNYA AT TERRA NOVA BAY, ANTARCTICA
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
Regional climate change: Detection, projections and impact
16:00 – 17:00 Part II: North and South America, Asia
  Claudine P. Dereczynski, A. C. M. Montezano, Sin Chan Chou, and Carlos A. Nobre
THE DETECTION OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN BELÉM, PARÁ STATE, BRAZIL
  Sin Chan Chou, J. A. Marengo, J. F. Pesquero, A. A. Lyra, G. Sueiro, L. Alves, and R. Betts
DOWNSCALING OF HADCM3 A1B SCENARIO OVER SOUTH AMERICA, FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE CLIMATE USING ETA MODEL
19:00 Reception hosted by Their Royal Highnesses Crown Prince Alexander and Crown Princess Katherine at White Palace, Dedinje
 

Friday, 25 September
SASA Main Lecture Hall

9:00 – 10:30  
  Milka Radojević, Philippe Gachon, and Van-Thanh-Van Nguyen
EXTREME INDICES OF TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION AS SIMULATED BY DIFFERENT REGIONAL CLIMATE MODELS OVER NORTH AMERICA
  Biljana Musić, Daniel Caya, Anne Frigon, Michel Slivitzky, André Musy, and René Roy
CANADIAN REGIONAL CLIMATE MODEL (CRCM) AS A TOOL FOR ASSESSING HYDROLOGICAL IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE AT THE WATERSHED SCALE
  Madhav L Khandekar
DECADAL AND LONGER-SCALE VARIABILITY IN THE INDIAN MONSOON: A CLIMATE CHANGE ASSESSMENT USING A 200-YEAR DATASET
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Part Ib: Mediterranean and South-Eastern Europe
  Silvio Gualdi
THE CLIMATE OF THE EURO-MEDITERRANEAN REGION AS SIMULATED WITH A GLOBAL AOGCM COUPLED WITH AN INTERACTIVE HIGH-RESOLUTION MODEL OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
  Aleksandra Kržič, Borivoj Rajković, Ivana Tošić, and Vladimir Đurđević
SOME INDICATORS OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE CLIMATE OF SERBIA ACCORDING TO THE SRES-A1B SCENARIO
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
Impact on economy, General discussion, Symposium Statement
14:00 – 16:00 Overview and moderator: Vladimir Janković
Contributed reports: Anand Babu, Peter Okonofua, Ernest L. Molua, Louis B. Mabidi
19:30 Symposium dinner and a Cruise – Boat Sirona, Belgrade’s Port, Karadjordjeva Street
 

Saturday, 26 September
Dalj, Croatia, Milankovitch Family Home

  Milankovitch impact on climate science, Overview, Discussion, Symposium Statement
  Krešo Pandžić
CROATIAN EDITION OF MILANKOVIC’S BOOK - ASTRONOMICAL THEORY OF CLIMATE CHANGES AND ITS APPLICATION IN GEOPHYSICS
  Zoran Knezević
MILANKOVITCH'S THEORY AND THE CLIMATE OF MARS
  Moderators: André Berger, Djordje Šijački, Vladimir Janković