Abstracts invited to EGU OS1.5 Understanding the Indian Ocean’s past, present, and future

We invite abstracts to the following session at the EGU 2025 General Assembly, April 27 – May 2, 2025.

OS1.5 Understanding the Indian Ocean’s past, present, and future (Co-organized by CL4)

Conveners: Caroline Ummenhofer, Alejandra Sanchez-Franks, Estel Font, Yan Du, Saurabh Rathore

While significant advances have been made recently in our understanding of the Indian Ocean’s physical, biogeochemical, and ecological characteristics and their variability across a range of spatial and temporal scales, significant gaps in our knowledge remain in observing, modeling, and predicting the Indian Ocean’s changing environmental conditions and its role in regional and global climate.

This session invites contributions based on observations, modelling, theory, and palaeo proxy reconstructions in the Indian Ocean across a range of timescales from synoptic, interannual, decadal to centennial and beyond. Topics of interest include past, current, and projected changes in Indian Ocean physical and biogeochemical properties and their impacts on ecological processes, diversity in Indian Ocean modes of variability, interactions and exchanges between the Indian Ocean and other ocean basins via both oceanic and atmospheric pathways, as well as links between Indian Ocean variability and monsoon systems. We especially encourage submissions on weather and climate extremes of societal relevance in the Indian Ocean and surrounding regions, their prediction, as well as the evaluation of climate risks, vulnerability, resilience, and adaptation and mitigation strategies. We also welcome contributions that address research on the Indian Ocean, using advanced techniques such as machine learning.

Further information on the EGU General Assembly and abstract submission can be found here:
https://www.egu25.eu/
https://www.egu25.eu/programme/how_to_submit.html

On-site participants who wish to apply for a Roland Schlich travel support must be the contact author, as well as the first and presenting author of their contribution, and they must submit an abstract by 2 December 2024, 13:00 CET. The EGU support selection committee will decide about awarding support to individual contributions by 10 January 2025. All applicants will be informed after the decision.
For more details see:  https://www.egu25.eu/guidelines/supports_and_waivers.html

General abstract submission deadline is January 15, 2025, 13:00 CET.

Best regards,
Caroline Ummenhofer, Alejandra Sanchez-Franks, Estel Font, Yan Du, and Saurabh Rathore