Hamburg, Germany
28 August - 1 September 2017
This week is the last chance to submit an abstract to the 4th International Conference on Earth System Modelling, to be held in Hamburg at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology. The conference will begin with a keynote presentation from Thomas Stocker and offers advance discourse around four themes related to the World Climate Research Programme's Grand Science Challenges.

These themes are:
- Clouds, circulation and climate sensitivity
Convenors: Bjorn Stevens and Sandrine Bony
Keynote presentations by Steven C. Sherwood (University of New South Wales, Australia) and Amy C. Clement (University of Miami, USA).
- Decadal prediction and attribution
Convenors: Jochem Marotzke and Gabi Hegerl
Keynote presentations by Ed Hawkins (University of Reading, UK) and Friederike Otto (University of Oxford, UK).
- Modelling past climate changes
Convenors: Martin Claussen and Pascale Braconnot
Keynote Presentations by Sandy Harrison (University of Reading, UK) and Peter Huybers (Harvard University, Cambridge, USA)
- Carbon feedbacks in the climate system
Convenors: Tatiana Ilyina and Pierre Friedlingstein
Keynote Presentations by Anna Michalak (Stanford University, USA) und Pedro Monteiro (CSIR, Pretoria, South Africa)
More information is available on the 4th International Conference on Earth System Modelling website.