Experts in climate and water sciences from Canada, the United States, Brazil, Denmark, Germany, Belgium, France, Serbia, and other European countries and the UNESCO gathered at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts on the occasion of the 130th birthday anniversary of the geophysicist Milutin Milankovitch. The collection of their presentations is opened by an update on the climate situation after the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Further topics include various issues of paleoclimatology, in particular as it helps reduce uncertainties from which prospects for climate change suffer; ecohydrology and climate change at the watershed scale; and regional climate models, which are discussed in terms of both their improved modeling and their use in studies of a polynya in the Antarctica and expected changes in the Mediterranean region.

InhaltsangabeFrom the Contents: Climate change at present.- Science, politics, and public perceptions of climate change  Paleoclimate.- Paleoclimate implications for climate sensitivity and human-made climate change.- Simulation of glacial cycles with an Earth system model.- Modelling the interglacials of the last one million years.- Relating the astronomical time scale to the loess-palaeosol sequences in Vojvodina, Northern Serbia.

Climate change at present: R. C. J. Somerville: Science, politics, and public perceptions of climate change Paleoclimate: J. Hansen, M. Sato: Paleoclimate implications for climate sensitivity and human-made climate change. - A. Ganopolski, R. Calov: Simulation of glacial cycles with an Earth system model. - A. Berger, Y. Qiuzhen: Modelling the interglacials of the last one million years. - S. B. Markovic et al.: Relating the astronomical time scale to the loess-palaeosol sequences in Vojvodina, Northern Serbia. - D. M. Roche, H. Renssen, and D. Paillard: A spatial view on temperature change and variability during the last deglaciation: A model analysis. - A. Paul, M. Losch: Perspectives of data assimilation in paleoclimatology. - A. Petrovic: Cannon of eccentricity: How Milankovitch built a general mathematical theory of insolation. - D. S. Spiegel et al.: Exaggerated Milankovitch-like eccentricity cycles and extreme exoplanet climate variation Ecohydrology, water resources and climate change: G. A. Janauer: Aquatic vegetation in river floodplains: Climate change effects, river restoration and ecohydrology aspects. - B. Music et al.: Canadian Regional Climate Model (CRCM) as a tool for assessing hydrological impacts of climate change at the watershed scale Regional climate modeling R. Laprise et al.: Considerations of domain size and large-scale driving for nested regional climate models: Impact on internal variability and ability at developing small-scale details. - F. Mesinger et al.: Value added in regional climate modeling: Should one aim to improve on the large scales as well?. - S. Morelli, F. Parimiggiani: Eta model simulations and AMSR images to study an event of polynya at Terra Nova Bay, Antarctica. - A. Krzic, I. Tosic, B. Rajkovic, and V. Djurdjevic: Some indicators of the present and future climate of Serbia according to the SRES-A1B scenario.