In both core and applied research and also increasingly in managing and governing bodies there are a comprehensive understanding and an acknowledgement of climate change impacts on water volume and movement. The IPCC scenarios predict major global and regional changes in rainfall patterns and sea-level rise due to increasing temperatures.
To a lesser extent, however, is a similar understanding and awareness well established for impacts on what you encounter beneath the water surface. The water quality problems are many and complex.
Therefore two sessions will be dedicate water and climate change looking into the 1st and 2nd order effects of climate change on water quality and aquatic ecosystems, - and we challenge participants to contribute with intriguing research results, examples of state of art assessment tools and hair-raising examples - case stories from real life.
For further conference details: http://www.iaia.org/iaia-climate-symposium-denmark/