JRC is organizing model studies and performing measurements of air pollution that gives robust knowledge to assess future trends under various policy options. Through these studies, Europe gets valuable estimates of the intercontinental transport of air pollution on European air quality....

  The message of the lecture presented here is that the open access mission, born as one of the answers to the steady increase in the subscription fees by, on average, 250% from 1983 – 2003, is a trilogy involving the different wishes and prospects of the subscribers, the authors and the publishers. So far, we are discussing open access mainly from the point of view of the readers and researchers (subscribers), trying to make academic work barrier-free available on the web; however, causing, at the same time, an even greater injustice: article charges at very high prices of several thousands of Euros per article to be paid by the author. As largest open access publisher in the geosciences we at the European Geosciences Union have identified this problem already some years ago and have started the Online Automated Publication Initiative making rigorously advantage of the internet, the web and the software that can be downloaded free of charge with regard to upload and registration of manuscripts, open peer review and public discussion, editing and formatting, distribution and archiving worldwide. First examples of page-charge-free publications are the comments published open access in our discussion journals completely in journal style. Only if reading is free and article charges are sustainable and well below a thousand Euros we can celebrate the open access mission as a success....

Four-day symposium in honour of EGU Honorary President André Berger`s retirement...

  Besides scientific methodology, the conference aimed at discussing also the "dilemma" of scientists against the expectations of decision makers: While scientists, in most cases, evaluate natural hazards in probabilistic terms, decision makers expect to get precise forecasts....

Modern geophysical fluid dynamics includes numerical as well as laboratory experiments and also all the mathematical aspects of flows. In general, the word geophysical is used in a broad sense...