Official Launch of the New Tellus Journal and 75th Jubilee Celebration

Datum: 2025-05-26 09:00 - 2025-05-27 17:00

Adress: The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4 A, 114 18 Stockholm, Sverige

Lokal: Beijer hall

The Bolin Centre for Climate Research and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences warmly invite selected guests to an event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the journal Tellus, which was marked last year.

With a history dating back to 1948, Tellus has long been a respected platform for high-quality, interdisciplinary research in Earth system science. Founded by Professor Carl-Gustaf Rossby, a pioneer in meteorological research, the journal has upheld a strong legacy in dynamic meteorology, oceanography, and atmospheric sciences. Now, as we relaunch Tellus as a unified Earth system science journal, this event will highlight its renewed mission and role in shaping the future of Earth system research.

Programme Highlights

  • Keynote talks from research leaders within Earth system science, based on an upcoming Tellus Jubilee issue, which celebrates seminal papers published in Tellus through forward-looking perspectives.
  • Networking opportunities to foster collaborations across disciplines.

Please note: This is an invitation-only event.

For further inquiries, please contact the organizers: Ilona Riipinen, Gustaf Hugelius and Stefano Manzoni

Event coordinator: Maria Basova (maria.basova@aces.su.se)

Tellus Symposium – Programme

Day 1 – Monday 26 May 2025

09.00–10.00 Registration & coffee

10.00–10.30 Opening Session – Welcome from the organizers

Session 1

Chair: Gustaf Hugelius

10.30 Ilona Riipinen, Stockholm University – History and future of Tellus: why then, why now

11.00 Zoom: Tuukka Petäjä, University of Helsinki – Paradigm shifts in atmospheric sciences during the last 15 years

11.30 Zoom: Pierre Friedlingstein, University of Exeter – A brief history of the global carbon cycle: from a missing sink to Net Zero

12.00–13:00 Lunch

13.00 Session 2

Chair: Volker Brüchert 

13.00 Zoom: Julia Pongratz, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich – Land-use change interactions with climate

13.30 Carlos A. Sierra, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry – Time and Earth system processes

14.00 Linus Magnusson, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts – Progress on understanding forecast error growth and the limit of predictability 

14:30–15:00 Coffee Break

15.00 Session 3

Chair: Natasha Barbolini 

15.00 Bjorn Stevens, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology – Coming full circle — Lilly’s early simulations of buoyancy convection

15.30 Zoom: Ralph Keeling, Scripps Institution of Oceanography – A perspective on the global carbon cycle from 67 years of CO₂ measurements

16.00 Zoom: John Wettlaufer, Yale University – Stochastic resonance and resonances

16.30 Peter Cox, University of Exeter – Climate carbon cycle feedbacks: an improved method to diagnose climate, CO2 and timescale dependences

17.30–20.00 Dinner at Klubbvillan (KVA) – By invitation only


Day 2 – Tuesday 27 May 2025

09.00–10:00 Registration & coffee

10.00–10:15 Opening of Day 2 – Reflections & Framing the day

10.15–12:15 Session 4

Chair: Ramón Fuentes Franco 

10.15 Ulrich Pöschl, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry – Atmospheric multiphase chemistry influencing climate and health in the Anthropocene: from sulfate production to secondary organic aerosol formation and related effects

10.45 Zoom: Trude Storelvmo, University of Oslo – The importance of high-latitude cloud feedbacks for global climate

11.15 Matthew Salter, Stockholm University – Bubbles, droplets, climate: Tellus’s enduring influence on sea spray aerosol researc

11.45 Zoom: Tim Lenton, University of Exeter – How Gaia is distinct from Earth system scienc

12.15–13:30 Lunch

13.30 Session 5

Future of Tellus & Scientific publishing / Panel

15:00–16:30 Coffee mingle

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Kontakt: Maria Basova
E-post: maria.basova@aces.su.se