EGU26 General Assembly was a great success again. It welcomed 22’497 registered attendees, of which 20’027 made their way to Vienna from 125 countries and 2’470 joined online from 107 countries. 20’173 presentations were given in 1’014 sessions. Thereby, 58% of the abstracts came from Early Career Scientists (ECS).

Our join oral presentation EGU26-5452: “Towards Urban Climate Services: Urgency and Importance of Seamless Multi-Scale Modeling Tools to Support Climate Adaptation and Sustainable City Development”, as an overview of European and Asian collaboration results of PEEX, FOCI, WMO IUS and many other joint studies, was presented by Alexander Baklanov on one of the biggest EGU Sessions CL2.3:  Urban Climate Science and Services: Observations, Modelling, Tools, and Action for Resilient Cities.

Alexander Baklanov also was a co-convener of the EGU Session AS3.40: “Integrated Prediction of Weather and Atmospheric Composition”, co-sponsored by WMO and CAMS, which was initiated by him together with Johannes Flemming and Georg Grell on EGU in 2011, and which successfully continuing annually during last 16 years.  New EnviroHIRLAM studies by our Ukrainian collaborators were also presented on this session by Daria Hrama (see EGU2026 – PEEX related presentations – PEEX Blog).

Outi Meinander (FMI) on the Virtual Poster Session VPS20 presented joint Nordic countries study EGU26-16935 “Dust in the Arctic: feedbacks and interactions between climate change, aeolian dust and ecosystems” by Outi Meinander, Andreas Uppstu, Pavla Dagsson-Waldhauserova, Christine Groot-Zwaaftink, Christian Juncher Jørgensen, Alexander Baklanov, Adam Christenson, Andreas Massling, and Mikhail Sofiev.

Additionally a Splinter Meeting SPM22 | PACES – air Pollution in the Arctic: Climate, Environment and Societies was organized by PACES Chairs Steve Arnold and Kathy Law.