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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dear Colleagues,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We invite you to contribute by submitting an abstract to the
session <b>ITS4.2/CL0.6 "Where We
Stand: Pinpointing the Current State of the Earth System"</b> of the <b>EGU General Assembly</b> taking place on <b>27 April–2 May 2025 in Vienna, Austria</b>.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>The abstract
submission deadline</b> is Wednesday, <b>15
January 2025</b>, at <b>13:00 CET</b>. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Abstract submission link</b>:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/abstractsubmission/53846">https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/abstractsubmission/53846</a><span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">We look forward to your valuable contributions and
appreciate your attention and interest.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sincerely yours, session conveners,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Levke Caesar,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Simon Felix Fahrlaender,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Dimitry Pokhotelov,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Kasra Rafiezadeh Shahi<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>ITS4.2/CL0.6 session
summary:<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Recent evaluations on the states of the Earth system and the
integrity of the Earth system emphasize the alarming decline in Earth’s
resilience, stability, and life support systems. Human activities are driving
us beyond critical planetary boundaries, altering Earth's system processes and
environments on a global scale. Earth’s resilience, stability, and life support
systems are shaped by complex, non-linear interactions between biophysical
processes and human influences. Such interactions encompass the carbon cycle,
atmospheric systems, oceans, large-scale ecosystems, the cryosphere, and the disruptions
caused by socio-economic dynamics. As human pressures escalate, the risk of
breaching key feedbacks in the Earth system grows, potentially pushing critical
components like the ice sheets, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning
Circulation, and biomes such as the Amazon rainforest beyond tipping points.
Crossing these thresholds could trigger abrupt and often irreversible changes
that threaten ecosystems and human societies. Thus, a comprehensive
understanding of the current state of planetary boundaries on a frequent basis
is required. Owing to technological advancements in Earth observation systems,
as well as advanced AI-based solutions, such objectives can be attained. We
invite contributions from geoscientists, remote sensing specialists, data
scientists, ecologists, climate modelers, and other relevant fields to explore
how we can better measure and assess the planetary boundaries in the Earth
system. We aim to foster interdisciplinary studies on identifying critical
thresholds, understanding feedback mechanisms, and developing methods to
quantify resilience at planetary scales. We are particularly interested in
research utilizing diverse methodological approaches, ranging from Earth system
modeling and remote sensing to data-driven analyses and conceptual frameworks, focused
on stability and health indicators, nonlinear feedbacks, and the cascading
effects of system-wide shifts. This session seeks to bridge scientific
disciplines in an effort to improve our understanding of Earth’s resilience and
stability that can be used to identify pathways for mitigating risks and promoting
transformative, sustainable change.<span></span></p>
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