Report of the Workshop on Models of Climate Change Evolution and Impacts in the Regional Oceans (WKMCCEI)

The ICES Workshop on How Models help us to understand Climate Change Evolu-tion and Impacts in the Regional Oceans (WKMCCEI), chaired by Stéphanie Ponsar, was held in Brussels, Belgium, on 12–14 January 2010. There were 16 participants representing 8 nations.The objective of the workshop was to provide contributions to the topics that would be covered by the chapter 12 of the ICES Position Paper on Climate Change. The ap-proach was to gather experts in modelling climate changes at the regional scale cov-ering the wide range of topics related to the problematic. Five main themes had been identified at the ICES level and are described in the Terms of Reference of the work-shop given in Annex 3.