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Call for Papers: special Issue "The climate of the Mediterranean region at multiple time and spatial scales"

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Trieste ITALY
13-15 October 2008

Introduction

Introduction ( Piero Lionello)

Session 1. Regional climate modelling and regional climate change

Validation of the IPSL models used for Mediterranean climate studies (Laurent Li, LMD/IPSL/CNRS Paris FRANCE)
Key Processes in Regional Atmospheric Modeling in the Mediterranean Region (George Kallos, Un. Athens GREECE)
Projections of the Eastern Mediterranean climate change simulated in a transient RCM experiment (Simon Krichak, Un. Tel Aviv ISRAEL)
RegCM downscaling activities at Croatian Met Service (DHMZ) (Cedo Brankovic, Croatian Met. And Hydrol. Service CROATIA)
Water, Life and Civilisation: Regional climate modeling in the Eastern Mediterranean (David Brayshaw, Un. of Reading, U.K.

Session 2. Regional climate modelling and extremes

RCM research potential at the University of Malta Department of Physics (Charles V. Sammut and Noel Aquilinia, Un. Malta, MALTA)
Research directions in regional climate modeling of the Mediterranean at the MPI-M (Lorenzo Tomassini, MPI Met Hamburg GERMANY)
Examining Future Climatic Impact over Eastern Mediterranean Using a Regional Climate Model over Eastern Mediterranean (Baris Onol, Un. Of Istanbul TURKEY)
The new German project KLIWEX-MED: Changes in weather and climate extremes in the Mediterranean Basin (Andreas Paxian, Un. Of Wuerzburg GERMANY)
Understanding, detecting and comparing extreme precipitation changes over Mediterranean using climate models (Christina Anagnostoloulou, Un. Thessaloniki GREECE)
Future projections of extreme rainfall and temperature conditions over the Mediterranean region: scenarios from three updated regional climate models (Konstantia Tolika, Un. Thessaloniki, GREECE)

Session 3. Global and regional coupled modeling and climate change

Regional Modeling of Mediterranean Climate at ICTP (Filippo Giorgi, Erika Coppola and Ashraf Zaley, ICTP, Trieste, ITALY)
21st century regional coupled scenario for the Mediterranean Sea: first attempt and lessons for future developments (Samuel Somot, Meteo-France, Toulouse, FRANCE)
Climate variability and change in the Euro-Mediterranean region as simulated with a global climate model (Silvio, GualdiINGV/CMCC, Bolgna ITALY)
An atmosphere-ocean coupled regional climate model for the Mediterranean (Alberto Elizalde Arello, MPI Met Hamburg GERMANY)
Description of the EBU-POM coupled regional climate model and results from time-slice climate change experiment for Mediterranean region (Vladimir Djurdjevic, Un. Belgrade SERBIA)
A Regional Earth System model for the Mediterranean basin (Paolo Ruti, E.N.E.A., Roma ITALY)

Session 4. Modelling issues, atmosperic circulation changes and precipitation

The effect of indiscriminate nudging time on the large and small scales in regional climate modeling of the Mediterranean basin (Tamara Salameh, LMD, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau FRANCE)
On the risk of tropically cyclone development over the Mediterranean Sea under future climate conditions (Miguel Angel Gaertner, Un. De Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo SPAIN)
Influence of Mediterranean cyclones on Alpine precipitation (Herbert Formayer, Un. fur Bodenkultur Vienna AUSTRIA)
Relationship of North Atlantic Oscillation to the total seasonal rainfall over Libia (Taher A. Sharif, Un. of Al-Fateh, Tripoli LYBIA)
SST regional influence on extreme precipitation in Romania (Roxana Bojariu, Nat. Met. Admin., Bucharest ROMANIA)
Regional air quality decadal simulations over Europe in present and future climate (Prodromos Zanis, Un. Of Thessaloniki GREECE)

Session 5. Impacts and adaptation

Feedbacks of Mediterranean anthropized land-use on the regional climate (Piero Lionello and Matteo Zampieri, Un. Lecce, Dip. Di Fisica, ITALY)
The Gibraltar Strait: the tipping point of the Mediterranean thermohaline circulation (Vincenzo Artale, E.N.E.A., Roma ITALY)
Improved climate information for adaptation (Holger Hoff, Potsdam inst. For Climate Impact research, GERMANY)
Projected climate change and its impact on water availability and agricultural production in the Mediterranean region (Burak Sen, Turkish met. Service, TURKEY)