- PROGRAMME
- June 6th 2011
- Plenary session
P. Lionello "Mediterranean climate: recent progresses and open issues"
P. Drobinski "The Mediterranean water cycle: To couple or not couple, what are the questions?"
P. Alpert "Global Dimming or Local Dimming? The Megacities Contribution"
A. Harzallah "Variability and trends of the hydrographic characteristics in the Strait of Sicily"
V. Zervakis "Variability of the Eastern Mediterranean overturning circulation, with emphasis on Aegean Sea developments"
K. Schroeder "Thermohaline variability in the western Mediterranean Sea"
J. Luterbacher "A review of 2000 years of paleoclimatic evidence in the Mediterranean"
Y. Kushnir "Atlantic role in Eastern Mediterranean hydroclimate variability throughout the Holocene"
N. Waldmann "The Dead Sea sedimentary archive: insights into high resolution paleoclimate reconstructions of the last ~300 ka"
- Parallel sessions
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H. Kontoyiannis "Influence of atmospheric circulation on turbulent air-sea heat fluxes over the Mediterranean Sea during winter: An overview"
C. Gonzalez-Hidalgo "MOPREDAS, a new tool for subregional precipitation trend analyses of Spain"
C. Kelley "The relative contributions of radiative forcing and internal climate variability to the late 20th century drying of the Mediterranean region"
J. López-Parages "The ENSO influence on the Mediterranean rainfall. A multidecadal modulated relationship?"
A. Mariotti "Decadal climate variability and drought in the Mediterranean region"
M. Zampieri "Recent temperature trend in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Eastern Mediterranean"
P. Fraunie "Impact of wind forcing resolution on the coastal turbulent stuctures and mixing"
M. Herrmann "What induced the exceptional 2005 convection event in the northwestern Mediterranean basin? Answers from a modeling study"
H. Kontoyiannis "Climatic variability of the near-surface sea temperatures in the Aegean-Black Sea system and relation to meteorological forcing"
F. Adloff "Upper ocean climate of the Eastern Mediterranean during the Holocene Insolation Maximum – a model study"
S. Akcer On "High-Resolution Late Holocene Climatic Records of Lakes and Lagoons at Western Turkey"
C. Alvarez Castro "Meteorological Database Over The Mediterranean Sea Through Old Royal Navy Logbooks"
R. Grimm "Ocean biogeochemical modeling of scenarios leading to eastern Mediterranean sapropel formation during the early Holocene"
A. Persoiu "The interplay between North Atlantic and Mediterranean climatic influences in Central Europe during the Holocene: a view from cave ice cores"
- Plenary session
- June 7th 2011
- Plenary session
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U. Ulbrich and A. Jansà "Synoptic patterns, cyclones and weather in the Mediterranean. Present situation and trends"
R. Trigo "Atmospheric circulation associated with major heat waves in the Euro-Mediterranean region"
H. Flocas "Explosive cyclones in the Mediterranean: vertical structure and dynamics"
M. Tsimplis and D. Gomis "Open issues on long term Mediterranean Sea level variability"
S. Josey "Mediterranean Air-Sea Interaction : An Overview of Basin Budgets, Impacts of Severe Heat Loss Events and Links to the Wider Climate System"
L. Li "A review on recent efforts of the Mediterranean regional climate modeling"
P. Ruti "Climate Local Information in the Mediterranean region: Responding to User Needs"
U. Mikolajewicz "Modeling Mediterranean Ocean Climate for the LGM and the Early Holocene"
- Parallel sessions
H. Reade "North African Palaeoclimate over the last ~80 ka: Isotopic Analysis of Mammalian Tooth Enamel from Northeast Libya"
S. Desprat "Holocene vegetation and marine environment variability in Central Mediterranean from a direct land-sea correlation"
G. Orombelli "Holocene glacier fluctuations in the Italian Alps"
M.A. Sicre "PaleoMex (Paleo-Mediterranean) Initiative"
I. Unkel "StymphaCore – Reconstructing the Climate History of the Northern Peloponnesus, Greece"
J. Garcia-Serrano "Large-scale atmospheric response to eastern Mediterranean summer SST anomalies"
A. Douguedroit "Main circulation types associated with weather regimes of significantly decreasing precipitation in the Mediterranean (1950 - 2000)"
J.C. Dutay "Simulation of anthropogenic CO2 uptake in the Mediterranean sea with the NEMO-MED12 model: impact on water masses acidification"
G. Sannino "Mediterranean Coupled Models comparison: response of the thermohaline circulation to climate change"
S. Somot "Regional Climate System Modelling of the Mediterranean region at CNRM: a multi-component approach to study climate variability"
A.G.P Shaw "Sea Level Reconstruction using altimetry and Tide Gauges within the Mediterranean Basin"
L. Fenoglio-Marc "Water Mass Variation and Relation to Climate Change"
M. A. Said "Climate change and sea level variations off Alexandria, Egypt"
- June 8th 2011
- Plenary session
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F. Dulac "The chemistry-aerosol Mediterranean experiment (ChArMEx) initiative"
J. Lelieveld "Increasing heat stress and air pollution in the Middle East"
S. Pandis "Air Quality in a Changing Climate"
S. Kinne "Aerosol climatology"
S. Planton "Application of climate models for regional climate change projections in the Mediterranean area"
J. Jacobeit "Application of statistical methods for regional climate change projections in the Mediterranean area"
H. Paeth "Detection of climate change in the Mediterranean basin: The added value of regional climate models"
S. Krichak "Evaluation of the role of the moist air transport and intensity of jet streams in the Mediterranean precipitations based on results of an AOGCM simulation experiment"
V. Ducrocq "HyMeX – an observation and modelling programme dedicated to the Mediterranean Water Cycle"
A. Navarra "A changing climate, an adapting world: what did we learn from the CIRCE project"
S. Somot "The international Med-CORDEX project: A multi-component and multi-model approach to study the physical processes, the variability and the trends of the Mediterranean regional climate system"
- Parallel sessions
M. Gaetani "Summer Mediterranean SST impact on Saharan aerosols transport: seasonal modulation and related atmospheric circulation regimes"
A. Di Sarra "Radiative forcing by Mediterranean aerosols in the infrared spectral range"
A. Barrera-Escoda "Dynamical downscaling of climate change projections for Catalonia (NE Spain) during the 21st Century"
M. Dubrovsky "Projection of future climate in the Mediterranean based on multiple GCMs and stochastic weather generator"
I. Bladè "Connections Between The Summer Nao And Drying In The Mediterranean Region"
C. Pizzagalli "Climate data analysis in the WASSERMed project"
B. Acma "Climate change and tourism: southeastern Anatolia region and southeastern Anatolia project (GAP) in Turkey as a case study"
G. Coppini "Mediterranean Operational Oceanography Network in support of environmental applications"
M. Todorovic "Climate change impact on agricultural water demand in Italy"
M. Tonani "MyOcean: Mediterranean Monitoring and Forecasting Centre"
A. Paxian "Dynamical downscaling of future climate change of extreme events in the Mediterranean area"
J. Kysely "Precipitation extremes in regional climate model simulations estimated by the region-of-influence method"
A. Di Filippo "Climate-change induced bioclimatic shifts in Italian beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) forests assessed through a tree-ring network crossing the Mediterranean-Temperate biomes"
S. Mathbout "Study on climate change and its potential impacts on vegetation over last five decades in Syria"
H. Rendell "Extreme rainfall events: changing magnitudes, frequencies and impacts in the Mediterranean"
P. Sousa "Links between fire regimes in Iberia and large-scale meteorological variability"
A.M. Ramos "Evolution of extreme temperatures over Portugal - recent changes and future scenarios"
- June 9th 2011
- Plenary session
MC. Llasat "Hydrometeorological Risks evolution in Catalonia (Spain): climate variability and vulnerability"
E. Xoplaki "Large-scale atmospheric circulation driving extreme climate events in the Mediterranean and related impacts"
A. Toreti "Extreme precipitation in the Mediterranean: evolution and related large scale circulation"
E. Fischer "Consistent geographical patterns of changes in high-impact European heatwaves"
- A. Iglesias "A protocol for early drought warning systems in Mediterranean countries" (not available)
P. Lionello "MedCLIVAR Book"
M. Gacic "An observational strategy for the Mediterranean Sea circulation and the MedSHIP programme"
R. Molinari "The future CLIVAR and WCRP and its potential relation to the next version of MedCLIVAR"
- Plenary session
- June 6th 2011