- 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"
- 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"
