4th Workshop on European Storms

8 - 10 September 2014 IPMA - Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera, I.P. Lisbon, Portugal

Conference Board

  • Margarida L. R. Liberato
  • Isabel F. Trigo
  • Alexandre M. Ramos
  • Ricardo M. Trigo

Announcement

As on previous workshops, the main objectives of the workshop are:

  • to share recent research ideas,
  • to establish links with users of research on European storms and
  • to develop strategies on how to grow activity in this important area in the future.

This 4th workshop follows on from the previous excellent workshops organised in Exeter (2011 and 2013) and in Leeds (2012). The format is very similar including talks, posters and breakout discussions.

Conference Homepage

http://www.mliberato.utad.pt/?page_id=51

Programme

Monday 8 September 2014:

12:00-14:00 - Registration

14:00-14:10 - IPMA and Organizing committee: Welcome and introduction to the workshop

 

Talks 1: Mid-latitude cyclones: climatology and variability (Chair: Alexandre Ramos)

14:10-14:30 - Frauke Feser: Storminess over the North Atlantic and northwestern Europe - A Review

14:30-14:50 - Shira Raveh-Rubin: Large-scale surface wind extremes in the Mediterranean

14:50-15:10 - Len Shaffrey: Polar Lows in Reanalyses and Climate Models

15:10-15:30 - Uwe Ulbrich: Skill of probabilistic decadal forecasts with respect to frequencies of Northern Hemisphere winter extra-tropical cyclones and storms

15:30-15:50 - Oscar Martínez-Alvarado: Zonal variations in the systematic forecast error in upper-level Rossby waves

15:50-16:30 - Coffee/tea and cakes and POSTER session

 

Talks 2: Mid-latitude cyclones: large-scale dynamics (Chair: Margarida Liberato)

16:30-16:50 - João Santos: Are the Winters 2010 and 2012 Archetypes Exhibiting Extreme Opposite Behavior of the North Atlantic Jet Stream?

16:50-17:10 - Leon Hermanson: The ingredients of a stormy European winter: what is the role of the Pacific?

17:10-17:30 - Iñigo Gómara: On the relation between explosive cyclones affecting Europe and the NAO

17:30-17:50 - Joaquim G. Pinto: Large-scale dynamics associated with clustering of extratropical cyclones affecting Western Europe

17:50-18:10 - Breakout group organization

 

Tuesday 9 September 2014:

Talks 3: Mid-latitude cyclones: extremes and case studies (Chair: Isabel F. Trigo)

9:00- 9:20 - Piero Lionello: A comprehensive estimate the maximum water level reached during storms at the coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the mid 21st century

9:20- 9:40 - Sebastian Schemm: How moisture modifies the life cycle of an archetypal mid-latitude cyclone

9:40-10:00 - Margarida Belo: An observational study of a Sting Jet in southern Europe

10:00-10:20 - Christoph Gatzen: Derechos in European winter storms

10:20-10:40 - Peter Stucki: Dynamical downscaling as a time machine for weather and impact reconstruction – New perspectives on a severe foehn storm in 1925

10:40-11:20 - Coffee/tea and cakes and POSTER session

 

11:20-12:20 - Breakout group discussions

12:30-14:00 - Lunch

 

Talks 4: Mid-latitude cyclones: extreme events and impacts on Iberia (Chair: Uwe Ulbrich)

14:00-14:20 - Margarida Liberato: Mid-Latitude North Atlantic Extreme Storms Variability: Diagnosis, Modelling Dynamical Processes and Related Impacts on Iberia (STORMEx)

14:20-14:40 - Alexandre Ramos: Precipitation extreme events in the Iberian Peninsula and its association with Atmospheric Rivers

14:40-15:00 - Raquel Nieto: Moisture sources associated to ARs reaching the IP through a 3D Lagrangian approach

15:00-15:20 - Ricardo Trigo: Large-scale dynamics and impacts of historical storms on Iberia

 

15:20-15:40 - Coffee/tea and cakes and POSTER session

 

Talks 5: Mid-latitude cyclones: climatology and variability (Chair: Margarida Liberato)

15:40-16:00 - Christoph. C. Raible: Non-exponential return time distributions for vorticity extremes explained by fractional Poisson processes

16:00-16:20 - Urs Neu: Representation of extreme storms in ERA-Interim re-analysis

16:20-16:40 - Natalia Tilinina: New view of Arctic cyclone activity form the Arctic System Reanalysis

16:40-17:00 - Lisa Schielicke: Kinematic vorticity number – a tool for estimating circulations and cyclone sizes

 

17:00-18:00 - Breakout group discussions

 

Wednesday 10 September 2014:

Talks 6: Mid-latitude cyclones: risk assessment and quantification (Chair: Joaquim G. Pinto)

9:00-9:20 - Alexandros P. Georgiadis: Collaboration between the industry and academia: Building the hazard component for a Catastrophe Model

9:20-9:40 - Christoph Welker: Modelling economic losses of historic and present-day high-impact winter storms in Switzerland

9:40-10:00 - Ivan Kuhnel: Millennium-scale AOGCM simulations and their potential applicability in the modelling of extratropical-cyclone insurance losses

10:00-10:20 - Giovanni Leoncini: Windstorms, catastrophe models and Aspen Re

10:20-10:40 - Ioana M. Dima-West: Comparison of European catastrophe windstorm models

 

10:40-11:20 - Coffee/tea and cakes and POSTER session

11:20-12:20 - Breakout groups – reporting back

12:20-12:30 - Conclusions and future workshop

 

POSTER SESSION:

P01 Wataru Yanase : Climatology of polar lows over the Japan Sea

P02 Ray Bell: Reassessing the design criteria of offshore platforms using climate model data

P03 Julia Roberts: Can MOGREPS15 storms be used to inform long term storm climatology?

P04 Piero Lionello: On the cyclones responsible for positive and negative storm surges along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea

P05 Piero Lionello: Further progresses on a consensus view of the Mediterranean storm track as depicted by different cyclone tracking methods

P06 Humberto Barbosa: Satellite observations of Hurricane Bill (2009): links to African easterly waves and precipitation patterns

P07 Josephine Bowler: Evaluating the ability of climate models to represent damaging European Windstorm footprints

P08 Victoria Gil: Detection and Tracking of Extra-tropical Cyclones in the Mediterranean Region: an intercomparison between different models of CMIP5 project

P09 Niklaus Merz: Behavior of the eddy-driven jet in the North Atlantic during glacial and interglacial winter climate

P10 Gabriele Messori: Large-scale Dynamics of Severe European Windstorms

P11 Inigo Gómara: Rossby wave-breaking analysis of explosive cyclones in the Euro-Atlantic sector

P12 Martina Messmer: Vb-type cyclones and their role in generating extreme precipitation over Central Europe

P13 Maria Tous: How medicanes look on HadGEM3 N512 climate simulations

P14 Natalia Tilinina : Linking ocean turbulent fluxes heat to extratropical cyclone characteristics in midlatitudes

P15 Claudia Volosciuk: The Impact of a Warmer Mediterranean Sea on Central European Summer Flooding

P16 Prabodha Pradhan: Performance of YSU, QNSE and UW PBL schemes on the simulation of extratropical cyclones over North Atlantic Ocean

P17 Juan Ferreira: Relationship between extratropical cyclones intensification and atmospheric water vapour