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Oral Programme Topic 3

Topic 3

Diagnosis and Forecasting of Mediterranean Storms
Conveners: Efi Foufoula-Georgiou , Silvio Davolio , Kostas Lagouvardos 
Oral Programme
 / Wed, 07 Sep, 12:15–18:15  / Room Sibilla
 / Thu, 08 Sep, 09:10–10:50  / Room Sibilla
Poster Programme
 / Attendance Wed, 07 Sep, 13:00–14:30  / Atrium

Wednesday, 7 September 2011
Room Sibilla
12:15–12:30
Plinius13-34
Towards a long-term climatology of Medicanes
L. Cavicchia and H. von Storch
12:30–12:45
Plinius13-3
Intense small cyclonic vortices in the Mediterranean
A. Jansa, J. Campins, M.A. Picornell, and J.A. Guijarro
12:45–13:00
Plinius13-36
Assessing medicane risk using synthetic event sets
M. Tous, K. Emanuel, and R. Romero
Lunch Break
14:30–14:45
Plinius13-40
Saturation fraction and gross moist stability in an evolving Mediterranean environment
A. Comellas, Z. Fuchs, L. Molini, and A. Parodi
14:45–15:00
Plinius13-42
Multi-scale evaluation of Mediterranean storm numerical Ensemble forecasting.
S. Anquetin, G. Molinié, J.D. Creutin, D. Ceresetti, and S. Sivia
15:00–15:15
Plinius13-69
Connections between Mediterranean Storms and Tropical Convective Activity
G.J. Tripoli, E.A. Smith, and A. Mugnai
15:15–15:30
Plinius13-88
The Mediterranean coastal orographic heavy precipitation field campaign within HyMeX
V. Ducrocq and the HyMex Executive Committee for SOP1
15:30–15:45
Plinius13-37
The 6-8 September 2010 flood over Southern France: observational and modeling analysis in the frame of HYMEX project
K. Lagouvardos, V. Kotroni, E. Defer, A. Bennett, H. Betz, and O. Bousquet
15:45–16:00
Plinius13-45
Precipitation in a boiling soup: is microphysics driving the statistical properties of intense turbulent convection?
A. Parodi, J. von Hardenberg, and A. Provenzale
16:00–16:15
Plinius13-18
Small-scale variability of the raindrop size distribution and predictability properties of Mediterranean Storms
R. Checa, L. Durán, L. Molini, A. Parodi, and F.J. Tapiador
16:15–16:30
Plinius13-105
Variational assimilation of InSAR-derived integrated water vapour in mesoscale models: improving initial conditions at high spatial resolution
E. Pichelli, R. Ferretti, G. Panegrossi, D. Cimini, D. Perissin, N. Pierdicca, F. Rocca, and B. Rommen
16:30–16:45
Plinius13-6
Examining correlation between lightning activity, rainfall and flash flooding. A case study in the island of Crete.
A.G. Koutroulis, M.G. Grillakis, I.K. Tsanis, V. Kotroni, and K. Lagouvardos
Coffee Break
17:15–17:30
Plinius13-31
Statistical evaluation of real-time WRF predictions across the Mediterranean region
P. Katsafados, A. Papadopoulos, and E. Mavromatidis
17:30–17:45
Plinius13-110
Hydrological analysis of the extreme precipitation event of June 2011 in the Parma basin, Italy.
P.P. Alberoni, R. Amorati, S. Pecora, G. Ricciardi, F. Tonelli, E. Zenoni
17:45–18:00
Plinius13-4
Mediterranean Winter Cyclones as Projected by Climate Models
B. Ziv, Y. Kushnir, J. Nakamura, N. Naik, and T. Harpaz
18:00–18:15
Plinius13-59
Analyses of possible changes in the mean and extreme precipitation regimes over Spain under climate change scenarios.
M. Turco, M.C. Llasat, and P. Quintana Seguí

Thursday, 8 September 2011
Room Sibilla
09:10–09:35
Plinius13-8
Precipitation, weather, low frequency weather and the emergence of the climate (invited)
S. Lovejoy and D. Schertzer
09:35–10:00
Plinius13-33
From Mediterranean storms to Karakoram waters (invited)
A. Provenzale, J. von Hardenberg, E. Palazzi, E. Vuillermoz, G.P. Verza, P. Bonasoni, and P. Cristofanelli
10:00–10:25
Plinius13-129
Uncertaintypropagation for floodforecasting in the Alps: Differentviews and impacts from MAP D-PHASE (invited)
M. Rotach, M. Arpagaus, M. Dorninger, C. Hegg, A. Montani, and R. Ranzi
10:25–10:50
Plinius13-90
Towards a mesoscale Ensemble Hydro-Meteorological Prediction System for the northwestern Mediterranean (invited)
E. Richard, A. Hally, S. Fresnay, D. Lambert, B. Vié, O. Nuissier, V. Ducrocq, and B. Vincendon