EMS Annual Meeting 2007

01 - 05 October 2007

San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain

Presentations

John Zillman The social and economic value of meteorological services - the findings from the WMO Conference 2007 in Madrid
Michel Jarraud High Impact Weather: WMO Disaster Risk Reduction
Filippo Giorgi Climate Change: Summary and key messages from the WG1 IPCC-AR4
Dominique Marbouty Development of early warning for severe weather

Alain Ratier A couple of strategic issues under discussion in the context of EUMETNET and elsewhere

Christophe Accadia Application of EUMETSAT Satellites to Observe Weather and Climate

Paul Ingman The Changing Earth: New scintific challenges for Earth observation

Jean-Noël Thépaut The assimilation of satellite data and its use in analysing severe weather systems

Mikko Strahlendorff GMES: current status & next challenges. Relationships with the European meteorological community

Dominique Marbouty, Director ECMWF

Jean-Pierre Chalon, Manager EUMETNET

Steve Noyes, Director of Operations and Customer Service Management, UKMO
Lars Prahm, Director General, EUMETSAT
Pirkko Saarikivi, Member of the Board, PRIMET
Ben Dieterink, President HMEI
Tomas Molina, President IABM
Sylvain Joffre, Chair of Earth System Science Committee, COST

AM1 Meteorology and customer value

M. Balmaseda Predictions of temperature and rainfall anomalies with the ECMWF Seasonal Forecast Sytem-3
A. Arribas Seasonal Forecasting at the Met Office: challenges and applications for customers
J. Roads Firedanger Applications of NCEP's CFS/GSM/RSM Seasonal Forecasts
R. Benestad Seasonal Predictability over the Artic region - exploring the role of boundary conditions

N. Dotzek The European Severe Weather Data Base ESWD
R. Pascual Hiking accidents and srong northerly winds over Mediterranean Pyrenees

M. Staudinger European Meteorological Services and harmonized warnings for extreme meteorological events
H. van Dorp Seven years of Weather Alarms in the Netherlands
M. Molendijk The concept of meteorological triggers - staying ahead of (severe) weather developments
M. Hippi Development project ColdSpots: Accurate road condition forecasts for road stretches
K.S. Nair An assessment of the impact of extreme weather on socio-economic conditions in India

C. Crocombette The weather impact on the transmission of electricity in France
L. von Bremen Towards probabilistic wind power forecasting based on Ensemble Prediction Techniques
N. Saleck Accuracy of near real time updates in wind power forecasting with regard to different weather regimes
T. Petroliagis Deployment & Validation of the WRF Model on the German Grid for Wind Power Prediction Applications

C. Koppe Probabilistic and deterministic Heat Health Warnings in Germany and Europe
J.L. Camacho
Forecasting start of platanus pollen season and grass pollen peaks in the Madrid reagion
R. Mureau Heat and health warning in the Netherlands
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AM2 New developments in meteorology

C. Cardinali Objectives of the THORPEX working group on Data Assimilation and Observing Strategies for high impact weather forecast improvements
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AW1 Dynamical Meteorology

H. Hübener Comparing ENSEMBLES models with different resolution of the stratosphere in climate simulations

Y. Wang The Interaction between the Two Propagating Rossby Waves

I. Rudeva Northern hemisphere mid-latitudinal cyclones: geometry, composites and insights for air-sea interaction

AW2 Boundary-layer physics and parametrizations in weather and climate forecast

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AW3 Air-sea interactions

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AW4 Modelling, forecasting and validation of Small-scale Processes in Atmospheric Models

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AW5 Atmospheric Hazards

N. Dotzek Localization of convective storm cells in the vicinity of air ports
G. Cuevas Splitting the middle layer of LPW NWCSAF/MSG Satellite Product in order to improve the monitoring of pre-convective environments
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AW6.1 Environmental Meteorology - Meteorology and Atmospheric Pollution: from the urban to meso/regional scale

M. Piringer Improving the meteorological input of dispersion models for urban applications
N. Mole
High concentrations of pollutant in short-range dispersion
A. Kerschbaumer Origin and Influence of PM10 concentrations in urban and in rural environments
A. Spekat A statistical approach to discern local and background properties of PM10
M. Piringer Separation distances at different sites calculated with the Austrian Odour Dispersion model
E. Minguzzi Interannual variability of air pollution in Northern Italy
O. de Galisteo A detailed analysis of aerosol optical depth calcualation in polar regions

AW6.2 Environmental Meteorology - Global Environmental Monitoring and Forecasting (including GMES related issues)

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AW7 Hydrometeorology

J.B.Bremnes Statistical calibration of precipitation ensembles

M. Arpagaus D-Phase Operations Period

R. Sorani Hydrology SAF

L. Bouilloud Flash-flood forecasting with the SURFEX/TOPMODEL coupled system

AW8 Agrometeorology

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AW9 Processes at environmental interfaces as sub-atmospheric boundary conditions

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AW10 Tropopause Dynamics

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AW11 Interrelationships between Earth and Space Meteorology

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AW12 Aviation Meteorology

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AW13 Spatial information and applications in meteorology

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MS1 Media and communication

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MS2 Integrating meteorological information into decision making processes

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MS3 Education in atmospheric and related sciences

H.O. Hygen How to get a nation to measure the rainfall
J. Karppanen The Eumetcal Blended Learning Approach for CPD in meteorology
C. Billard Eumetcal Aviation Meteorology Course
T. Halenka Background for atmospheric sciences education in European School Curricula

MS5 Gender Equality

H. Hübener Is career a male thing?
P. Rudolf Women in Physics - why so few?
C. Goodess Networking and Gender Action Plans - the solutions to all our problems?
A. Stan-Sion Gender access in science at equal terms
M. Stoll «Conjuguer X & Y» Towards the gender mainstreaming in Météo-France

MS7 Strategies for the use of the internet

T. Molina Well beyond Internet
F. Kroonenberg
Meteoalarm the internet gateway to inform Euorpean citizens on severe weather
H.O. Hygen SeNorge.no
J. Ploski Implementing the Weather Research & Forecasting Model on the German Grid