28 September - 02 October 2009
Toulouse, France
Lennart Bengtsson: Why is the climate warming so irregular?
F. Neuwirth: Ten Years of EMS
M. Jarraud: High resolution services: The role of WMO
A. Simmons: Evolution of the GMES Atmospheric Services
AM1 High resolution meteorology - applications and services
M. Bonnet: Operational applications of high accuracy lighting data
M. Palomares: Safety: relation with communication and use of weather
B.K. Reichert: AutoWARN - Automatic Support for the Weather Warning
Service at Deutscher Wetterdienst
F. Kroonenberg: Meteoalarm - Latest developments for weather warnings in
P. Brovelli: Thunderstorm risk monitoring service
F. Prates: Probabilistic prediction of severe weather using new products based on
generalized extreme value theory
G.J. Steeneveld: Modeling and Forecasting the Onset and Duration of a Severe
F. Kroonenberg: The Human factor in issuing severe weather warnings
A. Ganske: Correction Factors for COSMO-Wind Fields, used for operational
forecasts in the Elbe River Estuary (Project OPTEL)
T. Kratzsch: Objective Mixed and Manually Controlled Data Base OMG
P. Marquet: Computations of convective parameters with the AROME
model for the Hautmont (F4) tornado
D. van Dijke: The use of a high resolution model in a private environment
F. Prates: Tropical cyclone genesis products at ECMWF
K. Knüpffer: High Resolution MOS Forecasts Based on a Low Resolution Model
C. Zingerle: EVA - An Interactive Online Tool for Extreme Value Analysis
C. Periard: On Demand Runs Of Mesoscale Models : Météo-France
multi-mission, multi-support GUI
Subsession Health and agrometeorology: Summary Report - Pirkko Saarikivi
D. Leroy: Forecasting SO2 pollution : bypassing the limits of meso-scale
by analysing local features and creating quality indicators
E. Cloppet: High resolution fire danger modeling : integration of quantitative
precipitation amount estimates derived from weather radars as an input of FWI
W. Janssen: Online irrigation service for fruit und vegetable crops at farmers site
T. Gerersdorfer: Comparison of evaporimeters in field experiments in Austria
Y.M. Tourre: Rift Valley fever in a zone potentially occupied by Aedes vexans
in Senegal: dynamics and risk mapping
C. Koppe: Integration of Thermal Indoor Conditions into Operational Heat
A. Baklanov: Chemical weather forecasting: new concept and service for
M. Jørgensen: A new forecast presentation tool for offshore contractors
I.W. Zuurendonk: Route based forecasting
M.F. Bult: Decision support forecast for the intervention of transhipment
B. Rudolf: High resolution data, forecasts and services for
G. Boyce: The Flood Forecasting Centre (FFC) in the UK
P. Saarikivi: ROADIDEA- Roadmap for radical innovations in European
T. Roschier: Data Management needs in Hydrometeorological Institutes
L. Mutuel: Weather-enabled future onboard surveillance and navigation systems
A. Mirza: An overview of the FLYSAFE datalink solution for the exchange of
weather information: supporting aircrew decision making processes
A. Mirza: Verification of FLYSAFE Clear Air Turbulence (CAT) objects
against aircraft turbulence measurements
Y. Guillou: NOWCASTING OF IN-FLIGHT hazard thunderstorm,
supporting aircrew and ATM decision making process
J. Williams: Global Turbulence Decision Support for Aviation
R. Palikona: Cloud Property Retrievals from Geostationary Satellites for Aviation
J.W. Strapp: Jet Engine Powerloss in Ice Particle Conditions: An Aviation
P.D. Williams: Application of the Lighthill-Ford Theory of Spontaneous
Imbalance to Clear-Air Turbulence Forecasting
T. Gerz: The DLR Project “Weather & Flying"
J. Wijngaard: Improved low visibility forecasts at Amsterdam Airport
A. Boilley: High resolution numerical modeling over the Nice Côte d'Azur
P. Tabary: Innovative radar products for the 3D, high-resolution and real-time
monitoring of the convective activity in the airspace around airports
T. Hauf: Punctuality modelling and forecasting: Frankfurt Airport case study
R. Sharman: Climatology of Upper-level Turbulence Statistics Determined from
Rawinsonde and ACARS/AMDAR Data
T. Gerz: The Wake Vortex Prediction and Monitoring System WSVBS
A. Dabas: Observation of fog by a sodar at Roissy-CDG airport
C. Drüe: Inversion and shear layer detection using AMDAR and
K.E. Haman: Aircraft Measurements of Temperature and Liquid Water Content
in Entrainment Interface Layer of Stratocumulus Clouds
A. Wieser: A novel modular multi-sensor dropsonde system for high resolution
W. Frey: A new airborne tandem measurement platform for cloud-radiation
interaction studies: The AIRcraft Towed Sensor Shuttle (AIRTOSS)
MyOcean Board: MyOcean : towards a European Marine Core Service
H. Ravenel: PREVIMER : Meteorological inputs and outputs
V. Pérez: An Operational Coastal Forecasting System in Galicia
S. Gaztelumendi: Validation of ocean-meteorological models in the Southeastern
P. Daniel: Operational oceanography and drift predictions at Meteo-France
J. Hiebl: A high-resolution 1961-1990 monthly temperature climatology
P. Bissolli: SnowClim: Snow climate monitoring for Europep
R. Boehm: www.zamg.ac.at/HISTALP - a new climate data and information
website for the greater Alpine region of Europe
V. Alexandrov: Homogenization of long-term series of air temperature in Bulgaria
P. Stepanek: Software solution for data quality control and homogenization
B. Kurnik: Drought forecasting over Europe using Standardized Precipitation
S.M. Vicente-Serrano: A multi-scalar drought index sensitive to global warming:
The Standardized Precipitation Evapotranspiration Index - SPEI
J. Pecho: Regional analysis of Intensity-Duration-Frequency Relationships in
Slovakia using Scaling Model Approach
A. El Kenawy: Climatological Modeling of Monthly Air Temperature and
Precipitation in Egypt through GIS Techniques
F. Ruget: Effect of climate change in herbivorous livestock systems, including
arable crops, in the French area
A. El Kenawy: Variability of Hot and Cold Spells in North-eastern Spain
CL2 Climate change assessments of trends and variability
O. Zolina: How reliable are the estimates of climate variability in extreme
S. Federico: Calabria Daily Rainfall Trends over 1970-2000
J. Wibig: Dry spells and droughts in Poland, 1951-2006
E. Cloppet: Potential impact of climate change on fire meteorological danger in
France : observed trends and projections
M. J. Prohom: Recent annual and seasonal temperature trends for a
Trans-Pyrenean region, 1950-2008
J. Taboada: Actual and future trends of extreme values of temperature for the
S. Parey: Identification of trends in European temperature mean, variance
and extremes and their use to derive future extreme values
P. Szabo: The evaluation of extreme precipitation and temperature indices based
on regional climate models at the Hungarian Meteorological Service
O. Panferov: Trends of abiotic damage in forest ecosystems in Germany at
regional scale under SRES A1B, B1
S. Planton: Regional climate change detection based on smooth temporal
D.F. Ihrig: Detection of climate trends from local time series using a
Monte-Carlo-enhanced filtering process
J. Grieger: Southern Hemisphere Storminess under recent and anthropogenic
climate conditions based on a multi model ensemble analysis
S. Gulev: Global changes in extreme wind waves, marine storminess and
A.M.R. Bakker: Wind energy in a changing climate
CL3 Climate prediction and scenarios from seasons to century
A. Fischer: Climate Variability in the Stratosphere during the 20th Century
M. Dubrovsky: Uncertainties in multi-model climate projections
T. Halenka: On the Validation of ENSEMBLES Regional Climate Simulations
in Terms of Reproducing Annual Cycle
R. Huth: A comparative extended validation of statistical downscaling and
regional climate models on a common dense grid in Central Europe
G. Csima: High resolution experiments with the ALADIN-Climate
A. Horanyi: Application of a regional climate model mini-ensemble for
J. Colin: The evolution of extreme precipitations in high resolution scenarios
A.-L. Beaulant: High precipitating events in Mediterranean regions : a climate
J. Wibig: Extreme dryness events in Poland, their synoptic scale drivers and trial
T. Halenka: Regional Climate Change Scenarios in High Resolution for Impact
Assessment in Central and Eastern Europe - Project CECILIA
R.E. Benestad: Improving the communication of local climate scenarios and
G.C. Leckebusch: Diagnosis of spatial distribution and severity of mid-latitude
storms in an ensemble of European AOGCMs under anthropogenic climate
M.G. Donat: European winter storm losses in relation to extreme wind speeds
in a multi-model ensemble of GCM and RCM simulations
J.G. Pinto: The statistical uncertainty of changes in winter storms over the North
Atlantic and Europe in an ensemble of transient climate simulations
L. Dubus: Downscaling of seasonal forecasts and possible application to
hydro-power production forecasts in France
E. Rudel: The future bioclimatic conditions in Austria under the aspect of
A.F.V. van Engelen: Precipitation Indices Low Countries
P. Dobrovolný: Anomalies detected in Central European Temperature series
reconstructed from documentary evidence and instrumental records for the last
E. Zorita: European temperature records of the past five centuries based on
documentary information compared to climate simulations
M.J. Alcoforado: Past analogs of recent climate anomalies and impacts in
Portugal. Droughts, storms and heat waves
R. Brázdil: Floods and windstorms in the Czech Republic during the past
millennium: synthesis of documentary and instrumental data
F. Mauelshagen: Expanding the Territory of Historical Reconstruction: The Study
of Frequency and Severity of Hail Storms, Based on 19th and 20th-Century
Records from Swiss Insurance Archives
U. Buentgen: Environmental drivers of Yersinia pestis - a holistic perspective on
G. Battipaglia: Five centuries of Central European temperature extremes
reconstructed from tree-ring density and documentary evidence
N. Datsenko: Shortcomings in the tree-ring regional curve standardization and
V. Rath: Climate reconstruction from boreholes: correcting for the influence
J.J. Gomez-Navarro: The climate of the Iberian Peninsula during the last five
centuries from a regional climate model perspective
J. Franke: Combining proxy data and model simulations to reconstruct European
M.-A. Saz-Sanchez: Recent climate trends and multisecular climate variability:
temperature and precipitation during the cold season in the Ebro Basin
R. Brázdil: Floods in Brno: history, causes and impacts
H. Paeth: The 2007 flood in sub-Saharan Africa: spatio-temporal characteristics,
J. Campa: A climatology of potential vorticity towers associated with
M. Böttcher: A case study of an explosively deepening, diabatic Rossby-wave
induced cyclone: the influence of environmental conditions
G. Rivière: Effect of latitudinal variations in low-level baroclinicity on eddy life
cycles and upper-tropospheric wave-breaking processes
S. Stege: Upper tropospheric divergence and its impact on pathways of severe
extra-tropical storms under anthropogenic climate change conditions
J. A. Santos: Development of strong and persistent ridge episodes in the
V. Guemas: Interactions between weather regimes and marine surface in the
M. Plu: Interaction of tropical cyclone Ivan (South-West Indian Ocean, 2007)
PD Williams: Inertia-Gravity Waves Emitted from Balanced Flow: Observations,
L. Gantner: Cloud resolving modelling of the life cycle of a MCS: Sensitivity to
soil conditions over West Africa
J. E. H. Weber: Density-driven convection between horizontal planes in a
AW2 Cyclone Tracking Algorithms
Summary Session Report - Richard Blender
J.G. Pinto: Sensitivities and applications of a cyclone tracking algorithm
T.D. Hewson: Successful tracking of cyclonic features at 50km resolution
J.B. Gilet: Coherent structure tracking
S. Gulev: Extending tracking algorithms to estimation of cyclone geometry and
A. Schneidereit: North Atlantic cyclones, geometry, life cycles and extremes
J. Hanley: Extending the definition of a cyclone system
AW3 Modelling, forecasting and validation of small scale processes in atm. models
S. W. Hoch: Radiative flux divergence in the surface boundary layer from
observational and model perspectives
J.P.A. Martins: Impact of shear and curvature on surface gravity wave stress
S. Dupont: Large-Eddy Simulation of turbulent wind flow over heterogeneous
B.J.H. Van de Wiel: A new conceptual model for the nocturnal low level jet
S.-E. Gryning: Modelling of the Wind Profile, effect of boundary-layer height,
baroclinicity, Brunt-Vaisala frequency and surface roughness
C.C. van Heerwaarden: A framework to quantify the influence of
land-atmosphere feedbacks on surface evaporation
N. Mkhinini: Turbulence production in stratified Ekman flow
M. Cassiani: Stochastic fields method for sub-grid scale emission heterogeneity
in mesoscale atmospheric dispersion models
F. Couvreux: The 10th of July 2006 over Niamey: A golden case of daytime
moist convection in a semi-arid environment
A. Gounou: Observation and Modelling of Continental Diurnal Cycles in
F. Guichard: Roles of low-level thermodynamics on surface-convection
J. Martins: Evaluation of length scales on the transition from shallow to deep
convection over land using a spectral method
R. J. Keane: 3D experiments with a stochastic convective parameterisation
O. Thouron: Improvement of LES boundary layer cloud parameterisations
to study the entrainment mixing process
T. Heus: Automated large-eddy simulations of realistic atmospheric boundary
AW4 Large scale air-sea interaction processes and their influence on the Euro-Mediterranean climate
I. Iglesias: Influence of ENSO areas in the rainfall of the NW Iberian Peninsula
Y. M. Tourre: Patterns of Coherent Low-frequency Climate Variability in the
Atlantic basin during the 20th Century
I.I. Zveryaev: Interannual Variability of the Key Elements of Hydrological Cycle
over Europe during Summer Season
W. May: On the characteristics of daily precipitation in the Mediterranean region
J.L. Palau: Parametric Reconstruction of Water Vapour Accumulation Modes
in the Western and the Eastern Mediterranean Basin
S.O. Krichak: Evaluation of variations in precipitation component of the water
cycle for the EU FP6 CIRCE Project
E. Sanchez Gomez: Future changes in the Mediterranean water budget
projected by an ensemble of Regional Climate Models
A. Elizalde: Assessment of the Mediterranean Water Cycle using an
atmosphere-ocean coupled model
PM Ruti: Climate scenarios for the Mediterranean basin with a regional
A. Casado-Lopez: Heat fluxes at the Mediterranean sea surface and the
relation to the atmospheric large-scale dynamics with a regional coupled model
C. Lebeaupin Brossier: Modelling of the Mediterranean circulation using
atmospheric fields from the WRF model at different space-time resolutions
C. Cassardo: Hydrological and Energy Budgets in the Alpine Area during
L. Gestal-Souto: Groundwater influence on soil moisture dynamics and
land surface fluxes over the Iberian Peninsula
C. B. Uvo: Long- term discharge variability of the main rivers in the
S. Materia: Sensitivity of river discharge to the quality of external meteorological
AW5 Interrelationships between earth and space meteorology
H. Svensmark: Cosmoclimatology: The influence of Cosmic rays on Climate
M. Quante: Solar radiation and clouds - an overview on processes, interactions
N. Keenlyside: Forced and internal 20th century climate variability
J. Veizer: The role of water in the fate of carbon dioxide: Implications for
R. Huth: Effects of the 11-year solar cycle on the cyclonic and blocking
activity in the Euro-Atlantic sector
H. Lundstedt: Solar Coronal Topological Activity and Global Weather Patterns
L. Vanina-Dart: Relation between the ionosphere F2 region and stratosphere in
AW6 Atmospheric measurements from the local to the regional scale
Summary Session Report - Frank Beyrich, Fred. Bosveld, Henk de Bruin
M. Lothon: The turbulence underside of the West African Monsoon
T. El-Madany: Regionalization of turbulent fluxes in an inhomogeneous landscape
by combining aircraft measurements and footprint analysis
M Froidevaux: A new look to land-atmosphere interactions with water vapour and
K. Arnold: Turbulence structure of the convective boundary layer by means of
H.A.R. de Bruin: A scintillometer variance approach to measure vertical scalar
C. Higgins: The impact of Humidity Fluctuations on Sensible Heat Fluxes
M. van Iersel: The TNO 7-wavelength transmissometer
K. Boniface: Humidity quantification over the Mediterranean Sea by GPS on
board a ship : methodology and validation
S.G. Bradley: Ultra-high-resolution turbulence, flux, and wind profiles using new
A. Deghan: Reliability of Turbulence Measurements by Radars
C. Jarmain: Quantifying green water flows for improved Integrated Land and
U. Falk: Scintillometry, Eddy Covariance and Remote Sensing for
Evapotranspiration Mapping in West-Africa
C. Agnese: Applicability of a displaced-beam laser scintillometer in a sparse tall
O.K Hartogensis: Combining scintillometry and scalar turbulence measurements
to obtain minute interval mass fluxes of H2O and CO2
S. Emeis: Up-scaling methods of greenhouse gas fluxes between the soil and the
atmosphere (shortened title)
S. Turso: MICRORADARNET: An innovative high resolution low-cost x-band
B. Hennemuth: Operational determination of air pollution dispersion parameters
M. Ranci: An automated data quality control procedure applied to a mesoscale
B. Landl: SwissMetNet: operational quality control on raw data of the new
automatic meteorological ground-based network of Switzerland
F.C. Bosveld: Gap filling procedures for surface flux observations at the
Summary Session Report - Dario Giaiotti, Fulvio Stel
P.P. Rutkevych: Nonlinear model of stationary atmospheric vortex with
L. Kalin: Application Of Seasonal Weather Forecasts In Fire Hazard Prediction
J. Williams: Empirical Data Fusion for Convective Weather Hazard Nowcasting
J. Grandell: The EUMETSAT Meteosat Third Generation Lightning Imager
(MTG-LI): Applications and Product Processing
D. B. Giaiotti: On the evening onset of deep moist convection in complex
L. Clementi: A high resolution, radar-based tool for nowcasting rainfall in
E.R. Pardyjak: The effect of surface type on the decay of turbulence in the
surface layer during evening transition
S. Trini Castelli: Evaluation of interpolation procedures to input turbulence fields
from a prognostic model to a diagnostic mass consistent model
R. Kouznetsov: Momentum flux-profile relationship in the stable atmospheric
K.-M. Xu: Low Cloud Feedback Diagnosed from Observations and
V. Guemas: Impact of the ocean diurnal variations on the intraseasonal
variability of Sea Surface Temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean
D. F. Nadeau: Large-eddy simulations of the convective atmospheric boundary
layer over heterogeneous land surfaces
I Esau: Planetary boundary layer feedbacks in climate system
Y. Bouteloup: Improvement of the subgrid vertical mixing parameterization in
operational hydrostatic models at Météo-France
T. Auerswald: Comparison of Synthetic Turbulent Wind Fields with Large-Eddy
Simulations of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
M. Maché: A high-resolution large-eddy simulation of turbulent flow within and
B Galperin: Turbulent diffusion of momentum and scalar in flows with internal
M. Diebold: Large Eddy Simulation over three-dimensional mountain topography
N. Vercauteren: Heat and water vapor fluxes over a lake: a LES and field
S Zilitinkevich: Planetary Boundary Layers - Physics, Modelling and Role in
AW9 Interfacing hydrological and meteorological models in forecasting systems
B. Vincendon: Hydrometeorological ensemble forecasting of Mediterranean
G. Thirel: Description and validation of a streamflow assimilation system (short.)
D. Rostkier-Edelstein: High resolution WRF-FDDA seasonal precipitation
B. Ahrens: Evaluation of a probabilistic hydrometeorological forecast system
F. Nerozzi: Uncertainty reduction of hydrological ensemble forecasts provided
by the COSMO-LEPS quantitative precipitation ensemble forecasts
AW10 Air-Sea Interactions incl. CO2-uptake
A. Rutgersson: How should air-sea interaction processes be introduced in models
D. Pettenuzzo. Air-Sea physics parameterizations and assimilation of sea surface
satellite temperatures for the Mediterranean Forecasting System (MFS)
M. Faucher: Operational coupled atmosphere - ocean - ice forecast system for
the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada
M. C. Kelly: Application of a subfilter-scale flux model over the ocean
J. Bange: Validating coastal, near and far offshore boundary layer
parameterizations with airborne helipod turbulence probe
A.-S. Smedman: Velocity spectra in the marine atmospheric boundary layer
R.J. Foreman: Estimation of offshore humidity fluxes from sonic and mean
S Federico: Climatology of the sea breeze and its micro-scale structure at a
J. Nissen: On the application of a numerical model to simulate the onshore
normalized wind profile up to 160 m
U. Bungert: Impact of mesoscale dynamic and thermodynamic changes in sea
ice on the development of low pressure systems in the Fram Strait
AW11 Environmental Meteorology
M. Princevac: Field, Laboratory and Numerical Study of Turbulent
Dispersion in Built Environments
H. Nakayama: Large-Eddy Simulation on Turbulent Flow and
Plume Dispersion over A 2-Dimensional Hill
I. Schicker: High resolution meteorological modellingof the
S. Stenzel: Dispersion modeling of accidental releases of toxic gases -
B. Aouizerats: Impacts of atmospheric aerosols on urban boundary layer
dynamics: Application during the CAPITOUL field experiment
M Veenstra: Continuous measurements of PM at ground level over an
industrial area of Evia (Greece) (shortened title)
J.E. Wagner: Investigation of spectrally resolved actinic flux in mountainous
M. Demuzere: Future Ozone projections for a rural mid-latitued site using
a statistical downscaling approach
M. Piringer: Transport of pollen to and from a Central European forest
H. Dacre: Forecasting the transport of pollution using a numerical weather
M. Hirtl: AQA - Air Quality model for Austria: comparison of ALADIN and
ALARO forecasts with observed meteorological profiles and PM10 predictions
O. Jorba: Air quality over Europe and Iberian Peninsula for 2004 at high
horizontal resolution: evaluation of the CALIOPE modelling system
A.A. Baklanov: MEGAPOLI: concept and first results of multi-scale
M. Beekmann: The MEGAPOLI Paris campaign for urban aerosol
characterisation -first results
R. Hu: An Integrated Analysis of Particulate Matter Episodes over Megacities
using Multi-scale Modelling, Ground-based and Space-based Observations
G. Pace: Meteorological analyses data set for air quality assessment modelling
from national to local scale: verification and applications
O. Jorba: Development of an integrated chemical weather prediction system
for environmental applications at meso to global scales: NMMB/BSC-CHEM
S. Banzhaf: Simulation of wet deposition in the CTM REM-CALGRID using
a diagnostic and a prognostic meteorological driver
T. Halenka: Climate Change Impact on Air Quality in High Resolution
J. A. G. Orza: Towards the assessment of the vertical structure of Saharan dust
AW12 Phenology and Agrometeorolgy
J. Eitzinger: Regional aspects of climate change impacts and related adaptation
options in European agriculture
V. Alexandrov: Climate change impacts on cereal crops in Northeast Bulgaria
A. Shahabfar: Application of Perpendicular Drought Indices as a Dynamic
S. Orlandini: COST 734-CLIVAGRI: Impacts of Climate change and Variability
M. Baldi: Homogeneous regions in Italy: an analysis of the mean and extreme
climate characteristics and their impact on agriculture
V. Vucetic: Water balance components and climate change in Croatia
Z. Dunkel: Climate Change Case Study for Hungary using Soil Moisture Data
Z. Dunkel: Categorisation of Drought Indices Used in Agricultural Meteorology
M. Virag: Soil Moisture and Temperature Changes in the Czech Republic:
B. Lalic: Parameterisation of pollution diffusion in presence of forest canopy
P. Nejedlik: The influence of synoptic patterns on wild plant phenology in the
mountaineous areas of Central Europe
V. Kazandjiev: Climate change, agroclimatic resources and agroclimatic zoning
L. Hajkova: Evaluation of selected wild plants flowering season 1991 - 2009
K. Jatczak: Tendencies of phenological spring season shifting start date in Poland
AW13 Spatial Interpolation and GIS modelling in earth system science
Summary Session Report - Ole Einar Tveito
S. Krähenmann: Generation of observational rainfall ensembles by means of
C. Frei: Spatial analysis of sunshine duration by combination of satellite and
R. Erdin: High-resolution precipitation mapping over Switzerland: A case study
on the combination of radar and station data
M. Mohr: Estimation of uncertainty of daily climate maps from cross-validation
C. Lussana: Testing the performance of a spatial consistency test for data
AW14 How to determine the atmospheric boundary layer height
Summary Session Report - Frank Beyrich & Co-convenors
R.Tomé: Boundary Layer Height and Structure during the
A. Wieser: Boundary layer heights from Doppler lidar using aerosol backscatter
S. Emeis: Determination of mixing-layer height by ground-based remote sensing
R. Frehlich: Boundary Layer Profiles of Winds and Turbulence Statistics using a
M. Haeffelin: Retrieval of mixing layer depth from existing ceilometer/lidar
F. Angelini: Comparison of the mixing layer height by sodar and ceilometer
A.A. Baklanov: The mixing height in urban areas - recent experimental
Tanja Cegnar - Outline of the Media Session
R.E. Benestad: A need for a code of ethics in science communication?
S. Planton: Communicating Uncertainties on Climate Change
T. Cegnar: Environmental agency aiming to raise the awareness of people
R.R. Colucci: Meteorologica, multilanguages Quarterly Journal of Friuli
Venezia Giulia Meteorological Union
R. Meisner: Getting the message across Communication activities of
ESA's Earth Observation directorate
S.W. Muchemi: Public Weather Services: Enhanced Communication Skills
J.-C. Vincendon: Medium Range Forecasts Representation (and Long Range
R.R. Colucci: The Climatic Observatory of the Karst (O.C.C.), a scientific
CE2 Climatological and meteorological information in the context of decision making
Summary Session Report - by Arne Spekat
H. Ravenel: Climate change at local level : let's look around downscaling
A. Spekat: Climate projections in the force field of adaptation strategies
M. Petralli: The MeteoSalute Project: a way adopted by the Tuscany Region
(Italy) to support the Health System with biometeorological forecast
M.J. Alcoforado: Cooperation between public administration and scientific
research in raising awareness on the role of urban planning in responding to
CE4 Education and Sharing knowledge
T. Halenka: European Meteorological Society and education in atmospheric
P.J.K. Hansen: Weather, Ocean and Climate topics in Geosciences, a new subject
in Norwegian upper secondary education
Y. Tsubota: Using Forecasting to Teach Weather Science
T. Miler: Sample classroom activities based on climate science
M. Jarosova: How to bring meteorology close to school
P.J.K. Hansen: The most important single factor influencing learning
A. Ladstaetter-Weissenmayer: Air pollution linked to Remote Sensing tools -
Science training using a Master's Level e-Learning Tool
P.J.K. Hansen: How to use The National Gallery as a cross curricular approach
to weather and climate studies at primary level
A. Chiariello: Eumetcal blended courses: European cutting edge know-how
and collaboration will into meteorological training
H. ter Pelkwijk: Severe Weather training
C. Billard: Météo-France activities towards education and youth spheres
A. Belotserkovsky: Development of competency-based two-level curricula in
Meteorology: From COMBAT-METEO to QUALIMET
Sharing knowledge - the role of libraries, publications, associations and learned societies at the age of the internet
A. Guillaume: The making of the on-line version of « La Météorologie »
S. Emeis: The Open Access Model of Meteorologische Zeitschrift and
J.-P. Javelle: Some Ideas and Questions about Meteorological Libraries'
L. Garcelon: Infoclimat, an Internet platform for exchange
NWP1 Dynamics and predictability of high impact weather
Summary Session Report - Erik Andersson and Horst Böttger
C. Frick: A case study of heavy snowfall in North Rhine-Westphalia
C. Claud: Impact of upper-level fine-scale structures in the deepening of a
L. Wiegand: An unusual Saharan dust outbreak into central Europe and heavy
precipitation at the southern side of the Alps in May 2008: A TIGGE case study
B. Joly: Multivariate weather regimes in the Mediterranean, a perspective to
increase Heavy Precipitating Events predictability? (shortened title)
D.M. Sonechkin: Monitoring of the predictability loss in the medium-range
H500 forecasts (shortened title)
R. Petrik: Investigating the relation of thermodynamic processes to local budgets
in a mesoscale weather prediction model
P. Knippertz: Prediction of Dry-Season Precipitation in Tropical West Africa and
its Relation to Forcing from the Extratropics
R.E. Benestad: Exploring the relationship between the Arctic sea-ice and
M. Leutbecher: Ensemble forecasting at ECMWF
M. Paulat: COSMO-DE-EPS - construction, diagnoses and verification of a
limited-area ensemble prediction system on the convective scale
A. Montani: Limited-area ensemble activities at the Hydro-Meteorological service
ARPA-SIMC: the COSMO-LEPS system
T. Diomede: Test of calibration techniques based on reforecasts for limited-area
ensemble precipitation forecasts
C. Labadie: PEARP, the Meteo-France Ensemble Prediction system
B. Vié: Ensemble methods for evaluating the convective-scale predictability of
Mediterranean Heavy Precipitation Events
D. Cane: New technique for ensemble dressing combining Multimodel
SuperEnsemble and precipitation PDF
G. Leoncini: Contrasting Convective-Scale Perturbation Growth in Two Cases
L. Wiegand: Upper-level disturbances over the low-latitude North Atlantic:
Forecast quality, predictability and dynamics
D. Rostkier-Edelstein: Probabilistic nowcast of PBL profiles with a single column
model and ensemble filter assimilation of surface observations
O. Pannekoucke: Hybrid wavelet/diffusion background error covariance matrix
R. Frehlich: Definition of Ensemble Error Statistics for Optimal Ensemble Data
Ó. Rögnvaldsson: Combination of ensemble weather forecasts and runoff
NWP3 Observation targeting and observation impact studies
Summary Session Report - Jean Pailleux and nadia Fourrié
A. Doerenbecher: Adaptive observation with drifting platforms
A. Bouchard: Assimilation of satellite data in the framework of the Concordiasi
F. Rabier: The impact of the AMMA radiosonde data on the French global
assimilation and forecast system
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