Parallel sessions A will take place 9.00-12.00 on Wednesday 18th May and will be followed by Poster Session A featuring posters under the same session headings:

 

A1: Added value of downscaling (Grigory Nikulin & Krishnan Raghavan)

• Internal variability as function of scale
• Added value as a function of scale
• Bias correction uncertainties and consistency
• GCM-RCM interactions (e.g MJO, Monsoon, ENSO, NAO, PDO)
• User focused added value

•  Notes from Session A1 are available here.

 

Oral presentations

• 09:00 - René Laprise (invited speaker): Challenges in the quest for added value of climate dynamical downscaling: Evidence of added value in North American regional climate model simulations with increasing horizontal resolutions
• 09:30 - Silvina Solman:  Multiscale analysis of precipitation variability over South America: A preliminar analysis of the added value of RCMs
• 09:45 - Alejandro Di Luca: Quantifying the overall added value of dynamical downscaling and the contribution from different spatial scales
• 10:00 - Pinghouinde Michel Nikiema: Multimodel CMIP5 and CORDEX simulations of Historical Summer Temperature and Precipitation Variabilities over West Africa
• 10:15 - Coffee break
• 10:45 - Bedassa Regassa Cheneka: Searching for an Added Value of Precipitation in Downscaled Seasonal Hindcasts over East Africa: COSMO-CLM Forced by MPI-ESM
• 11:00 - Filippo Giorgi: A fine scale topographical modulation of summer precipitation change over the European Alps challenging current GCM projections 
• 11:15 - Cheng-Ta Chen: Is There an Added Value from Regional Climate Modeling for Projected Change in Future Northwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Activities?
• 11:30 - Melissa Bukovsky: NA-CORDEX Simulation Assessment for the North American Monsoon
• 11:45 - Ana Casanueva: Added value of high resolution RCM simulations and comparison with Statistical Downscaling Methods within the EURO-CORDEX framework 

 

A2: Models of the coupled regional climate system (Anne Frigon & Silvina Solman)

• Interactive coupling  – in-line coupled models not one model feeding output into another without feedbacks
• Coupling to address specific user needs & challenges (agriculture, fisheries, human health, forestry, hydrology, fires, coastal erosion, ecosystems, aerosols)

•  Notes from Session A2 are available here.

 

Oral presentations

• 09:00 - Samuel Somot (invited speaker): How can high-resolution representation of the regional seas and aerosols modify regional climate change? A fully-coupled regional climate system approach to question current CORDEX experimental protocol
• 09:30 - Ole Christensen: HIRHAM5: A Regional Coupled Model System to Examine Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice, Ice Sheet and Permafrost Interactions in the Arctic
• 09:45 - Armelle Reca Remedio: Influence of ocean and atmosphere coupling in a regional climate simulation over the CORDEX Southeast Asia domain
• 10:00 - Francois Engelbrecht: The Variable-resolution Earth System Model and its simulations of the Benguela upwelling system
• 10:15 - Coffee break
• 10:45 - Ramón Fuentes Franco: Assessment of the Regional Climate Earth System Model (RegESM) simulation in reproducing observed climatic features of the atmosphere over the CORDEX Central America domain
• 11:00 - William Cabos: The role of internal and external variability in the simulated Caribbean climate
• 11:15 - Minchao Wu: Vegetation -climate feedbacks modulate rainfall patterns in Africa under future radiative forcing
• 11:30 - John Cassano: Simulation of the Arctic climate system with the Regional Arctic System Model (RASM): Sensitivity to atmospheric processes
• 11:45 - Vasu Misra Regional coupled ocean-atmosphere simulation of the Indian Monsoon

 

A3: From data to information: a distillation dilemma (Bruce Hewitson & Clare Goodess)

• Building robust climate change information messages from multiple sources and methods
• Cross cutting issues (food-energy-water systems, water resources, extremes)
• Trans-disciplinary approaches/Translational research/User informed science

 

Oral presentations

• 09:00 - Kirsten Halsnæs (invited speaker): From regional climate scenarios to economics: identifying uncertainties and risks in the adaptation modelling chain
• 09:30 - Jack Katzfey: High-resolution (10km) ensemble regional climate projections for SE Asia
• 09:45 - Dominique Paquin: Who should adapt to climate change? A tale of multiple timescales
• 10:00 - Nils Hempelmann: From (big)data to information visualization with birdhouse: a collection of Web Processing Services
• 10:15 - Coffee break
• 10:45 - Joe Daron: Visual Summaries of Ensemble Regional Projections
• 11:00 - Swantje Preuschmann: The IMPACT2C web-atlas
• 11:15 - Mouhamadou Bamba Sylla: CMIP5, CORDEX and higher resolution RegCM4 multimodel ensembles comparison of projected changes in climate zones over West Africa
• 11:30 - Jesús Fernández: The Multi-MIP regional distillation dilemma. Results from the Spanish PNACC-2012 Program
• 11:45 - Habiba Mtongori: How can downscaling benefit climate adaptation in Tanzania? A case study from southern Tanzania

 

The POSTER session A will take place 12.00-14.00

To download the Abstract Book, click here!