9th European Windstorm Workshop

From weather to climate scales

28 – 30 June 2023
in Toulouse, FR

The presentations

Sessions

The conference will cover the following topics:

  • Session 1: Extratropical cyclone dynamics and processes (I)
  • Session 2: Extratropical cyclone dynamics and processes (II) / Windstorms, heavy precipitation and compound events (I)
  • Session 3: Windstorms, heavy precipitation and compound events (II)
  • Session 4: Climate change and variability in the past and future
  • Session 5: Socio economic impacts and industry applications
  • Session 6: Forecasts and predictions from weather to climate scales

Introduction

1 – MedCyclones: A community effort to coordinate scientific research – Flaounas et al.

2 – A brief history of the European windstorm workshops – David Stephenson

Session 1: Extratropical cyclone dynamics and processes (I)

1 – Toward the definition of “Medicane” – Miglietta et al.

2 – A physical de scriptor phase space for Mediterranean cyclones – Gonzáles-Alemán et al.

3 – Process based classification of Mediterranean cyclones using potential vorticity – Givon et al.

4 – Quantifying relationships between measures of extra tropical cyclone intensity – Cornér et al.

Session 2: Extratropical cyclone dynamics and processes (II)

1 – The Linkage of Serial Cyclone Clustering in Western Europe and Weather Regimes in the North Atlantic European Region in Boreal Winter – Pinto et al.

2 – Atmospheric blockings and downstream cyclones in the Euro Mediterranean sector – Loizou & Raveh-Rubin

3 – he upstream downstream connection between North Atlantic and Mediterranean cyclones – Scherrmann et al.

Session 2: Windstorms, heavy precipitation and compound events (I)

1 – The Eastern Mediterranean Catastrophic Flash Floods in Antalya Turkey – Demirtas, et al.

2 – Five year climatology and composite study of precipitation bands associated with extratropical cyclones over the British Isles – Zhang, et al.

Session 3: Windstorms, heavy precipitation and compound events (II)

1 – Low level winds jets leading to damaging surface winds in Storm Eunice – Gray, et al.

2 – Identification and climatology of high wind features within European winter storms – Eisenstein, et al.

3 – A global climatology of sting jet cyclones – Harvey, et al.

4 – Global analysis of cyclone induced compound precipitation and wind extreme events – Messmer, et al.

5 – Cyclonic com pound 'wet' and 'windy' extremes in the Eastern Mediterranean – Hochman, et al.

Session 4: Climate change and variability in the past and future

1 – The cold front identification scheme MedFTS_DT in the Mediterranean and the estimation of related frontal precipitation – Flocas et al.

2 – Impacts of global warming on the development of extratropical cyclones in idealized simulations – Chen et al.

3 – Unravelling the large scale forcing of projected drying in the Mediterranean region – Keller & Garfinkel

4 – Return levels of extreme European windstorms, their dependency on the NAO, and potential future risks – Priestley et al.

5 – Using seasonal forecasts to enhance our understanding of extreme windstorms – Hansen & Maddison

Session 5: Socio economic impacts and industry applications

1 – Future changes to risk from extratropical wind storms in Europe using Lagrangian feature tracking – Catto et al.

2 – The impacts of European windstorms based on regional climate models and insurance perspective – Alifdini et al.

3 – Windstorm losses in Europe What to gain from damage datasets – Mömken et al.

4 – A framework for understanding the correlation between aggregated losses of compound events – Jones et al.

5 – From High Waters to High Stakes, Attributing Acqua Alta Event s in Venice to Climate Change and the Efficacy of MoSE adaptation strategy – Faranda et al.

Session 6: Forecasts and predictions from weather to climate scales

1 – A model intercomparison project (MIP) to improve predictions of Mediterranean cyclones – Pantillon, et al.

2 – Enhancement of the predictability of intense Medicane via warmer SST – Sanchez, et al.

3 – Extreme weather forecasting at kilometre scale: insights from two case studies within the Destination Earth Initiative – Gascon, et al.

4 – Investigating the predictability of Mediterranean cyclones and their severity – Doiteau, et al.

5 – Seasonal forecast skill of severe winter windstorms over Europe and assessing the influence of dynamical factors – Degenhardt, et al.

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