EXTREMES IN A CHANGING CLIMATE

 

Workshop organised jointly by the CCL/CLIVAR/JCOMM-ETCCDI and ENSEMBLES-RT5
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute, De Bilt, The Netherlands, 13-16 May 2008

IMPORTANT: PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHORS BEFORE USING (PART OF) THESE PRESENTATIONS

 

Tuesday 13 May: Progress meeting for ETCCDI members (Room Buys Ballot)

08:30

Welcome

 

 

09:00

Co-chairs

Introduction and review of todays agenda

 

09:20

Pierre Bessemoulin

(Chair WMO/CCL, Meteo-France)

WMO/CCL perspectives for ET

 

09:40

Howard Cattle

(Director International CLIVAR Project Office)

WCRP/CLIVAR perspectives for ET

 

10:00

Val Swail

(Environment Canada)

JCOMM perspectives for ET

 

10:20

Coffee break

 

 

10:50

Val Swail

(Environment Canada)

Climate indices from marine data (summary)

 

11:20

Discussion

Plans for ocean and surface marine climate indices

 

 

 

WCRP-JSC recommendations and ET remit

 

12:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30

Discussion

R-software developments and ET extremes website (Xuebin Zhang)

 

 

 

Workshop series and plans for HadEX2 (Lisa Alexander)

 

 

 

Heat indices (Blair Trewin)

 

 

 

Case studies on inhomogeneities in time series (Albert Klein Tank)

 

15:00

Coffee break

 

 

15:30

Discussion

Near real time updating of indices using SYNOP messages (Albert Klein Tank)

 

 

 

Status of review paper (Xuebin Zhang)

 

 

 

Progress on the other items of the ET work programme (Francis Zwiers)

 

 

 

WMO guidance document (Albert Klein Tank)

 

17:30

ET-dinner in De Bilt

 

 


 

Wednesday 14 May: Joint workshop Extremes in a changing climate (Room Buys Ballot)

08:30

Welcome and registration

 

 

09:30

Albert Klein Tank

(KNMI)

Opening and workshop objective

 

09:40

Francis Zwiers

(Environment Canada)

ETCCDI: Analysis of extremes in climate science

 

10:10

Adri Buishand

(KNMI)

ENSEMBLES: Modelling of precipitation extremes in a transient Regional Climate Model run for the Rhine basin

 

10:40

Coffee break

 

 

11:10

Simon Brown

(Met Office)

Global changes in extreme daily temperature since 1950 using non-stationary extreme value analysis

 

11:40

Anthony Davison

(EPFL)

Statistical models for spatial extremes

 

12:10

Discussion

 

 

12:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30

Frits Brouwer

(KNMI)

A welcome from the Director General of KNMI

 

13:40

Pierre Bessemoulin

Perspective on the workshop from the WMO/CCL chair

 

13:50

Phil Jones

(CRU)

The ENSEMBLES high-resolution gridded daily observed dataset

 

14:20

Gabi Hegerl

(Edinburgh University)

Towards detecting and attributing changes in extremes

 

14:50

Julie Arblaster

(NCAR/BoM)

Understanding, attributing and comparing changes in extremes using the CMIP3 multimodel dataset

 

15:20

Coffee break

 

 

15:45

Cheng-Ta Chen

(National Taiwan Normal University)

On the verification and comparison of extreme rainfall indices

from climate models

 

16:15

Xuebin Zhang

(Environment Canada)

Constraining future projections for temperature extremes at local scale

 

16:45

Discussion

 

 

17:00

Reception at KNMI

 

 


 

Thursday 15 May: Joint workshop Extremes in a changing climate (Room Buys Ballot)

09:00

Nynke Hofstra

(Oxford University)

Trends in extremes in the ENSEMBLES daily gridded observational datasets for Europe

 

09:30

Erasmo Buonomo

(Met Office)

Extreme precipitation from ERA-40 driven ENSEMBLES RCM integrations

 

10:00

Martin Hirschi

(ETH-Zrich)

Extremes indices in the EU-FP6 project CECILIA

 

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

11:00

Hayley Fowler

(Newcastle University)

Comparing observed and modelled UK seasonal precipitation extremes from the PRUDENCE ensemble, and future projections

 

11:30

Geert Lenderink

(KNMI)

Do 1-h precipitation extremes obey the Clausius-Clapeyron relation?

 

12:00

Lisa Alexander

(Monash University)

Assessing trends in observed and modelled climate extremes over Australia in relation to future projections

 

12:30

Lunch

 

 

13:30

Erich Fischer

(ETH-Zrich)

Daily temperature variability and its role for future changes in summer temperature extremes

 

14:00

Maria Suveges

(EPFL)

Non-stationarity of the summer extreme temperatures in

Neuchatel during 1901-2006

 

14:30

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh

(KNMI)

On the extreme temperatures in recent seasons and the inability of current climate models to simulate these?

 

15:00

Paul Della-Marta

(MeteoSwiss)

The covariation of windstorm frequency, intensity and loss over Europe with large-scale climate diagnostics

 

15:30

Coffee break

 

 

16:00

Liz Kent

(National Oceanography Centre)

Climate indices from marine data

 

16:30

Frank Selten

(KNMI)

Extreme associated functions: how to link large-scale circulation structures to local extremes?

 

17:00

Discussion

 

 

17:30

Albert Klein Tank

(KNMI)

Closure of joint workshop Extremes in a changing climate

 


 

Friday 16 May: Progress meeting for ENSEMBLES-WP5.4 members (Room Vening-Meinesz)

09:00

Adri Buishand

(KNMI)

Introduction by WP5.4 leader

 

09:15

Presentations

Progress reports from WP5.4 partners

 

Effi Kostopoulou

(NOA)

 

Mahboob Alam

(IWS-STU)

 

Martin Hanel

(KNMI)

 

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

11:00

Discussion

RT5 web site, RCM output, etc.

 

12:20

Closure

 

 

12:30

Lunch

 

 

Friday 16 May: Meeting on Issues of scaling (Room Buys Ballot)

09:00

Lisa Alexander

(Monash University)

Introduction by meeting organiser

 

09:10

Panel discussion

The key issues/problems associated with comparing modelled and observed extremes (Chair: Lisa Alexander)

 

10:30

Coffee break

 

 

11:00

Open discussion

Recommendations for solutions to scaling issues in preparation for IPCC AR5

 

12:20

Closure

 

 

 

Follow-up

Meeting report (final version)

 

12:30

Lunch