3rd ESF MedCLIVAR workshop - Understanding the mechanisms responsible for the changes in the Mediterranean Sea circulation and sea level trends

Rhodes, GREECE
29 September - 1 October 2008

Introduction

Welcome (Efstathios Balopoulos, Director of the Institute of Oceanography of HCMR and Dr. Andreas Sioulas, Director of the Hydrobiological Station and Aquarium of Rhodes, HCMR)
The Oceanic Circulation of the Mediterranean Sea (Keynote Speaker: P. Malanotte-Rizzoli)

Session 1. The past of the mediterranean as revealed from pre-instrumental records

The Past Climate of the Mediterranean Sea (Keynote Speaker: Eelco J. Rohling)
Late Glacial-Holocene climate variability at the south eastern margin of the Aegean Sea (Invited Speaker: M. Triantaphyllou)
Detecting Climate Transitions and Bifurcations Using Modified Degenerate Fingerprinting (Valerie N. Livina)
Biogeochamical Evidence of Holocene Paleoceanographic and Paleoclimatic Instability in Aegean Sea (Alexandra Gogou)
Development of a new geochemical proxy in Mediterranean shallow and deep-water coral skeletons: a perspective for climate reconstructions (Paolo Montagna)

Session 2. The forcing of the mediterranean circulation

Atmospheric forcing of the Mediterranean Sea (Keynote Speaker: Simon Josey)
Interannual Variability of Water Formation in the Mediterranean Sea for the Last Decade(Invited Speaker: Karine Beranger)
Modelling Mediterranean Climate Using a Coupled Regional Climate Model (Alberto Elizalde)
Climate change projections of the water budget over the Mediterranean Sea from an ensemble of regional climate models (Emilia Sanchez Gomez)
How would the Mediterranean Climate be without the Mediterranean Sea? (Invited Speaker: Laurent Li)
Subsurface temperature variability in the Aegean-Black Sea system during 1950-2000 and relation to meteorological forcing (Haris Kontoyiannis)
Impact of interannual variability and climate change on dense water cascading in the Gulf of Lions (Marine Herrmann)

Session 3. Variability of the physical proprties and circulation: long term trends and abrupt events

Variability of the thermohaline circulation of the Eastern Mediterranean (Keynote Speaker: Alexander Theocharis)
Abrupt Changes Observed in the Deep Western Mediterranean Sea between 2004 and 2006 (Invited Speaker: Katrin Schroeder)
Response characteristics of the Turkish Straits System (Invited Speaker:Emin Ozsoy)
The Western Mediterranean sea surface temperature dynamics seen through complementary in situ, satellite and modelling approaches over the 1985-1995 period (Charles Troupin)
Evolution of the Aegean sea Thermohaline Structure in the post-Eastern Mediterranean Transient period (Sarantis Sofianos)

Session 4. Sea level trends and variability

What do we know and what we do not know about the Mediterranean Sea level variability? (Keynote Speaker: Damia Gomis)
Do the extremes in Adriatic sea level increase? An example of the Adriatic seiche (Ivica Vilibic)
Marseille tide gauge: review and rescue of its historical data (1885-1988) (Guy Woppelmann)
A Decade of Daily Sea Level Variability in the Northern Adriatic (1999-2008) (Fabio Raicich)
Changes in storminess (Invited Speaker: Piero Lionello)
Sea Level Trends Along The Western Coasts of Anatolia from Tide Gauge, Satellite Altimetry, GPS and Levelling Data (Mehmet Simav)
Extreme waves in the Mediterranean basin. Occurrence and breaking through meteorological and other focusing (Ioannis Papadimitrakis)

Session 5. The future of the mediterranean sea

Lessons from the First Attempts to Simulate the Future of the Mediterranean Sea (Keynote Speaker: Samuel Somot)
Impact of a Two-Way Grid Refinement at the Strait of Gibraltar on the Thermohaline Circulation of the Mediterranean Sea (Invited Speaker: Gianmaria Sannino)
Modelling the Sea Level Changes in the Mediterranean Sea (Marta Marcos)
Vulnerability Assessment of Sea Level Rise, with the Diva Tool at the Mediterranean Basin (Global To Regional Scale) (Thaleia Avagianou)

Session 6. Monitoring strategies

Building an operational monitoring and forecasting capacity for the Mediterranean Sea (Keynote Speaker: Kostas Nittis)
Deep Sea Monitoring Strategy at the Cretan Sea (George Petihakis)
Tide Monitoring System for Evolution and Risk Scenarios in the Coastlines and Lagoons of the North-Western Adriatic Sea (Maurizio Ferla)
Synthesis of the Workshop (Keynote Speaker: Vassilis Zervakis)

Posters

Extreme sea levels in the Mediterranean Sea from observations and storm surge models (Marta Marcos)
Variations of the seasonal sea level cycle in Southern Europe (Marta Marcos)
Coastal sea level trends in Southern Europe (Marta Marcos)
The Sea Level Variation in Alexandria During the Last Decade (Ahmed Radwan)
An Abrupt and Massive release of winter intermediate water in the NW Mediterranean (Gabriel Jordà Sánchez)
Time-Series analyses of Measurements from Monitoring Stations along the Turkish Coast (Ersin Tutsak)
Sea Level and ADCP Current Monitoring Strategy and analyses of measurements along the Turkish coast(Ozgur Gurses)
Sea surface Temperature alterations in the Eastern Mediterranean (Aegean Sea) in the last 21 years (Dionysios E. Raitsos)
Statistics of Extreme surge level values in the Venetian Lagoon (Cosimo Pino)
Tools for evaluation of extreme wave in the Mediterranean Basin (Maria Barbara Galati)
Distribution of Sea level rise in the Mediterranean Sea and the North-eastern sector of the Atlantic Ocean: 1945-2000 (Francisco Mir)
A Mesoscale index to describe the regional ocean circulation around the Balearic Islands(Sebastian Montserrat)
Shipping and Climate change (Anna Kotrikla)
Statistical determination of possible feedbacks from the Mediterranean Sea (Maria OrtizBevia)
Mediterranean Circulation changes since the late glacial: seven time slice reconstructions (Giuseppe Siani)
The Paleomex Project (Marie-Alexandrine Sicre)
Modelling the Mediterranean Sea interannual Variability over the last 40 years: Impact of the river runoff and of the Atlantic Waters (Johathan Beuvier)

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3rd ESF MedCLIVAR workshop - Understanding the mechanisms responsible for the changes in the Mediterranean Sea circulation and sea level trends