6th ESF MedCLIVAR Workshop - Scientific achievements 2005-2011 and future research priorities

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23/01/2024

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21/12/2023

MedCLIVAR 2024 Conference (University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, 24-27 September 2024) : first circular

20/06/2023

Call for Papers: special Issue "The climate of the Mediterranean region at multiple time and spatial scales"

Submission deadline: Monday, 31 July 2023

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Tel Aviv, ISRAEL
19-20 September, 2011

ABSTRACTS

19 september 2011 - Morning

09:30 - A review of the MedCLIVAR project (P. Lionello)
11:00 - Climate projections for the Mediterranean region: status of knowledge and research needs (F. Giorgi)
11:30 - Global dimming or local dimming and implications to Mediterranean climate (P. Alpert)
12:00 - Mediterranean Climate Services based on CLIMRUN EU project Experience and the MedCORDEX initiative for Coupled Modeling systems over the Mediterranean. (P. Ruti)

19 september 2011 - Afternoon

14:00 - The need to improve sea level projections for the XXI century Mediterranean regional climate modeling (D. Gomis)
14:20 - The impact of climate change on the circulation of the Mediterranean Sea (S. Brenner)
14:40 - On the relationship between decadal oscillations of the Northern Ionian Sea and the salinity distributions in the Eastern Mediterranean (M. Gacic)
15:10 - 15:30 - Open discussion
16:00 - The last 30-year thermohaline variability in the Mediterranean as a useful input for continuing climatic research in an ideal test-basin (A. Theocharis)
16:30 - 17:30 - Open discussion

20 september 2011 - Morning

09:00 - The role of radiative forcing and internal climate variability in the late 20th Century winter drying of the Mediterranean region (Y. Kushnir)
09:30 - Impacts of the NAO on atmospheric pollution in the Mediterranean Basin (U. Dayan)
10:00 - Mediterranean spring and climate change: tendencies observed in Palma de Mallorca ( A. Jansa)
10:20 - 10:50 - Open discussion
11:20 - Extreme events and their impacts (U. Ulbrich)
11:40 - Promoting the use of remote sensing tools to assess extreme events in the Mediterranean: droughts and wildfires (R. Trigo)
12:10 - 12:30 - Open discussion