Programme for General Assembly
Prague 12-16 November 2007
Accommodation
| Registration
Directions to meeting rooms
Monday:VTS, Novotného lávka 5, Praha 1
Metro line A, station Staromestska next to nam. Jana Palacha, walk about 5-10 minutes following Krizovnicka street to
Novotneho lavka. You can use tram No. 17 and 18 as well, one stop, Karlovy lazne. Or just walk through Stare mesto (Old town)
or cross the Charles bridge, or by tram from the other side, depending where you are staying.
Tuesday-Thursday: MS, Malostranské nám. 25, Praha 1
Metro line A, station Malostranska, walk about 5-10 minutes following Valdstejnska and Tomasska streets to the
Malostranske namesti (Malostranske square). Or by tram No. 12, 20, 22, 23, one stop, Malostranske namesti. The entrance to the big building is above the square, behind the car park.
See http://www.mapy.cz/#x=133050080@y=135951744@z=15@mm=ZP
for metro stations and tram stops as well as restaurants and other places
of interest
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Monday 12 November: Parallel Meetings |
| Venue: VTS (Address:
Novotného lávka 5, 116 68 Praha 1) |
| 0900-1000 |
Registration |
1000-1230
Coffee at 1100 |
Parallel sessions | Room plan |
Room number |
| RT1 (to join with RT2A at 1200) |
VTS414 |
| RT2A |
VTS319 |
| RT2B (<20 pax) |
VTS417 |
| RT4 coordinated experiment meeting - <20 pax |
VTS318 |
| WP6.2 - <20 pax |
VTS220 |
| WP6.3 |
VTS213 |
| RT8 (at 1200) |
VTS414 |
| 1230-1400 |
Lunch (not provided) |
1400-c.1730
Parallel sessions
Coffee at 1530 |
| RT3 <35 pax |
VTS318 |
| WP6.1 |
VTS213 |
| WP6.2 - RT2B to join in 1400-1500hrs to discuss joint deliverable |
VTS414 |
| Session on "what papers do we want from the Stream 2 centennial
runs?" (led by RT2A ideally with involvement from RT4 and RT5, and maybe RT7 and RT6) |
VTS319 |
| RT2B/RT3/RT5 discussion on evaluation of RCMs and SDS (from 1500) |
VTS417 |
| 1830-2030 |
Gender Action Committee Mentoring
Programme Meeting (interested parties: please complete the expression
of interest by 5 November) |
VTS318 |
| Tuesday 13 November: Plenary |
| Venue: MS (Address:
Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00 Praha 1) |
| 0830-0900 |
Registration |
| 0900 |
Welcome from the organisers |
Tomas Halenka (CUNI), Chris Hewitt (METO-HC) |
| 0920 |
Gender Action Plan/Mentoring Programme and overview of RT7 progress |
Sari Kovats (LSHTM) |
| 0940 |
Development of GCM ensemble prediction system (RT1): progress and plans |
James Murphy (METO-HC) |
| 1000 |
Development of RCM ensemble prediction system (RT3): progress and plans |
Markku Rummukainen (SMHI) |
| 1020 |
Discussion |
| 1030 |
Coffee |
| 1100 |
Production of seasonal to decadal hindcasts and climate change projections (RT2A): progress and Plans |
Jean-Francois Royer (CNRM) |
| 1120 |
Seasonal Forecasting at the Met Office Hadley Centre |
Alberto Arribas (METO-HC) |
| 1140 |
Predicting European climate over the next decade |
Noel Keenlyside (IFM-GEOMAR) |
| 1200 |
Land surface contribution to seasonal climate variability and predictability |
Herve Douville (CNRM) |
| 1220 |
Discussion |
| 1230-1400 |
Lunch (not provided), including working
lunch on the ENES infrastructure project on earth system modeling |
| 1400 |
The Weighting is the Hardest Part: Multi-model Seasonal Forecasting |
Lenny Smith (LSE) |
| 1420 |
Production of regional climate projections for impacts assessments (RT2B): progress and plans |
Clare Goodess (UEA) |
| 1440 |
Analysis of European weather regimes from an ensemble of several regional climate models experiments |
Emilia Sanchez Gomez (CNRM) |
| 1500 |
Hands-on Demonstration of the Statistical Downscaling Portal for Regional Climate Change Projection |
José Manuel Gutiérrez (UC) |
| 1530 |
Coffee |
| 1600 |
Conditional stochastic model for generating local climate change scenarios for extreme precipitation indices |
Aristita Busuioc (NMA) |
| 1620 |
Uncertainties in climate change scenarios over different areas in Canada |
Philippe Gachon (Climate Analysis Group, Environment Canada) |
| 1640 |
Can we objectively assign weights to RCMs enabling probabilistic predictions of regional climate change? |
Jens Hesselbjerg Christensen (DMI) |
| 1700-c.1715 |
General discussion (including any issues from partners) |
| 1800 |
Drinks reception and poster session (to be confirmed). Note: we will probably be limited to 40 posters due to space. |
| Wednesday 14 November: Plenary |
| Venue: MS (Address:
Malostranské nám. 25, 118 00 Praha 1) |
| 0830-0900 |
Registration |
| 0900 |
RT4 (Understanding processes): progress and plans |
Buwen Dong (UREADMM) |
| 0920 |
RT5 (Evaluation): progress and plans |
Albert Klein Tank (KNMI) |
| 0940 |
The role of the stratosphere in climate modelling: Sensitivity of the tropospheric climate to biases in the stratospheric circulation. |
Marco Giorgetta (MPIMET) |
| 1000 |
Intense coastal rainfall in the Netherlands in response to high sea water temperatures: analysis of the event of August 2006 from the perspective of a changing climate |
Geert Lenderink (KNMI) |
| 1020 |
Discussion |
| 1030 |
Coffee |
| 1100 |
A high-resolution daily gridded historical dataset for European temperature,
rainfall and surface pressure |
Malcolm Haylock (UEA) |
| 1120 |
Entering into the "greenhouse century": recent record temperatures in Switzerland are comparable to the upper temperature quantiles in a greenhouse climate |
Martin Beniston (UNIGE) |
| 1140 |
Assessments of impacts and climate change (RT6): progress and plans |
Andy Morse (UNILIV) |
| 1200 |
The Working Group Two contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report |
Paul van der Linden (METO-HC) |
| 1220 |
Discussion |
| 1230-1400 |
Lunch (not provided), including hands-on
demonstration of the Statistical Downscaling Portal for Regional Climate
Change Projection |
| 1400 |
ENSEMBLE(s) Storminess and its impacts |
Gregor Leckebusch (FUB) |
| 1420 |
The West African Monsoon Project: from intra-seasonal to climate change issues |
Paolo Ruti (ENEA) on behalf of the AMMA project |
| 1440 |
Estimates of the effect of climate change on the emissions of carbon dioxide and sulphur aerosols |
Roberto Roson (FEEM) |
| 1500 |
Introduction of the research project of multi-model ensembles and down-scaling methods for assessment of climate change around the Asian region, supported by the Ministry of Environment, Japan. |
Izuru Takayabu (Meteorological Research Institute) |
| 1520 |
Discussion |
| 1530 |
Coffee |
| 1600 |
Dissemination, education and training (RT8): progress and plans |
Christos Giannakopoulos (NOA) |
| 1620 |
Overview from the Director (including progress with deliverables, progress towards project's overall aims, GA08) |
Chris Hewitt (METO-HC) |
| 1650 |
Framework Programme 7 |
Georgios Amanatidis (EC) |
| 1710 |
General Discussion (including any issues from partners), any other business |
| c.1730 |
End of plenary |
| 1930 |
Conference dinner (to be confirmed) |
| Thursday 15 November: Parallel meetings/scientific workshops |
| Venue: MS |
| Parallel sessions |
Leader |
| 0900-1230 |
Model error workshop:
• Introduction (Pascale Braconnot)
• The Double ITCZ Problem (Bellucci, Gualdi, Braconnot)
• Convection, Clouds and Model Biases (Dufresne)
• Biases Affecting the Carbone Cycle (Cadule, Dufresne and Braconnot)
• Relationship between Model Bias and Seasonal Forecast (Dobles-Reyes) |
Elisa Manzini/Pascale Braconnot/Silvio Gualdi |
| 1030-1100 |
Coffee |
| 1100-1230 |
Assessing and developing ENSEMBLES approaches to climate prediction from a season to a few decades ahead |
Tim Palmer/Francisco Doblas-Reyes and James Murphy |
| 1230-1330 |
Lunch or working lunch to discuss coordination across EU projects (such as ENSEMBLES, AMMA, CIRCE, CECILIA, CLAVIER) |
| 1330-1500 |
Parallel sessions |
Leader |
| Model error workshop (discussion) |
Elisa Manzini/Pascale Braconnot/Silvio Gualdi |
| Weighting, credibility,
reliability (to build on discussions that have already taken place
at the GA) |
Albert Klein Tank |
| 1500-1530 |
Coffee and end of General Assembly |
| 1530-1900 |
ENSEMBLES Management Board meeting (to be followed by dinner
for EMB) |
| Friday 16 November: Morning |
| There are no formal arrangements for
Friday. If small groups want to meet (e.g. WPs, mentoring, …) then please
make your own arrangements. |
