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Important dates

  • 1 May, 2012:
    Call for abstracts 1st call
  • 18 May, 2012:
    Call for abstracts 2nd call
  • 25 June, 2012:
    Deadline abstract submission
  • 10 July, 2012:
    Communication on acceptance of papers and posters
  • 1 August, 2012:
    Deadline hotel booking
  • 9 September, 2012:
    Deadline registration
  • 17-20 September, 2012:
    CLM-Community Assembly, Leuven, Belgium

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CLM-Community Assembly

17-20 September, 2012, Leuven, Belgium


CLM-Community AssemblyAll members of the CLM-Community are invited to participate in the CLM Community Assembly 2012. This year, the assembly will take place from 17 until 20 September at the University of Leuven in Belgium. The CLM-Community is an open international network of scientists, who are applying and developing the COSMO model in climate mode. The aim of the assembly is to provide all members with an overview of the current stage of model development and of model applications and to provide a forum for discussion and debate on the modeling tool and the modeling results. In addition, it is planned to assess jointly new model components, to achieve agreements on new model standards, to coordinate further developments of the model system, and to advance the structures of the community. It is the most important decision taking meeting of the community.

CLM-Community Assembly, 2012, Leuven, BelgiumCLM-Community Assembly, 2012, Leuven, Belgium

Organization

Organizing committee

  • Andreas Will (BTU Cottbus, Germany)

  • Edoardo Bucchignani (CMCC, Italy)

  • Nicole van Lipzig (KU Leuven, Belgium)

  • Marie-Rose Mottoul (KU Leuven, Belgium)

  • Tom Akkermans (KU Leuven, Belgium)

  • Matthias Demuzere (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Local organizing facilities

Key Note

On 18 September 16:30-17:30, Prof. Piero Lionello will give a key-note lecture entitled "The climate of the Mediterranean region". Prof. Pier Lionello is involved in environmental research since 1987. He worked at numerous research institutes word wide including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie (Germany), European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (UK), and the University of Padua (Italy). Since 1999 he is associated professor of oceanography and atmospheric physics at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). His research interests cover climate dynamics at regional scale, extreme  events, cyclone climatology, ocean wave and storm surge modeling.

Prof. Lionello is involved in many international research activities, including  being chair of the international program "Mediterranean climate  variability and predictability" (MedCLIVAR). He has  edited two recent books describing characteristics and evolution of climate in the Mediterranean region. Within his presentation, Prof.  Lionello will talk about  extreme weather events, inter-annual to decadal variability of the Mediterranean coupled system, and associated trends in the context of global change, including societal and economic impacts.

On 20 September 9:00-9:30, Prof. Piet Termonia will give a key-note lecture entitled "Climate modeling with the HARMONIE system". Piet Termonia is Head of the Department Meteological and Climatological Research of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium and is connected to Ghent university as a guest professor.

He is leading the European ALADIN consortium, as the program manager, since 2010. This consortium develops, maintains and applies the HARMONIE system for atmospheric limited-area modeling, in a close relation with the European HIRLAM consortium and the ECMWF. The different configurations of this system are used for numerical weather prediction and climate studies. Some its climate configurations have been used in the past European projects such as PRUDENCE, ENSEMBLES and CECILIA. Currently it is used for regional climate runs coupled to the CMIP5 global ARPEGE runs.

He will introduce the model, give an overview of the approach regarding climate modeling within the ALADIN consortium and show a few recent validation results with one of the available multiscale physics parameterizations aimed at the convection permitting scales.

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