CFMIP/WCRP/ICTP Conference on Cloud Processes, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity
The Conference on Cloud Processes, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity will be held 4-7 July 2016 at the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. For more information about the ICTP, please see the visitors' info page.
This CFMIP/WCRP/ICTP international conference will focus on the theme of the WCRP Grand Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity, in addition to addressing other ongoing CFMIP activities.
The four-day conference will contain oral and poster sessions on:
- Modeling and observational constraints on cloud feedbacks, adjustments and climate sensitivity, including the role of moist convection in cloud feedbacks
- Cloud/circulation/precipitation coupling and its variability in present and future climates, including hydrological extremes and ITCZ and storm track changes.
- Process based evaluation of clouds and cloud controlling factors in climate models using fine scale models and observations, including satellite simulators.
- How will the organization of cloud systems interact with climate change?
- Coordination of CFMIP and Grand Challenge activities with CMIP6.
Registration - On-line registration has passed.
Abstract Submission - Oral and poster abstract submission deadline has passed.
Meeting Agenda (PDF, final version, 2016-07-01)
Steering Committee:
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Adrian Tompkins (ICTP, Italy)
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Mark Webb (MetOffice, UK),
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Chris Bretherton (Univ. Washington, USA)
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Anna Pirani (IPCC WGI TSU, France)
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George Tselioudis (NASA/GISS, USA)
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Bjorn Stevens (MPI, Germany)
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Sandrine Bony (LMD/IPSL, France)
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Masahiro Watanabe (Univ. Tokyo, Japan)
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Steve Klein (LLNL, USA)
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Jennifer Kay (Univ. Colorado, USA)
For more information, please contact George Tselioudis or Adrian Tompkins.
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