WCRP Open Science Conference

Parallel Session B2
Oral Presentations Guidelines	Parallel Sessions Descriptions
Overview of the first floor
Monday 24 October
Session B2: Detecting, Understanding and Predicting Extreme Climate Events (conveners: L. Alexander, G. Hegerl, T. Knutson, P. Naveau, C. Schär, F. Zwiers)
- Contributions to this session are oral presentations - Date: 24 October 2011 - Time: 13h30-18h00 - Location: Plaza DE
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Time	Authors	Title
13:30-13:35		Introductory remarks

13:35:13:55	*Thomas Knutson (invited)*	Atlantic hurricanes and climate change: Examining some uncertainties

13:55-14:10	Xiaolan Wang	Extra-tropical cyclone activity in the ensemble of 20th Century Reanalysis (20CRv2)

14:10-14:25	Robert Trapp	Connecting tornado and extreme convective weather occurrence to climate variability and change

14:25-14:45	*Sonia Seneviratne (invited)*	Intensification of climate extremes through physical feedbacks: Overview and role within climate change

14:45-15:00	Erich Fischer	Contrasting urban and rural response of heat stress associated with temperature extremes to climate change

15:00-15:15	David Easterling	Meteorological causes of observed extreme precipitation trends in the U.S.

15:15-15:30	Gerald Meehl	Understanding the U.S. east-west differential of heat extremes in terms of record temperatures and the warming hole

15:30-16:00	Coffee break

16:00-16:15	William Gutowski	Regional, extreme daily precipitation in global and regional climate simulations of North America

16:15-16:30	Filippo Giorgi	Increased hydroclimatic intensity with global warming

16:30-16:50	*Myles Allen (invited)*	Extreme weather in nested ensembles: the weatherathome experiment

16:50-17:10	*Richard Smith (invited)*	Extreme value theory and single-event attribution

17:10-17:25	Helen Hanlon	Constraints on temperature during the 2003 European Heatwave

17:25-17:40	Antje Weisheimer	On the predictability of the extreme summer 2003 over Europe

17:40-17:55	Robert Vautard	Development and seasonal predictability of European summer heat waves

Parallel Session B2

Oral Presentations Guidelines

Parallel Sessions Descriptions

Overview of the first floor

Monday 24 October

Session B2: Detecting, Understanding and Predicting Extreme Climate Events (conveners: L. Alexander, G. Hegerl, T. Knutson, P. Naveau, C. Schär, F. Zwiers)

Use the Conference Manager Search Tool for finding abstracts (search will retrieve list of all abstracts for the session in which the desired abstract is found)

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Authors

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Session B2: Detecting, Understanding and Predicting Extreme Climate Events
(conveners: L. Alexander, G. Hegerl, T. Knutson, P. Naveau, C. Schär, F. Zwiers)