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Sunday, 30 Aug 2015
17:00 - 19:00 Registration
19:00 - 21:00 ICAM Steering Committee Meeting
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Monday, 31 Aug 2015
07:30 - 08:45 Registration
08:45 - 09:00 Welcome and Introduction
09:00 - 10:30 O1 Oral Session: Orographic clouds and precipitation: Part 1
Chair: Evelyne Richard (CNRS, France)
09:00 O1.1 Orographic convection: progress and challenges
Invited Daniel J. Kirshbaum (McGill University, Canada)
09:30 O1.2 Controls on precipitation in thermally driven orographic clouds
Alison D. Nugent (NCAR, United States of America), Campbell D. Watson, Gregory Thompson, Ronald B. Smith
09:45 O1.3 Sensitivity of orographic precipitation in Switzerland to atmospheric processes – simulations with the high-resolution numerical model COSMO
Nicolas Piaget (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Felix Naef, Heini Wernli
10:00 O1.4 Relation between airflow and rainfall orographic enhancement over the Pyrenees: Three heavy precipitation events
Laura Trapero Bagué (Institut d'Estudis Andorrans, Andorra), Joan Bech, Fanny Duffourg, Jeroni Lorente
10:15 O1.5 HyMeX IOP2b: observations and numerical simulations of a supercell over the Friuli-Venezia Giulia region (northeastern Italy)
Mario Marcello Miglietta (ISAC-CNR, Italy), Agostino Manzato, Richard Rotunno
10:30 - 11:15 P1 Poster Session 1: Part 1
11:15 - 12:30 O2 Oral Session: Orographic clouds and precipitation: Part 2
Chair: Günther Zängl (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany)
11:15 O2.1 The OWLeS Orographic Field Campaign: Adventures in Intense Snowstorms on the Tug Hill Plateau
W. James Steenburgh (University of Utah, United States of America), Leah Campbell, Peter Veals, Theodore Letcher, Justin Minder
11:30 O2.2 Variations in orographic precipitation enhancement during lake-effect storms over the Tug Hill Plateau: Observations from OWLeS IOP2
Leah S. Campbell (University of Utah, United States of America), W. James Steenburgh, Peter G. Veals, Theodore Letcher, Justin R. Minder
11:45 O2.3 Climatological Characteristics of Lake-Effect Storms over Eastern Lake Ontario and Orographic Enhancement over the Tug Hill Plateau
Peter G. Veals (University of Utah, United States of America), W. James Steenburgh, Leah S. Campbell
12:00 O2.4 Mountain Waves and Orographic Precipitation in a Northern Colorado Winter Storm
David Kingsmill (University of Colorado, United States of America), Ola Persson, Sam Haimov, Matt Shupe
12:15 O2.5 A Precipitation experiment in the Kananakis area of the Alberta Rockies
Julie M. Thériault (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), Ronald E. Stewart, Juris Almonte, Stephen Berg, Émilie Bresson, Mélissa Cholette, Ida Hung, Dominic Matte, Émilie Poirier, Paul Vaquer, John Pomeroy
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:00 Weather Forecast
14:00 - 15:30 O3 Oral Session: Orographic clouds and precipitation: Part 3
Chair: Andrew N. Ross (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
14:00 O3.1 Scale dependence of the statistics of heavy precipitation in the Alpine region
Luca Panziera (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Marco Gabella, Alexis Berne, Paolo Ambrosetti, Urs Germann
14:15 O3.2 Aerosol-Cloud interactions in orographic wave clouds (ICE-L)
Annette K. Miltenberger (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Paul Field, Adrian Hill, Ben Shipway
14:30 O3.3 A high-resolution weather station network in a complex terrain catchment to improve hydrometeorological forecast and water supply for the São Paulo megacity.
Thomas Martin (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Jonathan Mota, Helber Freitas, Nilson Neires, Raianny Leite, Miriam Mathias, Ricardo Hallak, Humberto Rocha
14:45 O3.4 Origin and Flow History of Air Parcels in Orographic Banner Clouds
Volkmar Wirth (University of Mainz, Germany), Sebastian Schappert
15:00 O3.5 The Impact of Mountain asymmetry on Banner Cloud Formation at Mount Zugspitze
Isabelle Prestel (University Mainz, Germany), Volkmar Wirth, Anne Martin
15:15 O3.6 How does fog formation vary throughout a valley network?
Sian Lane (Met Office (UK), United Kingdom), Jeremy Price, Amanda Kerr-Munslow
15:30 - 17:00 P1 Poster Session 1: Part 2
17:00 - 18:30 O4 Oral Session: Thermally-driven flows and cold pools
Chair: Michael Sprenger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
17:00 O4.1 Thermally driven up-slope flows: State of the art and open questions
Dino Zardi (University of Trento, Italy)
17:15 O4.2 The impact of the temperature inversion breakup on the exchange of heat and mass in an idealized valley: Sensitivity to the radiative forcing
Daniel Leukauf (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Alexander Gohm, Mathias W. Rotach, Johannes S. Wagner
17:30 O4.3 A nested large-eddy simulation study of the Ora del Garda wind in the Alps
Lorenzo Giovannini (University of Trento, Italy), Lavinia Laiti, Dino Zardi
17:45 O4.4 Energetics of idealised valleys in pooling and draining configurations
Gabriele Arduini (University of Grenoble and University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom), Charles Chemel, Chantal Staquet
18:00 O4.5 Large-eddy simulations of sea breezes over a mountainous island
Chun-Chih Wang (McGill University, Canada), Daniel J. Kirshbaum
18:15 O4.6 Identification and climatology of Alpine pumping from a regional climate simulation
Meinolf Kossmann (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany), M. Graf, K. Trusilova, G. Mühlbacher
18:30 - 21:00 Icebreaker
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Tuesday, 01 Sep 2015
08:30 - 10:30 O5 Oral Session: Gravity wave and airflow dynamics: Part 1
Chair: Dale Durran (University of Washington, United States of America)
08:30 O5.1 Mysteries of the Deep: Flying through New Zealand’s gravity waves
Invited James D. Doyle (Naval Research Laboratory, United States of America), Qingfang Jiang, Alex Reinecke, Carolyn Reynolds, Stephen D. Eckermann, David C. Fritts, Ronald B. Smith, Mike Taylor, Andreas Dörnbrack
09:00 O5.2 Severe turbulence in a deep valley associated with rotors and interacting cross-mountain and up-valley flows
Lukas Strauss (University of Vienna, Austria), Vanda Grubišić, Stefano Serafin
09:15 O5.3 Lee rotor onset prediction using linear theory with a boundary layer
Miguel A. C. Teixeira (University of Reading, United Kingdom)
09:30 O5.4 The impact of mountain width and stratification on wave-induced rotor formation
Johannes Sachsperger (University of Vienna, Austria), Stefano Serafin, Vanda Grubišić
09:45 O5.5 Aspects of inversions and mountain flows
Haraldur Ólafsson (HI, Iceland), Hálfdán Ágústsson, Marius Opsanger Jonassen, Birta Líf Kristinsdóttir, Sigurður Jónsson, Andréa Massad, Eiríkur Örn Jóhannesson
10:00 O5.6 Virtual and real topography for flows across mountain ranges
Laurence Armi (University of California San Diego, United States of America), Georg J. Mayr
10:15 O5.7 Sub-kilometre simulation of terrain-disrupted airflow associated with aircraft diversion at the Hong Kong International Airport
K. K. Hon (Hong Kong Observatory, Hong Kong S.A.R. (China)), P. W. Chan
10:30 - 11:15 P2 Poster Session 2: Part 1
11:15 - 12:30 O6 Oral Session: Boundary layer processes: Part 1
Chair: C. David Whiteman (University of Utah, United States of America)
11:15 O6.1 A mesoscale model-based climatography of daytime atmospheric boundary layer heights over complex terrain.
Stephan F. J. De Wekker (University of Virginia, United States of America), Stefano Serafin, Jason C. Knievel
11:30 O6.2 The Passy project: Objectives, underlying scientific questions and preliminary numerical modelling of the Passy Alpine valley
Chantal Staquet (Université Joseph Fourier, France), Alexandre Paci, Julie Allard, Gabriele Arduini, Hélène Barral, Manuel Barret, Sébastien Blein, Christophe Brun, Frédéric Burnet, Guylaine Canut, Didier Chapuis, Charles Chemel, Florie Chevrier, Jean-Martial Cohard, Alain Dabas, Hélène Guyard, Jean-Luc Jaffrezo, Pauline Martinet, Stéphane Mercier, Grisa Mocnik, Isabel Peinke, Julian Quimbayo, Jean-Emmanuel Sicard, Delphine Six, Florence Troude, Isabella Zin
11:45 O6.3 High-resolution numerical modeling of meteorological conditions and associated particulate matter distribution over complex terrain, in the Italian Alps.
Elena Tomasi (University of Trento, Italy), Lorenzo Giovannini, Luca Ferrero, Dino Zardi, Mariapina Castelli, Marcello Petitta
12:00 O6.4 Comparison of modelled and measured wind fields in an Alpine Valley
Gabriele Rau (Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Austria), Johannes Vergeiner, Mathias W. Rotach
12:15 O6.5 The impact of orography on gas dispersion and transportation during the 2014 Holuhraun eruption
Elín Björk Jónasdóttir, Guðrún Nína Petersen (Icelandic Meteorological Office, Iceland), Halldór Björnsson, Melissa Anne Pfeffer, Sara Barsotti, Þorsteinn Jóhannsson, Tobias Dürig
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:00 Weather Forecast
14:00 - 15:30 O7 Oral Session: Boundary layer processes: Part 2
Chair: Meinolf Kossmann (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany)
14:00 O7.1 The ScaleX experiment in the TERENO-prealpine observatory
Benjamin Wolf (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Christian Chwala, Frederik De Roo, Benjamin Fersch, Jakob Garvelmann, Edwin Haas, Wolfgang Junkermann, Nadine Ruehr, Klaus Schäfer, Hannes Vogelmann, Matthias Zeeman, Almut Arneth, Klaus Butterbach-Bahl, Michael Dannenmann, Stefan Emeis, Ralf Kiese, Harald Kunstmann, Matthias Mauder, Peter Suppan, Ralf Sussmann, Hans-Peter Schmid
14:15 O7.2 Flux measurements over complex, forested terrain
Andrew N. Ross (University of Leeds, United Kingdom), Rosey Grant
14:30 O7.3 Challenges when dealing with turbulence measurements in mountainous terrain
Ivana Stiperski (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Mathias W. Rotach
14:45 O7.4 Evaluating local similarity scaling in the stable, wintertime boundary layer influenced by complex topography
Karmen Babić (University of Zagreb, Croatia), Mathias W. Rotach, Zvjezdana Bencetić Klaić
15:00 O7.5 On the role of advection for the net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange of a subalpine grassland
Georg Wohlfahrt (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Marta Galvagno, Edoardo Cremonese, Umberto Morra Di Cella
15:15 O7.6 A factor-separation study of convective boundary layer development over non-uniform land use and topography
Stefano Serafin (University of Vienna, Austria), Stephan F. J. De Wekker
15:30 - 17:00 P2 Poster Session 2: Part 2
17:00 - 18:30 O8 Oral Session: Gravity wave and airflow dynamics: Part 2
Chair: Dino Zardi (University of Trento, Italy)
17:00 O8.1 The second Meteor Crater Experiment (METCRAX II): Introduction and overview of recent results
C. David Whiteman (University of Utah, United States of America), Manuela Lehner, Sebastian W. Hoch, Matthew O. G. Hills, Norbert Kalthoff, Bianca Adler, Rich Rotunno, Roland Vogt, Iris Feigenwinter, Martina Grudzielanek, Jan Cermak, Thomas Haiden, Nihanth W. Cherukuru, Ronald Calhoun
17:15 O8.2 Downslope-windstorm-type flows and seiches in the Meteor Crater - responses of the nocturnal crater atmosphere to an impinging katabatic flow
Manuela Lehner (University of Utah, United States of America), C. David Whiteman, Sebastian W. Hoch, Bianca Adler, Norbert Kalthoff, Richard Rotunno
17:30 O8.3 Lidar observations during METCRAX-II
Sebastian W. Hoch (University of Utah, United States of America), Nihanth W. Cherukuru, Ronald Calhoun, C. David Whiteman, Manuela Lehner, Bianca Adler, Norbert Kalthoff, William O. J. Brown
17:45 O8.4 A parameter based approach to idealised numerical simulations of Meteor Crater downslope-windstorm-type flows
Matthew Hills (University of Utah, United States of America), Dave Whiteman, Sebastian Hoch, Manuela Lehner
18:00 O8.5 Do current theories of downslope-windstorm-type flows apply to the Meteor Crater?
Thomas Haiden (ECMWF, United Kingdom), C. David Whiteman, Manuela Lehner
18:15 O8.6 Upstream conditions controlling downslope-windstorm-type flows in Arizona's Meteor Crater
Bianca Adler (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany), Norbert Kalthoff, C. David Whiteman, Sebastian W. Hoch, Manuela Lehner
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Wednesday, 02 Sep 2015
08:30 - 10:30 O9 Oral Session: Gravity wave and airflow dynamics: Part 3
Chair: Simon Vosper (Met Office, United Kingdom)
08:30 O9.1 Role of Observations in Complex Terrain Research: Recent Progress and Current Challenges
Invited Vanda Grubišić (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States of America)
09:00 O9.2 Gravity wave predictability in the troposphere and stratosphere during DEEPWAVE
P. Alex Reinecke (Naval Research Laboratory, United States of America), James Doyle, Qingfang Jiang
09:15 O9.3 An investigation of a midlatitude lower stratospheric gravity wave “valve layer”
Christopher G. Kruse (Yale University, United States of America), Ronald B. Smith
09:30 O9.4 Mountain gravity waves: some new analytical solutions
François Lott (CNRS, France)
09:45 O9.5 NWP modelling of air flow over South Georgia island: an analysis of wake formation and gravity wave activity.
John Hughes (Leeds University, United Kingdom), Andrew Ross, Simon Vosper
10:00 O9.6 Spatial distribution and characteristics of foehn conditions over the Larsen Ice Shelf, Antarctica, in observations and Polar WRF.
Jenny Turton (University of Leeds and British Antarctic Survey, United Kingdom), Amelie Kirchgaessner, John King, Andrew Ross, Alan Gadian, Ralph Burton
10:15 O9.7 Lagrangian Perspective of Orographic Blocking
Michael Sprenger (ETH, Switzerland), Nicolas Piaget, Stefan Ruedisuehli, David Leutwyler, Heini Wernli
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15 O10 Oral Session: Numerical weather prediction: Part 1
Chair: Marco Arpagaus (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland)
11:00 O10.1 High-resolution simulations of flow over complex terrain: progress and challenges
Invited Fotini K. Chow (University of California, Berkeley, United States of America)
11:30 O10.2 COSMO-EULAG dynamical core for high resolution Alpine weather prediction
Zbigniew Piotrowski (Institute of Meteorology and Water Management - National Research Institute, Poland), Bogdan Rosa, Damian Wójcik, Michał Ziemiański
11:45 O10.3 A new vertical grid nesting capability in the WRF model
M. H. Daniels, Katherine A. Lundquist (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States of America), D. J. Wiersema, F. K. Chow, J. D. Mirocha
12:00 O10.4 Parametrizing mountain-wave and flow-blocking drag in global models: the "grey zone" in orographic drag
Simon Vosper (Met Office, United Kingdom), Andy Brown
12:15 - 12:30 Group Photo
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break (Buffet)
13:30 - 17:30 Excursion
17:30 - 22:00 Celebration and Conference Dinner
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Thursday, 03 Sep 2015
08:30 - 10:30 O11 Oral Session: Snow processes
Chair: Sascha Bellaire (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
08:30 O11.1 Advances in understanding and modelling mountain snow processes
Invited John Pomeroy (University of Saskatchewan, Canada), Richard Essery, Keith Musselman, Jonathan Conway, Michael Schirmer, Warren Helgason, Nicolas Leroux, Chris Debeer, Chad Ellis
09:00 O11.2 Modeling elevation-dependent climate warming impacts to snow: effects of temperature lapse rates
Matthew G. Cooper (Oregon State University, United States of America), Anne W. Nolin, Mohammad Safeeq
09:15 O11.3 Modelling mountain snow with large-scale and small-scale driving data
Richard Essery (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
09:30 O11.4 Using snowboards and lysimeters to constrain snow model choices in a rain-snow transitional environment
Nicholas E. Wayand (University of Washington, United States of America), Adam Massmann, Martyn Clark, Jessica Lundquist
09:45 O11.5 Identification of snow precipitation mechanisms and accumulation patterns over complex terrain with very high resolution radar data and terrestrial laser scans
Franziska Gerber (EPFL / WSL-SLF, Switzerland), Rebecca Mott, Jacopo Grazioli, Daniel Wolfensberger, Alexis Berne, Michael Lehning
10:00 O11.6 Propagation of uncertainty in atmospheric longwave radiation to modeled snowpack and summer evapotranspiration at mountain research sites
Mark Raleigh (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States of America), Karl Lapo, Danny Marks, Andrew Hedrick, Gerald Flerchinger, Martyn Clark
10:15 O11.7 Boundary layer development over a melting mountain snow cover: The Dischma Experiment
Rebecca Mott (WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF, Switzerland), Sebastian Schlögl, Lisa Dirks, Michael Lehning
10:30 - 11:15 P3 Poster Session 3: Part 1
11:15 - 12:30 O12 Oral Session: Numerical weather prediction: Part 2
Chair: Fotini K. Chow (University of California, Berkeley, United States of America)
11:15 O12.1 Progress in weather prediction in mountainous and snow-covered areas achieved with the ICON model
Günther Zängl (Deutscher Wetterdienst, Germany)
11:30 O12.2 The future high-resolution NWP systems of MeteoSwiss: COSMO-1 and COSMO-E
Marco Arpagaus (Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Steef Böing, Oliver Fuhrer, Daniel Leuenberger, Guy De Morsier, Jürg Schmidli, André Walser
11:45 O12.3 Parameterization of NWP WRF in statically stable situations over complex terrain
Goran Gašparac (Gekom Ltd., Croatia), Amela Jeričević, Branko Grisogono
12:00 O12.4 A new scheme to represent sub-grid orographic rain enhancement via the seeder-feeder effect
Samantha A. Smith (Met Office, United Kingdom), P. R. Field, S. B. Vosper, B. Shipway, A. Hill
12:15 O12.5 Toward Improved NWP Simulations of Utah Basin Persistent Cold Air Pools
Erik Crosman (University of Utah, United States of America), John Horel, Chris Foster
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:00 Weather Forecast
14:00 - 15:30 O13 Oral Session: Weather analysis, forecasting and verification
Chair: Thomas Haiden (ECMWF, United Kingdom)
14:00 O13.1 Assimilation of water vapor observations upstream of the precipitation events documented during HyMeX SOP1
Evelyne Richard (CNRS, France), Nadia Fourrié, Soline Bielli, Cyrille Flamant, Paolo Digirolamo
14:15 O13.2 Radar-Based Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Forecasting in Switzerland.
Ioannis V. Sideris (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Urs Germann, Marco Gabella, Marco Sassi
14:30 O13.3 Performance of a satellite driven nowcasting system and a high resolution NWP AROME-1km model over the Eastern Alpine area
Florian Meier (ZAMG, Austria), Nauman Awan, Ingo Meirold-Mautner, Alexander Kann, Christoph Wittmann, Yong Wang
14:45 O13.4 Two novel approaches for precipitation nowcasting in complex terrain within the INCA system
Benedikt Bica (ZAMG - Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Austria), Alexander Kann, Min Chen, Martin Suklitsch, Vera Meyer, Lukas Tüchler, Yong Wang
15:00 O13.5 MesoVICT – Mesoscale Verification Inter-Comparison over Complex Terrain
Manfred Dorninger (University of Vienna, Austria), Marion Mittermaier, Eric Gilleland, Barb Brown, Beth Ebert, Laurie Wilson
15:15 O13.6 Evaluation of a High-Resolution Numerical Weather Prediction Model in Truly Complex Terrain
Brigitta Goger (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Mathias W. Rotach, Alexander Gohm, Oliver Fuhrer, Ivana Stiperski
15:30 - 17:00 P3 Poster Session 3: Part 2
17:00 - 18:30 O14 Oral Session: Climate analysis and prediction: Part 1
Chair: Ivana Stiperski (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
17:00 O14.1 The unknown truth: impacts of uncertainties in European precipitation datasets on regional climate analysis
Andreas F. Prein (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States of America), Andreas Gobiet
17:15 O14.2 Long series of Swiss seasonal precipitation: Regionalisation, trends and the influence of large-scale flow
Simon C. Scherrer (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland), Michael Begert, Mischa Croci-Maspoli, Christof Appenzeller
17:30 O14.3 Alpine trends in temperature and precipitation
Johannes Vergeiner (ZAMG, Austria), Barbara Chimani, Susanne Drechsel, Klaus Haslinger, Gernot Resch, Christoph Zingerle
17:45 O14.4 Towards an Alpine Foehn Climatology
David Plavcan (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Georg J. Mayr
18:00 O14.5 Future changes of atmospheric cyclone track types with relevance for extreme precipitation events in Central Europe
Michael Hofstätter (ZAMG, Austria), Annemarie Lexer, Barbara Chimani, Günther Blöschl, Markus Homann, Andreas Phillip, Christoph Beck, Jucundus Jacobeit
18:15 O14.6 Observational Facts of Sustained Departure Plateau Vortexes
Shuhua Yu (The Chengdu Institute of Plateau Meteorology, CMA, Chengdu, China, People's Republic of), Wenliang Gao, Jun Peng, Yuhua Xiao
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Friday, 04 Sep 2015
08:30 - 10:30 O15 Oral Session: Climate analysis and prediction: Part 2
Chair: Daniel J. Kirshbaum (McGill University, Canada)
08:30 O15.1 Towards Convection-Resolving Climate Modeling
Invited Christoph Schär (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Nikolina Ban, Steven Böing, Oliver Fuhrer, Xavier Lapillone, Michael Keller, David Leutwyler, Daniel Lüthi, Linda Schlemmer, Jürg Schmidli, Thomas Schulthess
09:00 O15.2 Analysis of precipitation extremes using generalized extreme value theory in convection-resolving climate simulations
Nikolina Ban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Juerg Schmidli, Christoph Schär
09:15 O15.3 Estimating Global-Warming-Induced Changes in Extreme Precipitation over Mid-latitude Mountains
Dale Durran (University of Washington, United States of America), Xiaoming Shi
09:30 O15.4 Characterization of the Simulated Regional Snow-Albedo Feedback Using a Regional Climate Model over Complex Terrain
Justin R. Minder (University at Albany, United States of America), Theodore Letcher
09:45 O15.5 Trends and Multi-decadal Variability in the Hydroclimate of the Tibetan Plateau as Manifested in Paleoclimate, Precipitation and Reanalysis Data 1850-2010.
G. W. Kent Moore (University of Toronto, Canada)
10:00 O15.6 The evolution of mountain permafrost in Switzerland (the TEMPS-project)
Christian Hauck (University of Fribourg, Switzerland), Reynald Delaloye, Isabelle Gärtner-Roer, Andreas Hasler, Christin Hilbich, Martin Hoelzle, Robert Kenner, Sven Kotlarski, Christophe Lambiel, Rachel Lüthi, Antoine Marmy, Johann Müller, Jeannette Noetzli, Marcia Phillips, Jan Rajczak, Nadine Salzmann, Michael Schaepman, Christoph Schär, Benno Staub, Ingo Völksch
10:15 O15.7 Changes in precipitation patterns associated with the retreat and thinning of Vatnajökull ice cap, Southeast-Iceland
Hálfdán Ágústsson (IMO, Iceland), Haraldur Ólafsson, Helgi Björnsson, Finnur Pálsson
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 O16 Oral Session: Statistical post-processing and downscaling
Chair: Haraldur Ólafsson (HI, Iceland)
11:00 O16.1 Making use of climate model output in the mountains: Recent progress along the continuum of downscaling complexity
Invited Ethan D. Gutmann (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States of America), Martyn P. Clark, Roy M. Rasmussen, Jeffrey Arnold, Levi Brekke
11:30 O16.2 Diagnosing sub-grid valley cold air pools from numerical weather prediction (NWP) forecasts
Peter Sheridan (Met Office, United Kingdom), Simon Vosper, Samantha Smith
11:45 O16.3 A new approach to statistical post-processing of spatial forecasts
Markus Dabernig (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Jakob W. Messner, Georg J. Mayr, Achim Zeileis
12:00 O16.4 Probabilistic Predictions in Complex Terrain with an Analog Ensemble
Iris Odak Plenkovic (Meteorological and Hydrological Service, Croatia), Luca Delle Monache, Kristian Horvath, Mario Hrastinski, Alica Bajic
12:15 O16.5 Improving short-range probabilistic forecasts of (intra-)daily precipitation sums
Manuel Presser (University of Innsbruck, Austria), Jakob Messner, Reto Stauffer, Georg J. Mayr, Achim Zeileis
12:30 - 12:45 Awards
12:45 - 13:00 Closing
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