12th Plinius conference on Mediterranean storms
Objectives
Since its advent, the Plinius Conference series on Mediterranean Storms has provided a crucial interdisciplinary contribution for improving our understanding of hazardous storms over the Mediterranean basin capable of producing strong winds, heavy rains, explosive landslides, and other related extremes. The objective of the 2010 Conference, the 12th of the series, is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for presentations and discussions of our current state of knowledge, as well as motivating new research and applications within the variety of disciplines related to Mediterranean storms and concomitant human hazards.
Over these last 11 years, an enormous success has been reached in understanding many of the basic scientific aspects of the triggering, growth, maintenance, and physical impacts of Mediterranean storms, as well as achieving acceptable levels in some of the areas of model prediction concerning storm lifecycles and their hazardous impacts. Given this progress, at this year's conference, an even greater focus on interdisciplinary participation is encouraged. This will be achieved by continuing to reach out to scientific experts in the fields of meteorology, climatology, hydrology, and geomorphology, but also extending the reach into the disciplines of oceanography, sociology, economics, engineering, and the government management sector. Experts from these additional disciplines will be able to present their own unique perspectives on how to understand and manage storm-related disasters across the Mediterranean basin.
Topics
Scientific topics will be wide ranging, including:
(i) the nature and physical processes of extreme events;
(ii) possible changes in storm behaviour resulting from anticipated changes in climate;
(iii) advanced techniques to observe, monitor and forecast hazardous storms; and
(iv) relationships between atmospheric and surface processes for both land and sea situations, with particular emphasis on the effects of coupled processes in generating damaging floods and landslides. Further, socio-economic implications of hazardous storms, as well as lectures focused on risk mitigation and resilience in the framework of sustainable development are mostly welcome.
- Topic 1: Societal Impacts, Risk Management, Responses, and Education
- Topic 2: Climate Change Impacts on Mediterranean Storms
- Topic 3: Paleofloods and Historical Information on Damaging Mediterranean Storms
- Topic 4: Remote Sensing of storms
- Topic 5: Storm Processes
- Topic 6: Mesoscale Modelling, Data Assimilation and Operational Meteorological Forecasting
- Topic 7: Hydrological Processes, Modelling and Operational Hydrological Forecasting
- Topic 8: Flash Floods: From Observations to Forecasting
- Topic 9: Nowcasting
- Topic 10: Air-Sea Interactions, Ocean Waves, and Coastal Surges
- Topic 11: Rainfall-Triggered Landslides and Coastal Landslides/Erosion
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