NATO "Science for Peace" Program and NEESPI Joint Workshop
Extreme precipitation events: their origins, predictability and societal impacts: Statistics
in observations and modeling, Odessa State Environmental University , Odessa, Ukraine, May 11 - May 16, 2006
NATO "Science for Peace" Project 981044 has been awarded to the international team of
researchers from four countries in early 2005. Scientists from Meteorological Institute at the
University of Bonn (MIUB), Bonn, Germany; P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian
Academy of Sciences (IORAS), Moscow, Russia; Scripps Institution for Oceanography (SIO), La Jolla,
California, USA; and Odessa State Environmental University (OSEU), Odessa, Ukraine came together
to address one of the critical issues of contemporary climatic change: extreme precipitation events,
their origins, predictability, and societal impacts in the Northern Extratropics. Research objectives
and a significant fraction of the study area of the Project belong to the NEESPI domain. Therefore,
cooperation and data and ideas exchange with the NEESPI scientists involved in similar research have
been established and formalized by joining the Project team to the NEESPI family of researchers in
autumn 2005. The present workshop is the third one for the Project Team and the first workshop where
the scientists from other NEESPI projects and the NEESPI Project Scientist attended and participated
in the Project activities. Achievement reports of the research groups in four countries, sharing
results from current accomplishments and planning of future collaboration within the Project and
with other NEESPI projects, the data availability and exchange, and precipitation modeling were the
major topics discussed at the meeting in the ambient atmosphere of the Oceanography Observations
Laboratory of the Odessa State Environmental University just a few steps away from the Black Sea shore.
Workshop Agenda
May 11, 2006, Afternoon: Mini-workshop "Role of precipitation extremes changes in agrometeorology" Participants: Anatoly N. Polevoy, Serge Ivanov, and Pavel Groisman (Odessa State Environmental University, Dept. of Agrometeorology and Agrometeorological forecasting)May 11-12 2006 : Arrival of the Workshop participants from Russia, Germany, and the United States. Informal discussions
May 13, 2006. Statistics in precipitation observations
Location: Oceanography Observations Lab. of the Odessa State Environmental University. Presentations 40 to 60 minutes
Invited Speaker. Pavel Groisman, NEESPI Project Scientist. Observed variations and changes in extremes (view pdf file)
Olga Zolina, MIUB/IORAS. Climate variability in statistical properties of daily precipitation from European rain gauges (view pdf file)
Alexander Gershunov, SIO. Geographic variability of daily precipitation volatility: Probability of extremes (view pdf file)
Olga Zolina, MIUB/IORAS. Seasonality in precipitation characteristics derived from German station collection (view pdf file)
Alice Kapala, Susanne Bachner, Olga Zolina, and Clemens Simmer, MIUB. Long-term variability of precipitation in Germany: Regionalization regarding statistical properties of daily data. (view pdf file)
May 14, 2006. Precipitation modeling
Location: Oceanography Observations Lab. of the Odessa State Environmental University. Presentations 40 to 60 minutes
Susanne Bachner, Kerstin Ebell, Alice Kapala, and Clemens Simmer, MIUB. Statistical properties of precipitation including extremes in the regional climate model CLM and sensitivity to initial conditions and parameterizations (view pdf file)
Alexander Gavrikov, IORAS. Modelling of water budget in Atlantic cyclones (view pdf file)
Serge Ivanov, Julia Palamarchuk, and Victoria Piatakova, OSEU. The fine-scale precipitation structures and the problem of representativeness error (view pdf file)
Clemens Simmer and Alessandro Battaglia, MIUB. Ground-based retrieval of rain and cloud water from polarized passive microwave observations (view pdf file)
Clemens Simmer, Annika Schomburg, Victor Veneam and Felix Ament, MIUB. Adaptive parametrization of radiative transfer in mesoscale atmospheric models (view pdf file)
May 15, 2006. Informal discussions: Specific logistics needs and possible solutions (Hotel "Yunost'", Frantsuzskiy Blvd, Arcadia area)
May 16, 2006. Departure
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