Meetings of Working Group 2 

Process-based understanding of Mediterranean cyclones at climate time scales

 Organised by Shira Raveh-Rubin, Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Israel

Online meeting – 17 January 2023

Shira Raveh-Rubin: Welcome and introduction

Davide Faranda: Towards a framework for attributing tropical and Mediterranean cyclones to climate change

Emmanouil Flaounas: A composite approach to produce reference datasets for extratropical cyclone tracks: Application to Mediterranean cyclones

Dor Sandler: Localized Finite Amplitude Wave Activity as aDiagnostic for Mediterranean Cyclones

Shira Raveh-Rubin: MedCyClass: process-basedMed. cyclone classification using upper-level PV

New initiative: Mediterranean cyclones in regional climate simulations;New collaborative efforts for robust data

MedCyclones Grant Awarding: Call for the 3rd Grant Period

Online meeting – 25 October 2021

Shira Raveh-Rubin: Welcome and introduction

Samuel Somot: MedCORDEX data

Marco Reale: Future projections of Mediterranean cyclones characteristics using the Med-CORDEX ensemble of coupled regional climate system models

Miguel Gaertner: Climatological studies and future projections of medicanes

Ségolène Berthou: Cyclone tracking in km-scale resolution simulations

Fabien Desbiolles: Fast atmospheric response to ocean mesoscales over the Mediterranean

Ivana Marinovic: Mediterranean cyclones in the context of synoptic climatology

Rita Pongrácz: Analysis of Mediterranean cyclones using different criteria

Lucian Sfîcă: Mediterranean cyclones in the western side of the Black Sea: meteorological features, climate influence and land-sea interactions

Moshe Armon: Reduced rainfall in future heavy precipitation events related to contracted rain area despite increased rain rate