GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Accommodations

The conference participants will be staying at the Aldemar: Knossos Royal Village (A' class), which is located in Hersonissos, 25 km from the airport.

 
Breakfast

Breakfast will be served at your hotel during the hours scheduled in this program.

 

Conference Venue

The Aldemar: Knossos Royal Village Conference Center is located at the hotel. 

 

Oral Presentations

An LCD projector and an overhead projector will be available for the oral presentations. Speakers are asked to bring their USB flash drive or CD to the conference reception desk at least 30 minutes prior to the session.  The allocated time for all presentations, unless otherwise indicated, includes five minutes Q&A.

 

Posters

Posters should be mounted Monday 7:45 AM, May 28, on the designated boards and dismounted at the end of the meeting. The dimensions of the boards are 90W x 150H cm. Adhesive tape for mounting the posters on the boards will be available at the poster area.

 

Internet

Internet will be available for participants during the meeting hours free of charge.

 

Welcome Reception and Gala Dinner

Badges are required for admission.

 

Tour to Knossos and Museum

Busses for the island tour will be leaving from the hotel on Wednesday, May 30 at 2:30 p.m. Accompanying persons will also be picked up at the hotel front lobby at that time. Badges are required for participation.

 

Lunches

Lunches will be served at the indicated times to all registered participants and registered accompanying persons in the hotel. Badges are required for admission. 

 

Tour and Travel Information

A desk operated by the personnel of our official travel agency,  “ERA Ltd.”, 8 Alexandrou Soutsou Str., Kolonaki 10671 Athens – Greece

Tel.: 30-210-363-4944, FAX: 30-210-3631690, E-Mail: info@era.gr

will be located at the conference center throughout the meeting.

 

All Aegean Conferences events are smoke free.

 

 





Sunday, May 27

 

5:00 - 8:00 PM

Open Registration

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception/Dinner

 

 

 

Monday, May 28

 

 

 

8:15 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

 

 

J Elsner and R Murnane

 

 

 

Session I

Chair: R Murnane

 

 

 

8:30 AM

1

On the relation between ENSO and global temperature

AA Tsonis and JB Elsner

9:05 AM

2

Downscaling hurricane climatologies from IPCC climate model projections

K Emanuel

9:40 AM

3

Detection and attribution of climate change effects on tropical cyclones

KJE Walsh

10:15 AM

4

Possible aerosol effects on lightning and intensity of hurricanes

A Khain, D Rosenfeld, B Lynn, Y Segal, and N Cohen

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

 

 

 

Session II

Chair: J Elsner

 

 

 

12:30 PM

5

North Atlantic hurricane activity over the last 6000 years: Patterns and climatic forcing

J Donnelly, P Lane, E Scileppi, and J Woodruff

1:00 PM

6

How science speaks: Are scientists’ opinions hampering communication about tropical cyclones and climate change?

A Henderson-Sellers

1:30 PM

7

Increased tropical Atlantic wind shear in model projections of global warming

GA Vecchi and BJ Soden

2:00 PM

8

Modulation of tropical cyclone activity: Large-scale climatic and small-scale internal processes

J Kossin and D Vimont

 

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner at a Local Greek Tavern

 

The bus for the tavern will depart from the hotel at 7:30 PM

 

Tuesday, May 29

 

 

Session III

Chair: A Tsonis

 

 

 

8:30 AM

9

The atmospheric/oceanic memory of tropical cyclones and their aggregate role in modifying climate

RE Hart, RN Maue, M Watson, LF Bosart, and C Hosler

9:05 AM

10

The water and energy budgets of hurricanes and implications for climate change

KE Trenberth

9:40 AM

11

The interaction between sub tropical cyclones and mountainous terrain in New Zealand

G Austin and A Peace

10:15 AM

12

Tropical storms: Representation in climate models and the impacts of climate change

RE McDonald, DG Bleaken, DR Cresswell, VD Pope, and CA Senior

10:40 AM

13

Global climate change and hurricane activity

M Kafatos, Z Boybeyi, and D Sun

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

 

 

 

Session IV

 

Chair: T Jagger

 

 

 

11:55 AM

14

Impact of climate variability on land-falling tropical cyclones in Australia

C Arthur, N Habili, and B Cechet

12:20 PM

15

Integrating science and politics: U.S. policy making climate change and its impact

G Sussman

12:45 PM

16

A statistical and physical analysis of near-term hurricane landfall risk

P Dailey, G Ljung, G Zuba, and J Guin

1:10 PM

17

Global warming and the tropical cyclone climatology as simulated in a 20-KM-Mesh global atmospheric model

J Yoshimura, K Oouchi, H Yoshimura, R Mizuta, S Kusunoki, and A Noda

1:35 PM

18

Changes in tropical cyclone activity due to global warming results from a high-resolution coupled general circulation model

S Gualdi, E Scoccimarro, and A Navarra

 

 

 

2:00 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner at a Aldemar Knossos Royal Village

 

 

 

Wednesday, May 30

 

 

 

Session V

Chair: K Liu

 

 

 

8:30 AM

19

Gulf Stream and ENSO impact on the temperature sensitivity of Atlantic tropical cyclones

JC Moore, A Grinsted, and S Jevrejeva

9:05 AM

20

Tropical cyclones in re-analyses and the ECHAM5 climate model: Response to climate change

KI Hodges, L Bengtsson, M Esch, N Keenlyside, L Kornblueh, J-J Luo, and T Yamagata

9:40 AM

21

Global climate change and the tropical cyclone palaeo-record in Australia

J Nott

10:15 AM

22

Characteristics of future tropical cyclone seasons from climate model results

K McGuffie

10:40 AM

23

Intensity variation of typhoons made landfall over the Korean peninsula with global warming

IJ Moon

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

 

 

 

Session VI

Chair: J Donnelly

 

 

 

12:10 AM

24

Hurricanes and climate modes in tree-ring isotopes: What O and C say about AMO, PDO, and ENSO

CI Mora, WN Kocis, DB Lewis, HD Grissino-Mayer, and DL Miller

12:30 PM

25

Modeling damages caused by tropical storm activity in the United States

TH Jagger and JB Elsner

12:50 PM

26

Predictions of hurricanes making landfall in the United States

K Coughlin, S Jewson, E Bellone, S Khare, T Laepple, M Lonfat, K Nzerem, A O’Shay, and J Penzer

1:10 PM

27

Theoretical estimation of the mean rainfall field in

tropical cyclones: Axi-symmetric component and asymmetry due to motion

A Langousis, D Veneziano, and S Chen

 

 

 

1:30 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

2:30 PM

 

Tour to Knossos Archaeological site & Archaeological Museum of Heraklion

The bus for the tour  will depart from the hotel at 2:30 PM

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Dinner at a local Greek Tavern

 

 

 

Thursday, May 31

 

 

 

Session VII

Chair: J Moore

 

 

 

8:30 AM

28

A possible mechanism of the changes in tropical cyclone frequency and intensity due to global warming as indicated by GCMs

M Sugi and J Yoshimura

9:05 AM

29

Comparison of high resolution climate model simulations of tropical cyclones over the North-West Australian region 1970-2000

LM Leslie, M Leplastrier, and BW Buckley

9:40 AM

30

Effects of sea-surface temperature on North American tropical cyclone landfall

TM Hall and S Jewson

10:15 AM

31

The use of synthetic hurricane tracks in risk analysis and climate change damage assessment

S Hallegatte

10:40 AM

32

Paleotempestology: Research frontiers, needs, and priorities

KB Liu

 

 

 

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

 

 

 

Session VIII

Chair: R Hart

 

 

 

12:30 AM

33

Emerging opportunities in tropical cyclone-climate research at the intersection between paleotempestology and tropical cyclone dynamics

AB Frappier, T Knutson, K-b Liu, and K Emanuel

1:00 PM

34

Response of tropical cyclogenesis to global warming in IPCC AR-4 scenarios asses by a modified yearly genesis parameter

JF Royer and F Chauvin

1:30 PM

35

Hurricane risk models for a changing climate

JB Elsner and TH Jagger

2:00 PM

36

Case study of the extratropical transition of Florence

S Buss, S Gigandet, S Schnider, I Sonderegger, and HC Davies

2:30 PM

 

Concluding Remarks, Acknowledgments and Award Presentation

J Elsner and R Murnane

 

 

 

2:45 PM

 

Lunch

 

 

 

8:00 PM

 

Gala Dinner at Aldemar: Knossos Royal Village

 

 

Friday, June 1

 

 

 

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

 

 

 

 

 

Departures

 


 

POSTERS

 

37

Tropical cyclogenesis sensitivity to sea-surface temperature and mean surface wind

DS Nolan, ED Rappin, and KA Emanuel

 

38

A new approach to the mechanism of origin and development of powerful atmospheric vortices

EA Pashitskii, D Anchishkin, V Mal’nev, and R Naryshkin

 

39

The ITCZ, Bermuda high, and tropical cyclones, their relationship over the Holocene

TA McCloskey and JT Knowles

 

40

Application of a new index for tropical cyclone development to observations and results from climate models

JAT Bye and W Cai

 

41

ENSO and western North Pacific tropical cyclone activity simulated in a CGCM

S Iizuka

 

42

Effect of air-sea coupling in the assessment of CO2-induced intensification of tropical cyclone activity

A Hasegawa and S Emori

 

43

The variability and future change in the occurrence of tropical cyclones in the southwest Pacific region

W May

 

44

Tropical cyclones over the Mediterranean Sea in climate change simulations

MA Gaertner, M Domínguez, V Gil, and E Sánchez

 

45

A multi-member ensemble climate impact assessment

W Knorr and Scholze

 

46

Impact of an increased sea surface temperature on North Atlantic cyclones

T Semmler, S Varghese, R McGrath, P Nolan, S Wang , P Lynch, and C O'Dowd

 

47

Understanding the wind field evolution associated with the extratropical transition of tropical cyclone Bonnie (1998)

C Evans and B Hart

 

48

Variability of landfalling tropical cyclones in the western North Pacific and Atlantic basins

MR Lowry, JJ O’Brien, and G Watry

 

49

Supertyphoons in the western North Pacific

Part II:  Rapid intensification and atmospheric features

I-I Lin, Chun-Chieh Wu, Sau-Ni Hui, and Iam-Fei Pun

 

50

Supertyphoons in the western North Pacific Part I: Warm ocean features as boosters to super typhoons

Chun-Chieh Wu, I-I Lin,  and Iam-Fei Pun

 

51

Space based bistatic altimeter: Sea and surface state monitoring

G Picardi, A Marini, AMasdea, F Piccari, R Seu, and PT Melacci

 

52

Recent climate change visualized by self-organizing map

N Sugimoto and K Tachibana

 

53

Using reanalysis datasets for tropical cyclone intensity trends

RN Maue and RE Hart

 

54

Electrification in hurricanes over the tropical Americas: Implication for stratospheric water vapor

J Pittman, T Chronis, F Robertson, and T Miller

 

55

Altimeter dual-frequency observations of surface winds, waves, and rain rate in tropical cyclone Isabel

Y Quilfen, J Tournadre, and B Chapron

 

56

On the recent increments of the tropical cyclones in the IV Meteorological region

C Enrique Buendía

 

57

On the recent increment of the hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean

MO Delgado Delgado

 

58

Hurricane tracking in the Atlantic and associated insurance losses

S Kleppek, CC Raible, P Heck, V Muccione, TS Stocker, and DN Bresch

 

59

A new approach for determining the starting analysis date of the rainfall regime in the Mediterranean region

H Reiser and H Kutiel

 

60

The North Sea – Caspian pattern: Main atmospheric forcing affecting the temperature and precipitation regimes in the Middle East

H Kutiel

 

61

Modelling the climate change induced risk of malaria transmission in lower Saxony (Germany)

G Schmidt and W Schröder

 

62

Mapping biological effects of climate change in Germany in terms of plant phenology

C Englert, G Schmidt, and W Schröder

 

63

Study on soil respiration model coupled with biotic factor

B Jia, G Zhou, Y Wang, and Y Wang

 

64

The study of the effect of Dongting Lake on the temperature

L Ruiqi, L Tiantian, G Haifeng, and L Yannan

 

65

Upper-troposhere effects of Hurricane Olga (2001) in the development of torrential rains in Istrael

SO Krichak and P Alpert

 

66

The atlantic meridional mode and hurricane activity

DJ Vimont and JP Kossin

 

67

Anthropogenic influences on intense hurricanes in the North Atlantic, Western North Pacific and Australian Region

G Holland

 

68

Estimating event intensity from storm deposits: Centennial-to-millennial scale reconstruction from the western Atlantic

JD Woodruff, JP Donnelly, and D Mohrig