6th International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change: From Hazard to Impact

Preliminary Program

Sunday, June 4

6:00 PM

 

Conference Registration

     

8:00 PM

 

Welcome Reception/Dinner

     

Monday, June 5

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

     

8:15 AM

 

Welcome and Opening Remarks

     

SESSION I

 

Risk 1

Chair: Jennifer Collins

8:30 AM

1

Tools in support of planning for, and responding to weather and climate extremes

Greg Holland, James Done, Cindy Bruyere, Rachel Hauser, and Mari Tye

9:00 AM

2

Modeling in the risk transfer industry: challenges and possibilities

Jan Kleinn

9:30 AM

3

A question of risk. Realism, not return periods.

Mari Tye, Geoff Saville, Greg Holland, James Done, and Cindy Bruyère

10:00 AM

4

Cyclone Impacts to Environmental Infrastructure:  A Risk Management Approach

Guillermo Accame, James Done, Nicholas Santella, Richard Sheldon, and Susan Doering

     

SESSION II

 

Lightning Talks 
Presenters of lightning talks should also prepare a poster (dimensions to be announced)

10:33 AM

5

Your requirements, your climate service: Introducing the SECTEUR Project

Louis-Philippe Caron

10:36 AM

6

The Willis Research Network: Bridging the gap between science and industry

Geoffrey Saville

10:39 AM

7

impact of climate change on typhoon losses in Japan

Peter Sousounis

10:42 AM

8

How Quickly Can We Adapt to Change? Using Hurricane Forecast Uncertainty to Understand Damage Mitigation Efforts

Andrew Martinez

10:45 AM

9

Human and Civil Rights Implications of Disasters and Sea Level Rise in the United States 

Jacqueline Patterson

10:48 AM

10

A future dilemma? An investigation of coastal urban dynamics and the urban exposure to sea level rise induced flooding 

Jie  SongZhong-Ren Peng, and Liyuan Zhao

10:51 AM

11

Study on the Effects of the Hurricanes and Climate Change

Caihua MA

10:54 AM

12

Research on Tropical Cyclone Classification and Categorization Oriented to Disaster Emergency Management

Jian Li, Weihua Fang, and Xiaoning Zhang

     

10:57 AM

 

Coffee Break & Poster Session

SESSION III

 

Risk 2

Chair: Kerry Emanuel

12:00 PM

13

Developing Sustainable Tools for Reducing Weather and Climate Impacts

Cindy Bruyere and Greg Holland

12:30 PM

14

Representing Risk from North Atlantic Hurricanes

Tom Philp

1:00 PM

15

High income does not protect against hurricane losses

Tobias Geiger, David Bresch, Anders Levermann, and Katja Frieler

1:30 PM

16

State-of-the-art of engineering approach for wind-related risk modeling of residential exposure

Kazuyoshi Nishijima and Jean-Paul Pinelli

     

2:00 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Tuesday, June 6

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

     

8:25 AM

 

Chair Remarks

     

SESSION IV

 

Risk 3

Chair: Jan Kleinn

8:30 AM

17

A simple, fast tropical cyclone intensity algorithm for risk models

Kerry Emanuel

9:00 AM

18

A global investigation of the impacts of landfalling tropical cyclones on societies

Elizabeth Ritchie, Denise Balukas, and Kimberly Wood

9:30 AM

19

Global Tropical Cyclone Damages Under Climate Change

Laura Bakkensen and Robert Mendelsohn

10:00 AM

20

Optimal Coastal Defense

Robert Mendelsohn

     

SESSION V

 

Lightning Talks
Presenters of lightning talks should also prepare a poster (dimensions to be announced)

10:30 AM

21

Evacuation behavior measured at time of expected hurricane landfall: An assessment of the effects of social networks

Amy Polen, Jennifer Collins, Robin Ersing, Michelle Saunders, and Noel Rehm

10:33 AM

22

Evacuation behavior measured at time of expected hurricane landfall: A spatial analysis of social networks

Michelle Saunders, Jennifer Collins, Robin Ersing, Amy Polen, and Noel Rehm

10:36 AM

23

Challenges in simulating realistic tropical cyclone formation over the North Atlantic basin: the role of systematic biases in climate conditions

Sharmila Sur and Kevin Walsh

10:39 AM

24

Characteristics of Eyewall Replacement Cycles among Tropical Cyclones in the Western North Pacific (1997-2015)

Minghao Zhou

10:42 AM

25

Improvement of tropical cyclone forecasting through lightning assimilation in WRF

Steven BusingerDanial Argüeso, and Thomas Dunn

10:45 AM

26

Dominant Role of Subtropical Pacific Warming on the Extreme 2015 Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season

Hiroyuki Murakami

10:48 AM

27

impact of global atmospheric model specifications on the applicability for tropical cyclone research

Nadia BloemendaalSanne Muis, Hans de Moel, and Jeroen Aerts

10:51 AM

28

The changes of tropical cyclones in Northwestern Pacific since 1960s and the possible effects on heat waves

Ting Ding and Lijuan Chen

10:54 AM

29

www.seasonalhurricanepredictions.org

Louis-Philippe Caron, Philip Klotzbach, and Tom Philp

10:57 AM

30

The 2016 North Atlantic hurricane season: A season of extremes

Jennifer Collins and David  Roache

     

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Session

     

SESSION VI

 

Risk 4 / Impact & Vulnerability

Chair: Liz Ritchie

12:00 PM

31

On the relationship between hurricane cost and the integrated wind profile

Ralf Toumi and Shuai Wang

12:30 PM

32

Late Holocene Reconstruction of Hurricane Strikes from Mangrove Lake, Bermuda

Davin Wallace, Jeffrey Donnelly, Jonathan Woodruff, Peter van Hengstum, and Brad Rosenheim

1:00 PM

33

Using large eddy simulations to estimate the vulnerability of offshore wind farms to tropical cyclones

Daniel Stern, George Bryan, and Chia-Ying Lee

1:30 PM

34

Potential hurricane damage estimates to urban and ecosystem environments along Florida's west coast

Charles Paxton, Jennifer Collins, Christianne Jordon Jordon, Amy Polen, and Anxhelo Agastra

2:00 PM

35

Inland flooding from tropical cyclones
Jeffrey Czajkowski

     

2:30 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Wednesday, June 7

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

     

8:25 AM

 

Chair Remarks

     

SESSION VII

 

Flood & Surge Hazard / Wind Hazard 1

Chair: Suzana Camargo

8:30 AM

36

Tropical cyclone storm surge risk to Mumbai

Adam  Sobel, Kyle Mandli, Zachary Burt, Suzana Camargo, Chia-Ying Lee, Michael Tippett, and Kerry Emanuel

9:00 AM

37

Estimation of Tropical Cyclone Precipitation Risk for the Continent of North America

Laiyin Zhu

9:30 AM

38

What we have learned from, and looking forward in, the field of Paleotempestology

Joanne  Muller and Jennifer  Collins

10:00 AM

39

Bermuda hurricane risk from the late Holocene through climate change projection scenarios - comparisons using a simple catastrophe model

Mark Guishard, Thomas  Perkins, Manuel Lonfat, and Kevin Mayall

     

SESSION VIII

 

Lighting Talks Risk

Presenters of lightning talks should also prepare a poster (dimensions to be announced)

10:30 AM

40

Relationship between the Northwest Pacific typhoon activities and the lunar phase variations in the recent decades

Shao Xie, Pu Jinbiao, and Huang Ronghui

10:33 AM

41

variability of upper ocean characteristics and tropical cyclones in the south west indian ocean

Daneeja Mawren and Chris Reason

10:36 AM

42

Changes in rainfall over the southern African mainland and tropical cyclone activity in the Mozambique Channel

Chris Reason and Daneeja Mawren

10:39 AM

43

Influence of atmospheric dust on tropical cyclone frequency over Eastern Australia/ Southwest Pacific Ocean

Rupsa Bhowmick and Jill Trepanier

10:42 AM

44

Simulated impacts of volcanic eruptions on Atlantic hurricane genesis potential

Duoying Ji and John Moore

10:45 AM

45

Asymmetrical wind fields in hurricane wind risk assessment 

Chia-Ying Lee, Kevin  Gong, Thomas  Knutson, Daniel  Chavas, Adam Sobel, Micheal Tippett, and Suzana Camargo

10:48 AM

46

Rapid weakening of tropical cyclones: a global perspective

Kimberly Wood

10:51 AM

47

Contrasting Climatic Controls on Extremes of Tropical Cyclone Formation Rate

Sharmila Sur and Kevin Walsh

10:54 AM

48

Understanding the relationship between the maximum wind speed and minimum central pressure in a tropical cyclone

Daniel Chavas and Kevin Reed

10:57 AM

49

the summer precipitation response to the lengths of the preceding winter over Yangtze-Huaihe river valley

Rong Zhi

     

11:00 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Session

     

SESSION IX

 

Wind Hazard 2

Chair: Ralf Toumi

12:00 PM

50

A climate mechanism for stronger typhoons in a warmer world

James Elsner and Nam-Young Kang

12:30 PM

51

Linking cyclone simulation forecasts with economic analyses – lessons learned from developed and developing country applications

James Neumann and Jacqueline Willwerth

1:00 PM

52

Tropical cyclone hazard assessment using a physics-based, statistical risk model 

Chia-Ying Lee, Michael Tippett, Adam Sobel, and Suzana Camargo

1:30 PM

53

Is tropical cyclone size modulated by ENSO?

Suzana Camargo, John Knaff , and Daniel  Chavas

     

2:00 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

3:00 PM

 

City Tour

     

7:30 PM

 

Dinner and Informal Discussions

Thursday, June 8

7:30 AM

 

Breakfast

8:25 AM

 

Chair Remarks

SESSION X

 

Wind Hazard 3

Chair: Michael Wehner

8:30 AM

54

Historical global tropical cyclone wind footprints

James Done, Ming Ge, Greg Holland, Yuqing Wang, Geoffrey Saville, and IoanaDima-West

9:00 AM

55

Tropical cyclone wind field during extratropical transition: NWP simulations for hazard risk assessment 

Emilie Scherer and Enrica Bellone

9:30 AM

56

The use of high-resolution climate models to study the impacts of landfallinghurricanes in the eastern U.S.

Kevin Reed, J Jacob Huff, Michael Wehner, and Julio Bacmeister

10:00 AM

57

Influence of Anthropogenic Climate Change on Planetary Wave Resonance and Extreme Weather Events 

Michael Mann, Stefan Rahmstorf, Kai Kornhuber, Byron Steinman, and Sonya Miller

     

SESSION XI

 

Lightning Talks
Presenters of lightning talks should also prepare a poster (dimensions to be announced)

10:30 AM

58

Ekman downwelling from the lower troposphere in the intense tropical cyclones

Tomoki Ohno and Masaki Satoh

10:33 AM

59

How far can we go in modeling tropical cyclones with moist-convective shallow water?

Vladimir Zeitlin and Masoud Rostami

10:36 AM

60

Impact of ocean coupling on simulated tropical cyclone activity in the high-resolution Community Earth System Model

Hui Li and Ryan  Sriver

10:39 AM

61

Intensification pathways of subtropical cyclones: selected examples from different regions. 

Leone Cavicchia, Kevin Walsh, and Andrew Dowdy

10:42 AM

62

A Climatological Relationship between MJO/ENSO Phases and Tropical Cyclone Interactions with Saharan Dust Storms across the Tropical Atlantic Basin

Jordan Rabinowitz and Anthony Lupo

10:45 AM

63

Genesis of Super Cyclone Pam (2015): Modulation of Low-frequency Large-Scale Circulations and the Madden–Julian Oscillation by Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies

Masuo Nakano, Hisayuki Kubota, Tomoki Miyakawa, Tomoe Nasuno, and Masaki Satoh

10:48 AM

64

Cluster Analysis of Downscaled and Explicitly Simulated Tropical Cyclone Tracks in the Southern Hemisphere

Hamish Ramsay, Suzana Camargo, and Savin Chand

     

10:51 AM

 

Coffee Break and Poster Session

     

SESSION XII

 

Wind Hazard 4

Chair: Michael Mann

12:00 PM

65

Quantifying the human influence on recent individual major hurricanes.

Michael Wehner and Colin Zarzycki

12:30 PM

66

How unusual was the 2005 hurricane season in the Atlantic?  A millennial model analysis

Kevin Walsh, Sally Lavender, Malcolm  King, and Louis-Philippe Caron

1:00 PM

67

Climate change and hurricane-like extratropical cyclones: projections for north-atlantic polar lows and medicanes based on CMIP5 models

Romualdo Romero and Kerry Emanuel

1:30 PM

68

Regional variations in the ocean response to tropical cyclones:  cooling by ocean mixing, warming by low cloud suppression

Alexey Fedorov, Andrew Huang, Hui Li, Ryan Sriver, and Chris Brierley

     

2:00 PM

 

Lunch and Informal Discussions

     

8:00 PM

 

Farewell Dinner

Friday, June 9

8:00 AM

 

Breakfast

     

10:00 AM

 

Departure