Dear colleague,
We draw your attention to the 14th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and the 10th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC), which will take place on 6 - 10 October 2014 in Prague, Czech Republic (<http://www.ems2014.eu/home.html>), and invite you and interested colleagues to contribute to the Session on "Coastal Meteorology and Oceanography".
Deadline for abstract submission with application for Young Scientist Travel Award (YSTA) or waiver: 12 March 2014.
Deadline for abstract submission: 15 April 2014.
We are looking forward to receiving your contributions Manel Grifoll, Silvio Gualdi, Mario Marcello Miglietta, and Anna Maria Sempreviva
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Description of the session:
The purpose of this session is to cover a wide range of atmospheric and oceanographic phenomena occurring in coastal areas, from synoptic and mesoscale features down to local scale processes (e.g., land-sea breeze, orographically induced flows, coastal cloud systems and fronts, wind-jets, boundary layer phenomena, clouds bands).
A specific attention will be given to: - analysis and modelling of coupled atmospheric, ocean and wave processes, with a particular emphasis on the scale interactions and their effects on the mechanisms of cyclone developments; - feedbacks between air-sea fluxes and the atmospheric and oceanic circulation (e.g. effects of sea-surface fluxes on the genesis and maintenance of cyclones, intensification of tropical cyclones, polar lows, Medicanes); - estimation of fluxes over sea and coastal land areas as well as the adjustment of vertical profiles in advective conditions in order to characterize local versus large-scale processes.
High-impact weather and marine events affecting coastal areas, such as intense cyclones, severe wind storms and storm surges, heavy rain events and flash floods, will be also treated. They will be analyzed both from a meteorological and climatological perspective, including the effects of climate change. These are paramount issues for highly urbanized coastal areas that require an optimised management, including urbanization and renewable energy integration planning strategies.
Contributions from operational centers are very welcome, especially in the field of operational oceanography and related services, such as coastal resources management, monitoring and circulation predictions for the sake of maritime safety and navigation, marine environmental protection, coastal erosion.
The session topics will be covered with both modelling and/or observation studies, including in-situ measurements, ground-based and space-borne remote sensing techniques (scatterometers, synthetic aperture radar, ...). Results emerging from operational campaigns (e.g., HyMeX, MOON, ...) are welcome. Studies on model validation and on the effect of parameterization schemes on atmospheric dynamics and oceanic circulation will be also considered, as well as on model uncertainties at different scales.
_________________ Manel Grifoll
manel.grifoll@upc.edu
Laboratori d'Enginyeria Maritima
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
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