[RegCNET] session on convection-permitting atmospheric modelling at the 2018 EGU General Assembly (Vienna, 8‒13 April 2018)

[Erika Coppola]

>> Dear colleagues,
>> 
>> we would like to invite submission of abstracts to our session on 
>> convection-permitting atmospheric modelling at the 2018 EGU General 
>> Assembly (Vienna, 8‒13 April 2018):
>> 
>> CL5.07 Convection-permitting atmospheric modelling 
>> <http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26438/>
>> 
>> Session description:
>> This session explores recent advances in convection-permitting 
>> atmospheric modelling, with the newest generation of atmospheric models 
>> that allow for the explicit treatment of convection: regional and global 
>> models, variable resolution models (e.g. ICON, MPAS), and models using 
>> super-parametrizations.
>> 
>> Convection-permitting models (CPMs) have been shown to improve both the 
>> diurnal convective cycle and the representation of convective 
>> precipitation, particularly extremes. Furthermore, CPMs often exhibit 
>> important differences in climate-feedback mechanisms and climate change 
>> signals compared to models with parametrized deep convection. CPMs offer 
>> a promising tool to provide critical information to decision makers and 
>> stakeholders, especially in areas at risk of convective extremes and 
>> mountainous regions, and have thus sparked wider interest in their 
>> applications and development, for example the CORDEX Flagship Pilot 
>> Study (FPS) on convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean.
>> 
>> This session also brings together the observational community, cloud 
>> physicists, numerical modellers, forecasters and CORDEX-FPS 
>> participants, with the aim of advancing understanding of convection in 
>> general (including convective storm life cycle and convective 
>> organization) with new modelling and statistical observation approaches. 
>> Contributions on new high-resolution/sub-daily observational datasets, 
>> and their application to CPM evaluation, are particularly welcome. The 
>> session also encourages the examination of interactions between 
>> convection and other atmospheric phenomena (e.g. boundary layers, cloud 
>> physics, radiation), as well as CPM investigations of local to regional 
>> circulations (e.g. land-ocean contrasts, flow-orography interactions, 
>> urban-rural transitions).
>> 
>> Other topics include, but are not limited to:
>> - model setup and parametrization
>> - model evaluation and new evaluation metrics/methods
>> - ensemble-based approaches to quantify uncertainties at convective scale
>> - physical understanding of the added value compared to coarser models
>> - land-use changes at convection-permitting scale
>> - application to climate studies for short and long-term simulations.
>> 
>> Particular attention is given to the representation of extremes.
>> 
>> Session description and abstract submission: 
>> <http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26438/>
>> 
>> The deadline for abstract submission is Wednesday, January 10th 2018 
>> @1300CET. The deadline for application for financial support is Friday, 
>> December 1st 2017.
>> 
>> Please forward this announcement to anyone who may have interest in the 
>> session. We look forward to receiving your contribution and seeing you 
>> in Vienna.
>> 
>> On behalf of the conveners,
>> Edmund.
>> 
>> Conveners: Edmund Meredith, Andreas F. Prein, Marie Piazza, Steven C. 
>> Chan, Erika Coppola, Heimo Truhetz
>> 
>> 
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