[RegCNET] Fwd: Call for Papers: "Convection-permitting atmospheric modelling" at EGU (Austria)

[Coppola Erika]

Dear Colleagues,

we'd like to invite submission of abstracts to the session
"Convection-permitting atmospheric modelling" at the 2019 EGU General
Assembly (Vienna, 7‒12 April 2019):

*CL5.04/AS1.28 Convection-permitting atmospheric modelling*, session
description and abstract submission
<https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2019/session/31359>

Please note that the deadline for receipt of abstracts with financial
support applications is 1st December, otherwise it's 10th January @1300
CEST.

Please feel free to forward this to any potentially interested parties.
The session description is below.

On behalf of the conveners,
Edmund.

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This session explores advances and challenges in convection-permitting
atmospheric modelling: using the newest generation of atmospheric models
that allow for the explicit treatment of convective processes (grid
spacing ≤ 4 km).

Convection-permitting models (CPMs) are a rapidly growing area of
research and 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
feedback mechanisms and climate change signals compared to models with
parametrized deep convection. CPMs offer a promising tool to better
understand fine-scale processes and provide critical information to
stakeholders, especially in areas affected by 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.

The session brings together numerical modellers, the observational
community, cloud physicists, forecasters and CORDEX-FPS participants,
with the aim of advancing understanding of convection and
high-resolution modelling 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. This session calls for papers on state-of-the-art
development and application of CPM activities, including 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-scale phenomena (e.g. land-use
change, land-ocean contrasts, flow-orography interactions, urban-rural
transitions, aerosol effects, etc.). We welcome studies of past, present
or future climates, and CPM modelling across time scales. Particular
attention is given to extremes.

Other topics include, but are not limited to:
-- Model setup and parametrization, including sensitivity to resolution
and dynamics
-- Model evaluation and new evaluation metrics/methods
-- Ensemble-based approaches to quantify predictability/uncertainty at
convective scale
-- Physical understanding of the added value compared to coarser models
-- Land-atmosphere coupling at convection-permitting scale
-- Application to climate studies
-- Tropical phenomena
-- Convection, energy balance and hydrological cycle
-- Lightning in CPMs
-- Teleconnection across scales
-- Novel high-resolution experiments


-- 
Coppola Erika , Ph.D
Earth System Physics Section
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera 11
34100 Trieste, ITALY
Phone: + 39 040 2240 407
Fax: + 39 040  2240 449

email: coppolae at ictp.it
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