The CMCC Annual Meeting 2013 will take place at the “Iberotel Apulia” in Marina di Ugento (Lecce, Italy) from Monday 3rd to Wednesday 5th June 2013. The meeting of the CMCC Scientific Advisory Panel will follow on June 5th-6th, 2013.

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THE CMCC ANNUAL MEETING AGENDA

Monday, 3 June

• 08.30 – 08.45: Welcome Message (A. Navarra)
• 08.45 – 10.45:
  Modeling Climate Change: scenarios and forecast (A. Bellucci, S. Dobricic)
  Key Questions: What are the grand challenges faced by the climate science community?
  How are we going to tackle them?
  How can we improve climate forecasts on seasonal to decal timescales?
  How to communicate science for forecasting?
  What kind of forecasts do the users need?
  The contribution of CMCC to CMIP5: future challenges for global climate modelling and the roadmap to CMIP6 (A. Bellucci)
  Short and medium term oceanographic forecasting at coastal, regional and global scales (G. Coppini/S. Dobricic)
  09.45 – 10.00    Poster presentation
  10.00– 10.45    Discussion
• 10.45 – 11.00: Coffee Break
• 11.00 – 13.00:
  Modeling the Earth System with a special focus on performance (S. Masina, G. Aloisio)
  Key Questions: Which are the lessons learnt so far on Earth System modelling and which are the future challenges?
  Which are the most suitable strategies to efficiently exploit the next generation architectures?
  Scientific computing – will the lessons learned apply to the future? (Paul Messina ANL/ALCF, USA)
  The Earth System Models at CMCC: a story of science and computer  challenges (M. Vichi)
  Benchmarking and Performance Evaluation of Earth System Models at CMCC: a never-ending story (I. Epicoco)
  12.00 – 12.15    Poster presentation
  12.15 – 13.00    Discussion
• 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch
• 14.00 – 16.00:
  Localizing Climate Change and uncertainty quantification (P. Schiano, D. Spano)
  Key Questions: Which is our actual understanding about climate change downscaling approaches/methodologies and associated uncertainties?
  How can we use the recent improvements related to climate change localization (e.g. impacts, mitigation and adaptation strategies)?
  What further steps are needed to embed downscaling in the ecosystem and productive processes?
  The WRF model: downscaling procedure and application. (M. Falk, University of California, Davis and CMCC)
  Assessment of COSMO-CLM performances and future climate projections over the Italian domain (E. Bucchignani)
  Evaluation of uncertainty in local  climate change scenario in several Italian sub-areas, making use of Statistical Downscaling techniques, (C. Cacciamani)

15.00 – 15.15    Poster presentation
15.15 – 16.00    Discussion

• 16.00 – 16.15: Coffee Break
• 16.00 – 17.00: POSTER SESSION

Tuesday, 4 June

• 08.30 – 08.45: Welcome Message (A. Navarra)
• 08.45 – 10.45:
  Climate Impacts (S. Gualdi, R. Valentini)
  Key Questions:Is there any added value in having integrated models? How can we quantify it?
  What should be done in order to optimize the integration between models and their consideration of feedbacks?
  What problems do we meet in coupling our impact models and what solutions are we designing and implementing?
  How can this integration take advantage from a shared and harmonized tool for communication and dissemination of results?
  What is still missing to turn these models into ready-to-use services?
  Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Land Suitability and Crop Production (V. Mereu)
  Strengthening climate and impact research through improved and harmonized
  representation of coupled land use and socio-economic dynamics (M. Santini)
  Lancelot: in search of the Holy Grail of Climate Change and its Impacts (A. Zabeo)

9.30 – 09.50    Poster presentation
09.50 – 10.45    Discussion

• 10.45 – 11.00: Coffee Break
• 11.00 – 13.00:
  Mitigation and Adaptation Policies (F. Bosello, S. Castellari)
  Key Questions: What is the role of uncertainty in shaping mitigation and adaptation strategies?
  How does it affect the implementation of specific adaptation measures?
  How can CMCC contribute to the study of adaptation and be more vocal in the definition of adaptation policies and in the wider policy debate?
  The dynamic feedback of catastrophic climate risk on mitigation and adaptation policies (F. Bosello)
  The involvement of CMCC in fhe elaboration of the National Adaptation Strategy and next steps (Castellari)
  State of the art on wildfire mitigation strategies (V. Bacciu)

12.00 – 12.15    Poster presentation
12.15 – 13.00    Discussion

• 13.00 – 14.00: Lunch

• 14.00 – 16.00:
  Extremes, Vulnerability and Risks (M. Tavoni, A. Lanza, S. Torresan, M. Santini)
  Key Questions: What are the most effective risk management strategies for dealing with climate change?
  What integrated approach can be used to compound all the uncertainties (climate, impacts, economy) of climate change?
  To what extent the management of extremes should guide climate policy?
  Probabilistic assessment of optimal policies under climate uncertainty (Laurent Drouet)
  Managing the risk of extreme events (Jaro Mysiak)
  Multi-risk: a challenging perspective for the assessment of climate change impacts (Silvia Torresan)

15.00 – 15.15    Poster presentation
15.15 – 16.00    Discussion

• 16.00 – 16.15: Coffee Break

• 16.00 – 17.00: POSTER SESSION & AWARD

Wednesday, 5 June

• 09.30 – 11.30: Project Management (L. Panzera)