Workshop

27 April 2026 | 8:30 – 19:00, Naples

Following a meeting at ECMWF, Bologna, in February 2025, the Mediterranean Extreme Events Experiment (M3E) was formed with 10 partners across Europe and the USA, including CMCC. M3E has deployed 20 drifting buoys into the Ionian Sea and the central Mediterranean Sea since September 2025, and many of these buoys provided important surface pressure observations during the winter storms, such as storm Harry in January 2026.

This is the second M3E workshop which will discuss the project’s progress to date, including the buoy deployments, storm Harry, early research findings, and future deployments. The link with the Global Observational Campaign (GARRP), whose aim is to investigate whether adding extra observations to the North Pacific and North Atlantic Oceans may increase medium-range weather forecast skill, will also be considered.

AGENDA:

8:30 – 9:10: Arrival and welcome

9:10 – 10:30: Session 1 – M3E overview and deployments

10:30 – 12:15: Session 2 – Extreme events and observation impacts

13:40 – 15:00: Session 3 – Future deployments

15:30 – 17:00: Session 4 – Links to other campaigns and research questions

CMCC speakers: 
Emanuela Clementi – CMCC
Emanuele Tedesco – CMCC
Angelo Campanale – CMCC
Viviana Piermattei – CMCC
Seimur Shirinov – CMCC
Enrico Scoccimarro – CMCC
Paola Mercogliano – CMCC