Annual Meeting of the American Geophysical Union

AGU26
7–11 December 2026 | San Francisco, USA
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From 7 to 11 December 2026, San Francisco hosts AGU26, the American Geophysical Union Annual Meeting and the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists.

CMCC researchers will take part in this year’s edition, bringing their expertise in climate science to the international dialogue under AGU26’s motto, “Where science connects”, exploring the connections between AI, Earth system, extremes, impacts and resilience, modelling and future scenarios.

Every year, the meeting brings together more than 25,000 attendees from over 100 countries to share scientific findings, make connections, collaborate and inspire one another. Researchers, scientists, educators, students, policymakers, exhibitors, journalists and communicators work together to better understand our planet and environment, and our role in preserving its future.

It is a results-oriented gathering rooted in celebrating and advancing positive individual and collective outcomes.

Discover the full agenda of CMCC contributions.

SESSIONS CO-CONVENED by CMCC:

Monday, 7 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
Session V11C | From Classical to Quantum: Integrating Established and Emerging Approaches for Volcanic Hazard Monitoring and Forecasting I (Poster session)
Conveners: Alessandro Sebastianelli

Monday, 7 December 2026, 14:15 – 15:45 | room 157 South
Session V13A | From Classical to Quantum: Integrating Established and Emerging Approaches for Volcanic Hazard Monitoring and Forecasting II (Oral session)
Conveners: Alessandro Sebastianelli

ORAL SESSIONS with CMCC authors:

Monday, 7 December 2026, 10:50 – 11:00 | Room 3000 West
A12E-03 | Emilia-Romagna (Italy) More Prone to Floods in a Changing Climate: the Cul-de-sac Effect
First author speaker: Enrico Scoccimarro

Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 09:05 – 09:10 | Room 2 South
NH21B-08 | OFIDIAPlus: An AI-Enabled Multi-Source Platform for Wildfire Danger Assessment and Fire Behaviour Prediction
First author speaker: Maria Mirto

Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 09:10 – 09:20 | Room 3002 West
H21I-05 | Beyond Benchmarking: Interpreting the Decision Process of LLM Agents in Multi-Reservoir Systems
First author speaker: Valeria Amato

Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 14:45 – 14:55 | room 2003 West
OS23C-04 | Mapping Oil Spill Hazards in the Coastal Mediterranean
Co-author speakers: Giovanni Coppini, Annalisa Bracco, Nadia Pinardi, Svitlana Liubartseva

Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 17:15 – 17:25 | room 307-308 South
NH24C-07 | PyroStack: A Multi-Band Spatio-Temporal Sub-Daily Dataset for Wildfires in the United States
Co-author speaker: Francesco Immorlano

Thursday, 10 December 2026, 16:55 – 17:05 | room 2005 West
C44B-05 | Airborne Hyperspectral TIR Observations of Surface Temperature, Emissivity and Lithology to Improve Understanding of Debris-Covered Glaciers Change
Co-author speaker: Jennifer Susan Adams

Friday, 11 December 2026, 08:40 – 08:50 | room 2010 West
GC51A-02 | Overcoming spring predictability barrier of Arctic sea ice in eddy-permitting coupled models
Co-author speakers: Andrea Cipollone, Dorotea Iovino

Friday, 11 December 2026, 09:40 – 09:50 | room 3011 West
B51A-08 | Evolving drivers of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt: past, present and future
First author speaker: Annalisa Bracco

POSTER SESSIONS with CMCC authors:

Monday, 7 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2069160 | A Dynamical Systems Perspective on AMOC Across Reanalyses and Models
Co-author presenter: Annalisa Bracco

Monday, 7 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2091431 | Quantum Machine Learning for Earth Observation: Current Paradigms, Applications, and Future Prospects
Co-author presenter: Alessandro Sebastianelli

Monday, 7 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2067463 | ReAnalysis of Water for Society (RAWS) – Co-Developing Next-Generation Global Water Intelligence
Co-author presenter: Guido Ascenso

Monday, 7 December 2026, 14:15 – 17:45 | Poster Hall (South)
2080426 | Looking Real Is Not Enough: GAUGE, an Evaluation Framework for AI-Generated Geophysical Fields
First author presenter: Guido Ascenso

Monday, 7 December 2026, 14:15 – 17:45 | Poster Hall (South)
2097165 | Diagnosing Labrador Sea Deep Convection Biases in Eddying Ocean Model Simulations Based on the OMIP-2 Project (session A13X)
Co-author presenter: Annalisa Bracco, Dorotea Iovino

Monday, 7 December 2026, 14:15 – 17:45 | Poster Hall (South)
2081983 | Diapycnal Mixing in Submesoscale Permitting Simulations of the Deep Brazil Basin
Co-author presenter: Annalisa Bracco

Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2089828 | A Multi-agent System for Earth Science Data Discovery and Analytics (session IN21C)
First author presenter: Donatello Elia

Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2065793 | CMIP7 Data Request: Land and Land Ice Priorities and Opportunities
Co-author presenter: Daniele Peano

Wednesday, 9 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2090948 | Trading off Controllability and Realism in Generative Climate Emulators
First author presenter: Francesco Immorlano

Wednesday, 9 December 2026, 14:15 – 17:45 | Poster Hall (South)
2070850 | Recovering Interpretable Operator Preferences in Multipurpose Reservoir Systems through Inverse Reinforcement Learning
First author presenter: Matteo Giuliani

Wednesday, 9 December 2026, 14:15 – 17:45 | Poster Hall (South)
2087909 | Teleconnection-Aware Deep Learning for Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Precipitation Forecasting in European River Basins
First author speaker: Giulio Palcic
Co-author presenters: Guido Ascenso, Matteo Giuliani

Wednesday, 9 December 2026, 14:15 – 17:45 | Poster Hall (South)
2080156 | Modeling the Impact of Changes in Nile River Discharge Due to the Aswan High Dam on the Mediterranean Sea
First author presenter: Muhammad Saad
Co-author presenters: Giovanni Coppini, Francesco Trotta

Thursday, 10 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2092865 | An Integrated Palaeoclimate Framework Combining High-Resolution Reconstructions and Regional Earth System Simulations for Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800 CE
First author presenter: Elena Xoplaki
Co-author presenter: Jingya Cheng

Thursday, 10 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2094219 | FluxIT: A New Eddy Covariance Software Built on Twenty Years of Community Flux-Processing Experience
First author presenter: Gerardo Fratini
Co-author presenters: Giacomo Nicolini, Simone Sabbatini

Thursday, 10 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2090883 | The FLUXNET Data System: continuous, harmonized ecosystem flux observations from a global network of eddy covariance towers
Co-author presenter: Simone Sabbatini

Thursday, 10 December 2026, 14:15 – 17:45 | Poster Hall (South)
2090697 | Analysis of Temperature Extremes over Eastern Arabian Peninsula using High-resolution Dynamically Downscaled Climate Projections
Co-author presenter: Jeremy S. Pal

Friday, 11 December 2026, 08:30 – 12:00 | Poster Hall (South)
2079737 | Bridging Reanalysis and Operational Forecasting for AI-based Windstorm Hazard Prediction
Co-author presenter: Maria Mirto