The V CMCC Workshop will take place at the  “Iberotel Apulia” in Marina di Ugento (LECCE – Italy)
from the 9^th to the 11^th of June, 2010.

– AGENDA –

WEDNESDAY  9
Morning

Opening h. 9.00 a.m.
Francesco Paparella — General introduction (10min)
Antonio Navarra — Welcome Speech of the President of the CMCC (15min)

I Keynote speech : Ola Johannessen
“Arctic Climate – present and
future challenges” (40min)

FIRST SESSION : “Climate of the past” – Convener: Simona Masina

• Annalisa Cherchi (ANS) — About the role of the ocean heat transport on climate (15min)
• Florence Colleoni (ANS) — GLIMMER-CISM : the last component of the Community Climate System Model 4 (15min)

– Discussion….(10min)

Coffee Break – h. 10.45 a.m.
h. 11.00 a.m.
SECOND SESSION : “Challenges in Climate Applications: current and future computational issues” Convener: Giovanni Aloisio

• Italo Epicoco (SCO) — Benchmarking Earth System Models (15min)
• Sandro Fiore (SCO) —  Managing Distributed Data Repositories (15min)
• Osvaldo Marra (SCO) —  Data Center management (15min)
• Giovanni Aloisio (SCO) —  Computational & Data Issues at Exascale (15min)

– Discussion…..(20min)

Lunch h. 13.00
Afternoon — Opening h.14.00

II Keynote speech : Martin Heimann
“Terrestrial Carbon Cycle –
Climate Feedbacks in a Warming World” (30min)

THIRD SESSION : “Modelling the biosphere” — Convener : Riccardo Valentini and Donatella Spano

• Monia Santini (UNITUS-IAFENT) —  Ensemble Forecasting from LPJ simulations over the Mediterranean Basin: Preliminary Results (15min.)
• Mladen Todorovic (IAMB-IAFENT) — Modelling the impact of climate change on crop growth and irrigation water requirements  (15min.)
• Marcello Vichi (ANS) — The CMCC Earth System Model and the challenge of modelling the oceanic biosphere (15min)
• Andrea Alessandri (ANS) — Coupling  between the land surface and the changing climate (15min)
• Valentina Mereu (UNISS-IAFENT) — Operational tools to assess climate change impacts on agriculture in Mediterranean areas (15min)
• Michele Salis (UNISS-IAFENT) — Application of wildfire spread and behaviour models to assess fire probability and severity in the Mediterranean region (15min)
• Andrea Alessandri (ANS) — Seasonal climate prediction activities at CMCC: ENSEMBLES EU project framework (10-15min)
• Costantino Sirca (UNISS-IAFENT) — Fire danger forecast at seasonal scale in the Euro-Mediterranean area (15min)
• Serena Marras/Giuseppe A.Trunfio (UNISS-IAFENT) — Numerical tools for Urban Metabolism studies and planning alternatives (15min)

– Discussion…..(30min)

Until h. 17.15 p.m…

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THURSDAY 10
Morning
Opening h. 8.30 a.m.

III keynote speech: Bert Metz — The recent Roadmap 2050 study from the European Climate Foundation (20+10min)

FOURTH SESSION : “Coupling climate and the economy” — Convener : Carlo Carraro
The state of Hexe

• Valentina Bosetti (CIP) — Towards linking CMCC climate and socio-economic models  (10min.)
• Andrea Pagano (CIP-ANS) — Temperature calculation based  on simulations analysis (15min)
• Monia Randolfi (ANS) — A first step linking WITCH with a Global Circulation model: A time-marching formulation of Dice (15min)
• Valentina Bosetti/ Francesco Paparella (CIP-FDD) — WITCH Policy Simulator, first steps towards the “CMCC global changes map” (20min.)

Coffee break h. 10:00  a.m.
h. 10.15 a.m.

Socio-Economic aspects of climate change

• Massimo Tavoni (CIP) — From RECIPE  and PLANETS to ROSE. Modelling Comparison towards more stringent mitigation targets   (15min.)
• Emanuele Massetti (CIP) — The  impact of climate change on land values (15min)

– Discussion…..(30min)

FIFTH SESSION : “Global changes, local changes: the problems of  downscaling”
Convener : Pasquale Schiano

• Enrico Scoccimarro (ANS) — A GLOCAL approach to climate investigations
  (15min)

• Edoardo Bucchignani (ISC) — Numerical simulations of the climate of Italy and Alpine area with the regional model COSMO-CLM (15min.)

• Monica Santese (ANS) — Modeling of Saharan dust outbreaks over the
  Mediterranean by RegCM3 : case studies (15min)

• Annalisa Cherchi (ANS) — CMCC contributions to CLARIS-LPB project
  (10-15min)

• Simona Masina (ANS) — MyOcean: the European road to a Marine
  Core Service (10-15min)

– Discussion…..(5min)

Lunch h. 13.00

Afternoon — Opening h. 14.00 p.m.

Continuation of the FIFTH SESSION….

• Paola Mercogliano (ISC) — Soil impacts of heavy rainfall on
  meteorological and climate time scale using numerical models and
  downscaling techniques (15min.)

• Silvia Torresan (ISC-CVR) — Introduction to the risk-based DEcision
  support System for COastal climate change impact assessment (DESYCO)
  (15min.)

• Daniele Brigolin (ISC-CVR) — Modelling tools supporting the implementation of the North Adriatic DSS (15min)

• Lara Lamon (ISC-CVR) — Climate change effects on POPs environmental behaviour: a case study (15min)

• Alfredo Vaccaro — The role of Learning Techniques and Numerical Weather Prediction Models for Wind Energy Forecasting (ISC-UNISANNIO) (15min)
• Maurizio Di Bisceglie (UNISANNIO-ISC) — Operational tools for retrieval and monitoring of atmospheric trace gas concentrations: the SO2 from volcanic emissions (15min)

– Discussion…..(30min)

Until h. 16.00  p.m.…….

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FRIDAY  11
Morning
Opening h. 8.30

• h.8.30-9.00 — CMCC Fund Raising activities and the new Call ENV2011(30min)  – Chair : Carlo Carraro – Giulia Galluccio
• h.9.00-9.15 — Presentation of the Social Reporting – Federica Viganò
• PARALLEL SESSION : h.9.30-13.00 — Meeting of the Scientific Advisors
• PARALLEL SESSION : h.9.30-11.00 — Working groups on the new Call FP7-ENV 2011

• PARALLEL SESSION : h.9.30-11.00 — Meeting on Management and Administrative Issues  – Chair : Laura Panzera
• h.11.00-11.30 — Coffee Break

• PARALLEL SESSION : h.11.30-13.00 — Meeting on Communication and Dissemination Activities – Chair : Francesco Paparella and Mauro Buonocore

• Discussion
  about the Climate Lab – Convener : Francesco Paparella (30min)

Lunch h. 13.00

Afternoon — Opening h. 14.00 p.m.

Meeting of the ChangeS School – Chair : Carlo Giupponi….(60min)

• Prof. Carlo Giupponi — “The Doctoral School ChangeS and the PhD Programme on Science and Management of Climate Change at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice”
• Eng. Giampiero Colangelo — “PhD in Energy Systems and Environment”
• Prof. Alberto Basset — “University of Salento PhD Programme on Ecology and Climate Change”
• Prof. Donatella Spano — “PhD Course on Agrometeorology and Ecophysiology of Agricultural and Forestry Ecosystems”

Until 15.30 p.m….