International Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Drought and Flood Conference

September 23 - 27, 2024

CSI ACRE WMO Speedbird Mariolopoulos Foundation

Commitees Speakers Topics Programme Participants Location Fee

Co-organized and Supported by:
Organizing Committee:

R. Allan, G. Compo, J. Luterbacher, R. Stefanski, R. Stone

List of Speakers Include:
TBA  
Scope:

Droughts and floods cause many problems, and enhances stresses and induces wide ranging impacts across both natural ecosystems and human societies, with losses of life, habitat, drinking water and food production. However, the great bulk of drought and flood studies have focused on events that occurred since the 1950s, or that are defined with limited weather and/or climate observations. Thus we need a far better analysis system that uses newly recovered observations and more fully captures long-term historical fluctuations and intensities of drought and flood histories.

We are proposing to hold a 3-day ACRE meeting on the island of Corfu in Greece (involving ACRE, ACRE-linked, WMO and international drought and flood specialists) in September 2024, that will be:

  • ◼ presenting the latest historical global to regional data rescue activities that have led to the recovery of new historical weather data during past droughts and floods.
  • ◼ highlighting the improvements to dynamical historical reanalyses (4D weather reconstructions) which allow them to better resolve past droughts and floods over the last 200-250 years.
  • ◼ engaging with international climate services and applications sectors, plus planning and management communities etc in order to improve their focus on, assessment and use of, these historical data and enhanced reanalyses in better addressing the risks, extremes and impacts of past droughts and floods.

Thus, this workshop will reveal and discuss what has been achieved so far using reanalysis systems and historical data rescue pertaining to drought and flood. It will examine and develop pathways that will uncover a significantly improved understanding of drought and flood occurrence. This would be a huge benefit to mankind.

Programme:
Meeting Location:

Mon-Repos, Corfu, Greece
(click here for a larger map, for a menu click on the top left icon of the map, GPS: geo:39.606101,19.926115)


Accommodations:

Guaranteed hotel availability is for a very limited time! Please make your hotel reservations ASAP!

Registration Fee:

Please register using the registration page, which is common for all Corfu events. The registration fee is 300€. For young researchers (students and 1st year postdocs) it is 200€. Payments may be transferred to the NTUA bank account shown in this form and the receipt emailed to Mrs Ifigeneia Moraiti.