| Date | Venue | Purpose |
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| 26 to 29 March 2019 | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain |
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Participants (click on image to zoom in)
Tuesday 26 March
| 9:30 | Welcome from BSC and PRIMAVERA science coordinators |
| 9:45 – 12:30 | Plenary session – PRIMAVERA high-resolution climate modelling results: WPs 1–3 |
| WP1 Development and application of metrics for process-based evaluations • Overview of WP1 work and results • ESMValTool and PRIMAVERA metrics: what we give and what we get • Relationships between ocean heat transport and Arctic sea ice • Summer temperature trends over western Europe in new high‐resolution climate models: consistency with observations and role of large scale circulation • Representation of blocking in a multi‐model ensemble of high‐resolution coupled global climate models |
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| WP2 Added value of high resolution in the atmosphere and the ocean • Overview on WP2 progress • Decadal‐scale response of the AMOC to reduced and increased wind stress forcing • Air‐sea interactions in the Gulf Stream region during extreme events • Impact of increased resolution and stochastic physics on Euro‐Atlantic Weather Regimes • Water budget of tropical cyclones in the PRIMAVERA ensemble |
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| WP3 The role of model physics • Overview of WP3 • Extratropical cloud feedbacks across model resolutions • Using rivers in JULES to understand HadGEM precip biases at catchment scale • HYDROS: an improved representation of river discharge in global coupled models • Progress in the implementation of the IDEMIX surface boundary layer model • Progress in the implementation of the OSMOSIS surface boundary layer model • Effect of improved sea ice processes on representing Arctic sea ice |
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| 14:00 – 16:00 | Plenary session – PRIMAVERA data and stakeholder work: WPs 4–6 |
| WP4 Frontiers of climate modelling • WP4 Overview • Stochastic physics • EC‐Earth3P eddy‐resolving coupled simulation • 4xCO2 simulations with eddy‐resolving model • Latest results from the AWI model |
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| WP5 Drivers of variability and change • WP5 Overview • AMV impact on Euro‐Mediterranean summer temperature • AMV impacts on Pacific ocean: importance of the mean state • Tropical North Atlantic as a potential non‐stationary modulator of the ENSO impact on spring European rainfall • Towards attribution of regional climate change: the recent Eurasian cooling |
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| WP6 Flagship simulations • Overview of the Stream 1 and 2 data delivery to JASMIN • Status of Stream 1 simulations • Stream 2 simulations: motivation, plans, status • HighResMIP status |
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| 16:30 – 18:00 | Plenary session – PRIMAVERA 'end-to-end' results |
| Topic 1: European storms • Brief introduction • Impacts of increasing model resolution on the North Atlantic eddy‐driven jet and blocking • North Atlantic post‐tropical cyclones • Analyses of characteristics of extratropical cyclones over Europe for the insurance sector using PRIMAVERA and CMIP5 GCMs |
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| Topic 2: Arctic sea ice and feedbacks • Increasing Atlantic Ocean heat transport in the latest generation coupled climate models and related changes in air-sea heat fluxes • Relationships between ocean heat transport and Arctic sea ice • Local and remote atmospheric responses to sea ice variations in Stream1 simulations • Northern Hemisphere atmospheric response to Arctic summer sea ice loss and impact of model resolution |
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| Topic 3: SST gradients • Introduction • Resolution dependence of oceanic forcing • Air‐sea interactions in the Gulf stream region • Impact of Gulf stream interaction of Europe Sybren |
Wednesday 27 March
CMIP6 workshop
Thursday 28 March
| 10:00 – 13:00 | Plenary session – PRIMAVERA data and stakeholder work: WPs 9–11 |
| WP10 Climate Risk Assessment WP11 User engagement and dissemination • Overview of WPs 10 and 11 • Extreme future central European summer droughts in a high‐resolution global climate model • Creating a wind storm event set from PRIMAVERA data for the (re)insurance industry • Comparison of statistics of selected meteorological events in CMIP5, CORDEX and in PRIMAVERA models • A three‐step participatory approach to climate services co‐production • Developments on the PRIMAVERA UIP |
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| WP9 HPC and Data Management • Overview and data availability • Plenary discussion on 'Data access and data issues' |
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| 14:30 – 16:00 | Breakout groups (BOG) for WP / topic meetings in parallel |
| BOGs to discuss inter alia: • stream 1 and 2 results • exploitation of results including CMIP/IPCC • any changes to the plan • communicating results / feedback to other WPs • other (e.g. data, papers, meetings, ...) |
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| 16:30 – 18:15 | Plenary session – feedback and discussion |
| Feedback from BOGs | |
| Feedback from EEAB and Expert Reviewer |
Friday 29 March
| 10:00 – 12:30 | Plenary session – expert feedback, exploitation of results and next steps |
| Feedback from EEAB and Expert Reviewer | |
| Further exploitation of PRIMAVERA outputs (CLIVAR, CMIP, IPCC, papers, etc.) | |
| Summary and next steps | |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | PRIMAVERA EMB – only EEAB and WP leads to attend |