Programme 

 The updated list of abstracts is available at the following links, including the abstracts of the poster session:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HTyD55lRNfiK2B0nncZjoZ_pmt3XtqQ7r0SJERfFiwQ/edit?usp=sharing

Welcome and registration 13:30 - 14:00

Gabriele Messori (Uppsala University, Sweden): Dynamics and statistics of wintertime pan-Atlantic compound climate extremes

Jacopo Riboldi (ETH, Switzerland): Circulation persistence and presence of Rossby waveguides during heatwaves in the Northern Hemisphere

Iago Perez (University of Oxford, United Kingdom):  Wave Breaking Events and their link to Rossby Wave Packets and Atmospheric Blockings during Southern Hemisphere Summer

Marco Cadau (IUSS Pavia, Italy): On the relationship between atmospheric blocking and Arctic-midlatitude thermal gradient

Coffee break 15:45 - 16:15

Nedjeljka Zagar (University of Hamburg, Germany): Trends in the global atmospheric circulation in wavenumber space

Yuan-Bing Zhao (University of Hamburg, Germany): Global responses of the atmospheric circulation and its variability to regional SST anomalies

Valerio Lembo (CNR-ISAC, Italy): The relation between extreme meridional energy transports, modes of circulation and heatwaves in Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes

Paolo Ghinassi (CNR-ISAC, Italy): A method for identification and tracking of RWPs based on Local Wave Activity and its application to ERA5 reanalysis data

Assaf Hochmann (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Do Atlantic-European Weather Regimes Exist?

Lenka Novak (CalTech, USA): Observed and modeled circulation responses in midlatitudes and today's techniques to overcome their discrepancies 

Kai Kornhuber (Climate Analytics, Germany / Columbia University, USA): Persistent and concurrent weather extremes in present and future climates

Chetankumar Jalihal (MPI-M, Germany): Impact of Heinrich Stadial-1 on mid-latitude climate: role of changes in ice-sheets vs North Atlantic SST

Anupama K. Xavier (RMI, Belgium): Variability and predictability in an idealized land atmosphere coupled model

Emmanuele Russo (ETH, Switzerland): A model hierarchy for improving the understanding of heatwaves

Coffee break 10:45 - 11:15

Christian Franzke (IBS, South Korea): Dynamics and Impacts of Heat Waves

Duncan Pappert (University of Bern, Switzerland): The dynamics of persistent heatwaves in European summers: an impacts perspective

Emanuele Bevacqua (Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research - UFZ, Germany): Direct and lagged climate change effects intensified the widespread 2022 European drought

Cassandra Rogers (Washington State University, USA): Sixfold Increase in Historical Northern Hemisphere Concurrent Large Heatwaves Driven by Warming and Changing Atmospheric Circulations

Tanja Porja (University of Tirana, Albania): Heat waves in the Western Albanian lowland - how extreme they can be?

Hasanian Al-Shamarti (LMU, Germany): Circulation aspects associated with heat wave events over Iraq and their associated sub-seasonal predictability

Lunch break 13:00 - 14:00

Valerio Lucarini (University of Reading, United Kingdom): Blockings as atypical, highly unstable atmospheric fluctuations

Vera Melinda Galfi (VUA, Netherlands): The typicality of extreme events

Pascal Yiou (LSCE-IPSL, France): Anticipation of major heatwaves: rare event methods for storylines

Erika Coppola (ICTP, Italy): Climate Change and Convective extremes: Insights from High-Resolution Convection-Resolving Models—Current Status and Future Outlook

Coffee break 16:00 - 16:30

Ronan McAdam (CMCC, Italy): A Spatio-Temporal Optimization-Based Feature Selection Framework for Detecting Drivers of Heatwaves and Warm Nights

Frank Kwasniok (University of Exeter, UK): Quantifying weather and climate risk using large-deviation theory

Quan Liu (MPI-M, Germany): Warmer is different: Increasing occurrence and impact of internally generated extreme summer North Atlantic Oscillation in a warmer climate

Social Dinner

Daniela Domeisen (ETH, Switzerland): Global and regional perspectives on heatwave dynamics and prediction

Tiffany Shaw (The University of Chicago, USA): Fast upper-level jet stream winds get faster under climate change

Wolfgang Wicker (University of Lausanne, Switzerland): On the role of Rossby wave phase speed for persistent temperature extremes

Iana Strigunova (Uppsala University, Sweden): Signatures of Eurasian heat waves in the large-scale Rossby waves in reanalyses and CMIP models

Christian Grams (MeteoSwiss, Switzerland): How synoptic weather activity and interaction with the extratropical wave guide matter for highly amplified Rossby waves and associated extremes

Hung-I Lee (University of Chicago, USA): On the upgradient eddy potential vorticity flux: the role of nonquasigeostrophic and nonadiabatic effects

Coffee break 10:45 - 11:15

Felix Strnad (University of Tübingen, Germany): Propagation pathways of Indo-Pacific rainfall extremes and their connection to the large-scale circulation

Chaim Garfinkel (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel): Precursors of extreme summer heat events in the Eastern Mediterranean: role of Mediterranean sea surface temperature

Federico Grazzini (ARPA Emilia-Romagna, Italy): Boosting extreme rainfall forecasting using non-local large-scale predictors