Organising Committee

Douglas Maraun (GEOMAR)
Martin Widmann (U Birmingham)
Rasmus Benestad (Metno, Norway)
Jens Christensen (DMI, Denmark)

 

Speakers

Richard Chandler (UC London)
Deliang Chen (U Gothenburg)
Petra Friederichs (U Bonn)
Heike Huebener (Environment Agency Hesse)
Radan Huth (U Prague)
Erik Kjellström (Swedish Meteorological Institute)
Ian Noble (World Bank)

(to be continued)

Programme

An integral part of the EU COST Action VALUE is to initially adjust the scientific programme to end user needs. The conference aims to discuss different requirements of different end user communities, such as impact modellers, environment agencies, health authorities or politics. The VALUE working groups will then synthesise this information and adjust their science plan accordingly to ensure the best usability of their results and optimally tailored products for the end users of regional climate change simulations. The conference will be an ideal opportunity for those who would like to liaise with VALUE or simply would like to ensure that downscaling methods will be developed in a useful direction. 

The particular questions to be discussed will include

• which variables are of interest for end users of climate change simulations?
• which aspects of these variables (mean, extremes...)?
• which climatic regions?
• which time scales?
• what is the required accuracy?

Presentations about downscaling methods and their validation are welcome as well. The conference will feature oral sessions and a poster session. 

Deadlines

We invite you to register and submit your abstract by mail to value2012(at)geomar.de until 31.1.2012. The number of participants will be limited to 70, selected on a first-come-first-serve basis.  

A conference fee of 50 EUR will have to be paid. Details will follow shortly. 

 

VALUE

 The conference will be the scientific kick-off for the new COST Action ES1102 "VALUE" on validating and developing  downscaling methods for climate change research and adaptation. Currently 19 European countries participate in VALUE, represented by institutes such as the METNO, SMHI, DMI, ETH Zurich, MeteoSwiss or the ICTP Trieste. Details about VALUE can be found at 

http://www.cost.esf.org/domains_actions/essem/Actions/ES1102


For informal inquiries do not hesitate to contact Douglas Maraun (dmaraun(at)geomar.de) or Rasmus Benestad (rasmus.benestad(at)met.no).

 

More detail will be available in January 2012.