4th CAFE WORKSHOP
In-person at ECMWF, Reading, UK | 29-31 March 2022
Workshop description
This is the fourth workshop of the Climate Advanced Forecasting of sub-seasonal Extremes (CAFE) project.
This workshop will include keynote presentations on a variety of aspects related to sub-seasonal forecasting and its applications. There will also be a focus on soft skills with activities to develop these.
This workshop is part of the ongoing activities of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Innovation Training Network (ITN).
Attendance
There is a free admission policy to the scientific sessions within the limits of available places. Please complete the registration form if you are interested in attending one or several sessions.
COVID Procedures
The workshop will be held in person in Reading, UK. ECMWF has put in place a number of COVID Health and Safetly measures to reduce the risk of transmission in the workplace to the lowest practicable level making ECMWF a safe place to work.
ECMWF requires all persons on site to provide proof of vaccination (minimum 2 doses), proof of recovery from COVID or evidence of a negative COVID Lateral Flow Test conducted in the preceding 24 hours to access the site.
All participants are required to sign a copy of the ‘COVID-19 Site Health and Safety Procedures’ prior to arrival or on arrival at Shinfield Park.
Contact us at cafeproject@crm.cat.
TIMETABLE
Time (BST/ UTC + 1)
Tuesday, 29 March
→ Welcome and registration for in-person attendees
→ Welcome and housekeeping
Presenters: Florian Pappenberger and Becky Hemingway (ECMWF)
→ Perspective on the peer-review process as a journal editor and discussion
→ ESR presentations
Heatwaves over Europe: Connection to large-scale circulation and main climate drivers – Emmanuel Rouges (ECMWF)
Combined influence of ENSO and AAO on precipitation in Southeastern South America – Xinjia Hu (Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems)
A Complex Network approach for understanding Climate Extremes – Shraddha Gupta (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research)
→ Lunch
→ Group Photo for those in person (by ducks)
→ Group Photo for those in Zoom (virtually)
→ Panel discussion on Methods for teleconnection detection
→ ESR presentations (1h)
Predictability and MJO influence on the forecast skill of long-lived RWPs in the Southern Hemisphere summer in the NCEP S2S subseasonal model – Iago Perez (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
→ Social Event – organised by ESRs (only for in-person attendees)
Wednesday, 30 March
→ Machine Learning workshop
→ ESR presentations
Identifying relevant large-scale predictors for sub-seasonal precipitation forecast using explainable neural networks – Niclas Rieger (Centre de Recerca Matemàtica)
Ensemble forecast of the Madden Julian Oscillation using a stochastic weather generator based on analogs of Z500 – Meriem Krouma (ARIA Technologies)
– Riccardo Silini (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
→ Machine Learning workshop continues
→ 14Lunch
→
inner
Friday, 1 April
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SPEAKERS
Becky Hemingway
User Outreach and Engagement Officer ECMWF and Co-Editor in Chief of Atmospheric Science Letters RMetS
Hannah Cloke
Professor of Hydrology at University of Reading