ORGANIZERS

National Committee CLIVAR-ES INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM CLIMATE – ES 2015 National Committee WCRP-ES AEC: Spanish Climatological Society AME: Spanish Meteorological Society OECC: Spanish Office for Climate Change AEMET: Spanish Meteorological Service

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

Enrique Sánchez (University of Castilla La Mancha - UCLM and CLIVAR-ES) Belén Rodríguez - Fonseca (University Complutense of Madrid - UCM, IGEO - CSIC and CLIVAR-ES) Manola Brunet (Rovira i Virgili University - URV and CLIVAR-ES) Javier Martín-Vide ( - UB and WCRP-ES) María José Estrela (University of Valencia - UV and AEC) Progress on climate change detection and Susana Pacheco (AEC) Antonio Mestre (AME, AEMET) projections over since the findings of Aida Velasco (OECC) Javier Sigró (Rovira i Virgili University - URV) the IPCC AR5

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Centre for Climate Change (C3) Tortosa, Tarragona, Spain Manola Brunet (C3/URV) Javier Sigró (C3/URV) Constanţa Boroneanţ (C3/URV) 11-13 March 2015 Joan Ramon Coll (C3/URV) Mercè Castellà (C3/URV) Alba Gilabert (C3/URV) Núria Pérez (C3/URV) Xavier Benito (C3/URV) Olga Alegria (C3/URV) Scientific Organizers Local Organizers Elito Also (C3/URV)

Linden Ashcroft (C3/URV) Annamária Lehoczky (C3/URV)

HONOUR COMMITTEE

Eduardo Balguerías, Director of the Spanish Oceanography Institute Ferran Bel i Accensi, Major of Tortosa Josep Anton Ferré, Rector of the University Rovira i Virgili Sponsors José Llorca Ortega, President of the State Harbours Miguel Ángel López, President of the Spanish State Meteorological Agency Susana Magro, Director of the Spanish Office on Climate Change Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Foundation Culture of Peace Carmen Vela, State Secretary for Research, Development and Innovation Santi Vila i Vicente, Minister of the Department of Territory and Sustainability of the Government of THIRD CIRCULAR Symposium Agenda Friday 13 March Session 5: Future climate change. Regional climate projections over Wednesday 11 March Spain: atmosphere. Session chairs: Miguel Angel Gaertner (UCLM) and Juan Pedro Montávez (UM). Opening Ceremony · Climate information for the next 30 years, a new tool for climate adaptation. By Paco Session 1: Climate change in the pre-instrumental era: Palaeoclimate recon- Doblas, IC3. structions and simulations over the Iberian Peninsula. Session chairs: Joan Grimalt · Regional climate projections in the Iberian Peninsula (2060-2100). By Manuel de Cas- (CSIC-IDAEA) and Santiago Giralt (IJA/CSIC). tro, UCLM. · Climate reconstruction and simulation: from global to regional scales. By Fidel Gonzá- Session 6: Future climate change. Regional climate projections over lez-Rouco (UCM /IGEO-CSIC). Spain: marine environment. Session chair: Gabriel Jordà (IMEDEA-CSIC-UIB). st Session 2: Climatic observations and instrumental reconstructions: the de- · Climate change analysis in the Spanish shores and harbours for the 21 century. By velopment of high-quality climate time-series, gridded products and data as- Enrique Álvarez Fanjul (State Harbours). similation techniques. Session chair: José Antonio Guijarro (AEMET). Round Table: Challenges for communicating climate change to the society; · Current monthly homogenization approaches – benchmarking their strengths and weaknesses. By Victor Venema (U. Bonn). Moderator: Javier Martín Vide (UB); Speakers: Antonio Cerrillo (La Vanguardia:), · Gridded datasets: limitations and uncertainty sources. By Sixto Herrera (UCAN and Jose Luis Piñuel (UCM), Pablo Meira (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela); Florenci Predictia). Rey (SER), Ferran Puig (Ustednoselocree), Rogelio Fernandez Reyes (MDCS – UCM and Social event: Guided tour of historic Tortosa GREHCCO – U. Sevilla) Social event: Ice-breaker at the Parador de Tortosa – Castell de la Suda Closing Ceremony Thursday 12 March Saturday 14 March Session 3: Atmospheric variability: Trends, variability modes and telecon- nections within the Euro-Atlantic sector. Session chairs: Ernesto Rodríguez Social event: Trip to Ebro Delta (AEMET) and Sergio Vicente Serrano (CSIC-IPE). VENUE · Modes of Climate Variability and Atmospheric Circulation Systems in the Euro-Atlantic sector. By David Barriopedro (UCM-CSIC). The Symposium CLIMATE-ES 2015 will be held at Session 4: Oceanic variability and sea level changes in the Iberian Peninsula shores and its archipelagos. Session chairs: Jordi Salat (ICM-CSIC) and Pedro Vélez Universitat Rovira i Virgili's Campus Terres de l’Ebre (IEO) in Tortosa, the capital of the Baix Ebre region in the · Oceanic climate variability over the Spanish Atlantic waters. Observed changes and trends in recent decades. By César González-Pola (IEO). south of Catalonia. · Changes in the Mediterranean water masses: detection and causes. By Manuel Vargas Social activities (IEO). Wednesday 11 March, 18:00–20:00: Guided tour of historic Tortosa Side event on Climate Services: Opportunities, limitations and challenges to deliver robust and timely climate services. Wednesday 11 March from 20:30: Conference Ice-breaker at the Parador Operational issues: observing systems, data exchange, climate information and predictions Thursday 12 March, 16:30–17:00: Official welcome at Tortosa Town Hall (Fernando Belda or Yolanda Luna, AEMET). Research supporting climate services: EU projects, ECOMS, GFCS (Paco Doblas-Reyes, Saturday 14 March, 09:00–18:00: Ebro Delta field trip IC3). Full program, registration and more details about the Symposium available at: Climate Services by sector for: Health (Rachel Lowe, IC3), Energy (Nube González, IC3) and Water (Ernesto Rodríguez, AEMET). www.climaes2015.urv.cat Open discussion (Moderator: Paco Doblas-Reyes (IC3/BSC/ICREA).

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