- 1 - - 2 - CONTENTS CONTENTS PREFACE .................................................................................................................................................... 15 SCIENTIFIC AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ................................................................. 17 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE .......................................................................................................... 17 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT ....................................................................................................... 17 SUPPORT COMMITTEE ................................................................................................................... 17 SESSION 1 ................................................................................................................................................ 18 THE MEDITERRANEAN REGIONAL CLIMATE SYSTEM .................................................................................... 18 CONVENERS: ................................................................................................................................................... 18 MARTA MARCOS, KATRIN SCHROEDER, FABIO D’ANDREA........................................................................... 18 NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MEDITERRANEAN CLIMATE VARIABILITY. .......................................................... 19 Vincenzo Artale (1) .................................................................................................................................. 19 GLOBAL ASSESSMENT OF HEAT WAVE MAGNITUDES FROM 1901 TO 2010 AND POSSIBLE IMPLICATIONS FOR THE RIVER DISCHARGE OF THE ALPS. ........................................................................ 20 Matteo Zampieri (1,2,3), Simone Russo (3), Silvana Di Sabatino (1), Melania Michetti (2), Enrico Scoccimarro (2,4), Silvio Gualdi (2,4) ....................................................................................................... 20 ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE EXTREME INDICES AT NORTHERN COAST OF EGYPT ................................. 21 Gamil Gamal Abd El-motey (1) ................................................................................................................ 21 LONG-TERM SUNSHINE DURATION (1936-2013) AND DOWNWARD SURFACE SOLAR RADIATION (1959- 2013) TRENDS FOR ITALY FROM INSTRUMENTAL TIME SERIES ................................................................ 22 Veronica Manara (1), Michele Brunetti (2), Maurizio Maugeri (1,2), Arturo Sanchez-lorenzo (3), Martin Wild (4) .................................................................................................................................................... 22 MEDITERRANEAN EXTREME PRECIPITATION: A MULTI-MODEL ASSESSMENT ........................................ 23 Leone Cavicchia (1), Enrico Scoccimarro (1,2), Silvio Gualdi (1,2), Paola Marson (11), Bodo Ahrens (3), Ségolène Berthou (5), Dario Conte (1), Alessandro Dell'aquila (6), Philippe Drobinski (5), Vladimir Djurdjevic (7), Clotilde Dubois (8), Clemente Gallardo (9), Laurent Li (5), Paolo Oddo (4), Antonella Sanna (1), Csaba Torma (10).................................................................................................................... 23 THE 6-13 SEPTEMBER EXTREME DUST DOWNFALL OVER THE EAST MEDITERRANEAN- A CEILOMETER STUDY .......................................................................................................................................................... 24 Pinhas Alpert (1), Smadar Egert (1), Leenes Uzan (1) .............................................................................. 24 EVALUATING THE ROLE OF RCM MODEL CONFIGURATION IN DETERMINING THE RESULTS OF SIMULATION OF EXTREME PRECIPITATION IN THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION ....................................... 25 Simon Krichak (2,), Pinhas Alpert (2), Giora Gershtein (3), Edoardo Bucchignani (1), Paola Mercogliano (1) ............................................................................................................................................................. 25 - 3 - CONTENTS A MULTI-TRACKING METHOD CLIMATOLOGY OF CYCLONES CROSSING THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION ..................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Piero Lionello (1,11), Isabel F. Trigo (2), Victoria Gil (3), Margarida L. Liberato (4), Katrin M. Nissen (5), Joaquim G. Pinto (6,7), Christoph C. Raible (8), Marco Reale (9), Annalisa Tanzarella (10), Ricardo M. Trigo (3), Sven Ulbrich (7), Uwe Ulbrich (5) ............................................................................................. 26 LOCAL AND EXTERNAL FACTORS DETERMINING INTERANNUAL SEA LEVEL VARIBILITY OF THE ADRIATIC AND BLACK SEAS IN THE 20TH CENTURY: COMPARISON AND CRITICALITIES. ......................................... 27 Luca Scarascia (2), Piero Lionello (1,2) .................................................................................................... 27 STATISTICAL DOWNSCALING OF EXTREME CLIMATE INDICES FOR BENGHAZI-LIBYA .............................. 28 Gamil Gamal Abd El-motey (1), Dalal Elbeshary (2) ................................................................................ 28 IMPACT OF SURFACE WATER TURBIDITY ON THE DYNAMICS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND ITS INTERACTION WITH THE ATMOSPHERE ..................................................................................................... 29 Vasileios Pefanis (1), Athanasios Nenes (1,2,3,4), Apostolia-maria Mavropoulou (1), Vassilios Vervatis (1), Sarantis Sofianos (1) .......................................................................................................................... 29 SYNOPTIC EVOLUTION SCENARIOS ASSOCIATED WITH PROLONGED DRY SPELLS IN ISRAEL .................. 30 Hadas Saaroni (1), Baruch Ziv (2), Tzvi Harpaz (1,2), Judith Lempert (1) ................................................ 30 INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY OF THE OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ............. 31 Apostolia Maria Mavropoulou (1), Athanasios Nenes (1,2,3,4), Sarantis Sofianos (1) ........................... 31 MULTIPLE EQUILIBRIA AND OVERTURNING VARIABILITY OF THE AEGEAN-ADRIATIC SEAS ................... 32 Yael Amitai (1,2), Hezi Gildor (1), Yosef Ashkenazy (2) ........................................................................... 32 CAN PRECIPITATION OVER ISRAEL BE PREDICTED FROM EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN HEAT CONTENT? 33 Hezi Gildor (1), Yael Amitai (1) ................................................................................................................ 33 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF VERTICAL WIND SHEARS OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN REGION BASED ON ERA-INTERIM REANALYSIS .......................................................................................... 34 Angelika Palarz (1), Daniel Celinski-myslaw (1) ....................................................................................... 34 EVALUATION OF HIGH RESOLUTION WRF DYNAMICAL DOWNSCALING OVER GREECE .......................... 35 Nadia Politi (1,2), Panagiotis T. Nastos (2), Athanasios Sfetsos (1), Diamando Vlachogiannis (1), Nikolas R. Dalezios (3), John Kapsomenakis (4) ................................................................................................... 35 CYCLONE STRUCTURE AS A CONTINUOUS SPECTRUM: THE MEDITERRANEAN CASE .............................. 36 Leone Cavicchia (1) .................................................................................................................................. 36 SURFACE HEAT, WATER AND MOMENTUM FLUXES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA ................................ 37 Simon A. Josey (1) .................................................................................................................................... 37 EXPLORING THE ADDED VALUE OF 12-KM CLIMATE MODEL OUTPUT FROM ERA-INTERIM DRIVEN CORDEX SIMULATIONS OVER THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ............................................................... 38 Panos Hadjinicolaou (1), George Zittis (1) ............................................................................................... 38 ROSSBY WAVE DYNAMICS ASSOCIATED WITH INDIAN SUMMER MONSOON AFFECTING THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN ........................................................................................................................................ 39 - 4 - CONTENTS D. Rizou (1), H. Preka (1), H. Flocas (1), M. Hatzaki (2) ............................................................................ 39 A DATA MINING APPROACH TO PREDICT WATERSPOUTS OVER IONIAN SEA (WEST GREECE) ............... 40 Nikolaos Kamperakis (1,2), Ioannis T. Matsangouras (1,2), Panagiotis T. Nastos (1), Ioannis Pytharoulis (3) ............................................................................................................................................................. 40 CAN LONG-TERM WAVE DATASET TRENDS BE REPRESENTATIVE OF LARGE-SCALE CLIMATE? ............... 41 Angela Pomaro (1), Luigi Cavaleri (1), Piero Lionello (2,3) ...................................................................... 41 JOINT MODES OF EXTREME CLIMATE INDICES OVER THE MEDITERRANEAN .......................................... 42 Iliana Polychroni (1), Panagiotis T. Nastos (1), John Kapsomenakis (2), Maria Hatzaki (1) ..................... 42 WATERSPOUT PARENT CLOUD ATTRIBUTES BASED ON MSG SEVIRI RSS INFRARED BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE OVER GREECE ...................................................................................................................