CFMIP/WCRP/ICTP Conference on Cloud Processes, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity

[Mark Webb]

CFMIP/WCRP/ICTP Conference on Cloud Processes, Circulation and Climate
Sensitivity

The CFMIP/WCRP/ICTP Conference on Cloud Processes, Circulation and
Climate Sensitivity will be held 4-7 July 2016 at the International
Center for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. This CFMIP/WCRP/ICTP
international conference will focus on the theme of the WCRP Grand
Challenge on Clouds, Circulation and Climate Sensitivity, in addition to
addressing other ongoing CFMIP activities.

The four-day conference will contain oral and poster sessions on:

- Modeling and observational constraints on cloud feedbacks, adjustments
and climate sensitivity, including the role of moist convection in cloud
feedbacks

- Cloud/circulation/precipitation coupling and its variability in
present and future climates, including hydrological extremes and ITCZ
and storm track changes.

- Process based evaluation of clouds and cloud controlling factors in
climate models using fine scale models and observations, including
satellite simulators.

- How will the organization of cloud systems interact with climate change?

- Coordination of CFMIP and Grand Challenge activities with CMIP6.

The deadline for abstract submissions is April 15, 2016.

For more information, please visit the conference site at:
http://www.giss.nasa.gov/meetings/cfmip2016/

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interested to also attend the ICTP Summer School on Aerosol-Cloud
Interactions which takes place the week preceeding the conference: June
27-July 1. The tuition is by Wojciech W. Grabowski, Chris Bretherton,
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limited - to apply see http://indico.ictp.it/event/7614/

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Mark Webb Climate Scientist
Met Office Hadley Centre
FitzRoy Road Exeter EX1 3PB United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1392 884515 Fax: +44 (0)1392 885681
E-mail:mark...@metoffice.gov.uk http://www.metoffice.gov.uk
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