Working Group 2 Kick-off Meeting

Process-based understanding of Mediterranean cyclones at climate time scales

Shira Raveh-Rubin

Weizmann Institute of Sciences

First (online) meeting – 10 December 2020

Introduction

Shira Raveh-Rubin: Welcome

Manos Flaounas: COST Action MEDCYCLONES

Shira Raveh-Rubin: WG2 goals, tasks and deliverables

Maria Hatzaki: Short-Term Scientific Missions (STSM)

Margarida Liberato: Science Communication in MEDCYCLONES

Talks to inspire research initiatives

Jennifer Catto: Extratropical cyclone classification and its use in climate studies

Stephan Pfahl: Potential vorticity diagnostics to understand future changes in extratropical cyclone dynamics

Simon Wild: Impact based tracking of Mediterranean cyclones

Initiatives

Shira Raveh Rubin: Cyclone classifications by processes

Manos Flaounas: Cross WGs initiative on cyclone tracking

Ségolène Berthou : Cyclone tracking in convection permitting climate simulations