Workshop on Statistical Methods for Meteorology and Climate Change

January 12-14, 2011

Program

 

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

09:00 - 09:15
Welcoming address - Pierre Baril (Directeur Consortium Ouranos)
Room(s) 6214

Session 1 - Climatology and Meteorology
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:15 - 10:00
René Laprise
(Université du Québec à Montréal)
Chaos serving order: Budget diagnostics of internal variability in regional climate simulations
Abstract

Slides
10:00 - 10:45
Ramón de Elía
(Ouranos)
Dealing with uncertainties in climate change projections
Abstract
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:15 - 12:00
James Merleau
(Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec)
Reservoir management adaptation in climate change context
Abstract

12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break

Session 2 - Statistics and climate models
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:45
Barbara Casati
(Consortium Ouranos)
Analysis of regional climate projections of extreme precipitation and temperatures by using an Extreme Value Theory non-stationary model
Abstract

Slides
14:45 - 15:30
Stephan R. Sain
(National Center for Atmospheric Research)
Statistical methods for analyzing regional climate model ensembles
Abstract

Slides
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
16:00 - 16:45
Luc Perreault
(Institut de recherche d'Hydro-Québec)
Mixtures of normal, gamma and Gumbel distributions
Abstract

Slides

 

Thursday, January 13, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session 3 - Statistics and climate models
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Francis Zwiers
(University of Victoria)
Anthropogenic influence on long return period daily temperature and precipitation extremes
Abstract

Slides
09:45 - 10:30
Reinhard Furrer
(University of Zürich)
Hierarchical framework for multi-model climate projections
Abstract

Slides
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
Petra Friederichs
(Meteorologisches Institut)
Extreme weather and probabilistic forecast approaches
Abstract

Slides

11:45 - 14:00
Lunch break

Session 4 - Extreme value theory and climate
Meeting room(s) : 6214

14:00 - 14:45
Philippe Naveau
(CEA-Orme des Merisiers)
Applying multivariate extreme value theory to environmental data
Abstract

Slides
14:45 - 15:30
Jean-Noël Bacro
(Université Montpellier 2)
Composite likelihood inference for spatial max-stable processes: a threshold approach
Abstract

Slides
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee, tea, cookies
Room(s) 6245

 

Friday, January 14, 2011

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session 5 - Dendrochronology and Paleoclimatology
Meeting room(s) : 6214

09:00 - 09:45
Joël Guiot
(Europole Mediterraneen de l'Arbois)
Proxy-based climate reconstructions during the last millennium and their assimilation in the climate models: from empirical to mechanistic methods
Abstract

Slides
09:45 - 10:30
Jean-Jacques Boreux
(Université de Liège)
From tree to climate using a Bayesian model all-purpose
Abstract

Slides
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
11:00 - 11:45
Bo Li
(Purdue University)
The value of multiproxy reconstruction of past climate
Abstract

Slides

11:45
Lunch
Room(s) 6245

Session 6
Meeting room(s) : 6214, 5392, 4348, 4336

11:45
Open Discussion Session