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11 IMSC Session Program
13:30 – 13:45 Heiko Paeth - Statistical postprocessing of simulated
precipitation – perspectives for impact research
13:45 – 14:00 Jean-Philippe Vidal and Eric Sauquet - Multimodel ensemble
climate projections for the Garonne river basin, France
14:00 – 14:15 A. Hannachi, T. Woollings and B. J. Hoskins - Nonlinear
circulation regimes and jet variability in the North Atlantic
14:15 – 14:30 Radan Huth and Monika Cahynová - Classifications of
circulation patterns from the COST733 database: An
assessment of synoptic-climatological applicability by twosample
Kolmogorov-Smirnov test
14:30 – 14:45 Iratxe González and Julia Hidalgo - A RCM bias correction
method for climatic indices expressed in a daily based
frequency applied to temperature projections of the North
Iberian Peninsula
14:45 – 15:00 Zuvelao Aloise Maja, Matulla Christoph, Lexer Manfred J.,
Scheifinger Helfried, Anders Ivonne, Auer Ingeborg and Böhm
Reinhard - Downscaling climate change simulations for impact
assessment studies within the Alpine region
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee Break - Pentland
Chair: Xuebin Zhang
15:30 – 15:45 Sebastian Wagner, Janina Koerper and Jonas Berking -
Statistical downscaling of precipitation of two transient
Holocene AOGCM simulations for central Sudan
15:45 – 16:00 Barbara Früh, Meinolf Kossmann and Marita Roos - Impact of
climate change on the heat load in Frankfurt am Main,
Germany
16:00 – 16:15 Charles Cuell - Statistical support for ad-hoc observations in
atmospheric synoptic typing
16:15 – 16:30 Radley Horton, Alex Ruane and Cynthia Rosenzweig -
Comparison of downscaling methods for stakeholder
applications in the urban Northeast U.S.
16:30 – 16:45 Chris Lennard - Statistical challenges for the Co-ordinated
Regional Downscaling Experiment (COREX)
13:30 – 16:45 Part 2 - Session 2 - Kirkland
Evaluation and uncertainty estimation from multimodel and perturbed physics
ensembles (Reto Knutti)
Chair: Reto Knutti
13:30 – 13:45 Leonard A. Smith - When is a model relevant?
13:45 – 14:00 Wendy S. Parker - Ensembles, metrics & probabilities
14:00 – 14:15 Dan Rowlands, Steve Jewson and Myles Allen - Objective
approaches to probabilistic climate forecasting
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