14th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms
Palma de Mallorca, Spain 13 – 16 November 2012. The EGU Meetings Programme is dedicated to the pursuit of progress in all areas of the Geosciences, Planetary and Solar System Sciences through excellence in the organization and running of conference series, meetings, workshops, short courses and training schools, for the benefit of all scientists and with special attention to the needs of young scientists.
Tuesday 19 June 2012
The EGU Meetings Programme is dedicated to the pursuit of progress in all areas of the Geosciences, Planetary and Solar System Sciences through excellence in the organization and running of conference series, meetings, workshops, short courses and training schools, for the benefit of all scientists and with special attention to the needs of young scientists.
The Plinius Conference has undoubtedly helped to increase the knowledge about the causes, to improve the modeling and prediction capabilities, to identify the sources of uncertainty, to improve the observation and management of weather-related disasters in the Mediterranean area.
This achievement was undoubtedly due to the inter-disciplinary nature of the conference.
We strongly encourage and support then the participation of experts in different disciplines, including: meteorology, climatology, oceanography, hydrology, geology, sociology, economics, ICT, decision-making.
Experts from these disciplines will be able to present their own unique perspectives on how to understand and manage storm-related disasters across the Mediterranean basin.
The Plinius Conferences are usually organised in sessions, according to specific topics. The topics foreseen for this 14th edition are:
- Social impacts of the Mediterranean storms.
- Mediterranean storms monitoring.
- Diagnosis and prediction of the Mediterranean storms.
- Hydrometeorology and hydrology of the Mediterranean storms
- Geological and marine consequences of the Mediterranean storms.
During years the Plinius Conferences have been associated with the project MEDEX. MEDEX has been an international project on cyclones that produce high impact weather in the Mediterranean, endorsed by WMO-WWRP in its first phase and framed into the WMO-WWRP-THORPEX during its second phase. The objectives and topics of the Plinius Conferences and of MEDEX largely overlap. Most MEDEX results have been presented at the Plinius Conferences and various MEDEX meetings have been held during them. MEDEX finished in 2010 and now is time for a Final Conference on MEDEX. The committee found it convenient to have this final conference together with the Plinius Conference.
A special session will be devoted to a compilation or review about MEDEX scientific achievements.
