Conference Agenda

Session
Disasters II: Earth Observation for High-Impact Hydroclimatic Hazards
Time:
Wednesday, 22/Nov/2023:
4:20pm - 6:00pm

Session Chair: Elody Fluck
Session Chair: Katy Aline Burrows
 Location: James Cook

Building 1, ESA-ESRIN

Session Abstract

4:20:pm: Session 1.04d: Earth Observation for High-Impact Hydroclimatic Hazards
(Duration: ~1hr40. Each talk: 15 min + 5min QA)

(Focus: The objective of this session is to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the latest scientific advances and predominant gaps in data, methodologies, and EO technologies of high impact weather events)

Chairpersons: Elody Fluck and Katy Burrows
Reporter: Claudia Vitolo

 4:20-4:35pm: Understanding and monitoring hydrometeorological extremes using Earth Observation (Luca Brocca, CNR)

 4:40-4:55pm: Paving the way from understanding to predicting intense Mediterranean cyclones and the specific case of medicanes (Emmanouil Flaounas, HCMR, Greece)

 5:00-5:15pm: Monitoring extreme heatwaves for improving climate resilience (Anand Jasdeep Singh, University of Leicester)

 5:20-5:35pm: Challenges in using EO to characterise vegetation fires in the Global Fire Assimilation System of CAMS (Johannes Kaiser, NILU)
 5:40-5:55pm: Drought impact forecasting using Earth Observation (Bueechi Emanuel, TU Vienna)


Presentations
ID: 125 / Disasters II: 1
Invited Oral presentation
Topics: Climate adaptation – Extremes, multi-hazards, and compound events

Understanding and monitoring hydrometeorological extremes using Earth Observation

Luca Brocca

National Research Council of Italy, Italy


ID: 231 / Disasters II: 2
Invited Oral presentation
Topics: Climate adaptation – Extremes, multi-hazards, and compound events

Paving the way from understading to predicting intense Mediterranean cyclones and the specific case of medicanes

Emmanouil Flaounas1, Silvio Davolio2, Christian Ferrarin3, Romain Husson4, Samira Khodayar5, Jonilda Kushta6, Mario Marcello Miglietta2, Giulia Panegrossi2, Florian Pantillon7, Shira Raveh-Rubin8

1Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Greece; 2Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), National Research Council of Italy, Italy; 3Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR), Venice, Italy; 4Collecte Localisation Satellites (CLS), France; 5Mediterranean Centre for Environmental Studies (CEAM), Spain; 6Climate and Atmosphere Research Centre (CARE-C), The Cyprus Institute, Cyprus; 7Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, IRD, France; 8Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel


ID: 129 / Disasters II: 3
Invited Oral presentation
Topics: Climate adaptation – Extremes, multi-hazards, and compound events

Monitoring extreme heatwaves for improving climate resilience

Jasdeep Singh Anand, Agnieszka Soszynska, Darren Ghent

University of Leicester, United Kingdom


ID: 138 / Disasters II: 4
Invited Oral presentation
Topics: Climate adaptation – Extremes, multi-hazards, and compound events

Challenges in using EO to characterise vegetation fires in the Global Fire Assimilation System of CAMS

Johannes W. Kaiser1, Kerstin Stebel1, Kjetil Tørseth1, Mark Parrington2, Enza Di Tomaso2

1NILU, Norway; 2ECMWF, Germany


ID: 128 / Disasters II: 5
Invited Oral presentation
Topics: Climate adaptation – Extremes, multi-hazards, and compound events

Drought impact assessment using Earth Observation

Emanuel Bueechi, Wouter Dorigo

TU Vienna, Austria