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Programme
Talks
9:30-9:50 Coffee and attaching posters
9:50-10:00 Welcome by dr. Hugo De Backer, head of the Ozone, UV and aerosol group of the RMI
| 10:00-11:20 Session 1: Regional climate modeling Chair: Xavier Fettweis (ULG) |
10:00-10:20 Modeling land-atmosphere interactions: the impact of deforestation in tropical Africa on the regional climate [pdf]
Akkermans T., Y. Nouvellon, D. Lauwaet., N.P.M. Van Lipzig (KULeuven)
10:20-10:40 Analysis of the atmospheric circulation simulated by GCMs over Greenland [pdf]
Belleflamme A., X. Fettweis, M. Erpicum (ULG)
10:40-11:00 The Ice Sheet Margin: Greenlands sore spot to future climate evolution [pdf]
Fürst J.J., H. Goelzer, O. Rybak, P. Huybrechts (VUB)
11:00-11:20 Improving grounding line migration in numerical ice sheet models [pdf]
Docquier D., F. Pattyn (ULB)
11:20-11:50 Coffee and poster viewing
| 11:50-12:50 Session 2: Past climate Chair: Hugues Goosse (UCL) |
11:50-12:10 Testing a particle filter to reconstruct climate changes over the past centuries [pdf]
Dubinkina S., H. Goosse, Y. Sallaz-Damaz, E. Crespin, M. Crusifix (UCL)
12:10-12:30 Constraining the evolution of the intensity of the meridional overturning circulation using a particle filter [pdf]
Crespin E., H. Goosse, Y. Sallaz-Damaz, S. Dubinkina, T. Fichefet (UCL)
12:30-12:50 Statistical emulator of the rapid response of climate system to orbital forcing variations [pdf]
Bounceur N., M. Crucifix (UCL)
12:50-14:30 Lunch break and poster viewing
| 14:30-15:50 Session 3: Remote Sensing Chair: Laurent Delobbe (RMI) |
14:30-14:50 Modeling of the ageing effects on Meteosat First Generation visible band [pdf]
Decoster I., N. Clerbaux, P.J. Baeck, E. Baudrez, S. Dewitte, A. Ipe, S. Nevens, A. Velazquez (RMI, VUB)
14:50-15:10 Sounding the Earth's Atmospheric Water Vapour Using Signals Emitted by Global Navigation Satellite Systems [pdf]
Pottiaux E., C. Bruyninx, P. Defraigne (ROB)
15:10-15:30 Estimating scaled cloud optical thickness from SEVIRI by implementing a semi-analytical cloud retrieval algorithm [pdf]
Pandey P., K. De Ridder, N. Van Lipzig (VITO, KULeuven)
15:30-15:50 Convective storm track analysis based on C-Band radar reflectivity measurements [pdf]
Goudenhoofdt E., M. Reyniers, L. Delobbe (RMI)
15:50-16:20 Coffee
| 16:20-17:00 Session 4: Air quality modeling Chair: Koen de Ridder (VITO) |
16:20-16:40 CFD modelling of traffic induced ultrafine particles in a street canyon in Antwerp [pdf]
Nikolova I., S. Janssen, B. de Maerschalck, V. Mishra, P. Berghmans (UA, VITO)
16:40-17:00 An upstream differencing method in the case of varying direction of the flux [pdf]
Wouters H., K. Santens, J.-F. Geleyn (VITO)
17:00 Closure
Posters
P1: Post-processing through linear regression [pdf]
Van Schaeybroeck B., S. Vannitsem (RMI)
P2: The interest of regional modelisation for wind power forecasting [pdf]
Doutreloup S., X. Fettweis, M. Erpicum (ULG)
P3: Towards a new orbital tuning for the late Pliocene-early Pleistocene marine cores [pdf]
Lenoir G., M. Crucifix, F. Bassinot (UCL, CNRS)
P4: High resolution modelling of the Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using the regional climate MAR model coupled with a downscaling interface [pdf]
Franco B., X. Fettweis (ULG)
P5: A drop in upper tropospheric humidity in autumn 2001, as derived from radiosonde measurments at Uccle [pdf]
Van Malderen R., H. De Backer (RMI)
P6: 3 applications of the Finite Element Louvain-la-Neuve Sea-Ice Model (FELIM): on the sphere, in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and with a moving grid [pdf]
Bouillon S., O. Lietaer, T. Fichefet, V. Legat (UCL)
P7: Influence of Initialization Method and Systematic Model Errors on the Quality of Decadal Climate Predictions [pdf]
Zunz V., H. Goosse, S. Dubinkina, Y. Sallaz-Damaz (UCL)
P8: Downscaling present and future near surface wind speeds of Belgium, taking into account the effect of climate change and land use change
Devis A., N. Van lipzig, M. Demuzere, J. Monbaliu (KULeuven)
P9: Experimental Design and output reduction in Climate experiments [pdf]
Bounceur N., M. Crucifix (UCL)
P10: Downscaling precipitation in Belgium [pdf]
Brisson E. (KULeuven)
P11: Development and assessment of reliable statistical downscaling methods for the future climate [pdf]
Brisson E., M. Demuzere, N.P.M. Van Lipzig (KULeuven)
P12: Aerosol Optical Depth measurements at 340 nm with a Brewer spectrophotometer and comparison with Cimel sunphotometer observations at Uccle, Belgium [pdf]
De Bock V., H. De Backer, A. Mangold, A. Delcloo (RMI)
P13: Effects of historical urbanization in the Brussels Capital Region on surface air temperature time series: a model study [pdf]
Hamdi R., A. Deckmyn, P. Termonia, G. R. Demarée, P. Baguis, S. Vanhuysse, E. Wolff (RMI, ULB)
P14: The contribution of urbanization, climate and mitigation strategies to the urban meteorology: A case study for Melbourne (Australia) and Toulouse (France) [pdf]
Demuzere M., T. Akkermans, E. Brisson, N.P.M. van Lipzig, J. Beringer, N. Tapper, R. Hamdi (KULeuven, Monash, RMI)