Summer School on: "Climate variability over the Mediterranean area: atmospheric and oceanic components"

The 1st ESF-MedCLIVAR summer school will educate, through keynote talks, interactive sessions and tutorials on the physical, statistical and modelling aspects of climate variability in the seasonal, long-term scales as well as in extremes. It will bring together the atmospheric and oceanic components of Mediterranean climate variability providing education across disciplines.

The school topics will include:

• The global and regional atmospheric mechanisms dominating the Mediterranean Climate
• Observed changes in the atmospheric and oceanic circulation
• Observed and modelled changes in atmospheric and oceanic parameters and their coupling
• Sea level and wind wave changes and their forcing
• Atmospheric and oceanic coupling of the Mediterranean Sea with the global atmospheric and oceanic circulation
• Changes in the extremes and the seasonality of atmospheric and oceanic parameters - Monitoring and forecast strategies
• Climate change policy and management

The School is targeted to active new researchers, Ph.D. students, and recent post-docs. In addition, researchers wishing to train or re-train in the subject of the school are also welcome especially if coming from developing Mediterranean countries not presently having a strong Mediterranean variability research established.

Additional information as well as an application form can be found at

http://www.medclivar.eu/summerschool1.html

Deadline for applications: 15 June 2008