• 9:00 - 10:30 Session 3 (Chair: Andrea Toreti)

    • 9:00 - 09:30 Annalisa Molini [Abstract]
      Aridity, Intermittency and Extremes: Predicting hydrological extremes in hyper-arid Regions (Invited talk)

    • 9:30 - 09:45 Murat Türkeş, Haim Kutiel [Abstract]
      Climatological analysis of spatial variability in rain- spell characteristics in Turkey for the period 1970 to 2011

    • 9:45 - 10:00 Enrico Scoccimarro, Gabriele Villarini, Silvio Gualdi, Alessio Bellucci, Matteo Zampieri, Antonio Navarra [Abstract]
      Extreme precipitation events over the Euro-Mediterranean region: projections dependence on daily/sub-daily time scale definition

    • 10:00 - 10:15 Hadas Saaroni, Baruch Ziv, Judith Lempert, Yael Gazit, Efrat Morin [Abstract]
      Synoptic configurations responsible for prolonged dry spells in the Levant

    • 10:15 - 10:30 Vassiliki Iordanidou, Aristeidis G. Koutroulis, Ioannis K. Tsanis [Abstract]
      Cyclone-precipitation analysis for the island of Crete, Greece

  • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break and poster viewing (includes 5min presentations in front of posters)

  • 11:00 - 12:30 Session 3 (Chair: Murat Türkeş)

    • 11:00 - 11:15 David Barriopedro [Abstract]
      Revisiting blocking definition and associated impacts (Invited talk)

    • 11:15 - 11:30 Leone Cavicchia, Silvio Gualdi, Hans Von Storch [Abstract]
      Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones in present and future climate

    • 11:30 - 12:00 Simon O. Krichak [Abstract]
      The role of recent moisture transport trends in the climatology of extreme precipitation over the Euro-Mediterranean region (Invited talk)

    • 12:00 - 12:15 Alper Önen, İsmail Yücel [Abstract]
      Analyses of flood events using regional hydrometeorological modeling system

    • 12:15 - 12:30 Haim Kutiel, Murat Türkes [Abstract]
      Spatial and temporal variability of dryness distribution in Turkey

  • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch and poster viewing (includes 5min presentations in front of posters)

  • 14:00 - 15:30 Session 3 (Chair: Elena Xoplaki)

    • 14:00 - 14:15 Simone Russo, Alessandro Dosio, Paulo Barbosa, Juergen Vogt [Abstract]
      Extreme heat waves in present climate and their projection in a warming Mediterranean region

    • 14:15 - 14:30 Charles Hernandez, Philippe Drobinski, Solène Turquety [Abstract]
      Total fire size and fire radiative power in the Euro-Mediterranean area: different behaviors with respect to synoptic meteorology