Interdisciplinary Workshop
Effects of climate change: coastal systems,
policy implications, and the role of statistics
Intense course for young researchers on
Statistical software for climate research, 16-17 March 2009.
Workshop schedule
Talk slides for download
Poster presentations for download
Software course material


Organizers:
Peter Guttorp, University of Washington
Hans Hanson, Lund University
Ulla Holst, Lund University
Georg Lindgren, Lund University
Jaak Monbaliu, K.U. Leuven
Tarmo Soomere, Tallinn University of Technology
Topics:
The themes for the workshop are facts and uncertainties of
climate change and its effects on coastal systems and marine
safety,
and the use of modern statistical tools to address some of these
important issues.
Statistics and climate extremes
- Peter Guttorp, University of Washington, Seattle: Looking for climate change signals in extreme temperatures
- Rick Katz, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder:
Improving the treatment of extremes in the generation of climate change scenarios
- Johan Lindström, Lund University: Estimation of non-stationary fields, applied to seabed data
- Richard Smith, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- Gaute Storhaug, Det Norske Veritas, Hövik:
IACS URS11 defines the dimensional wave load for ship design - but what does it mean from a
statistical point of view?
- Bo Ranneby, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå: Probabilistic classifiers using NN-balls
Climate change effects
- Myles Allen, University of Oxford
- Charmaine Dean, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver:
Looking for climate change signals in the Canadian forest fire ignition record
- Erik Kjellström, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Norrköping:
Changes in northern European wind climate:
climate models and observational data
- Andreas Sterl, KNMI, De Bilt:Hot temperatures and storm surges:
Modelling the change of climate extremes
- Paul Whitfield, Earth Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver:
Floods in future climates - process and statistical issues
- Judith Wolf, Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory, Liverpool:
Wave climate changes on the NW European shelf from model downscaling
Response of coastal systems to climate change
- Ulrika Roupé, Maritime Operations Division, SSPA Sweden AB:
Coastal Hazards Management - a climate change challenge
- Fredrik Gröndahl, Dept of Industrial Ecology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm:
Sustainable use of Baltic Sea natural resources based on ecological engineering and biogas production
- José António Macedo, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recurso Genéticos,
Departimento de Botânica, Universidade de Porto: Theoretical approaches to practical challenges:
Coastal dune ecology and integrated coastal zone management in an era of environmental changes
- Jens Würgler Hansen, Danish Ministry of the Environment, Denmark:
Effects and indicators of climate change in Danish coastal waters
- Hans Hanson, Dept of Water Resources Engineering, Lund University:
Coastal flooding and erosion - documented trends and possible impacts from climate change
- Jaak Monbaliu, K.U. Leuven: Natural and anthropogenic influence on sediment dynamics in the Belgian coastal
zone. Can they be separated and what are the policy implications in a changing
climate?
- Dries Van den Eynde, Coordinator of the CLIMAR project, Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Models ,
Brussels:
Evaluation of climate change impacts and adaption responses for marine
activities
- Tomas Torsvik, Technical University of Tallinn: Ship wakes in Tallinn bay: experimental and numerical study
Structure of workshop
All Wednesday-Friday we will have invited talks with substantial time
for discussion, as well as brief invitations to the afternoon poster sessions.
At the end of every day we will try to
summarize the main open questions and the suggestions made for
attacking them.
Schedule.
The workshop will be preceeded by one or two intense courses for young researchers.
At present Eric Gilleland (NCAR) has agreed to give an intense course in the use
of the statistical R-package for use with meteorological data. The course(s) will be
held at the Preluna Hotel immediately before the workshop.
It will start in the afternoon on Monday, March 16.
Practical details
A number of rooms have been pre-booked at Preluna Hotel (single and some doubles)
for the participants. For practical information, contact
Georg Lindgren, Mathematical Statistics, Lund.
Participants in the workshop
are expected to arrive on Tuesday, March 17, and leave Saturday, March 21.
Those who want to take part in the software course have a chance to arrive about noon on the Monday.
For those who want to see more of Malta after the workshop some touristic program will be arranged.
Requests to participate
There will be some spaces reserved for non-invited participants. These
are primaily intended for young researchers. Application details will
be posted here when they become available.