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<p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri">Dear colleagues,<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri">we would like to invite you to
consider to submit an abstract at our session at EGU 2018 on "Coupled
atmosphere-hydrological modeling for improved hydro-meteorological predictions” (<a href="http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26671">http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2018/session/26671</a>).<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri">We would like to invite for
abstracts to encurage the discussion on coupled atmosphere-hydrology modeling
among different groups worldwide, model systems and coupling approaches.<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri">It is a co-organized session
within the Natural Hazards-, Atmospheric Sciences- and Hydrological Sciences
Divisions.<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri">Yours sincerely,<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span>Francesca Viterbo, CIRES-NOAA/USA<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span>David Gochis, NCAR/USA <span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span>Alfonso Senatore, University of Calabria/Italy<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span>Harald Kunstmann, KIT & University of
Augsburg/Germany<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span lang="IT" style="font-family:Calibri"><span> </span>The session description is as follows:<span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria">
</p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black;background:white">Prediction skill of hydro-meteorological forecasting systems has
remarkably improved in recent decades. Advances in both weather and hydrology
models, linked to the availability of more powerful and efficient computational
resources, allowed the development of even more complex systems based on the
combination of spatially distributed physically-based hydrologic and hydraulic
models with deterministic and/or ensemble meteorological forecasts. In
particular, among the emerging paradigms in the modeling of atmospheric and
hydrological processes, fully-coupled modeling is a topic of growing interest
among hydrometeorologists, hydroclimatologists and traditional hydrologists
alike, because the possibility of including groundwater and soil moisture
redistribution feedback in the lower boundary condition of meteorological
models portends an improvement in process representation of water and energy
fluxes modeling between land and the atmosphere. The improvement of
hydrometeorological process representation and forecasts is one of the main
purposes of the development of novel, fully two-way dynamically coupled
atmospheric-hydrological modeling systems.</span><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"><br>
<span style="background:white">The primary objective of the session is to
create a valuable opportunity for the interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and experiences
among atmospheric-hydrological modelers and members of both hydrology and Earth
System modeling communities. Contributions are invited dealing with the complex
and cyclical interactions between surface water, groundwater and regional
climate, with a specific focus on those presenting work on the development or
application of one-way (both deterministic and ensemble) or fully-coupled
hydrometeorological prediction systems for flood, flash-flood and water
resources prediction. Presentations of intercomparisons between one-way and
fully-coupled hydrometeorological chains are particularly encouraged, such as
contributions on novel one-way and fully-coupled modeling systems that bridge
spatial scales through dynamic regridding or upscaling/downscaling
methodologies. Finally, presentations about on-field experiments and testbeds
equipped with complex sensors and measurement systems allowing multi-variable
validation of such complex modeling systems are also welcome.</span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span></span></span></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-family:Calibri;color:black"><span style="background:white"><br></span></span></p>
<div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px">-- </span><br style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr">Francesca Viterbo, Ph.D.<div>Physical Sciences Division</div><div>NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory</div><div>R/PSD2, 325 Broadway</div><div>Boulder, CO 80305-3337</div><div>303-497-6702</div><div><a href="mailto:francesca.viterbo@noaa.gov" target="_blank">francesca.viterbo@noaa.gov</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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