Keynote Speakers

Extreme events and hazards assessments

• Joannes Westerink (University of Notre Dame)
• Takahiro Sayama (Kyoto University)
• Kei Ishida (Kumamoto University)
• Akihiro Hashimoto (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency)
• Julie Mireille Thériault (Université du Québec à Montréal)
• John Warner (U.S. Geological Survey (USGS))
• Hiroaki Kawase (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency)

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Toward Global CPMs

• Chihiro Kodama (JAMSTEC/NICAM)
• Christian Jakob (Monash University)
• Cathy Hohenegger (Max Planck Institute for Meteorology)
• Roy Rasmussen (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

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Advancements in high-resolution regional and global climate modeling

• Andreas F. Prein (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
• Germán Poveda (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
• Jessica D. Lundquist (University of Washington)
• Nikolina Ban (University of Innsbruck)
• Klaus Goergen (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

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Ensemble based on high-resolution modeling

• Izuru Takayabu (Meteorological Research Institute, Japan Meteorological Agency)
• Stefan P. Sobolowski (NORCE)
• Lizzie Kendon (UK Met Office)
• Fei Chen (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
• Satoshi Iizuka (National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience)
• Filippo Giorgi (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)

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Computer science and next generation supercomputers

• Hirofumi Tomita (RIKEN Center for Computational Science
• Irfan Elahi (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
• Oliver Fuhrer (Vulcan Inc.)