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Description
 
Organized convective systems are often responsible for high impact precipitation extremes, and changes in convective organization have the potential to amplify or dampen future climate change. The conference follows the previous iterations of this meeting (held online, in Utrecht and Trieste), with the goal of examining our understanding of cloud organization in models and observations.
 

The meeting’s central themes are:

  • Extreme precipitation from organized convection
  • Convective organization over land
  • Organization of convection in global km-scale models
  • Artificial intelligence applied to convective organization
  • Cold-pool driven convective organization
  • Shallow and congestus convective organization (over ocean and land)
  • Convective organization’s feedback on climate change
  • Convective organization and tropical waves
 
Research abstracts: In the application form, all applicants are requested to submit a brief research abstract for a poster presentation and/or contributed talk. A limited number of abstracts will be selected for the poster session or to give a talk. Please use ICTP templates available for download here and below under 'Material'.


Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. 
There will be a small registration fee charged to cover catering that includes
lunches, coffee breaks and a reception.
Please see the conference website for further details.

Material

WCO5 - 5th Workshop on Convective Organization | (smr 4191)
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  • Monday, 9 March 2026
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Optional tour of INPE 
      An optional tour of INPE’s satellite assembly, testing, and control facilities will be offered on Friday, 13 March. You may sign up during registration.
    • 12:30 - 17:00 Amazon Session
      • 12:30 Registration Formalities 1h0'
      • 13:30 Convection in the northwestern Amazon region 30'
        Speaker: Daniel HERNANDEZ DECKERS (Universidad Nacional de Colombia)
      • 14:00 Cloud–Forest Coupling: Insights from Amazon Observations and Multiscale Modelling 15'
        Speaker: VILA GUERAU DE ARELLANO Jordi (Wageningen University)
      • 14:15 Impacts of Land Cover on Cloud Organization Across Amazonia 15'
        Speaker: Luiz MACHADO (Max Planck Institute For Chemistry)
      • 14:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:00 Evaluations of the sensitivity of the shallow-to-deep convective transition in the Amazon to the vertical distribution of humidity using two numerical models 15'
        Speaker: Barbosa Henrique (University of Maryland)
      • 15:15 A New Ground-Based IR Dataset for Convection-Resolving Model Evaluation in the Amazon 15'
        Speaker: Theotonio PAULIQUEVIS (Federal University of Sao Paulo)
      • 15:30 Tropical CO2-Exchange Across Convective Regimes in ECMWF-IFS 15'
        Speaker: Vincent DE FEITER (Wageningen University)
      • 15:45 Climatology of Amazonian Squall Lines derived by Algorithmic Detection and Tracking of Coherent Features 15'
        Speaker: Frederik Luis VIEIRA FISCHER (Goethe University)
      • 16:00 Lunch Break 1h0'
    • 17:00 - 19:00 Extreme Precipitation Session 1
      • 17:00 Precipitation extremes over the Maritime Continent and their intersecting weather and climate drivers 30'
        Speaker: Courtney SCHUMACHER (Texas A&M University)
      • 17:30 Evaluation of the GOES-R Derived Stability Indices for Severe Storms in Argentina 15'
        Speaker: Kevin YARINGAÑO GARCIA (Mario Gulich Institute of Advanced Space Studies)
      • 17:45 Storm Dynamics-based Attribution to the Valencia’s deadly floods 15'
        Speaker: Carlos CALVO-SANCHO (Centro de Investigaciones sobre Desertificación, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Climate, Atmosphere)
      • 18:00 Immediate flash extent density applied to access the convective cores severity 15'
        Speaker: Anselmo EVANDRO (Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos)
      • 18:15 Measuring updraft strength from successive radar scans during the WesCon and KASBEX field campaigns 15'
        Speaker: Mark MUETZELFELDT (University of Reading)
      • 18:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 19:00 - 21:00 Shallow convection
      • 19:00 One cold pool in five models, ten runs, and one campaign 15'
        Speaker: Nils ANTARY (University of Hamburg)
      • 19:15 Representation of marine Cloud Mesoscale Organisation by Models Operating in the Grey Zone 15'
        Speaker: Anne Pier SIEBESMA (Delft University of Technology)
      • 19:30 Will Fish clouds reduce global warming rates? 15'
        Speaker: Marloes VAN DRIEL (Wageningen University & Research)
      • 19:45 Poster Session 1h15'
  • Tuesday, 10 March 2026
    • 13:00 - 14:30 Shallow convection
      • 13:00 Quantification of the shallow-to-deep convective transition over Amazonia using organization indexes 30'
        Speaker: Micael CECCHINI
      • 13:30 Measuring tropospheric gravity waves over stratocumulus 15'
        Speaker: Mathieu Germain Witold RATYNSKI (University of Miami)
      • 13:45 Hidden Order Under Sparse Trade Cumulus 15'
        Speaker: Ilan KOREN (Weizmann Institute of Science)
      • 14:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 14:30 - 17:00 Extreme Precipitation Session 2
      • 14:30 Novel Km-scale Regional Modeling Approaches for Current and Future Tropical Weather and Climate 30'
        Speaker: Kelly NÚÑEZ OCASIO (National Center for Atmospheric Research)
      • 15:00 Convective Organisation and Rainfall in the African Tropics 15'
        Speaker: Abigail Mollie Eva JONES (University of Bristol)
      • 15:15 Bimodal Evolution of Vertical Motion in Tropical Precipitation Extremes 15'
        Speaker: Yi-Xian LI (Monash University)
      • 15:30 Evaluation Of An Iterative Version Of The Ensemble Kalman Filter (Letkf-T) For Radar Data Assimilation In The Wrf Model 15'
        Speaker: Leonel Cabello (DCAO)
      • 15:45 Assessing Microwave Signatures of Hail in Southeastern South America 15'
        Speaker: Vito GALLIANI (CIMA)
      • 16:00 Lunch Break 1h0'
    • 17:00 - 18:30 Extreme Precipitation Session 3
      • 17:00 The South American High-Impact Weather Reports Database 30'
        Speaker: Ernani NASCIMENTO (INPE)
      • 17:30 A Phase-Space Framework for Characterizing the Evolution of Organized Tropical Convection Using 35 Years of Global Geostationary Tracking Data 15'
        Speaker: Luo ZHENGZHAO (University of New York City)
      • 17:45 An analysis of intense convective wind gusts and their environments in the Brazilian Amazon 15'
        Speaker: Vanessa FERREIRA (Technische Universität München)
      • 18:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 18:30 - 21:00 Conceptual Models
      • 18:30 Understanding the mesoscale organization of tropical convection with a conceptual framework and observations 30'
        Speaker: Sandrine BONY (C.N.R.S.)
      • 19:00 Self-aggregation of deep convection in a moisture model with nonlocal coupling 15'
        Speaker: Tomoro YANASE (University of Hyogo)
      • 19:15 Expansion of tropical ascent in kilometer-scale mock-Walker circulations 15'
        Speaker: Adam SOKOL (Princeton University)
      • 19:30 Organization in a toy model for convection at kilometre-scale resolution 15'
        Speaker: Cristian-Valer VRACIU (University of Reading)
      • 19:45 Deep cell organization over Congo vs. Amazon in obs vs. models 15'
        Speaker: Brian Earle MAPES (University of Miami)
      • 20:00 Poster Session 1h0'
  • Wednesday, 11 March 2026
    • 13:00 - 17:30 k-scale models
      • 13:00 African Easterly Waves and convection over West Africa in a storm-resolving global coupled model 30'
        Speaker: Elsa MOHINO (Complutense University of Madrid)
      • 13:30 The tropical rainbelt in two storm-resolving models: similar structure with different circulation 30'
        Speaker: Hans SEGURA (Université Grenoble Alpes)
      • 14:00 Representation of a supercell thunderstorm by different radar data assimilation approaches 15'
        Speaker: Emanuel ALFIE (University of Buenos Aires)
      • 14:15 Convection-Allowing Models for Operational Applications 15'
        Speaker: Bernardet LIGIA (NOAA Global Systems Laboratory)
      • 14:30 Coffee Break 30'
      • 15:00 Organized convection in high resolution global model 30'
        Speaker: Parthasarathi MUKHOPADHYAY (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology)
      • 15:30 Environmental Controls on Tropical Oceanic Mesoscale Convective Systems in Global Kilometer-Scale Simulations 15'
        Speaker: Laura Giulianna PACCINI PEÑA (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory)
      • 15:45 Representing Convective Organization and Memory in NOAA’s Unified Forecast System 15'
        Speaker: Lisa BENGTSSON (NOAA)
      • 16:00 Projected Changes in Mesoscale Convective System Frequency and Intensity over South America in a Future km-scale Climate Scenario 15'
        Speaker: Harriet Louise GILMOUR (University of Exeter)
      • 16:15 A New Concept for Comparing Satellite Observations and km-Scale Atmospheric Simulations using Self-Supervised Machine Learning 15'
        Speaker: Dwaipayan CHATTERJEE (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
      • 16:30 Lunch Break 1h0'
    • 17:30 - 21:00 Cold Pools
      • 17:30 Convective Organization through the Lens of the NASA INCUS Mission 30'
        Speaker: Susan VAN DEN HEEVER (Colorado State University)
      • 18:00 How Similar are Cold Pools in the Tropics and Midlatitudes? 30'
        Speaker: Leah GRANT (Colorado State University)
      • 18:30 Impact of Cold Pools on the Intermittence of Precipitation in a General Circulation Model 15'
        Speaker: Maxime Julien COLIN (ZMT)
      • 18:45 Coffee Break 30'
      • 19:15 Cold pools in realistic cloud-resolving simulations, and confrontation to idealized cold pool models 15'
        Speaker: Nicolas ROCHETIN (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
      • 19:30 Organization of deep convection into squall lines: observations, storm resolving simulations and parameterization in a global climate model. 15'
        Speaker: Malek SEGUENI (Sorbonne Université)
      • 19:45 Evaluation of deep convection and cold pool representation in MONAN for simulating a major agricultural Haboob in Southeast Brazil 15'
        Speaker: Nilton ROSARIO (Sao Paulo Federal University)
      • 20:00 Discussion Panel 1h0'
  • Thursday, 12 March 2026
    • 13:00 - 17:30 Waves
      • 13:00 Tropical Wave-Moisture Interactions 30'
        Speaker: Angel ADAMES (University of Michigan)
      • 13:30 Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in Machine-Learning-Based Weather Predictions 30'
        Speaker: Juliana DIAS (University of Boulder)
      • 14:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 14:30 Moist Thermodynamics of Tropical Waves 30'
        Speaker: Victor MAYTA (University of Wisconsin)
      • 15:00 Improving the fidelity of climate models via stochastic parameterization of organized convection 30'
        Speaker: Boualem KHOUIDER (University of Victoria)
      • 15:30 Energetics of Southern African Monsoon Onset 15'
        Speaker: Francesca Alice MORRIS (Oxford University)
      • 15:45 Causes of Aggregation and Disaggregation in reanalysis 15'
        Speaker: Larissa Elisabeth BACK (University of Wisconsin)
      • 16:00 Deep Learning the Sources of MJO Predictability: A Spectral View of Learned Features 15'
        Speaker: Da Yang (University of Chicago)
      • 16:15 Closing 15'
      • 16:30 Lunch Break 1h0'
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