Since its first edition, in 1999, the Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Storms has provided a crucial interdisciplinary contribution to improving our understanding of water-related extreme events over the Mediterranean area.
The objective of the 2016 edition of the conference, the 15th of the series, is to provide special emphasis to discuss both the current state of knowledge, as well as advancements in multidisciplinary researches and applications, related to Mediterranean risks and hydro-related hazards, such as floods, landslides, coastal flooding and coastal erosion, and their expected impacts on people, society, the environment, and the economy, also with respect to predicted climate changes.
Issues to be addressed by the 15th Plinius Conference on Mediterranean Risks will generally fit within one of the following topic areas:
Topic 1: Mediterranean storms: meteorological modelling, operational forecasting of global and climate change effects
Topic 2: Recent advancements in monitoring, observations, and analysis of extreme events
Topic 3: Floods, flash floods and related hydrological processes: modelling, forecasting, global and climate change effects
Topic 4: Rainfall-triggered landslides
Topic 5: Coastal dynamics and tsunamis
Topic 6: Hydro-related risks: social impacts, responses, adaptation
Steering committee
Pinhas Alpert, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Stefano Dietrich, CNR-ISAC, Italy
Maria del Carmen Llasat, University of Barcelona, Spain
Vassiliki Kotroni, National Observatory of Athens, Greece
Evelyne Richard, French National Centre for Scientific Research, France
Romualdo Romero, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain
Gregory Tripoli, University of Winsconsin, Madison, USA
Giorgio Boni, Cima Foundation, Italy, EGU representative
