Program
Day 1 - Monday, 9 March 2026
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 08:00 - 08:30 | 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. |
| 08:30 - 13:00 | Amazon Session |
| 08:30 | Registration Formalities (1h) |
| 09:30 | Convection in the northwestern Amazon region (30’) Speaker: Daniel HERNANDEZ DECKERS (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) |
| 10:00 | Cloud–Forest Coupling: Insights from Amazon Observations and Multiscale Modelling (15’) Speaker: VILA GUERAU DE ARELLANO Jordi (Wageningen University) |
| 10:15 | Impacts of Land Cover on Cloud Organization Across Amazonia (15’) Speaker: Luiz MACHADO (Max Planck Institute For Chemistry) |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break (30’) |
| 11:00 | 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) |
| 11:15 | A New Ground-Based IR Dataset for Convection-Resolving Model Evaluation in the Amazon (15’) Speaker: Theotonio PAULIQUEVIS (Federal University of Sao Paulo) |
| 11:30 | Tropical CO2-Exchange Across Convective Regimes in ECMWF-IFS (15’) Speaker: Vincent DE FEITER (Wageningen University) |
| 11:45 | Climatology of Amazonian Squall Lines derived by Algorithmic Detection and Tracking of Coherent Features (15’) Speaker: Frederik Luis VIEIRA FISCHER (Goethe University) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break (1h) |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Extreme Precipitation Session 1 |
| 13:00 | Precipitation extremes over the Maritime Continent and their intersecting weather and climate drivers (30’) Speaker: Courtney SCHUMACHER (Texas A&M University) |
| 13:30 | 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) |
| 13:45 | 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) |
| 14:00 | Immediate flash extent density applied to access the convective cores severity (15’) Speaker: Anselmo EVANDRO (Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos) |
| 14:15 | Measuring updraft strength from successive radar scans during the WesCon and KASBEX field campaigns (15’) Speaker: Mark MUETZELFELDT (University of Reading) |
| 14:30 | Coffee Break (30’) |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Shallow convection |
| 15:00 | One cold pool in five models, ten runs, and one campaign (15’) Speaker: Nils ANTARY (University of Hamburg) |
| 15:15 | Representation of marine Cloud Mesoscale Organisation by Models Operating in the Grey Zone (15’) Speaker: Anne Pier SIEBESMA (Delft University of Technology) |
| 15:30 | Will Fish clouds reduce global warming rates? (15’) Speaker: Marloes VAN DRIEL (Wageningen University & Research) |
| 15:45 | Poster Session (1h15’) |
Day 2 - Tuesday, 10 March 2026
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Shallow convection |
| 09:00 | Quantification of the shallow-to-deep convective transition over Amazonia using organization indexes (30’) Speaker: Micael CECCHINI |
| 09:30 | Measuring tropospheric gravity waves over stratocumulus (15’) Speaker: Mathieu Germain Witold RATYNSKI (University of Miami) |
| 09:45 | Hidden Order Under Sparse Trade Cumulus (15’) Speaker: Ilan KOREN (Weizmann Institute of Science) |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break (30’) |
| 10:30 - 13:00 | Extreme Precipitation Session 2 |
| 10:30 | Novel Km-scale Regional Modeling Approaches for Current and Future Tropical Weather and Climate (30’) Speaker: Kelly NÚÑEZ OCASIO (National Center for Atmospheric Research) |
| 11:00 | Convective Organisation and Rainfall in the African Tropics (15’) Speaker: Abigail Mollie Eva JONES (University of Bristol) |
| 11:15 | Bimodal Evolution of Vertical Motion in Tropical Precipitation Extremes (15’) Speaker: Yi-Xian LI (Monash University) |
| 11:30 | 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) |
| 11:45 | Assessing Microwave Signatures of Hail in Southeastern South America (15’) Speaker: Vito GALLIANI (CIMA) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break (1h) |
| 13:00 - 14:30 | Extreme Precipitation Session 3 |
| 13:00 | The South American High-Impact Weather Reports Database (30’) Speaker: Ernani NASCIMENTO (INPE) |
| 13:30 | A Phase-Space Framework for Characterizing the Evolution of Organized Tropical Convection Using 35 Years of Global Geostationary Tracking Data (15’) Speaker: Z. Johnny LUO (University of New York City) |
| 13:45 | An analysis of intense convective wind gusts and their environments in the Brazilian Amazon (15’) Speaker: Vanessa FERREIRA (Technische Universität München) |
| 14:00 | Coffee Break (30’) |
| 14:30 - 17:00 | Conceptual Models |
| 14:30 | Understanding the mesoscale organization of tropical convection with a conceptual framework and observations (30’) Speaker: Sandrine BONY (C.N.R.S.) |
| 15:00 | Self-aggregation of deep convection in a moisture model with nonlocal coupling (15’) Speaker: Tomoro YANASE (University of Hyogo) |
| 15:15 | Expansion of tropical ascent in kilometer-scale mock-Walker circulations (15’) Speaker: Adam SOKOL (Princeton University) |
| 15:30 | Organization in a toy model for convection at kilometre-scale resolution (15’) Speaker: Cristian-Valer VRACIU (University of Reading) |
| 15:45 | Deep cell organization over Congo vs. Amazon in obs vs. models (15’) Speaker: Brian Earle MAPES (University of Miami) |
| 16:00 | Poster Session (1h) |
Day 3 - Wednesday, 11 March 2026
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 13:45 | k-scale models |
| 09:00 | Deep cell organization over Congo vs. Amazon in obs vs. models (15’) Speaker: Brian Earle MAPES (University of Miami) |
| 09:15 | African Easterly Waves and convection over West Africa in a storm-resolving global coupled model (30’) Speaker: Elsa MOHINO (Complutense University of Madrid) |
| 09:45 | The tropical rainbelt in two storm-resolving models: similar structure with different circulation (30’) Speaker: Hans SEGURA (Université Grenoble Alpes) |
| 10:15 | Representation of a supercell thunderstorm by different radar data assimilation approaches (15’) Speaker: Emanuel ALFIE (University of Buenos Aires) |
| 10:30 | Coffee Break (30’) |
| 11:00 | Simulating Amazonian squall lines across different spatial scales using the MONAN modeling system (30’) Speaker: Saulo RIBEIRO DE FREITAS (INPE) |
| 11:30 | Environmental Controls on Tropical Oceanic Mesoscale Convective Systems in Global Kilometer-Scale Simulations (15’) Speaker: Laura Giulianna PACCINI PEÑA (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú) |
| 11:45 | Representing Convective Organization and Memory in NOAA’s Unified Forecast System (15’) Speaker: Lisa BENGTSSON (NOAA) |
| 12:00 | 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) |
| 12:15 | Lunch Break (1h30’) Lunch and poster session |
| 13:45 - 17:00 | Cold Pools |
| 13:45 | Convective Organization through the Lens of the NASA INCUS Mission (30’) Speaker: Susan VAN DEN HEEVER (Colorado State University) |
| 14:15 | How Similar are Cold Pools in the Tropics and Midlatitudes? (30’) Speaker: Leah GRANT (Colorado State University) |
| 14:45 | Impact of Cold Pools on the Intermittence of Precipitation in a General Circulation Model (15’) Speaker: Maxime Julien COLIN (ZMT) |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break (30’) |
| 15:30 | Morphological cellular analysis of pockets of open cells on marine stratocumulus clouds (15’) Speaker: Diana L. Monroy (University of Potsdam) |
| 15:45 | Organization of deep convection into squall lines: observations, storm resolving simulations and parameterization in a global climate model (15’) Speaker: Malek SEGUENI (Sorbonne Université) |
| 16:00 | 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) |
| 16:15 | Discussion Panel (45’) |
Day 4 - Thursday, 12 March 2026
| Time | Topic |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 13:30 | Waves |
| 09:00 | Tropical Wave-Moisture Interactions (30’) Speaker: Angel ADAMES (University of Michigan) |
| 09:30 | Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves in Machine-Learning-Based Weather Predictions (30’) Speaker: Juliana DIAS (University of Boulder) |
| 10:00 | Coffee Break (30’) |
| 10:30 | Moist Thermodynamics of Tropical Waves (30’) Speaker: Victor MAYTA (University of Wisconsin) |
| 11:00 | Improving the fidelity of climate models via stochastic parameterization of organized convection (30’) Speaker: Boualem KHOUIDER (University of Victoria) |
| 11:30 | Energetics of Southern African Monsoon Onset (15’) Speaker: Francesca Alice MORRIS (Oxford University) |
| 11:45 | Causes of Aggregation and Disaggregation in reanalysis (15’) Speaker: Larissa Elisabeth BACK (University of Wisconsin) |
| 12:00 | Deep Learning the Sources of MJO Predictability: A Spectral View of Learned Features (15’) Speaker: Da Yang (University of Chicago) |
| 12:15 | Closing (15’) |
| 12:30 | Lunch Break (1h) |