A CRU symposium on weather/climate extremes will be held on Wednesday 2nd April 2003. The purpose will be to increase communication within CRU about complementary research that is being undertaken on the subject of weather and climate extremes, covering all topics from statistics, analysis of observations and trends, validation of climate models, generation of future climate scenarios, and impacts of extremes.

• Organisers: Tim Osborn, Clair Hanson, Marie Ekstrom, Stephen Blenkinsop
• Venue:Elizabeth Fry building room EF 01.11
• Time:Wednesday 2nd April, 2pm onwards

Speaker	Title	Presentation	Time
Introduction			2.00-2.10
Anders Moberg	Evaluation of daily temperature maxima and minima in the HadRM3H simulations: comparisons with observed station data across Europe	moberg.ppt	2.10-2.25
Matt Livermore	All about MICE (Modelling the Impact of Climate Extremes)	liverm.ppt	2.25-2.40
Stephen Blenkinsop	Observations of extreme temperature events: trends & causes	blenki.ppt	2.40-2.55
Discussion			2.55-3.10
Marie Ekstrom	Assessment of HadRM3 extreme precipitation	ekstro.ppt	3.10-3.25
Clare Goodess	Overview of STARDEX research on extremes (STAtistical and Regional dynamical Downscaling of EXtremes)	goodes.ppt	3.25-3.40
Malcolm Haylock	What's STARDEX up to?	hayloc.ppt	3.40-3.55
Discussion and Refreshments!			3.55-4.30
John Caesar	Extremes research at the Hadley Centre	caesar.ppt	4.30-4.45
Tim Mitchell	Scaling and scenarios: the ghosts of data past, present and future	mitche.ppt	4.45-5.00
Discussion			5.00-5.30