Huracán

Huracán 2nd General Assembly
2024-11-20 12:00 - 2024-11-22 12:00 (Europe/London)
Huracán 2nd General Assembly
Elm House, Edgbaston Park, University of Birmingham | 20th – 22nd Nov, 2024
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KEY INFORMATION
Registration form
Travel and accommodation information
Meeting programme

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW
Wed 20th Nov: Project update, data and tools, science progress
Thu 21st Nov: Science progress, breakout groups, project dinner at Edgbaston Park Hotel
Fri 22nd Nov: Breakout groups, the next project year
— Research talks will be 15 mins, split into WP mini sessions (upload your slides here)
— Suggestions for breakout topics are welcome
— Discussion time for issues arising and plans for the next project year

Attend the 2nd General Assembly online:
Plenary (join via Teams Meeting ID: 350 850 253 97 Passcode: [REDACTED]
Breakout #1 — huracanpy v1 (join via Teams Meeting ID: 396 667 416 559 Passcode: [REDACTED]
Breakout #2 — storylines, case studies (join via Teams Meeting ID: 351 656 863 085 Passcode: [REDACTED]
Breakout #3 — methodologies (join via Teams Meeting ID: 346 296 782 388 Passcode: [REDACTED]

MEETING GOOGLE DOCS
Research plans
Meeting discussion

Huracán update meeting — April 2025
2025-04-15 12:00 - 17:00
Robert Hooke Room, AOPP, Oxford and on Zoom
Agenda
10:00 — WP4 pre-meeting
12:00 — Lunch
13:00 — Meeting start
13:00 — Leo
13:20 — Stella
13:40 — Haider
14:00 — Grzegorz
14:20 — Xiangbo (surge)
14:40 — Break
15:10 — Discussion* & next steps
16:10 — AOB
~16:30 — End
* discussion topics:
— Tracking of new UM simulations (Pier Luigi)
— WP4 case study work (Melissa)
— Case Study Working Group updates (Melissa, Grzegorz, Haider, Stella, Leo)
— Huracán “big doc”, huracanpy updates (Stella, Leo)
— next meeting and US updates?
(Please get in touch if you would like to add anything to the agenda.)

Huracán update meeting — June 2025
2025-06-23 14:00 - 17:00
Online only — join via Teams
Agenda (times are all BST)
14:00 — Meeting start
14:05 — A Statistical Model to Predict Post-Tropical Cyclone Hazards (Dian-Yi Li)
14:30 — Evaluating the Responses of Tropical and Post-tropical Cyclones to Climate Warming Using WRF and CAM Storyline Ensembles (Kevin Reed & Dian-Yi Li)
14:55 — New Leeds MSc project and collaboration with Xiangbo (Doug Parker & Matthew Gordon)
15:15 — Break
15:30 — Discussion* & next steps
16:00 — AOB**
~16:30 — End
* Discussion topics:
— GA3
— Feedback from recent events:
1) WCRP km-scale global hackathon reporting and highlights (Pier Luigi, Stella, Leo, Alex, Ben, John, John, …)
2) CGFI tropical cyclone risk hackathon reporting and highlights (Kevin, Stella, Leo, Alex, Grzegorz, Ben, Haider)
3) Storm tracks workshop (Leo, Stella)
** AOB topics:
— Case Study Working Group updates (Melissa, Grzegorz, Haider, Stella, Leo) ?
— Huracán “big doc”, huracanpy updates (Stella, Leo) ?
(Please get in touch if you would like to add anything to the agenda.)

Huracán update meeting — August 2025
2025-08-27 14:00 - 16:00
Online only — join via Teams
Agenda (times are all BST)
14:00 — Meeting start
14:05 — Update on (i) paper and (ii) Erik Calvert’s summer project (Leo)
14:25 — Initial work in WP1 on seed vortices in the Met Office DYAMOND 3 runs (Ben)
14:45 — Univ. Birmingham update (Gregor)
15:00 — Update (Grzegorz)
15:15 — Discussion* & next steps
~16:00 — End
* Discussion topics:
— papers (planned and in prep)
— new JASMIN GWS
— Case Study Working Group updates (Melissa, Grzegorz, Haider, Stella, Leo) ?
— Huracán “big doc”, huracanpy updates (Stella, Leo) ?
(Please get in touch if you would like to add anything to the agenda.)

Huracán update meeting — October 2025
2025-10-21 14:00 - 16:00
Online only — join via Teams
Agenda (times are all BST)
14:00 — Meeting start
14:05 — Welcome to new PDRA (Elena Bianco)
14:10 — TCs and ENSO Master’s project work (Lewis Grant)
14:40 — Overall update (Stella)
15:10 — Discussion* & next steps
~16:00 — End
* Discussion topics:
— upcoming meeting: Storylines (Newcastle) 10 November (Haider shared form)
— upcoming meeting: GA3 (Newcastle) 13-15 January
— papers (planned and in prep) added to Huracán “big doc” ?
— huracanpy updates (Stella, Leo) ?
— Case Study Working Group updates (Melissa, Grzegorz, Haider, Stella, Leo) ?
(Please get in touch if you would like to add anything to the agenda.)

Huracán 3rd General Assembly
2026-01-13 13:00 - 2026-01-15 16:00
13th–15th January, 2026 | Stephenson Building, University of Newcastle
Registration form
Meeting programme
Teams link for plenary
Meeting outline
Tuesday 13th January (afternoon) — Science updates: WP1 and breakout #1
Wednesday 14th January (full day) — Science updates: WP2, WP3, WP4
Thursday 15th January (full day) — Final project year: breakout #2, breakout #3, discussion and planning
Breakouts
Breakout #1 — Project extension case
Breakout #2 — Impact workshop planning
Breakout #3 — Climate change, storylines and case studies
Breakout #4 — Publications and outputs
Speakers
Please check the programme and advise Alex Baker if you need to change your talk (time, title etc). Please check the time allocated for your talk. Before the meeting, please upload your slides to this google drive.
Work Package leads
Similar to last year’s GA, there will be short slots for WP overviews and updates, which I’ve allocated to the WP leads who presented these last time (Juliane, John Methven, Hayley), so please let me know if I should change this.
Catering & dinner
For all three days, lunch and tea/coffee breaks will be provided. This year’s project dinner will be on Wednesday evening (19:00) at Blackfriars Restaurant.
Directions
The Stephenson Building is a 25-minute walk from Newcastle Central Station. Alternatively, you can take the metro from the station (stand M, yellow or green line towards Newcastle Airport) to Haymarket, 2 stops away, to shorten the walk.
Hotel suggestions
Sandman Signature
Premier Inn Newcastle City Centre (The Gate)
Hotel Gotham Newcastle
Maldron Hotel Newcastle

Huracán update meeting — March 2026
2026-03-23 14:00 - 16:00
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32919361865286?p=74vYjbcRSn3H8Kzn8B
Agenda (times are all BST)
14:00 — Meeting start
14:05 — TBC
14:40 — TBC
15:10 — Discussion* & next steps
~16:00 — End
* Discussion topics:
—
(Please get in touch if you would like to add anything to the agenda.)
