Strong participation of CARE-C researchers at the European Meteorological Society (EMS) Annual Meeting in Barcelona

A group of CARE-C researchers of the Cyprus Institute delivered presentations on their recent research outputs, some of which also received awards for, at the European Meteorological Society (EMS) Annual Meeting 2024, that was held at the University of Barcelona, in Barcelona, Spain from 2 to 6 September 2024.

Additionally, Graduate Research Fellow, Fragkeskos Kekkou was awarded with the Tromp Foundation Travel Award for young scientists. Later in the week, he also presented a more detailed version of his research at the “Weather and Well-being: Communicating Biometeorological Knowledge for Public Health” workshop. Giandomenico Vurro’s work also awarded with the EMS Young Scientist Conference Award.

This event brought together scientists from various fields to explore the impact of weather on human health, productivity, and climate change adaptation, as well as strategies for effectively communicating biometeorological information to the public.

You can find more details on the presentations of the CARE-C researchers below:

Researcher	Presentation Title	Session
Dr. Georgia Lazoglou	Oral presentation:  Tackling Drizzle Bias in the Euro-Mediterranean region: The Multivariate Adjustment Solution	Deriving actionable information from climate data
Dr. Katiana Constantinidou	Poster presentation: Exploring Urban Climate Seasonal Dynamics over Cyprus with WRF Model: Implications of Urban Parameterizations	Cities and urban areas in the earth-atmosphere system
Dr. Theo Economou	Oral presentation:  Maximising information in open source health data: A statistical approach for modelling aggregated time series of health outcomes	Human biometeorology
Dr. Pantelis Georgiades	Oral presentation: Future-Proofing Dairy Farms: Hourly Heat Stress Predictions with Machine Learning	Machine Learning in Weather and Climate
Alkistis Papetta	Oral presentation: Integrating UAV-Based In-Situ and Ground-Based Remote Sensing Observations for Enhanced Aerosol Profiling Travel funded by: Harmonia COST Action participation by EMME CARE	Harmonia COST Action: Aerosol observations and links with atmospheric and solar energy studies
Anna Tzyrkalli	Oral presentation:  Effects of the modified Physiologically Equivalent Temperature on mortality and morbidity in the Mediterranean, a case study for Cyprus	Human biometeorology
Fragkeskos Kekkou	Oral presentation: Temperature Extremes and Human Health in Cyprus: Investigating the Impact of Heat and Cold Waves	Human biometeorology
Giandomenico Vurro	Oral presentation: Quantifying the impact of extreme heat and adaptation strategies on urban air conditioning use and energy consumption in Nicosia, Cyprus	Cities and urban areas in the earth-atmosphere system
Konstantina K.Koutroumanou	Oral presentation: A Comparative Analysis of Dynamic and Statistical Downscaling Techniques to Bridge the Gap Between the Regional and the Local Scale: Case Study for Nicosia	Cities and urban areas in the earth-atmosphere system