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Presentations of the RMI scientific conference organized at the occasion of its centenary

Thursday 26 September   

Modelling at the RMI: the past, the present and the future
      Piet Termonia, RMI, Belgium     
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Blurring the boundary between dynamics and physics in weather and climate models
      Tim Palmer, University of Oxford, United-Kingdom   
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From Meteorology to Aeronomy and to Atmospheric Chemistry
      Guy Brasseur, CSC, Germany, and NCAR, USA   
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Beyond 'Dufour et Van Mieghem 1975', contribution of the Third Law to the thermodynamic of moist atmospheric open systems
      Jean-François Geleyn , Météo-France, France
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Numerical Integration using Laplace Transforms
      Peter Lynch, University College Dublin, Ireland
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Statistical postprocessing of ensemble weather forecasts
      Tilmann Gneiting, Heidelberg University, Germany
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Climate response to externally induced time-dependent forcings: signatures and early warnings
      Catherine Nicolis, RMI, Belgium
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Past climates, a key to the future? (do we have good analogues for the future global warming?)
      André Berger, UCL, Belgium
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Extreme Events: Dynamics, Statistics and Prediction
      Michael Ghil, ENS-Paris, France and UCLA, USA  
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Friday 27 September

The history of instrumental meteorological observations in Belgium: a dialogue between Hippocrates, Vergilius and Mercurius
      Gaston Demarée, RMI, Belgium
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History of global temperature estimation – Köppen to satellites
      Phil Jones, CRU, United-Kingdom
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History of radiation measurements at the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
      Steven Dewitte, RMI, Belgium
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History of Earth Radiation Budget measurements  
      Ehrhard Raschke, MPI and MI, University of Hamburg, Germany
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Remote sensing of rainfall: a challenge for meteorology and hydrology
      Remko Uijlenhoet, Wageningen University, The Netherlands  
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Contributions of RMI to Geophysics
      Jean Rasson, RMI, Belgium
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Evidence for significant solar signatures in some 20th century geophysical and climatological time series
      Vincent Courtillot, Paris-Diderot University, France
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Mapping the Global Ionosphere: RMI's Contributions
      Bodo Reinisch, Lowell Digisonde International, USA
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