The 5th Workshop on Convective Organization (WCO5) will take place at INPE, São José dos Campos, Brazil, from March 9-12, 2026.
Organized convective systems are often responsible for high impact precipitation extremes, and changes in convective organization have the potential to amplify or dampen future climate change. Following on from the highly successful previous conferences WCO, WCO2, WCO3 and WCO4 this conference will examine our present knowledge of convective organization in models and observations.
Sessions and central meeting themes:
- Extreme precipitation events
- Convective organization over land
- Organization of convection on global k-scale models
- Artificial intelligence applied to convective organization
- Cold-pool driven convective organization
- Shallow and congestus convective organization (over ocean and land)
- Convective organization feedback on climate
- Convective organization and tropical waves
Confirmed speakers:
- Ernani Nascimento
- Courtney Schumacher
- Elsa Mohino
- Susan van den Heever
- Leah Grant
- Micael Cecchini
- Angel Adames
- Juliana Dias
- Victor Mayta
- Boualem Khouider
- Daniel Hernandez Deckers
- Parthasarathi Mukhopadhyay
Organizing committee:
- Gilson P. Silva (National Institute for Space Research - INPE)
- Steven Boeing (University of Leeds)
- Diana Laura Monroy Merida (Universität Potsdam)
- Martin Janssens (Wageningen University)
- Francesca Morris (University of Oxford)
- Flo Greaves (University of Leeds)
- Bianca Fusinato (Goethe University Frankfurt)
- Lianet Hernandez (National Institute for Space Research - INPE)
- Saulo R. Freitas (National Institute for Space Research - INPE)
- Karla M. Longo (National Institute for Space Research - INPE)
- Madeleine Sánchez Gácita Casagrande (National Institute for Space Research - INPE)
- Adrian Tompkins (International Centre for Theoretical Physics)