SHExtreme team members participated in numerous conferences in 2022. 

First, we attended the Ocean Science Meeting in Hawaii (actually on-line!), where we presented a paper on the synoptic index for meteotsunami predictions and a paper on the contribution of short-period sea level oscillations (T < 2 h) to the flooding events on European coasts. 

This was followed by another hybrid conference, the “International Conference on Physical Aspects of Environment ICPAE 2023”. Here we presented a paper on numerical modelling of the Adriatic sea level extremes and a paper on the Mediterranean meteotsunamis of May 2021. 

We gave two talks in Croatia (finally live!), one on implementing double growing neural gas on atmospheric synoptic data (a method that we will certainly return to in the future!) and one on global high-frequency sea-level dataset MISELA. 

The 2nd Meteotsunami Conference was held in May in Ciutadella (one of the meteotsunami hotspots) on the island of Menorca. SHExtreme team members participated in three presentations on meteotsunamis in the Mediterranean region and the United Kingdom. 

The EGU conference is always popular with our team. We participated in a total of 7 talks! Most of them dealt with sea level extremes in areas from the Adriatic Sea across Europe, and all the way to the Pacific Ocean. But we also had a presentation on ocean science education activities for children and the general population. 

Our rich presentation year ended with a visit to Marrakech, Morocco, where our PI gave a talk on the decadal variability of the Mediterranean sea level.