The Earth System Physics (ESP) section studies a wide spectrum of the Earth system, from its fluid components (oceans and the atmosphere) to the planet's interior. The ESP section maintains a range of models and datasets and coordinates the Regional Climate research NETwork (RegCNET), encompassing over 600 participants worldwide.
9 Aug 2017
Where do medallists come from; what are their fields of expertise?
9 Dec 2016
ICTP scientist develops open-source model to predict outbreaks
11 Jul 2016
ICTP-led analysis of regional climate model projections challenge global assumptions
13 Jun 2016
New research adds to understanding of the great Himalayan earthquakes
Europe/Rome
2017-10-16 08:00:00
2017-10-27 22:00:00
Advanced School on Tropical-Extratropical Interactions on Intra-Seasonal Time Scales | (smr 3155)
An increasing appreciation of intra-seasonal interactions between the tropics and extra-tropics has raised the possibility of increased predictability of significant circulation and weather anomalies in many regions. This school will introduce this new perspective to the students, giving them hands-on experience in the computer lab.
During the first week of the School, the lecturers will review the state of knowledge of Tropical- Extratropical interactions, with an emphasis on basic dynamics, and on hypotheses that can be tested with the forecasts and re-forecasts from a number of operational centers and possibly experiments with the ICTP climate model. Lectures will be held in the mornings.
In the afternoons, the students (participants) will form teams to design lab projects to explore the relationships discussed in the morning, using the S2S forecast database http://journals.ametsoc.org/ doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0017.1
and possibly design experiments with the ICTP climate model (SPEEDY) https://www.ictp.it/research/esp/models/speedy. aspx.
During the second week, the lecturers will cover more advanced research, and the participants will continue their projects, in consultation with the lecturers.
The topics center on the role of intra-seasonal interactions between the tropics and extra-tropics in increased potential predictability of significant circulation and weather anomalies in many regions.
Speakers:
John Albers (University of Colorado, USA)
Mariano S. Alvarez (CIMA/CONICET-UBA, Argentina)
Laura Ferranti (ECMWF, UK)
Nicholas Hall (LEGOS/University of Toulouse, France)
Ivana Herceg Bulic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Manish Joshi (RCCS, Busan, Rep. of Korea)
Fred Kucharski (ICTP, Italy)
Hai Lin (McGill University, RPN, Quebec, Canada)
Franco Molteni (ECMWF, UK)
Josefina Moraes Arraut (University of Campina Grande, Brazil)
Ángel Muñoz (IRI, Columbia University, USA )
Ana Carolina Nóbile Tomaziello (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Andrew Robertson (IRI, Columbia University, USA)
Ascanio Scambiati (Metweb, Italy)
Noureddine Semane (EHTP, Morocco)
Kamil Shahzad (King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia)
Cristina Stan (George Mason University, USA)
David Straus (George Mason University, USA)
Adrian Tompkins (ICTP, Italy)
Fei Zheng (IAP, CAS, China)
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
16 Oct 2017
- 27 Oct 2017
» Advanced School on Tropical-Extratropical Interactions on Intra-Seasonal Time Scales | (smr 3155)
Europe/Rome
2017-12-11 07:00:00
2017-12-22 21:00:00
Workshop-Conference on Earthquakes and Tsunami: Modeling and Observations | (smr 3165)
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy), in collaboration with the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), the Institute of Geophysics (Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, VAST) and VNU - Hanoi University of Science, is organizing a two-week international school to be held in Hanoi from 11 to 22 December 2017.
The two-week international school will start with an international conference that will highlight some of the latest development in earthquake sciences with emphasis on the seismotectonics and hazards from earthquakes and tsunami in Vietnam and surroundings. The school will bring together international experts and train Master & PhD students and early career scientists so that each has a better understanding of the range of circumstances and knowledge related to earthquakes in Vietnam and surrounding countries. The aim is to raise national capability in the vulnerable countries, through training and establishing an international network of scientists on which those countries can call to increase their resilience. The programme will involve a series of lectures, seminars, discussions in Earthquake and Tsunami modeling.
For those interested in presenting their research work during the conference (oral and poster) an abstract should be uploaded directly to the online application.
Topics :
Theoretical Seismology
Observational and Computational Seismology
Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
Earthquake Hazard
Tsunami Physics and Hazard
Hanoi - Viet Nam
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
11 Dec 2017
- 22 Dec 2017
» Workshop-Conference on Earthquakes and Tsunami: Modeling and Observations | (smr 3165)
Europe/Rome
2018-04-23 08:00:00
2018-04-27 22:00:00
Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) on Air Pollution and Climate Change in Mediterranean Areas | (smr 3250)
CONTEXT The Mediterranean is a hotspot for climate change and air pollution. Climate change will significantly impact the regional air quality by reinforcing the hot, sunny and dry Mediterranean climate.
Mediterranean inhabitants are already regularly exposed to pollutant loads well above WHO (World Health Organization) air quality recommendations standards and will be further exposed.
Additional exposures to air pollution and warm conditions will result in an excess of premature deaths, but we still lack quantification of the impact in southern and eastern countries.
Thus, there is a need to promote and develop Integrated Health Impact assessment (IHIA) approach by empowering scientists from around the Mediterranean basin.
OBJECTIVES The objective of the training school is to strengthen in-country scientists and stakeholders capacity to face the health challenges posed by environmental stressors.
It aims at giving early-stage researchers a good understanding of risk and uncertainty matched to a set of practical skills in facing the environmental health issues related to evaluating the health impact of air pollution and climate change.
Students will be trained to the practice of exposure assessment, epidemiology and integrated health impact assessment.
CONTENTS The school will introduce state of the art knowledge on air pollution and climate change in the Mediterranean region, as well as methodologies of health impact assessment.
It will give students knowledge of protocols, tools, sources of data and will make them practice on case studies specifically designed for the school in order to enable them performing air quality and climate health impact studies including economic valuation. The school will also give insights on how to identify public health priorities for research and preventive actions.
The teaching will be provided by recognized experts in atmospheric chemistry, climate, epidemiology, toxicology, economics... Participants will be able to interact and communicate with all these experts.
SPEAKERS
Carla ANCONA (DEP Lazio, Rome, Italy)
Isabella ANNESI-MAESANO (INSERM & UPMC, Paris, France)
Olivier CHANEL (AMSE, Univ. Of Aix-Marseille, France)
Augustin COLETTE (INERIS, Verneuil en Halatte, France)
Zeina DAGHER (Univ. Lebanese, Fanar, Lebanon)
Kees DE HOOGH (Univ. Of Basel, Basel, Switzerland)
Jos LELIEVELD (Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany)
Konstantinos MAKRIS (Cyprus International Institute for Environmental and Public Health, Limassol, Cyprus)
and to be announced
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
23 Apr 2018
- 27 Apr 2018
» Integrated Environmental Health Impact Assessment (IEHIA) on Air Pollution and Climate Change in Mediterranean Areas | (smr 3250)
Europe/Rome
2018-05-28 08:00:00
2018-06-08 22:00:00
Ninth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models | (smr 3208)
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
28 May 2018
- 8 Jun 2018
» Ninth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models | (smr 3208)
Whether you are a pre- or post-doctorate scientist, ESP has several opportunities for you to enhance your knowledge of earth system physics.
ESP research uses a range of open source numerical models maintained and developed at ICTP.
Earth system models attempt to represent the key processes that determine the climate of our planet, such as the atmospheric and ocean circulations, aerosols and atmospheric chemistry, biogeochemical cycles, the cryosphere, and land surface processes. The research of the group uses model tools such as the latest generation of the regional climate model REGCM and intermediate complexity global model SPEEDY to understand our climate, its natural variability and its response to anthropogenic forcings.
Climate extremes in the present day and in future decades can have severe implications, with the poorest members of societies being often the most vulnerable. The ESP group uses dynamical and statistical modelling techniques to assess the socio-economic impacts of climate
variability and change, for example on energy, water and health. As with the climate models, the dynamical impact models CHYM and VECTRI are made available to the wider scientific community through regular workshops and training events.
