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.
12 Dec 2017
Climate, Land, Energy, and Water Strategies Interlinked
Europe/Rome
2018-07-30 08:00:00
2018-08-05 22:00:00
The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana | (smr 3230)
The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana (https://coessing.org) is an international collaboration aimed at building capacity in oceanographic and environmental sciences in Ghana specifically, and Africa more generally.
The Summer School was previously held in 2015, 2016 and 2017. We intend to hold the schools every year, and to alternate the schools between Regional Maritime University and University of Ghana, which are both located in Ghana's capital city of Accra.
Marine issues of great importance to Ghana include fisheries, piracy, pollution, shipping and port management, and the recent advent of offshore oil drilling. Long-term goals of our collaborative effort include securing funding to continue the school on an annual basis, increasing the number of links with institutions in other African countries, and incorporating research partnerships as part of the summer school.
The school will include lectures, hands-on labs, and a field trip, and will address the physics and biogeochemistry of the coastal ocean environment, as well as the tools that
scientists use to describe and understand this environment.
- Ghana
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
30 Jul 2018
- 5 Aug 2018
» The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana | (smr 3230)
Europe/Rome
2018-10-08 08:00:00
2018-10-13 22:00:00
School on Climate and Environmental Modelling in the
West African Region | (smr 3243)
This is a School on climate modelling focusing on the west African region.
The School will be coupled to the final conference of the EU-DACCIWA project.
Online applications are not yet available.
Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
8 Oct 2018
- 13 Oct 2018
» School on Climate and Environmental Modelling in the West African Region | (smr 3243)
Europe/Rome
2018-10-22 08:00:00
2018-10-26 22:00:00
Second Training Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Southeast Asia | (smr 3166)
Regional climate models (RCMs) have become important tools to study climate variability and change at regional scales. They can also be used to provide climate change information for impact and adaptation studies. Within the context of RCM research, the Coordinated Regional climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX) provides the basis for generating multi-model RCM-based projections over regions Worldwide. The community of users of the ICTP regional model RegCM is one of the most active in contributing to the CORDEX program and in involving the scientific community from developing countries in climate change research. With the aim of enlarging and strengthening the RegCM user community, the ICTP organizes a series of training workshops in different regions of the World. This workshop represents the second of a series of RegCM training activities in Southeast Asia, and includes the following lectures:
* Climate and climate change over the South-east Asia region
* Regional climate modeling and the physical processes that regulate regional climate
variability and change
* Regional modeling for the South-east Asia region
* Hands-on sessions on the structure and use of the RegCM model
(latest release RegCM4).
* Discussion of the contribution of the RegCM community to the CORDEX initiative
* Discussion of future developments of the RegCM system
Hanoi - Viet Nam
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
22 Oct 2018
- 26 Oct 2018
» Second Training Workshop on Regional Climate Modeling for Southeast Asia | (smr 3166)
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.
