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.
19 Dec 2018
Vacancies in Earth System Physics and the Physics Without Frontiers programme
28 Nov 2018
New partner institute with University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences inaugurated
Europe/Rome
2019-03-11 07:00:00
2019-03-15 21:00:00
School on Climate and Environmental Modelling in the West African Region | (smr 3243)
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West African climate is characterized by complex atmospheric dynamics and growing anthropogenic pressures. These pressures, combined with climate change and variability, have many environmental impacts. Regional climate models include now capabilities such as interactive coupling with oceans, surface hydrology, atmospheric chemistry and biogeochemical cycles. Combined with process study and observation analysis, such systems are interesting frameworks for impact assessments over West Africa. However their complexity is such that they require high computing power and appropriate “know-how”. This point has motivated the recent development of a supercomputing center at the University of Abidjan.
In this context, the school proposes theoretical and practical computing sessions on regional climate and environmental modeling. It is co-organized with the final conference of the DACCIWA project (https://www.dacciwa.eu/) so that participants can benefit from both of these events. Participants are required to have a pre-existing background in Atmospheric / Earth system science and be familiar with Linux/Unix environment. English will be the spoken language during theoretical and practical sessions.
Topics:
Basis of regional climate and Earth System modeling
Examples of climate and Earth system studies over sub-Saharan Africa
Extensive hands-on regional climate and Earth system modeling sessions using HPC facilities
Review and discussion of on-going projects involving climate and Earth system modeling over sub-Saharan Africa
Beyond the school : Identification of regional working groups, projects and networks
Abidjan - Cote d'Ivoire
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
11 Mar 2019
- 15 Mar 2019
» School on Climate and Environmental Modelling in the West African Region | (smr 3243)
Europe/Rome
2019-04-29 08:00:00
2019-05-03 22:00:00
ICTP-Rwanda Joint School on Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather and Climate Prediction | (smr 3140)
KIgali - Rwanda
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
29 Apr 2019
- 3 May 2019
» ICTP-Rwanda Joint School on Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather and Climate Prediction | (smr 3140)
Europe/Rome
2019-05-06 08:00:00
2019-05-10 22:00:00
Paper-writing Workshop on the Analysis of CORDEX-CORE Climate Projections | (smr 3282)
The main objective of the workshop is to enhance the capability of young scientists from developing countries to analyze and document scientific issues concerning regional climate modeling and projections, allowing them to provide stronger input to international programs such as the IPCC.
As part of the CORDEX-CORE initiative, a set of regional climate change projections for continental regions worldwide are being completed with different RCMs, including the ICTP RegCM. These will be the basis for input into the upcoming IPCC report, which is based on published scientific articles. It is important that developing country scientists are directly involved in this process, and this workshop will provide a forum to exchange ideas on the analysis of the CORDEX-CORE experiments, and to plan for a series of scientific publications. The workshop will also include a special event on 30 years of Regional Climate Modeling.
Specific topics include:
Processes of regional climate change
Key issues in regional climate modeling (e.g. added value)
Distillation of robust information from ensembles of experiments
Uncertainty analysis
Tools for analysis of model output
Approaches to writing effective scientific paper
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
6 May 2019
- 10 May 2019
» Paper-writing Workshop on the Analysis of CORDEX-CORE Climate Projections | (smr 3282)
Europe/Rome
2019-05-27 08:00:00
2019-06-07 22:00:00
Fifth Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries:
Hydroclimate Modeling and Analysis Tools | (smr 3294)
The Workshop is addressed to researchers from developing regions working on hydro-climate modelling with the aim to foster international research and educational projects on topics related to climate and hydrology, and will be a contribution to the G-WADI programme within the framework of UNESCO IHP VIII (2014-2021), Water Security: Responses to Local Regional and Global Challenges.
Description:
GEWEX is the lead project for WCRP’s Grand Challenge on Water Availability, which focuses on how fresh water availability will shift due to climate change in many food producing regions of the world. Fresh water availability can vary over in time due to reductions or increases in precipitation, evapotranspiration, runoff, ground water recharge or discharge, and snow melt.
Climate extremes are one factor that can influence the intensity of precipitation in time, the snow melt timing and the exchange of water with land and, therefore, the storage of a region. All these make it imperative to better understand and predict precipitation variability and change.
To this aim, the climate model community and, in particular, the regional climate community from one end is moving toward very high resolution simulation ensemble efforts down to the scale of the convection permitting resolution (1-3 km); and from the other end is working to implement fully coupled Earth System models to be able to understand the role of coupled water cycle and land atmosphere interactions in understanding local climate response.
This will open new frontiers for the hydrological modeling community by bridging the spatial scale gap between regional climate models and impact models (hydrological models, ecosystem models, etc.); which will, in turn, affect the quality of the prediction of the hydrological cycle across several scales, from catchments to regional to global.
Topics:
• Precipitation measurements: what we can use to validate precipitation coming from the model output?
• Ensemble of high resolution regional climate model outputs: how can those be used as input of a hydrological model?
• Regional Earth System models: which is the role of the coupled water cycle?
• Uncertainty in global and regional climate projections: how can this uncertainty be taken into account for hydro-climate simulation?
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
27 May 2019
- 7 Jun 2019
» Fifth Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Hydroclimate Modeling and Analysis Tools | (smr 3294)
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.
