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Europe/Rome 2019-04-29 08:00:00 2019-05-03 18:00:00 ICTP-Rwanda Joint School on Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather and Climate Prediction | (smr 3140) This ICTP school will introduce the Copernicus climate services platform that now provides open access to state of the art reanalysis, real-time seasonal forecast and climate model products. Daily lectures will be given on reanalysis, subseasonal to seasonal forecasting, and predictability, including lectures on ENSO-driven variability and teleconnections. Each afternoon will be spent carrying out hands-on exercises using state-of-the-art products now available on the Copernicus climate data store hosted at ECMWF. These exercises will demonstrate how to access files through python scripts or perform analysis directly at ECMWF using the python-based toolbox. The aim would be to assess some aspect of the seasonal forecast skill in a participants’ projects during the ICTP school in week 1. Topics: • Analysis and Reanalysis products • Sub seasonal to Seasonal forecasting • Predictability, ENSO and teleconnections • Copernicus climate services and the data store Kigali - Rwanda ICTP pio@ictp.it 29 Apr 2019 - 3 May 2019

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

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

Europe/Rome 2019-05-27 08:00:00 2019-06-05 22:00:00 International Young Scientists School and Conference on Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences: “CITES-2019” | (smr 3339) ***DEADLINE for applications is 1 FEBRUARY 2019*** Organizers: E. Gordov Institute for Monitoring of Climate and Ecological Systems, SB RAS, Russia V. Khan Hydrometcentre of Russia, Russia M. Tolstykh Marchuk Institute of Numerical Mathematics RAS and Hydrometcentre of Russia ICTP Contact/Organizer: A. Tompkins, ICTP, Trieste, Italy The theme of the School is subseasonal to decadal (S2D) weather and climate predictions. The school will cover aspects from the modeling and data assimilation to forecast information delivery and relevant practical applications.   Recently, The accuracy of S2D predictions have significantly advanced, exploiting potential sources of atmosphere predictability, such as interactions of the atmosphere with the ocean, sea-ice, land surface, and internal atmosphere modes of variability such as the MJO and QBO. The event comprises of a one-week School with lectures given by leading experts from the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) Working Group on Subseasonal to Interdecadal Prediction (WGSIP), introducing systems from some of the world’s leading operational centers. The lectures will be complemented by lab exercises using open-access data of near-real time and historical forecasts. In the second week, the Computational Information Technologies for Environmental Sciences Conference will take place. More information on the Conference, including abstract requirements, is available at: http://www.scert.ru/en/conferences/cites2019/ Topics: • Subseasonal prediction; • Seasonal prediction; • Interannual prediction; • Earth system modelling; • Practical applications of long range forecasts. Speakers include: L. Batte, Meteo-France, France L. Ferranti, ECMWF, UK D. Hudson, BoM, Australia V. Khan, Hydrometcentre of Russia Li, June-Yee, University of Pusan, Korea B. Merryfield, CCMA, Canada R. Saural, CIMA, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina A. Tompkins, ICTP, Trieste, Italy M. Tolstykh, INM RAS, Russia The School invites applications from PhD students, early career scientists and national meteorological services specialists. A working knowledge of English language is required and a motivation letter in English forms part of the application process. Participants are expected to know how to handle NetCDF data and to visualize them. Moscow - Russian Federation ICTP pio@ictp.it 27 May 2019 - 5 Jun 2019