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Europe/Rome 2020-05-04 08:00:00 2020-05-08 22:00:00 Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on the Use of Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor for Soil Moisture Management and Validation of Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Maps * CANCELLED * | (smr 3440) Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 February up to 15 May as precautionary measures due to COVID-19; more details at https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_activities.aspx Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS) has potential for soil moisture monitoring of agricultural land. The results can be used for irrigation scheduling and extreme weather event forecasting. Remote sensing can extrapolate the acquired soil moisture data to larger areas. The increasing demand for food production due to population increase and climatic hazards requires improving land management practices. One of major demands is to support the decision processes by reliable and representative information on soil moisture, which is difficult to obtain by conventional soil moisture measurements. CRNS is a much more suitable technique for this purpose since it is non-invasive and has a large footprint overcoming the problem of soil moisture spatial microvariability. The data acquired from CRNS measurements can be used for scientific tasks such as validation of hydrological models and remote sensing soil moisture products, as well as for practical land management and environmental applications such as soil moisture management under rainfed agriculture, irrigation scheduling, drought management and flood forecast. Topics: Basic principles of soil moisture measurements using Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS) Methodological challenges: footprint extension, heterogeneity mapping, root depth moisture interpolation, biomass impact Hydrological models as a tool used for land management Use of remote sensing and soil moisture products for land management Use of CRNS data for hydrological modeling Use of CRNS data for validation of remote sensing soil moisture products Use of CRNS data for rainfed agriculture Use of CRNS data for irrigation scheduling Use of CRNS data for drought management Use of CRNS data for flood forecast Speakers: B. BAUER-MARSCHALLINGER, TU Wien, Austria T. FRANZ, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA The applicants should have background in agricultural sciences, earths sciences or physics and the experience in research activities at the field of soil water management and use of Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor (CRNS). The applicants from institutions having already own CRNS and running CRNS measurements at stationary monitoring sites will be preferred. Experience with remote sensing is also welcomed, but not mandatory.   ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 4 May 2020 - 8 May 2020

Europe/Rome 2020-05-11 08:00:00 2020-05-16 22:00:00 10th ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models * CANCELLED * | (smr 3441) Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 February up to 15 May as precautionary measures due to COVID-19; more details at https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_activities.aspx Regional climate models (RCMs) are widely used tools to produce high resolution regional climate simulations, and the ICTP Earth System Physics section maintains the RegCM system, which is used by a wide scientific community. Currently, the most advanced version of the RegCM system is RegCM4, released in 2012, and incrementally augmented during the last 8 years. A new version of the model, however, is being developed, which will constitute the basis for the next RegCM version, RegCM5. In particular, RegCM5 will include a new non hydrostatic dynamical core, more accurate and much faster than the one available in RegCM4. In particular, this will allow the model to be more easily applied at convection-permitting resolutions (1-3 km). A Beta version of RegCM5 has been developed and the workshop will focus on the testing of this new version using different domains and resolutions. Differently from previous workshops of this series, this one will be shorter and more focused on lab sessions, although some theoretical lectures will still be presented. The workshop will thus be more directed towards expert users of the model, although some new users are also welcome. Topics: Basic principles of regional climate modeling Climate change at regional scales The Coordinated Regional Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX) The RegCM regional climate model system Modeling at convection-permitting resolutions Speakers: M. ASHFAQ, ORNL, USA T. CAVAZOS, CICESE, Mexico J. CIARLO, ICTP E. COPPOLA, ICTP X. GAO, IAP, Beijing, China F. GIORGI, ICTP G. GIULIANI, ICTP R. GLAZER, ICTP P. MALGUZZI, CNR-ISAC, Italy G. NARISMA, Ateneo de Manila, Philippines E. PICHELLI, ICTP M. REBOITA, U. Federal de Itajuba, Brazil A. TORRES ALAVEZ, ICTP Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 11 May 2020 - 16 May 2020

Europe/Rome 2020-06-15 08:00:00 2020-07-03 22:00:00 Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development * CANCELLED * | (smr 3453) Note: ICTP has suspended all educational activities from 24 February up to 26 June as precautionary measures due to COVID-19; more details at https://www.ictp.it/about-ictp/media-centre/news/2020/2/ictp_suspend_activities.aspx ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 15 Jun 2020 - 3 Jul 2020

Europe/Rome 2020-08-03 08:00:00 2020-08-08 22:00:00 The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School in Ghana 2020 | (smr 3462) 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. Marine issues of great importance to Ghana include fisheries, piracy, pollution, shipping and port management, and the recent advent of offshore oil drilling.
 We held schools in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and ICTP co-organized the school in 2018. We hold the school every year, alternating between Regional Maritime University and University of Ghana, which are both located in Ghana’s capital city of Accra. In 2020, for the 6th summer in a row, we will host a summer school. It will be the third school hosted at the University of Ghana. During the summer school, around 100 African participants receive a broad general training in marine and environmental sciences. At the same time, a subgroup of participants receive more specific training in their areas of interest, through conducting a short research project on specialized topics related to ocean biogeochemistry, ocean modeling, satellite oceanography, data analysis, and seagoing oceanography. The emphasis in this project track is on hands-on research rather than on lectures. Project track participants will thus have a chance to spend an entire week working closely under the guidance of the instructors, deepening their knowledge of their topic of interest, and presenting their projects on the last day of the school.
 We believe that repeat visits are the key to establishing meaningful long-term connections between western and African scientists. Our long-term goals for the school include developing a research and education network of marine and environmental scientists in several African countries. Topics: • Coastal ocean dynamics • Environmental science • Oil and gas basin development • Shoreline geomorphology • Organic and isotope biogeochemistry • Satellite and field oceanography • Numerical modeling of the ocean • Data analysis techniques Speakers: Prof. E. L. Shroyer, Oregon State University, USA Prof. Adam Simon, University of Michigan, USA Prof. Aline Cotel, University of Michigan, USA Dr. Paige Martin, Columbia University, USA Prof. Andrew Lucas, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA Dr. Madeline Foster-Martinez, University of New Orleans, USA Dr. D. Menemenlis, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Dr. E. Nyadjro, Mississippi State University, USA Dr. J. K. Ansong, University of Ghana, Legon Dr. W. Johnson, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Dr. C. Buckingham, Universite Bretagne Occidentale, France Dr. S. Howden, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA Dr. A. M. Lamptey, University of Ghana, Legon Prof. B. K. Arbic, University of Michigan, USA Dr. R. Farneti, Abdus Salam ICTP, Italy Accra - Ghana ICTP pio@ictp.it 3 Aug 2020 - 8 Aug 2020