Europe/Rome
2017-06-12 08:30:00
2017-06-30 22:00:00
CLEWS Summer School | (smr 3168)
The Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development has two major objectives. It seeks to deepen the modeling skills of government officials and academics to inform sustainable development policies through more than 100 hours of intensive training sessions combining analysts from governments and academics. Government officials from countries participating in UNDESA and UNDP capacity development projects on modeling tools will interact with graduate students and researchers interested in contributing to the practice of providing rigorous evidence for decision making on sustainable development policies.
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
Room: Leonardo Building - Lecture Room B
Secretary: Pandora Malchose
Organizer(s): Local Organiser: Adrian Tompkins
Participation will be by invitation only. No public call for applications is being made.
Europe/Rome
2017-07-31 08:00:00
2017-08-04 22:00:00
Targeted Training Activity (TTA) 2017: Monsoons in a Changing Climate | (smr 3170)
This TTA will focus on the monsoons in a changing climate. After the release of the IPCC report in 2013 there has been a lot of interest in the projections of the Asian monsoon in the 21st century. The workshop will consist of invited lectures and analysis of projected monsoons by the participants.
Background:
Since 2004, the ICTP Earth System Physics section has conducted “Targeted Training Activity (TTA),” a specialized educational activity with a team-oriented nature. This team-oriented aspect is aiming to develop groups of scientists who can work together on a specific goal within a developing-country institution. Previous TTAs on the seasonal predictability in tropical regions have been successful to initiate seasonal climate prediction researches and contributed to operational application in the developing countries.
During the TTA there will also be a 1.5 day workshop on Climate dynamics of the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau Himalayan climate. Since the Himalayan mountains are a source of water for the many major rivers in Asia, affecting billions of people, there is a lot of interest in the projections of climate in the entire Himalayan region. The Asian Monsoon system is the most powerful monsoon system on our planet and derives from the combined influence of the ocean land distributions and especially the Himalaya mountains and Tibetan Plateau. It is of great socio-economic consequence to more than 16 neighboring countries. The program will discuss atmospheric dynamics, land-sea-air coupling, ecology, river systems, recent ENSO events, and long distance tele coupling of the Asian Monsoon into the entire world system.
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
Room: Euler Lecture Hall (LB)
Secretary: Susanne Henningsen
Organizer(s): Jagadish Shukla (COLA, George Mason University), Surya Anguluri (IITM), R. Krishnan (IITM), Bob Bishop (ICES), Guoxiong Wu (LASG), Local Organiser: Fred Kucharski
Cosponsor(s):
Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology (IITM)
**DEADLINE: 01/05/2017**
Europe/Rome
2017-09-04 08:00:00
2017-09-08 22:00:00
ICTP-Rwanda Joint School on Subseasonal to Seasonal Weather and Climate Prediction | (smr 3140)
This school focuses on sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction research and related climate products, as many management decisions in agriculture and food security, water, disaster risk reduction and health fall into this range.
There is an urgent need to improve the resiliency of tropical developing countries to climate and weather shocks. Improved subseasonal to seasonal forecasts of rainfall hold the promise of effective early warning systems for floods and droughts, and actionable information for decision makers in agriculture, water management, and public health. Examples include the timing of the onset of rainy seasons, timing on monsoon breaks and active spells, and the probability of high-impact weather events.
This school will expose participants from operational centers and universities to a major new initiative to bridge the gap between weather and seasonal climate forecasts; it will train them to access the new multi-model S2S database of subseasonal to seasonal forecasts, and make analyses of forecast skill and predictability mechanisms.
• Mechanisms of subseasonal predictability: MJO, atmosphere interactions with land surface and ocean, teleconnections
• Modeling in the subseasonal range: initialization, ensemble generation, design of forecast systems
• Introduction to the new S2S multi-model database of subseasonal forecasts
• Practical training sessions on analysis and skill assessment of ensemble prediction systems in the S2S database for the countries of the participants
• Teleconnections and variability
Speakers:
F. Kucharski (ICTP)
A.G. Munoz (AOS/GFDL - Princeton University, USA)
B. Safari (University of Rwanda)
A. Tompkins (ICTP)
As funds are strictly limited, travel grants are only available for applicants based in Africa, with priority given to those from Rwanda.
KIgali - Rwanda
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
Secretary: Milena Poropat
Organizer(s): Fred Kucharski (ICTP-Trieste), Bonfils Safari (University of Rwanda-East Africa Institute for Fundamental Research), ICTP Scientific Contact: Adrian Tompkins
Cosponsor(s):
The University of Rwanda
**DEADLINE: 23/06/2017** **DEADLINE: 23/06/2017**
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.
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
ICTP
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)
Room: Kastler Lecture Hall (AGH)
Secretary: Susanne Henningsen
Organizer(s): David M. Straus (George Mason University), Cristiana Stan (George Mason University), Andrew Robertson (IRI, Columbia University), Local Organiser: Fred Kucharski
Cosponsor(s):
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
**DEADLINE: 15/07/2017**
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)
Hanoi - Viet Nam
ICTP
pio@ictp.it
Address: Vietnam
Secretary: Pandora Malchose
Organizer(s): Nguyen Huu Du (VIASM), Pham Chi Vinh (VNU Hanoi University of Sciences), Nguyen Xuan Anh (Institute of Geophysics), ICTP Scientific Contact: Abdelkrim Aoudia
Cosponsor(s):
VIASM
