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Europe/Rome Lecture 2 of series on Environmental Meteorology: From the Fundamentals of Climate to Operational Applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

4 Mar 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Improving our mechanistic understanding of the regional climate response to anthropogenic aerosols

Speaker(s): Massimo Bollasina, University of Edinburgh, UK

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Lecture 3 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Abstract: The Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Model Intercomparison Project (RCEMIP) is an intercomparison of multiple types of numerical models, including atmospheric general circulation models (GCMs), cloud-resolving models (CRMs), global cloud-resolving models (GCRMs), large eddy simulation models (LES), and single column models (SCMs), configured in radiative-convective equilibrium (RCE). RCE is an idealization of the tropical atmosphere that has long been used to study basic questions in climate science, and is employed here to investigated the response of clouds and convective activity to warming, cloud feedbacks and climate sensitivity, and the aggregation of convection and its role in climate. Results are presented from the RCEMIP ensemble of more than 30 different models. The robustness of the RCE state across the RCEMIP ensemble is assessed, in terms of mean profiles of temperature, humidity, and cloudiness, and the occurrence of self-aggregation is identified. While there are significant differences across the RCEMIP ensemble in the representation of humidity and cloudiness, nearly all models exhibit self-aggregation and there is agreement that self-aggregation acts to dry the atmosphere and reduce high cloudiness. The dependence of cloudiness and the degree of self-aggregation on SST and the resulting influence on the climate sensitivity of the RCE state is also compared across the RCEMIP ensemble. High clouds tend to rise and warm slightly with warming, and in a majority of models, decrease in extent. There is no clear tendency for either an increase or decrease in self-aggregation with warming, but changes in self-aggregation with warming partially explain the extreme spread in simulated climate sensitivities across the RCEMIP ensemble. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

11 Mar 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Convective Self-Aggregation and Climate Sensitivity in a Multi-Model Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations

Speaker(s): Allison Wing, Florida State University, USA

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Deadline extended to 7 March 2021 An ICTP Virtual Meeting This workshop will focus on observational and modelling studies of the Indian Ocean climate and its variability and telconnections to other regions across sub-seasonal through multi-decadal time scales. The Indian Ocean hosts two important modes of interannual variability: the Indian Ocean Basin Mode and the Indian Ocean Dipole. Both modes have two-way interactions with ENSO, but they may also exist independently. Through their influence on rainfall anomalies, they have important teleconnections to other tropical and extratropical regions. At sub-seasonal scales, organized convection over the Indian Ocean occurs during the early phases of the MJO mode, producing global teleconnections. ENSO teleconnections to the Indian Ocean also change on sub-seasonal timescales. At decadal scales, the Indian Ocean shows important variability associated with a strong warming trend, which affects global decadal variability and regional climate change. Recent findings on these and related topics will be discussed in invited presentations, panel discussions and breakout groups, organized in sessions covering themes common to different time scales. Topics: Observations and diagnostics of oceanic and atmospheric variability in the Indian Ocean basin Tropical and extratropical teleconnections from and into the Indian Ocean at intra-seasonal to decadal scales: similarity and differences across time scales Simulation of Indian Ocean variability and its teleconnections in climate models, and predictability arising from Indian Ocean teleconnections Speakers include: K. ASHOK, University of Hyderabad, India M.A. BALMASEDA, ECMWF, UK W. HAN, University of Colorado, USA S. HARDIMAN, Met Office, UK S. HENDERSON, University of Wisconsin, USA H. HENDON, Bureau of Meteorology, Australia S. HU, Columbia University, USA I.-S. KANG, Second Institute of Oceanography, China R.M. KOLL, IITM, India P. KUSHNER, University of Toronto, Canada C. UMMENHOFER, WHOI, USA F. VITART, ECMWF, UK J. WANG, Stony Brook University, USA T. WOOLLINGS, University of Oxford, UK P. YADAV, ETH Zurich, Switzerland L. ZHANG, University of Colorado, USA Registration: There is no registration fee. Online - ICTP pio@ictp.it

Activity

15 Mar 2021 - 17 Mar 2021

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Earth System Physics

Workshop on Indian Ocean Variability and Teleconnections | (smr 3592)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Online

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Viktoriya Lvova, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Martin Hoerling (NOAA), Jim Hurrell (Colorado State University), Franco Molteni (ECMWF), Cristina Stan (George Mason University), David Straus (George Mason University), Local Organiser: Fred Kucharski

Support E-Mail: smr3592@ictp.it

**DEADLINE: 07/03/2021**

Europe/Rome Lecture 4 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Abstract: The Atlantic Multidecadal Variability (AMV) modulates various climate features worldwide with enormous societal and economic implications, including variations in hurricane activity in the Atlantic, sea-level changes, West African and Indian monsoon rainfall, European climate, and hemispheric- scale surface temperature. Leading hypotheses regarding the nature and origin of AMV focus primarily on its links with oceanic and coupled ocean-atmosphere internal variability, and on its response to external forcing. The role of another possible process, that of atmospheric noise forcing of the ocean, has received less attention. This work addressed here by means of historical coupled simulations and diagnostic experiments, which isolate the influences of external and atmospheric noise forcings. Our findings show that external forcing is an important driver of the simulated AMV. They also demonstrate that weather noise is key in driving the simulated internal AMV in the southern part of the (0°-60°N) AMV region, and that weather noise forcing is responsible for up to 10%-20% of the multidecadal internal SST variability in some isolated areas of the sub-polar gyre region. Ocean dynamics independent from the weather noise forcing is found to be the dominant cause of multidecadal SST in the northern part of the AMV region. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

18 Mar 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

The role of atmospheric weather noise in forcing the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

Speaker(s): Ioana Colfescu, NCAS, University of Leeds

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Lecture 5 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

25 Mar 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Using economics and big data to measure the costs of climate change

Speaker(s): Tamma Carleton, Bren School of Environmental Science & Management, UC Santa Barbara

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Lecture 6 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Abstract: Turbulence in the atmospheric boundary layer is characterized not only by the magnitude of its fluxes, but also by the state of anisotropy of its Reynolds stress tensor. Anisotropy is strongly influenced by turbulence generation mechanisms such as shear, thermal stratification, and surface characteristics. My recent results show that anisotropy plays a key role not only in the transport of momentum but it is also a key missing variable in similarity scaling relations. In this talk I will show why the information on anisotropy should always be included in any study of turbulence and how it can be used to formulate a novel surface layer scaling framework that extends Monin-Obukhov similarity theory to complex terrain. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

8 Apr 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Extending similarity theory into complex terrain

Speaker(s): Ivana Stiperski, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Lecture 7 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Abstract: In urban neighborhood and around industrial plants, the atmospheric dispersion of pollutants is strongly affected by the presence of buildings. They affect the mean flow field and the turbulence and these in turn will affect the concentrations levels. We describe the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics models (adapted for the atmosphere), following either an Eulerian/Eulerian approach or an hybrid Eulerian/Lagrangian formulation. The results are illustrated using measurements of the Mock Urban Setting Test (MUST) campaign performed in the USA. Using the same field campaign, we will also show how we can use data assimilation of the measurements between the buildings to improve the numerical simulation in urban environments. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

22 Apr 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Numerical modeling studies of atmospheric dispersion of pollutant around obstacles

Speaker(s): Bertrand Carissimo, CEREA (Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Environnement Atmosphérique), Paris

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Lecture 8 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

29 Apr 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

To be announced

Speaker(s): Ben Devenish, MetOffice, UK

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Lecture 9 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Abstract: Wind energy is one of the key drivers of energy transition, however the flow of investments into this industry is hampered by the uncertainty of the future revenues, arising from the natural variability of the resource, the impact of climate change on wind potential and future electricity prices, and the policy risks. In this article we quantify the uncertainty of the net present value of standardized wind farms in European countries and evaluate the level and cost of support mechanisms needed to guarantee the profitability of the wind fleet under present and future climate. To this end, we build a localized model for wind power output and a country-level model for electricity demand and prices taking into account hourly variation of wind, load and prices, using reanalysis data, climate projections and Integrated Assessment Model (IAM) scenarios. Our methodology is general, but for specific evaluations we focus on the examples of France, Germany and Denmark. Our study reveals that support mechanisms in these countries are needed for wind energy to be profitable under current market prices and current climate. Under future climate, using several scenarios for climate change and energy transition, we also show that the evolution of both price and wind production does not allow the wind energy industry in these countries to develop in a free market environment and that support mechanisms will still be needed in future. The cost of these support mechanisms for a 15-year period is evaluated to 57–172 billion euros in France, 232–397 billion euros in Germany, and 18–50 billion euros in Denmark, depending on the scenario considered and the level of penetration of wind energy. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

6 May 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Wind farm revenues in Western Europe in present and future climate

Speaker(s): Anna Creti, Paris Dauphine University

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Activity

10 May 2021 - 19 May 2021

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Earth System Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on the Use of Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor for Soil Moisture Management and Validation of Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Maps | (smr 3574)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Online

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Viktoriya Lvova, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Emil Fulajtar (Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture, Soil and Water Management & Crop Nutrition Subprogramme), Local Organiser: Paolo Creminelli

Cosponsor(s): International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)iaea3

Europe/Rome Lecture 10 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Abstract: Climate change adaptation in both public and private sectors urgently requires better risk quantification tools to inform decision-making and planning across multiple timescales. In this presentation, I will give an overview of the research activities in IBM’s “AI for Climate Impacts” research theme, an initiative to build resilience to climate change by developing AI-enhanced and cloud-enabled models to quantify climate risk. I will describe applications of AI techniques to the specific challenge of improving flood risk quantification, including the use of simulation model surrogates, automated ground truth mapping and model calibration, and machine learning approaches to quantifying and propagating multiple sources of uncertainty. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

13 May 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Artificial intelligence for climate impacts

Speaker(s): Anne Jones, IBM, Crank, UK

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Lecture 11 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

20 May 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Climate impact on cold- and heat-related mortality in cities

Speaker(s): Veronika Huber, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Seminar

27 May 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

To be announced

Speaker(s): Gianni Tinarelli, ARIANET, italy

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Seminar

3 Jun 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

To be announced

Speaker(s): Massimo Cassiani, Nilu (Norwegian Institute for Air Research)

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Europe/Rome Lecture 14 of series on Climate and weather: from fundamentals to operational applications Register in advance for this meeting: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lcuyurDMrEtbfP9f16GRLzqF1AiT7PHN7 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Zoom Meeting ICTP pio@ictp.it

Seminar

10 Jun 2021

@ Zoom Meeting

Earth System Physics

Understanding cloud-circulation coupling in the trades: lessons from EUREC4A

Speaker(s): Sandrine Bony, Director of Research CNRS Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (LMD/IPSL) Sorbonne Université,

Seminar Start Time: 15:00

Activity

14 Jun 2021 - 2 Jul 2021

@ Online -

Earth System Physics

Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development | (smr 3581)

Address: Strada Costiera, 11 I - 34151 Trieste (Italy)

Room: Online

Secretary: Monica Ancuta, Viktoriya Lvova, Adriana Pinto

Organizer(s): Mark Howells (KTH), Local Organiser: Adrian Tompkins

Cosponsor(s): OpTIMUS Community of Practiceoptimus1, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO)ukaid, Imperial College Londonicl2, International Atomic Energy Agencyiaea3, KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYkth1, Loughborough Universitylboro, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairsundesa1, United Nations Development Programmeundp1, United Nations Economic Commission for Africauneca, University of Cambridgecambridge, University of Oxfordoxford2, The Open Universityopenuniv, The World Bank Groupwbank2

Support E-Mail: smr3581@ictp.it

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Earth System Physics

Improving our mechanistic understanding of the regional climate response to anthropogenic aerosols

Seminar

Earth System Physics

Convective Self-Aggregation and Climate Sensitivity in a Multi-Model Ensemble of Radiative-Convective Equilibrium Simulations

Activity

Earth System Physics

Workshop on Indian Ocean Variability and Teleconnections | (smr 3592)

Seminar

Earth System Physics

The role of atmospheric weather noise in forcing the Atlantic Multidecadal Variability

Seminar

Earth System Physics

Using economics and big data to measure the costs of climate change

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Earth System Physics

Extending similarity theory into complex terrain

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Earth System Physics

Numerical modeling studies of atmospheric dispersion of pollutant around obstacles

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Earth System Physics

To be announced

Seminar

Earth System Physics

Wind farm revenues in Western Europe in present and future climate

Activity

Earth System Physics

Joint ICTP-IAEA Workshop on the Use of Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensor for Soil Moisture Management and Validation of Remote Sensing Soil Moisture Maps | (smr 3574)

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Earth System Physics

Artificial intelligence for climate impacts

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Earth System Physics

Climate impact on cold- and heat-related mortality in cities

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To be announced

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Earth System Physics

To be announced

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Earth System Physics

Understanding cloud-circulation coupling in the trades: lessons from EUREC4A

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Joint Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development | (smr 3581)

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