ATTENTION in the 1st week the MORNING lectures are taking place at the Leonardo building, Budinich Lecture Hall. All AFTERNOON sessions and the 2nd week will take place at the Adriatico Guest House!

The ICTP regional climate modeling system RegCM4 is currently
participating to the CORDEX-CORE initiative, which entails the completion
of a new set of downscaled climate projections over most CORDEX domains
for two greenhouse gas concentration scenarios (RCP8.5 and RCP2.6) at a
horizontal grid spacing of 25 km. These projections are being completed at
ICTP as well as other laboratories using the RegCM4 model, as a community
effort aimed at producing climate information usable for impact assessment
studies and contributing to the activities of the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC). It is expected that by the date of the workshop
a number of new projections will have been completed for multiple domains,
and therefore the workshop will be an optimal venue to analyze these
projections and exchange experience across different domains and regions.

As in previous workshops of this series, this event will provide lectures
and extensive hands-on sessions on the theory of regional climate change
and regional climate modeling as well as the use of the RegCM modeling
system. The focus of the present workshop will be on the analysis and
interpretation of the output of regional model projections, addressing
issues such as : assessment of model performance, performance metrics a
and model systematic errors, identification and quantification of added
value, study of phenomena relevant to different regions, uncertainty in
projections and their dependence on model biases. The workshop will also
provide a forum to discuss the production of scientific publications by
the RegCM user community participating to the CORDEX-CORE effort,
particularly in view of relevant IPCC deadlines. Experience with the RegCM
modeling system and with the analysis of regional model output is an
important requirement for participation.

The workshop is intended for scientists and graduate students working in
the areas of Atmospheric Physics and Dynamics, Climatology, Oceanography,
Physics and Mathematics.