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WCRP and ICTP Interpreting Climate Change Simulations: Capacity Building for Developing Nations Seminar | (smr 1986)
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  • Monday, 26 November 2007
    • 08:30 - 09:00 Registration
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 Registration 30'
    • 09:00 - 09:45 Introduction and Welcome
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Introduction and Welcome 45'
        Speaker: F. Giorgi and Ann Henderson-Sellers (ICTP and WCRP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:45 - 11:00 Introduction
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Introduction 1h15'
        Speaker: C. Covey (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, PCMDI, Livermore, California)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 15'
    • 11:15 - 12:30 History of Climate Modelling
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:15 History of Climate Modelling 1h15'
        Speaker: K. McGuffie (University of Technology Sydney)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h0'
    • 13:30 - 17:00 Selecting a project / Creating regional teams / Accessing the CMIP3 Data / Identifying data fields
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)
      • 13:30 Selecting a project / Creating regional teams / Accessing the CMIP3 Data / Identifying data fields 3h30'
        Speaker: A. Henderson-Sellers and F. Giorgi (WCRP and ICTP)
    • 17:00 - 17:45 Being an IPCC lead Author: a "behind the scenes" glimpse
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Being an IPCC lead Author: a "behind the scenes" glimpse 45'
        Speaker: V. Ramaswamy (NOAA / GFDL, Princeton University)
  • Tuesday, 27 November 2007
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Review
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Review 30'
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Radiative forcing agents of climate change
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Radiative forcing agents of climate change 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Ramaswamy (NOAA/GFDL, Princeton University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Uncertainties in global climate models
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Uncertainties in global climate models 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Raisanen (University of Helsinki, Finland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Coffee Break 15'
    • 11:45 - 12:45 IPCC WG1 AR4: Main Messages
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:45 IPCC WG1 AR4: Main Messages 1h0'
        Speaker: V. Ramaswamy (NOAA/GFDL, Princeton University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:45 - 13:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 Lunch 45'
    • 13:30 - 17:00 Review / Exercise 1 / Exercise 2
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)
      • 13:30 Review / Exercise 1 / Exercise 2 3h30'
        Speaker: C. Covey (LLNL)
    • 17:00 - 17:45 What can be researched with CMIP3: example on tropical cyclones
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 What can be researched with CMIP3: example on tropical cyclones 45'
        Speaker: K. McGuffie (UTS)
  • Wednesday, 28 November 2007
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Review
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Review 30'
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Uncertainties in climate change prediction
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Uncertainties in climate change prediction 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Giorgi (ICTP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate models and the real world
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Ocean-atmosphere interactions in climate models and the real world 1h0'
        Speaker: C. Covey (LLNL)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Coffee Break 15'
    • 11:45 - 12:45 Probabilistic prediction of climate change
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:45 Probabilistic prediction of climate change 1h0'
        Speaker: R. Knutti (ETH)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:45 - 13:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:45 Lunch 45'
    • 13:30 - 17:00 Review / Exercise 1 / Exercise 2
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)
      • 13:30 Review / Exercise 1 / Exercise 2 3h30'
        Speaker: R. Knutti (ETH)
    • 17:00 - 17:45 Interactive session "Using the CMIP3 Archive and publishing results: 'How to' guide"
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 17:00 Interactive session "Using the CMIP3 Archive and publishing results: 'How to' guide" 45'
        Speaker: R. Knutti (ETH)
  • Thursday, 29 November 2007
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Review
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Review 30'
    • 09:30 - 10:30 Changes in variability and extremes from the CMIP3 ensemble
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Changes in variability and extremes from the CMIP3 ensemble 1h0'
        Speaker: J. Raisanen (Univ. of Helsinki)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:30 Regional patterns of climate change from the CMIP3 ensemble
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:30 Regional patterns of climate change from the CMIP3 ensemble 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Giorgi (ICTP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Coffee Break 15'
    • 11:45 - 12:30 Round table on regional predictions
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:45 Round table on regional predictions 45'
        Speaker: Ann Henderson-Sellers (WCRP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h0'
    • 13:30 - 17:00 Review / Exercise 1 / Exercise 2
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Eklund Informatics Lab (Lower Level 1)
      • 13:30 Review / Exercise 1 / Exercise 2 3h30'
        Speaker: C. Covey (LLNL)
  • Friday, 30 November 2007
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Climate prediction end-user groups: climateprediction.net example
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Climate prediction end-user groups: climateprediction.net example 1h0'
        Speaker: C. Piani (ICTP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 World Climate Research Future
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 World Climate Research Future 1h0'
        Speaker: Ann Henderson-Sellers (WCRP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break / Group Photo
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee Break / Group Photo 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Precipitation variability and change over Central and Eastern Europe
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Precipitation variability and change over Central and Eastern Europe 30'
        Speaker: J. Raisanen, T. Halenka, R. Bojariu, L. Srnec, T. Csaba
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Anthropogenic forcing and tropical-temperate cloud bands over southern Africa
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Anthropogenic forcing and tropical-temperate cloud bands over southern Africa 30'
        Speaker: F. Engelbrecht, P. Huntsman-Mapila, M. Hansingo
    • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch 1h0'
    • 13:30 - 13:55 Precipitation and temperature changes in North Africa using CMIP3 Data
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 13:30 Precipitation and temperature changes in North Africa using CMIP3 Data 25'
        Speaker: A. Sarr, M. Umer, B. Abiodun
    • 13:55 - 14:20 Precipitation and temperature changes in South, Southeast, East Asia using CMIP3 data
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 13:55 Precipitation and temperature changes in South, Southeast, East Asia using CMIP3 data 25'
        Speaker: F. Syed, I.P. Sharma, Y. Bao, A. Remedio
    • 14:20 - 14:45 South American monsoon onset changes
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:20 South American monsoon onset changes 25'
        Speaker: M. Rojas, S. Rauscher
    • 14:45 - 15:10 Characterizing uncertainties in precipitation changes in South America
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 14:45 Characterizing uncertainties in precipitation changes in South America 25'
        Speaker: S. Da Rocha, M. Rojas, R. Terra, Y. Silva, S. Solmon
    • 15:10 - 15:35 Precipitation - ENSO relation in present and future climate in South America
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:10 Precipitation - ENSO relation in present and future climate in South America 25'
        Speaker: R. Da Rocha, M. Rojas, R. Terra, Y. Silva, S. Solmon
    • 15:35 - 16:00 Impacts of climate change on Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 15:35 Impacts of climate change on Atlantic Tropical Cyclones 25'
        Speaker: T. Stephenson, A. Babatunde
    • 16:00 - 16:20 Tea Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Tea Break 20'
    • 16:20 - 17:00 Attendance certificate presentations and Best Project Report Award / Closing
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Giambiagi Lecture Hall
      • 16:20 Attendance certificate presentations and Best Project Report Award / Closing 40'
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