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Fifth ICTP Workshop on the Theory and Use of Regional Climate Models | (smr 2148)
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  • Monday, 31 May 2010
    • 08:30 - 09:45 REGISTRATION - Adriatico Lower Level 1
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 08:30 REGISTRATION - Adriatico Lower Level 1 1h15'
    • 09:45 - 10:00 Welcome and Opening: Objectives of the workshop
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Welcome and Opening: Objectives of the workshop 15'
    • 10:00 - 10:30 A brief history of the RegCM: From RegCM1 to RegCM4
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 A brief history of the RegCM: From RegCM1 to RegCM4 30'
        Speaker: F. Giorgi (Head, ICTP- ESP Section)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 
      Weather permitting - otherwise inside the Adriatico Cafeteria
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Terrace
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Regional climate studies at MIT using RegCMs
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Regional climate studies at MIT using RegCMs 30'
        Speaker: E. Eltahir (MIT, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:00 The North American Climate Change Assessment program (NARCCAP): Overview of results
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 The North American Climate Change Assessment program (NARCCAP): Overview of results 30'
        Speaker: L. Mearns (NCAR, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 The MED-CORDEX experiment: underpinning simulations, preliminary validation and future steps within the Hymex context
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 The MED-CORDEX experiment: underpinning simulations, preliminary validation and future steps within the Hymex context 30'
        Speaker: P. Ruti (ENEA-Casaccia, Rome)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 13:00 The SOCOCA Project and role of RegCM4 in it
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 The SOCOCA Project and role of RegCM4 in it 30'
        Speaker: F. Stordal (University of Oslo)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 13:00 - 14:15 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 13:00 Lunch Break 1h15'
    • 14:15 - 15:45 New computational aspects of RegCM4
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:15 New computational aspects of RegCM4 1h30'
        Speaker: S. Cozzini (SISSA-Trieste), E. Coppola (ESP-ICTP), Giuliani
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:45 - 16:00 Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:45 Break 15'
    • 16:00 - 18:00 Formation of Lab Groups; Lab session (RegCM Team)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 Formation of Lab Groups; Lab session (RegCM Team) 2h0'
        Material: movie
  • Tuesday, 1 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Potential for reliable prediction of climate on regional and decadal scales: an ensemble of opportunity test case for the United States
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Potential for reliable prediction of climate on regional and decadal scales: an ensemble of opportunity test case for the United States 30'
        Speaker: N. Diffenbaugh (Stanford University, USA)
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Extreme precipitation by RegCM3 and other RCMs in NARCCAP
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Extreme precipitation by RegCM3 and other RCMs in NARCCAP 30'
        Speaker: W. Gutowski: (Iowa State University)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Near term future hydrological changes in the United States: Methods and projections
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Near term future hydrological changes in the United States: Methods and projections 30'
        Speaker: M. Ashfaq (Oak Ridge Climate Change Science Institute, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Sensitivity to convective parameterization and resolution in simulations of tropical cyclones
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Sensitivity to convective parameterization and resolution in simulations of tropical cyclones 30'
        Speaker: R. Arritt (Iowa State University, USA)
        Material: Presentations movies
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Understanding the Central America Hot-Spot
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Understanding the Central America Hot-Spot 30'
        Speaker: S. Rauscher (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Multiscale climate processes of ENSO, Monsoon over the Maritime Continent of Southeast Asia
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Multiscale climate processes of ENSO, Monsoon over the Maritime Continent of Southeast Asia 30'
        Speaker: J. Qian (IRI, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Participation of RegCM in CORDEX
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Participation of RegCM in CORDEX 1h0'
        Speaker: W. Gutowski, F. Giorgi
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 15:30 CLM
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 CLM 30'
        Speaker: A.Tawfik (University of Michigan)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather Permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lab session (RegCM Team)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 16:00 Lab session (RegCM Team) 2h0'
        Material: movie
    • 19:00 - 20:30 RECEPTION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 19:00 RECEPTION 1h30'
  • Wednesday, 2 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 09:30 The PROTHEUS system: A coupled regional climate system model for the Mediterranean
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 The PROTHEUS system: A coupled regional climate system model for the Mediterranean 30'
        Speaker: A. Dell’Aquila (University of Malta)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Implementation, testing and sensitivity experiments with a high resolution sub-grid land surface module over the Alpine region.
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Implementation, testing and sensitivity experiments with a high resolution sub-grid land surface module over the Alpine region. 30'
        Speaker: E-S. Im (Korea Meteorological Administration)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 High resolution RegCM transient simulation for the 21st century over the Alpine region using the land surface sub-grid module
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 High resolution RegCM transient simulation for the 21st century over the Alpine region using the land surface sub-grid module 30'
        Speaker: E. Coppola (ICTP-ESP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Regional Climate Modeling in high-resolution: Lessons learned from the EC FP6 CECILIA Project
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Regional Climate Modeling in high-resolution: Lessons learned from the EC FP6 CECILIA Project 30'
        Speaker: T. Halenka (Charles Universty, Prague)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Verification, climate change and variability of European temperature and precipitation: Focus on Croatia and the first CORDEX results
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Verification, climate change and variability of European temperature and precipitation: Focus on Croatia and the first CORDEX results 30'
        Speaker: I. Guettler (Meteorological and Hydrological Service of Croatia)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Validation of a high resolution version of the RegCM over the Carpathian basin and analysis of transient climate change simulations.
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Validation of a high resolution version of the RegCM over the Carpathian basin and analysis of transient climate change simulations. 30'
        Speaker: C. Torma (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Workshop project proposals by the lab groups
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Workshop project proposals by the lab groups 1h0'
    • 15:00 - 15:30 -
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 - 30'
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather Permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lab session (RegCM Team)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 16:00 Lab session (RegCM Team) 2h0'
  • Thursday, 3 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 09:30 RegCM simulations of chemistry-climate interactions over the continental US
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 RegCM simulations of chemistry-climate interactions over the continental US 30'
        Speaker: A. Steiner (University of Michigan, USA)
        Material: movie
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Implementation of gas-phase chemistry within RegCM
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Implementation of gas-phase chemistry within RegCM 30'
        Speaker: A. Zakey
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 On the direct effects of anthropogenic aerosols on European climate with RegCM3
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 On the direct effects of anthropogenic aerosols on European climate with RegCM3 30'
        Speaker: P. Zanis (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Studying the climatic impacts of Saharan dust with RCMs: Advantages, limits and sensitive issues
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Studying the climatic impacts of Saharan dust with RCMs: Advantages, limits and sensitive issues 30'
        Speaker: F. Solmon (ICTP-ESP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Recent results of RegCM3 over South America: Climatology, variability and cyclogenesis
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Recent results of RegCM3 over South America: Climatology, variability and cyclogenesis 30'
        Speaker: R. Porfirio Rocha (Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil)
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Greenhouse forced changes in the annual cycle of monsoons?
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Greenhouse forced changes in the annual cycle of monsoons? 30'
        Speaker: A. Seth (University of Connecticut, USA)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 RegCM4 special issue
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 RegCM4 special issue 1h0'
        Speaker: F. Giorgi
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Chemistry
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Chemistry 30'
        Speaker: A. Zakey (ESP-ICTP), K.A.Shalaby (Egyptian Meteorological Authority & ICTP-ESP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather Permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 15:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lab session (RegCM Team)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 16:00 Lab session (RegCM Team) 2h0'
  • Friday, 4 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 09:30 Simulated hydroclimatic variability of the greater horn of Africa during the transition between bimodal rainfall regimes
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Simulated hydroclimatic variability of the greater horn of Africa during the transition between bimodal rainfall regimes 30'
        Speaker: R. Anyah (University of Connecticut, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 09:30 - 10:00 Influence of lateral boundary forcing on regional model simulations of mean and extreme climates over Southern Africa
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Influence of lateral boundary forcing on regional model simulations of mean and extreme climates over Southern Africa 30'
        Speaker: B. Sylla (Universite' Cheik Anta Diop de Dakar & ICTP-ESP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 10:30 Ensemble seasonal forecasting with RegCM3 over Ethiopia
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Ensemble seasonal forecasting with RegCM3 over Ethiopia 30'
        Speaker: G. Tefera-Diro (ICTP-ESP)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 11:30 The effects of mineral aerosols on the summertime climate of Southwest Asia
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 The effects of mineral aerosols on the summertime climate of Southwest Asia 30'
        Speaker: M. Marcella Pace (E. A. B. Eltahir) (MIT, USA)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:30 - 12:00 Monthly and seasonal variations in circulation and precipitation simulated by RegCM3 over India
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Monthly and seasonal variations in circulation and precipitation simulated by RegCM3 over India 30'
        Speaker: S.K. Dash (Indian Institute of Technology - Delhi)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:00 - 12:30 Recent climate change studies with RegCM in NCC
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Recent climate change studies with RegCM in NCC 30'
        Speaker: X. Gao (National Climate Center of CHina, Beijing)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:30 Project progress reports
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Project progress reports 1h30'
    • 15:30 - 16:00 outside Kastler Lecture Hall: 4 mobile boards of 4 faces each, size of each face: mts 1,20 (width) x1,90 (height); total 16 faces for 36.48 sq. mts. 
      YOU ARE INVITED TO DISPLAY YOUR POSTERS ON THE BOARDS ANY TIME DURING THE WEEK
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:30 outside Kastler Lecture Hall: 4 mobile boards of 4 faces each, size of each face: mts 1,20 (width) x1,90 (height); total 16 faces for 36.48 sq. mts. 30'
    • 16:00 - 18:00 Lab Session (RegCM Team)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 16:00 Lab Session (RegCM Team) 2h0'
  • Monday, 7 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Participant Talks
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Participant Talks 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Lab session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 11:00 Lab session 1h30'
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Metrics for model evaluation
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Metrics for model evaluation 1h0'
        Speaker: W. Gutowski
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 18:00 Lab Session (Coffee Break served on Terrace at 15:30 - 16:00)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 15:00 Lab Session (Coffee Break served on Terrace at 15:30 - 16:00) 3h0'
  • Tuesday, 8 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Participant Talks
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 09:00 Participant Talks 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Lab session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 11:00 Lab session 1h30'
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Results from other RCMs
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Results from other RCMs 1h0'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Participant Talks
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Participant Talks 1h0'
    • 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 
      Weather Permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 15:00 Coffee Break 30'
    • 16:00 - 17:30 2009 ICTP Prize Ceremony (in honor of Edward Norton Lorenz)
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:00 2009 ICTP Prize Ceremony (in honor of Edward Norton Lorenz) 1h30'
        Speaker: Recepient: Professor Marcelo Barreiro (Atmospheric Sciences Unit, School of Sciences, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)
  • Wednesday, 9 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Presentations
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Presentations 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break 
      Weather permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Lab session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 11:00 Lab session 1h30'
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Some ongoing or possible model development efforts
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Some ongoing or possible model development efforts 1h0'
    • 15:00 - 18:00 Lab Session (Coffee Break served on Terrace at 16:00 - 16:30)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 15:00 Lab Session (Coffee Break served on Terrace at 16:00 - 16:30) 3h0'
  • Thursday, 10 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Presentations
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Presentations 1h30'
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break 
      Weather permitting
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Lab session
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 11:00 Lab session 1h30'
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Special Issue
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
    • 15:00 - 18:00 Lab Session (Coffee Break served on Terrace at 15:30 - 16:00)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Informatics Lab.
      • 15:00 Lab Session (Coffee Break served on Terrace at 15:30 - 16:00) 3h0'
  • Friday, 11 June 2010
    • 09:00 - 10:30 Project presentations (10 min. each)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
    • 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House (Terrace)
      • 10:30 Coffee Break 30'
    • 11:00 - 12:30 Project presentations (cont'd) (10 min. each)
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Project presentations (cont'd) (10 min. each) 1h30'
        Material: Presentations
    • 12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Cafeteria
      • 12:30 Lunch Break 1h0'
    • 13:30 - 15:30 Project presentations (cont'd) (10 min. each) 
      + Issuance of Diplomas of Attendance + Wrap-up
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 13:30 Project presentations (cont'd) (10 min. each) 2h0'
        Material: Presentations
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