Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR Advanced School on Regional Climate Modeling over South America

Start time: February 15, 2016

Ends on: February 19, 2016

Location: São Paulo, Brazil

Venue: IFT-UNESP

Organizing Committee / Speakers:

Tercio Ambrizzi (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Erika Coppola (ICTP-Trieste, Italy)
Filippo Giorgi (ICTP-Trieste, Italy)
Marta Llopart (ICTP-Trieste, Italy)
Laura Mariotti (ICTP-Trieste, Italy)
Rosmeri Porfirio da Rocha (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)

Invited Speakers:

Marcelo Barreiro (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay)
Iracema F.A. Cavalcanti (CPTEC. Brazil)
Chou Sin Chan (CPTEC, Brazil)
Santiago Cuadra (EMBRAPA, Brazil)
Julio Pablo Fernandez (CPTEC, Brazil)
Graziano Giuliani (ICTP, Italy)
Michelle Reboita (UNIFEI, Brazil)
Maria Elisa Silva (USP, Brazil)
Silvina Solman (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Description:
Regional climate models (RCMs) are widely used tools to produce high-resolution climate simulations at regional scales. The ICTP regional climate modeling system, RegCM, is one of the most used RCMs worldwide, with applications ranging from regional process studies to paleoclimate, climate change, chemistry-climate and biosphere-atmosphere interactions. This event will include lectures and hands-on sessions on the theory of regional climate dynamics and regional climate change while providing a background on regional climate modeling studies focused on the South American region.

The School is intended for early career scientists and advanced PhD students from developing countries, in particular South America. There is no registration fee and limited funds are available for local and travel support of participants. More information can be accessed via the ICTP activity agenda page at: http://indico.ictp.it/event/7618/ and a direct link to the online application is available below.

Announcement

Contact information at ICTP Trieste: smr2836@ictp.it, Telephone: 39-040-2240-374

List of Confirmed Participants: Updated on Feb 3

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Photos:

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School Program: PDF version updated on February 15

Click on the title of the lectures/seminars to watch the videos and on (PDF) do download the lecture files.

	Monday, Feb. 15	Tuesday, Feb. 16	Wednesday, Feb. 17	Thursday, Feb. 18	Friday, Feb. 19
8:30-9:30	Registration	–	–	–	–
9:30-10:00	Erika Coppola Regional Earth System Climate modelling at ICTP: current status and future prospective (PDF)	Erika Coppola Added value of Regional climate modelling. Where to look for it and how: two examples from Med and EURO-CORDEX ensemble (PDF)	Tercio Ambrizzi General Circulation Patterns from Large to Regional Scale: Impacts on South America	Santiago Cuadra Assessment of Climate change impacts on grain crops for the Southern Brazil – projections from SA CORDEX and CMIP5	Lab Session G.Giuliani, L. Mariotti, M. Llopart
10:00- 10:30	Rosmeri da Rocha A review of applications by GreC-USP of RegCM model to climate analysis, forecasting, and future projections over South America (video at 0:39) (PDF)	Laura Mariotti Seasonal and intraseasonal changes of African monsoon climates in 21st century CORDEX projections (video at 0:42) (PDF)	Iracema F.A. Cavalcanti South America precipitation analysis using Regional Models (video at 0:47) (PDF)	Maria Elisa Silva Local and remote climatic impacts due to land use degradation in the Amazon “Arc of Deforestation” (video at 0:46) (PDF)	Lab Session G.Giuliani, L. Mariotti, M. Llopart
10:30-11:00	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break	Coffee break
11:00-11:30	Silvina Solman Multiscale analysis of precipitation variability over South America: A preliminar analysis of the added value of RCMs (PDF)	Michelle Reboita Cyclones over Southwestern South Atlantic Ocean: downscale with RegCM4	Marcelo Barreiro Variability of summertime transient eddy propagation over South America	Participants presentations Francisco Junior – Regional Climate Simulations and impacts on Northern and Northeastern Brazil Pablo Borges Romina Ruscica – Land surface – atmosphere interaction in southeastern South America (PDF)	Chou Downscaling of climate change projections over Southeast Brazil
11:30-12:00	Marta Llopart Climate change impact on precipitation for the Amazon and La Plata basins (PDF)	Julio Pablo Fernandez Impact of global warming on the vegetation in South America from regional climate model simulations (video at 0:42)	Laura Mariotti The Regional Earth System Model (RegESM) using RegCM4 coupled with the MITgcm ocean model (video at 0:45) (PDF)		Lab Session G.Giuliani, L. Mariotti, M. Llopart
12:00-14:00	Lunch Time	Lunch Time	Lunch Time	Lunch Time	Lunch Time
14:00-19:00	RegCM4 Tutorial G.Giuliani, L. Mariotti, M. Llopart (PDF1, PDF2, PDF3)	RegCM4 Tutorial G.Giuliani, L. Mariotti, M. Llopart (PDF1, PDF2, PDF3)	Lab Session G.Giuliani, L. Mariotti, M. Llopart	Lab Session G.Giuliani, L. Mariotti, M. Llopart	Groups presentations
19:00-21:00		Ice break

Additional Information:

Registration: ALL participants should register. The registration will be on February 15 at the institute from 8:30 to 09:30 am. You can find arrival instruction at http://www.ictp-saifr.org/?page_id=195

Accommodation: Participants whose accommodation has been provided by the institute will stay at The Universe Flat. Each participant, whose accommodation has been provided by the institute, has received the accommodation details individually by email.

Emergency number: 9 8233 8671 (from São Paulo city); +55 11 9 8233 8671 (from abroad), 11 9 8233 8671 (from outside São Paulo).

Ground transportation instructions:

Ground transportation from Guarulhos Airport to The Universe Flat

Ground transportation from Congonhas Airport to the Universe Flat

Ground transportation from The Universe Flat to the institute