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Europe/Rome 2017-06-03 08:00:00 2017-06-07 22:00:00 South Caucasus-Black Sea Regional Climate Conference | (smr 3122) The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) in collaboration with Batumi Shota Rustaveli State University (BSU) is organizing a 5-day regional School on the Effects of climate change in South Caucasus-Black Sea region. This regional school will bring together scientists and students from Georgia/Caucasus/Black Sea region to initiate the dialogue and experience shearing for two main processes at play: unsustainable use of environmental resources and the global climate change. Countries in Caucasus-Black Sea region now suffer from increased frequency and intensity of extreme events such as floods, landslides, etc, as a result of the environmental changes. Such extreme events are expected to be exacerbated by climate changes. Numerical simulation and regional climate models are valuable tools to assess such impacts. The focal point will be to teach trainees how to set up the ICTP Regional Climate Model RegCM4 for the study of past, present and projected climate. The trainees will also learn how to use observational products and processing tools for climate data analysis.  Topics: • South Caucasus-Black Sea Regional climate modeling • Regional Climate Model system RegCM4 • Climate change and extreme events impact • Environmental issues in the Southern Caucasus – Black Sea region - Georgia ICTP pio@ictp.it 3 Jun 2017 - 7 Jun 2017

Europe/Rome 2017-06-05 08:00:00 2017-06-09 22:00:00 ICTP/ECMWF/Univ. L’Aquila Workshop on OpenIFS | (smr 3123) ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 5 Jun 2017 - 9 Jun 2017

Europe/Rome 2017-06-12 08:00:00 2017-06-30 22:00:00 CLEWS Summer School | (smr 3168) The Summer School on Modelling Tools for Sustainable Development has two major objectives. It seeks to deepen the modeling skills of government officials and academics to inform sustainable development policies through more than 100 hours of intensive training sessions combining analysts from governments and academics. Government officials from countries participating in UNDESA and UNDP capacity development projects on modeling tools will interact with graduate students and researchers interested in contributing to the practice of providing rigorous evidence for decision making on sustainable development policies. Ensuring a flow of robust evidence is not enough; effort must be exerted to make the best possible use of evidence. The Summer School also seeks to enrich the discussion on how sustainable development challenges are being perceived by countries, assess the relevance of capacity development practices on the use of modelling tools, and identify ways in which capacity development on modelling tools can better inform the design of policies for sustainable development. The training sessions of the Summer School will gather, between 12 and 28 June, 30 government officials and 15 academics under the guidance of experts from KTH, Cambridge, IASSA, UNDESA, FAO and other institutions. The high-level meeting will host a candid and incisive exchange of views, on 29 and 30 June, among Ministers and high level government officials from several countries, the Director of Development Policy and Analysis at UN-DESA, and the Director of Strategy and Policy from UNDP, and high level representatives from selected Universities. THE SUMMER SCHOOL Intensive hands-on training The three-week training of the Summer School will combine the academic rigor with the pragmatism needed to address the complexity of designing effective and realistic policies for sustainable development for the 2030 Agenda, including the interlinked 17 Goals, its 169 Targets, and the Paris Agreement. During the intensive training sessions and laboratories, experts from developing countries will work on model adaptation to national circumstances, translation of policy questions and issues into model interpretable formats, interpretation and presentation of results into policy relevant form. Academics participating in training will learn the techniques and methodologies relevant for rigorous model formulation that meets the stringent demands of the modeling practice to inform policy decision making. The overarching goal is to sharpen participants’ modelling skills to a point where government officials can operate and enhance their national models independently, incorporate new and evolving policy issues and with little further assistance, and academics can usefully contribute to this process by incorporating frontier academic knowledge in the respective fields. High level meeting The high-level meeting will mark the culmination of the more than 100 hours of intensive training on modelling tools for sustainable development. The high-level meeting seeks to host an enriching discussion on how sustainable development challenges are being perceived by countries, assess the relevance of capacity development practices on the use of modeling tools, and identify ways in which capacity development on modelling tools can better inform the design of policies for sustainable development. To accomplish its objectives, the meeting will host presentations demonstrating what has been accomplished to date, including several newly articulated national strategies and policy notes. Presentations will attempt to demonstrate how modelling tools can help improve policy support and decision making by: � Unveiling the interlinkages –trade-offs and synergies—within and across different policy areas. � Raising awareness about the time commitment required for capacity building, � Exchanging views on the usefulness of the tools, identify gaps � Discussing the way forward. ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 12 Jun 2017 - 30 Jun 2017

Europe/Rome 2017-06-12 08:00:00 2017-06-23 22:00:00 Fourth Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Hydroclimate Modeling and Analysis Tools | (smr 3125) One of the WCRP great challenges is the focus on changes in water availability and in particular on the ability of the scientific community to be able to understand and predict precipitation variability and change. By improving the observational system both based on in situ observations and satellite observations, the model validation is becoming more and more accurate and this will allow us to improve our understanding of atmospheric and land surface processes and finally to better predict precipitation. This will in turn affect the quality of the prediction of the hydrological cycle across several scales, from catchments to regional to global. On the other side the regional climate model community and CORDEX is moving towards very high-resolution simulation ensemble effort down to the scale of the convective permitting resolution (1-3 km). This will open new frontiers for the hydrological model community because this will bridge the spatial scale gap between regional climate models and impact models (hydrological models, ecosystem models etc.) community. This workshop will focus on the state of the art of: -Precipitation measurements. What can we use to validate precipitation coming from the model output? -Ensemble of high-resolution regional climate model outputs. How can those be used as input of a hydrological model? -Uncertainty in global and regional climate projections. How can this uncertainty be taken into account for hydro-climate simulation? ICTP ICTP pio@ictp.it 12 Jun 2017 - 23 Jun 2017