STARTING SHORTLY: Invitation to a Special ICTP Colloquium "Three Hot Topics on Climate Change" (at 16.00 - Budinich Lecture Hall)

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Dear All

ICTP is pleased to announce that the forthcoming ICTP Colloquium, "Three 
Hot Topics on Climate Change" , will take place *today at 16:00 hrs*, in 
the Budinich Lecture Hall, Leonardo Building, ICTP.

Three leading climate experts will give a public lecture on clouds, 
extreme weather and global warming:

" Clouds in the climate system, why so much uncertainty?" by Prof. 
Sandrine Bony, LMD,  CNRS Director of Research in Paris, France.  Her 
main research interest is advancing understanding of the role of clouds 
and cloud processes in climate sensitivity and in the large-scale 
circulation of the atmosphere, using a combination of modeling, 
observational and conceptual approaches. She is presently co-organising 
a large-scale field experiment that will take place in 2020 over the 
tropical Atlantic near Barbados.

  "Will our weather extremes become even more extreme?" by Kerry 
Emanuel, MIT USA. He is the Cecil and Ida Green professor of atmospheric 
science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA. His 
research speciality is hurricane physics and he was the first to 
investigate how long-term climate change might affect hurricane 
activity, an issue that continues to occupy him today. His interests 
also include cumulus convection, and advanced methods of sampling the 
atmosphere in aid of numerical weather prediction.

"Beyond Global Warming" by Bjorn Stevens, director at the 
Max-Planck-Institute for Meteorology (MPIM) in Hamburg, Germany. His 
research blends modeling, theory and field work to help articulate the 
role of aerosols, clouds and atmospheric convection in the climate 
system with pioneering contributions to both understanding and modelling 
of mixing and microphysical processes and their impact on the structure 
and organization of clouds.

More information is available at http://indico.ictp.it/event/8950/

The Colloquium will be livestreamed at http://video.ictp.it/livestream

Light refreshments will be served after the lecture.

You are all very warmly invited to attend.

Office of the Director, ICTP.

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