Dear All,
You are most cordially invited to the ICTP Colloquium
"Interplay between Natural Variability and Anthropogenic
Climate Change at Regional Scales" by Prof. Carolina Vera,
University of Buenos Aires - CONICET, Argentina.
The Colloquium will take place online and in the Budinich
Lecture Hall, today, Monday 30 May, at 16:00 hrs CET.
Biosketch: Carolina Vera is Full Professor at the
School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and
Principal Researcher of Argentina National Council of Sciences
(CONICET). She is currently Vice-Chair of WG1Bureau of the
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change). She has
long research experience on understanding, simulating and
predicting climate variability and change and its impact on
socioeconomic sectors, like agriculture. She has served in a
number of International Panels like the Scientific Advisory
Panel of the World Meteorological Organization and many
others. Prof.Vera is member of the ICTP Scientific Council as
of this year.
Abstract: Variability in regional climate arises from
natural and anthropogenic forcings, internal variability
including the local expression of large-scale remote drivers,
and the feedbacks between them. Due to the many possible
drivers of variability and change, quantifying the interplay
between internal variability and any externally forced
component is crucial in attempts to attribute causes of
regional climate changes and to increase the confidence on
future regional climate change information. Dr Vera will first
briefly introduce the sources of regional variability that can
be grouped in forcings controlling regional climate and the
internal drivers of regional climate variability. She will
discuss ways of managing uncertainties in regional climate
change information and how to identify the physical causes of
past and future regional climate change. She will then present
a regional climate change attribution study of precipitation
trend in a specific region and discuss the robustness and
emergence of anthropogenic signal in future regional climate
change. She will end by presenting the storylines methodology
as a way of constructing regional climate information
providing a set of physically coherent descriptions of
plausible future changes at regional scales.
- For those who wish to attend online, advance registration is required at:
https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZHMPUxcPTpe96mvRau14Jg
- Please note that you are kindly required to use your masks
in the Budinich Lecture Hall.
The talk will be followed by a question/answer session and
light refreshments will be served on the Leonardo Building
Terrace shortly after.
For info, please check the following link: https://indico.ictp.it/event/9955/
Looking forward to your participation.
With best regards,
Office of the Director, ICTP