TRAINING
COURSES, WORKSHOPS,
PRESENTATIONS
& COLLABORATIONS report page
Last modified: 24 January 2008, DMHG
On
the horizon:
Middle East?
Bangladesh?
Target Area: Pacific Island nations
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS:
Bangkok, Thailand, 31 October to 02 November 2007
A follow-up PRECIS meeting took place at the Southeast Asia
START Regional Centre in Bangkok, Thailand. The purpose
of this meeting was to discuss results from PRECIS activity
that came out of the 2006 Kuala Lumpur workshop and to provide
strategies for future work.
Representatives from Thailand and Malaysia attended the meeting.
In conjunction with the release of preliminary results from
ECHAM4 based PRECIS runs, a public talk on climate change was
given by Hadley Centre staff at Chulalongkorn University.
David Hassell and David Hein attended the meeting.
Attending were :
Anond Snidvongs, SEA Start, Bangkok, Thailand
Suppakorn Chinvanno, SEA Start, Bangkok, Thailand
Prawit Boonman, SEA Start, Bangkok, Thailand
Sutatip Hanpichitwanich, SEA Start, Bangkok, Thailand
Attachai Jintrawet, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Krirk Pannangpetch, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
Chavalit Chaleeraktrakoon, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Viriya Laung-Aram, Hydrographic Department, Royal Thai Navy, Thailand
Fredolin Tangang, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Lien Ju Neng, National University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur,
Mohan Kumon Sammathuria, Malaysia Met. Dept., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Nairobi, Kenya, 10-14 September 2007
Our first visit to East Africa was a highly successful
workshop hosted by
ICPAC ( IGAD CLIMATE PREDICTION AND APPLICATIONS CENTRE)
at the Kenyan Meteorological Department in Nairobi.
Delegates from many parts of Africa were able to attend,
and we are optimistic about their future work.
Administering the workshop were David Hassell,
David Hein, Will Moufouma-Okia and Joseph Intsiful.
Attending delegates:
Samir Tantawi, Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency, EGYPT
Reda Mohammed Al Hassan, Environment & Climate Change Research Institute , EGYPT
Geoffrey Sabiiti, Makerere University, Uganda (also University of Nairobi)
Said Muse Abdi, Somali Environment Ministry, SOMALIA
Peter Nicky Mloganile, Tanzania Meteorological Agency, TANZANIA
Motsomi Maletjane, Lesotho Meteorological Services, LESOTHO
Konare Abdouramane, National Centre for Geophysics and Climate, IVORY COAST
Abebe Tadege Tsehayu, National Meteorological Agency, ETHIOPIA
Anthony Digen Kpadeh, EPA, LIBERIA
Bouka Biona Clobite, Univeristy of Brazzaville, CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE
Reuben Barakiza, Burundi Meteorological Service, BURUNDI
Mohamed Ismael Nour, Djibouti Meteorological Services, DJIBOUTI
Deus Bamanya, Meteorological Department Uganda, UGANDA
Mbati Mugunga Mathieu, Rwanda Meteorological Services, RWANDA
Christopher Oludhe, University of Nairobi, KENYA
Franklin J Opijah, University of Nairobi, KENYA
James Gichuki Gathura, Kenya Meteorological Department, KENYA
Philip Omondi, ICPAC, KENYA
Zablone Owiti, ICPAC, KENYA
Wilson Gitau, ICPAC, KENYA
Philip Omondi, ICPAC, KENYA
Philip Omondi, ICPAC, KENYA
Seidou Sanda Ibrah, University Abdou, NIGER
Kamaye Maazou, SE/CNEDD Universite Faculte des Sciences, NIGER
Youssouph Sane, Meteo Senegal, SENEGAL
Belize City, Belize, 25-29 September 2006
A follow up workshop to the Cuban workshop of 2003 took place
in Belize City. The first three days
of the workshop were for new users of PRECIS, and the last two days
were for past users sharing results of their runs.
The workshop was locally sponsored and administered by the
Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre.
Administering the workshop were Richard Jones, David Hassell,
Simon Wilson, Will Moufouma-Okia and Joseph Intsiful.
Attending were:
Mr. Basil Dean, BAHAMAS
Ms. Kim Whitehall, BARBADOS
Mr. Abel Centella, CUBA
Mr. Arnoldo Bezanilla, CUBA
Mr. Israel Borrajero, CUBA
Mr. Roger Rivero, CUBA
Mr. Nathanael Isaac, DOMINICA
Mr. Joel Perez, PANAMA
Mr. Jorge Arturo Barrantes, COSTA RICA
Mr. Carlos Badilla Chaves, COSTA RICA
Mr. Tomas Rivas Pacheco, EL SALVADOR
Mr. Juan Matias Mendez Perez, MEXICO
Mr. Luis Mariano Gutierrez Cruz, NICARAGUA
Mr. Jefferey Spooner, JAMAICA
Mr. Jayaka Campbell, JAMAICA
Mr. Venantius Descartes, ST. LUCIA
Ms. Arlene Aaron, TRINIDAD & TOBAGO
Mr. Colin Depradine, BARBADOS
Mr. Collin Guiste, DOMINICA
Dr. John Charlery, BARBADOS
Mr. Adrian Trotman, BARBADOS
Ms. Karen Bernard, CUBA (UNDP)
Mrs. Ann Gordon, BELIZE
Mr. Dennis Gonguez, BELIZE
Alfred Groundwalt, (WORLD BANK) Washington DC, USA
CCCCC Team:
Dr. Kenrick Leslie
Dr. Ulric Trotz
Mr. Carlos Fuller
Mr. Winston Bennett
Ms. Ethlyn Valladares
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7th-11th August 2006
A highly successful PRECIS workshop
for Southeast Asia took place at the Malaysia Meteorology Department
in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.
Administering
the workshop were David Hassell, David Hein, Joseph
Intsiful and Will Moufouma-Okia.
The workshop was locally organised by Dr. Wan Azli Wan Hassan of the Malaysian
Meteorology Department.
Delegates from Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia,
Singapore, and the Philippines were present.
Attending were:
Mrs. Theeraluk Pianmana: Thailand Met. Department
Mr. Boonlert Archeevarangaprok: Thailand Met. Department
Dr. Nguyen Van Thang: Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Vietnam
Mrs. Pham Thi Thanh Huong: Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Vietnam
Mr. Mai Van Khiem: Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Vietnam
Mr. Heru Santoso: Center for International Forestry Research(CIFOR), Indonesia
Ms. Syahrina Dyah Anggraini: Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia
Ms. Hilda Lestiana: Indonesian Institute of Sciences, Bandung, Indonesia
Ms. Rokiah binti Hj Angas: Brunei Meteorological Office
Mr. Muhammad Rahiz: Department of Geography, National University of Singapore
Mr. John Low Kwang Keang: Singapore Met. Service
Mrs. Patricia Ann Jaranilla Sanchez: World Agroforestry Centre, Laguna, Philippines
Ms. Kristine Garcia: College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fredolin Tangang: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Dr. Liew Ju Neng: National University Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mastura Hj. Mahmud: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
Ms. Sheeba Nettukandy Chenoli: University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Mr. Kwan Kok Foo: Malaysian Meteorological Department, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Mr. Ling Leong Kwok: Malaysian Meteorological Department, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Ms. Lucia Enggong: Malaysian Meteorological Department, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Mr. Mohan Kumar Sammathuria: Malaysian Meteorological Department, Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Accra, Ghana, 18th-22nd April 2006
The second workshop in
Africa took place at the University of Accra in Accra, Ghana.
Administering
the workshop were Richard Jones, David Hassell, David Hein, Joseph
Intsiful and Will Moufouma-Okia.
The workshop was locally organised by Professor Francis K. Allotey of
the University of Accra.
Delegates from Ghana, Benin, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Morocco, Togo, Uganda
and the United Arab Emirates were present.
Additionally, Nicholas Faull from
climateprediction.net
and Deborah Goodbody from Oxford
Continuing Education
were present to explore the possibility of running some PRECIS
workshop material as an on-line course.
Attending were:
Chief Akeh, Ernest Afisiemama, Tony
Anuforom: NIMET (NIGERIA)
Fatima Driouech: CNRM - DMN (MOROCCO)
Jamiat Nanteza, Geoffrey Sabiiti: Geography
Department, Makerere University(UGANDA)
Ibidun Adelekan: Geography Department, University of
Ibadan (NIGERIA)
Okoro Ugo: Physics Department, Imo State University
(NIGERIA)
Adote Blivi: CGILE, University of Lome (TOGO)
Abdulla Aldhanhani, Abdul Aziz Aljaberi, Salem Al
Shouq: Met Office (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES)
Leopold Some: INERA (BURKINA FASO)
Dr. Ochou Delfin: AMMA (IVORY COAST)
Monica Idinoba: CIFOR (BURKINA FASO)
Ajayi Ayodele: Agricultural Engineering Department,
Federal University of Nigeria (NIGERIA)
Dominic Soami, Juati Awupeyagi, Edward Nahr:
Meteorology Agency (Ghana)
David Adukpo: Physics Department, University of Cape
Coast (GHANA)
Ama Kum-Browne, Samuel Ahiamadi: Civil Engineering
Department, KNUST (GHANA)
Samuel Amu-Mensah: Water Resources Research, CSIR
(GHANA)
Edmund McAddy: EPA (GHANA)
Nii Ardey Cudjoe: RIPS, University of Ghana (GHANA)
Shilo Osae: GAEC, University of Ghana (GHANA)
Steve Duadze: Remote Sensing Unit, University of
Ghana (GHANA)
Isaac Osei Akoto: ISSER, University of Ghana (GHANA)
Aristide Akpo: University of Abomey-Calavi (BENIN)
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 31st Oct - 4th Nov 2005
A successful workshop was held at the University Di Tella in Buenos
Aires, Argentina. Administering the
workshop were Richard Jones, David Hassell, David Hein and Erasmo
Buonomo.
This workshop was designed to be a workshop for new users of PRECIS
and a follow-up workshop to
discuss results and issues arising from the PRECIS workshop in Brazil
in November 2004. The workshop
was split into a new users and past users section, with the new users
attending the discussions from the
past users for informational purposes. This return visit also featured
a visit to CIMA, where valuable
practical advice was delivered regarding their particular computational
set up.
Attending the workshop as new users were:
Ricardo Alcafuz, Chile, Meteochile
Carlos Castillo, Chile, Meteochile
Lincoln Alves, Brazil, CPTEC
Pablo Canziani, UCA/CONICET, Argentina
Diana Mielnicki, UCA/CONICET, Argentina
Ruth Cerezomota, Oxford University, (Mexico)
Franklyn Murcia, IDEAM, Colombia
Miguel Ontiveros, Meteorology and Hydrology Service,
Bolivia
Michel Tesoro, Meteorology and Hydrology Service,
Bolivia
Martina Suaya, Servicio Meteorologico Nacional,
Argentina
Rene Torrez, University of San Andres, Bolivia
Eduardo Zamanillo, Hydrology Department, Argentina
Barbara Tencer, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Josefina Blazquez, University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Natalia Pessacg, University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Alejandro di Luca, University of Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Attending the follow-up part of the workshop were:
Mario Nunez, CIMA, Argentina
Maria Fernanda Cabre, CIMA, Argentina
Ines Camilloni, CIMA, Argentina
Silvina Solman, CIMA, Argentina
Jose Marengo, CPTEC, Brazil
Paola Uribe, Meteochile, Chile
Maisa Rojas, University of Chile, Chile
Luis Chamorro, Central Hidroeléctrica
Yacyretá, Paraguay
Alanya, Turkey, 5th-9th Sept 2005
A successful workshop was
held at the WMO Regional Meteorological Training Facility in Alanya,
Turkey.
Administering the workshop: David Hassell, Joseph Instiful, Will
Moufouma-Okia, David Hein.
Participants were from countries of the Economic Cooperation
Organization (ECO) and included
many of the delegates who were originally scheduled to attend the
PRECIS workshop in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
The workshop was coordinated on the Turkish side by Mustafa Adiguzel of
the Turkish State Met. Service (TSMS).
Read the ECO Report of the Alanya workshop here.
Workshop participants:
Ezatullah Arefi (Afghanistan - Met Authority)
Umayra Taghiyeva (Azerbaijan)
Nato Kutaldze (Georgia)
Imam Babaieian (Iran)
Shamil Iliasov (Kyrgyzstan)
Svetlana Dolgikh (Kazakhstan)
Ekaterina Petrova (Uzbekistan)
Burak Sen (Turkey TSMS)
Fatih Kocaman (Turkey TSMS)
Gonul Kilic (Turkey TSMS)
Ismail Demir (Turkey TSMS)
Ufuk Turuncoglu (Turkey ITU)
Yasemin Ezber (Turkey ITU)
Siraj Ul Islam (Pakistan GCISC)
Muhammad Akhtar (Pakistan)
Hussein El-Morani (Jordan)
Almaty, Kazakhstan, 3rd-7th May 2005
The Kazakhstan course was organised but was cancelled at the last
minute due to problems obtaining visas..
Pune, India (IITM),
January 24-28, 2005
David Hassell and
David Hein visited IITM in Pune, India, for a PRECIS workshop jointly
sponsored by IITM. The workshop brought together delegates from
many scientific institutes in India as well as several delegates from
Nepal and Bangladesh who did not attend the meeting in Bhutan.
IITM agreed to act as a local facilitator for data distribution and to
act as the lead institution in PRECIS work in South Asia.
The workshop
delegates were:
· Lochan Prasad
Devkota, SAARC Meteorological Research Center, Bangladesh
· Jagadishwor Karmacharya,
Department of Hydrology and Meteorlogy, Nepal
· Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam,
University of Engineering & Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
· Md. Abdul Mannan,
Bangladesh Meteorological Department, Agargaon, Bangladesh
· Dr. Md. Abdur Razzak,
Department of Environment, Bangladesh
· Dr. C.N. Tripathi, GIS Lab,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), New Delhi, India
· Dr KV Rao,Scientist,Central
Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA), India
· G.Sridhar SRF, CRIDA, India
· Dr.P.Vijaya Kumar,
Sr.Scientist (Agrometeorology), CRIDA, India
· Dr.G.G.S.N.Rao, CRIDA, India
· Dr. G. Srinivasan, India
Meteorological Department (IMD), India
· Mr. B. N. Mandal, IITM,
India
· Mrs. Jayashree Revadekar,
IITM, India
· Ms. K. Kamala, IITM, India
· Mrs. Savita
Patwardhan, IITM, India
· Mrs. Nayana
Deshpande, IITM, India
· Mr. Sachin S.
Bhandare, IITM, India
· Miss Preethi
Bhaskhar, IITM, India
· Dr. K.
Krishna Kumar, IITM, India
Sao Paolo, Brazil (CPTEC),
November 2004
A week-long PRECIS workshop
was held in Sao Paolo, Brazil, hosted by CPTEC (Centro de Previsao de
Tempo e Estudos Climaticos) and administered by Richard Jones, Ruth
Taylor, Simon Wilson and David Hassell. It was agreed that
CPTEC would coordinate collaborative efforts – work is ongoing.
The workshop
delegates were:
- Fernando Pio
Barrios, LIAPA, FACEN, Universidad Nacional de Asunsion, Paraguay
- Mario
Bidegain, DMN-Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay
- Maria
Fernanda Cabre, CIMA-CONICET/UBÁ, Argentina
- Ines
Camilloni, CIMA-CONICET/UBA, Argentina
- Lucas
Chamorro, Central Hidroeléctrica Yacyretá, Paraguay
- Moira Doyle,
UBA, Argentina
- Anita
Rodrigues M. de Drumond, University of Sao Paolo, Brazil
- Jeronimo Garcia
Villanueva, Agrarian National University La Molina (UNALM),
Perú
- Juan
José, Lagomarsino, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
- Magda
Aparecida de Lima EMBRAPA, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Mauro
Meirelles de Oliveira Santos FINEP, Brazil
- Marco
Aurélio de Mello Marchado CPTEC/INPE, Brazil
- Luiz Carlos
B. Molion, Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL), Brazil
- Juan Jose
Nieto Lopez, CIIFEN (International El Nino Research Centre), Ecuador
- Aline de
Holanda Nunes Maia, EMBRAPA, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Riad
Nurmohamed, University of Suriname
- Daniel
Pabón, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
- Igor
Pisnichenko, CPTEC/INPE, Brazil
- Maisa Rojas
Corradi, DGF, University of Chile
- Silvina A.
Solman, CIMA-CONICET/UBA, Argentina
- Tatiana
Tarasova, CPTEC/INPE, Brazil
- Paola Uribe, Dirección Meteorologica, Chile
A week-long PRECIS workshop was held in Thimphu, Bhutan, hosted by the
Bhutanese National Environment Commission, from 20th-24th July 2004.
Plans for collaborative work are summarised in this document. Since IITM
has already generated a significant amount of data, through the Defra
project listed below, they will play a particularly important role in
subsequent development of scenarios. Rupa Kumar Kolli has set up a
mailing list for sharing information (subscribe).
for sharing information on this work:
The workshop delegates were:
- Jigme, National Environment Commission (NEC), Bhutan
- Karma Tsering, Council for RNR Research of Bhutan (CORRB),Bhutan
- Rupa Kumar Kolli, Indian Institute for Tropical Meteorology
(IITM), India
- Suruchi Bhadwal, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India
- Sudip Mitra, TERI, India
- Tom Tanner, UK Department for International Development, on
secondment to UNDP in Bangladesh.
- Sajjad Saeed, Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD), Pakistan
- Moetasim Ashfaq, Global Change Impacts Studies Centre, Pakistan
- Athula Karunanayake, Sri Lankan Met. Department, Sri Lanka
- Rishi Ram Sharma, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, Nepal
and the workshop organisers/training providers were Ruth
Taylor, Richard Jones and Simon Wilson.
Havana, Cuba, September 2003
We ran a week-long workshop on the PRECIS system in Havana in September
2003, attended by scientists with a variety of backgrounds, from
meteorology to civil engineering. The aim of the workshop is the
production of climate change scenarios for two projects, one the ACCC
project (Adaptation to Climate Change in the Caribbean) based at that
time in Barbados and now (I believe) moving to Belize, the other a
GEF/UNDP-funded project “Capacity Building for Stage II Adaptation to
Climate Change in Central America, Mexico and Cuba", for which the
executing agency is CATHALAC in Panama.
A core set of 50km-resolution scenarios are being produced
collaboratively, i.e. different countries have agreed to run different
experiments (or different members of an ensemble) using the same region
and exchange results on completion; certain sub-groups are running
experiments in which they have a specific interest (e.g. Caribbean
islands running at 25 km resolution).
The workshop delegates were:
- Central America:
- Tom Bakkum, UNDP – CATHALAC, Panama
- Darysbeth Martínez, CATHALAC, Panama
- Jose Luís Pérez, Inst. Mexicano de
Tecnología del Agua, Mexico
- Rosendo Pichinte, University of El Salvador
- Jorge Barrantes, Instituto Meteorológico Nacional, Costa
Rica
- Abel Centella (Local Organizer), Instituto de
Meteorología, Cuba
- Alfredo Roque, Instituto de Meteorología, Cuba
- Israel Borrajero, Instituto de Meteorología, Cuba
- Lourdes Alvarez, Instituto de Meteorología, Cuba
- Miriam Limia, Instituto de Meteorología, Cuba
- Daniel Martínez, Instituto de Meteorología, Cuba
- Arnoldo Bezanilla, Instituto de Meteorología, Cuba
- Jesús Dole, Instituto de Meteorología, Cuba
- Caribbean Islands:
- Ulric (Neville) Trotz, Caricom/ACCC Regional Project
Implementation Unit, Barbados
- Ian King, Caricom/ACCC Regional Project Implementation Unit,
Barbados
- Michael Taylor, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
- Albert Owino, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
- John Charlery, University West Indies. Barbados
- Adrian Trotman, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and
Hydrology, Barbados
- Everson Peters, University of the West Indies, St Augustine,
Trinidad
- Gyan Shrivastava, University of the West Indies, St Augustine,
Trinidad
- South America:
- Gabriela Rosas, Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e
Hidrología del Perú (SENAMHI) Lima, Perú
and the workshop organisers/training providers were David Hassell, Ruth
Taylor and Richard Jones.
Cape Town, South Africa, March 2003
for the AIACC AF07 ("Development of Regional Climate Change Scenarios
for Sub-Saharan Africa") project participants. Use of PRECIS is
intended to complement work already planned with another regional model,
MM5. PRECIS's take-up in the various local centres will depend on the
ability of the participants to find resources for its use and may take
some time; however the workshop was a useful exposure exercise. Bruce
Hewitson's group at the University of Cape Town is running the model for
the project and in this context, the workshop is designed to give
participants guidance on the appropriate use of model output. The
participants were:
- Abdoulaye Sarr, Service Meteorologique, Senegal
- Andre Kamga, African Center for Meteorological Applications to
Development (ACMAD), Niger
- Brad Garanganga, SADC Drought Monitoring Centre, Zimbabwe
- Francis Mutua, University of Nairobi, Kenya
- Francois Engelbrecht, University of Pretoria, South Africa
- Joseph Intsiful, Research Centre Karlsruhe (IMK4), Germany
- Marshall Mdoka, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Neil Mackellar, University of Cape Town, South Africa
- Suman Jain, University of Zambia
- Anthony (Tony) Nyong, University of Jos, Nigeria
- Wills Agricole, National Meteorological Services, Seychelles
The Hadley Centre trainers were Richard Jones, David Hassell, Simon
Wilson and Ruth Taylor, and the local organiser was Bruce Hewitson of
the University of Cape Town.
Francois Engelbrecht and an MSc. student, Asmerom Beraki, at the
University of Pretoria are carrying out some runs over NE Africa.
DEFRA projects with India and China
DEFRA have organised separate collaborative programmes on the impacts
of climate change in India and China, with bodies in those countries.
Both are using PRECIS for climate scenarios. David Hassell spent about
two weeks at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology in Pune, India
in August 2001 giving scientists there advice on setting up and running
regional models using PRECIS. The PC version was installed by Richard
Jones during a visit in November 2002.
For the Chinese project, the Hadley Centre hosted a visiting
scientist, Xu Yinlong, from the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences
during 2002.
Training of ACMAD-nominated scientists
(African Centre for Meteorological Applications to Development, Niamey,
Niger) - organised following Geoff Jenkin's participation in the GCOS
meeting (see (6) below).
Two scientists, Andre Kamga from ACMAD in Niger (who had attended
the Cape Town workshop) and Kamel Chikhar from the Algerian
Meteorological Service spent two weeks at the Hadley Centre in May 2003
learning about and working with PRECIS, with the aim of becoming contact
points and eventually a local training/coordination centre for PRECIS
work in the region. ACMAD have been supplied with two PCs (funded by
the Met Office) and are running experiments using a domain decided
during their visit.
WORKSHOPS IN THE U.K.
This is a condensed version of the workshop, with less hands-on time
and without the organisational element. This version of the workshop is
intended for academic and other researchers from well-resourced
institutes and projects, not expecting to work collaboratively. The
format was originally two days, but we were finding it difficult to fit
everything in in this time, and as of July 2004 we changed to a
three-day version.
- Reading, July 2007, participants:
Carlo Buontempo, Met Office, UK
Hazel Thornton, Met Office, UK
Bernd Eggen, Met Office, UK
Charles Sammut, University of Malta, MALTA
Mansour Almazroui, SAUDI ARABIA
Marina Shvangiradze, GEORGIA
Nato Kutaldze, GEORGIA
Umayra Taghiyeva, AZERBAIJAN
Sahib Khalikov, AZERBAIJAN
Martin Silva, ARGENTINA
Luis Morales, ECUADOR
Joerg Seifert-Granzin, BOLIVIA
Faisal Al Zawad, SAUDI ARABIA
Hala Al-Jassar, KUWAIT
Fenjun Jin, ISRAEL
Manuel Carvajal, ECUADOR
Zoaharimalala Rabefitia, MADAGASCAR
Michel Laivao,MADAGASCAR
Dorcas Ntiki Masisi, BOTSWANA
Luis Blacutt, BOLIVIA
Daria Yarovaja, UKRAINE
Reading, July 2006, participants:
Lucinda Mileham (Start Project), UCL, UK
Faisal Al-Zawad, Presidency of Meteorology & Environment (PME),
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bhawan Singh, Département de Géographie,
Université de Montréal, Canada
Kashif Qureshi (Pakistan), Agro-Ecological Modelling & System Analysis,
Rothamsted Research Harpenden, Herts., UK
Qian Li, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany
Munang R. Tingem (Cameroon), Agricultural & Env. Science Division, Nottingham
University, Nottingham, UK
Greet Maenhout, Joint Research Centre, Ispra Institute for the
Environment & Sustainability, Climate Change Unit, Ispra, Italy
Paul V. Desanker (Malawi/Penn State Universtiy), UNFCCC, Head, Capacity Building and Outreach Unit,
Bonn, Germany
Carlos d'Alva, Meteorological Office, Sao Tome & Principe
Sujittra Inthacha, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Stephen Dorling, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK
Justin Sentian, University of Malaysia Sabah, Malaysia / Lancaster
University, UK
Maria Shahgedanova, Geography Department, University of Reading,
Reading, UK
Etienne Gabel, ICFI, London, UK
Dragan Jovanovic, Hydrometeorological Service, Belgrade, Republic of
Serbia
- Reading, June 2005 participants:
-
Debbie Hemming, Met
Office; Tom Howard, Met Office;
- Hernando
Noguera \
- Mohammad
Karam J Ali > Regional Climate Prediction,
DGCA, Kuwait
- Hasan
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Dashti
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Dr.
Wan Azli Wan Hassan - Malaysian Meteorological Service
Mohammed
Al-Siami - Presidency of Met. & Env. (PME), Saudi Arabia
Purevjav
Gomboluudev, Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Mongolia
Joseph
Instiful, Univ. of Bonn, Germany (now employed at the Met Office)
- Reading, July 2004
participants:
- Rizwan Nawaz and Mohamed Elshamy, University of Hull and
Egyptian Ministry of Water & Irrigation respectively (for a
collaborative project);
- Qianguo Lin, University of Regina, Canada;
- Frank Keimig, University of Massachusetts, U.S.A.
- Dominic Kniveton, Russell Layberry and Charles Williams,
University of Sussex, U.K.
- Panos Hadjinicolaou, Research and Development Centre Unit of
Environmental Studies, Intercollege, Nicosia, Cyprus
- Adel Yasin, Palestinian Water Authority
- Exeter, November 2003
participants:
- Chris Kilsby and Abbas Kalbounieh, University of Newcastle and
Palestinian Water Authority respectively (for a collaborative
project);
- Pascale Martineu, University of Québéc at Montreal,
Canada;
- José Marengo & Julio Chagas, CPTEC-INPE, Brazil.
Bracknell,
August 2003 participants:
Emily Black, Andrew Challinor, Pete
Inness and Andy Heaps, CGAM (Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling),
University of Reading, UK
Vasso Kotroni and K. Lagouvardos,
National Observatory of Athens, Greece;
Rita Pongracz, University of Budapest,
Hungary;
Alexander Spectorman, Israeli
Meteorological Service;
Kuoying Wang, University of Taiwan;
Gary Kleiman, Patrick Kwon and Charla
Rudisill, NESCAUM (Northeast States for Coordinated Air-Use
Management) USA.
Other presentations/demonstrations
approximately in reverse order of time - please let me know if any of
these need correcting or you would like to see something added:
- David Hein gave a talk on Climate Change Scenarios using PRECIS
at the Regional Conference on Climate Change in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
on 27 & 28 October 2007.
- David Hassell presented PRECIS at a UNFCCC Side Event at CoP9
Milan, December 2003 and demonstrated it on the Hadley Centre stand.
PRECIS was a central theme of the Hadley Centre stands at CoP8 and 7,
and was presented at one or both at the Hadley Centre side event (open
to all scientists and policymakers attending the CoP), with accompanying
brochures.
- Richard Jones presented PRECIS to a delegation of Russian
scientists at a Foreign Office-sponsored event (November 2003?);
- Geoff Jenkins at WMO GCOS meetings in Costa Rica (May 2002),
Niger (March 2003) and Santiago de Chile (October 2003); anticipating
also in Khazakstan next year.
- Richard Jones at UNFCCC "Workshop on the use of the guidelines
for the preparation of national communications from non-Annex I
Parties", Mauritius, April 2003;
- Ruth Taylor at a special session of the "International Symposium
on Climate Change" on the Sino-UK project, Beijing, March 2003;
- Ruth Taylor to students at ZEF (Zentrum fuer
Entwicklungsforschung ~ Centre for Development Research), Bonn, February
2003.
- Richard Jones and Simon Wilson at the "AIACC Project Development
Workshop: Development and Application of Scenarios in Impacts,
Adaptation and Vulnerability Assessments", Tyndall Centre, April 2002,
attended by delegates representing all AIACC projects.
- Richard Jones at the 18th session of the IPCC, Wembley, September
2001