The Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) and the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP, Trieste, Italy) are jointly organising an Advanced School on Earth System Modelling (ESM) programme on July 18, followed by a Workshop on Climate Change and Regional Impact over South Asia on July 28-29, at IITM. The programme will be inaugurated by the Secretary of Ministry of Earth Sciences, Dr M Rajeevan. IITM is a research centre of tropical meteorology, regional and global monsoon systems, ocean-atmosphere coupled climate system, physical meteorology and oceanography, atmospheric chemistry and science of climate change. Watch Video: Monsoon Session: BJP Reaches Out To Congress To End GST Stalemate [related-post] It is actively involved in modelling, simulation and prediction of global climate and regional monsoons on different time-scales, using fully coupled climate models. The advanced school on Earth system modelling, the newly developed IITM Earth System Model (IITM ESM) will be the focus of the school and used during the practical sessions. The IITM ESM is expected to contribute climate simulations and projections for the forthcoming Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change Assessment Report 6 (IPCC AR6). The programme will consist of forenoon sessions with key lectures delivered by experts on fundamental topics in climate science and afternoon sessions devoted to practical training with the IITM ESM. A workshop will be held on climate change and regional impacts over South Asia climate variability and significant influence on society and natural environments, with consequent impacts on agriculture, water-resources, health, terrestrial and marine ecosystem, energy, industry and various sectors. There are major uncertainties in understanding climate change and its impacts at regional levels. The broad objectives of the workshop are to provide an overview of the regional aspects of climate change and impact assessments in the South Asian context, deliberate on gap areas and propose directions for future research work.
