ClimEd Training 4 (ONSITE/ HYBRID)

Developing Learning Courses in Climate Services Considering Needs of Different Users

6 – 10 May 2024

The ClimEd Trainings are focused on training the faculty/ teaching/ research staff and postgraduates at the ClimEd partner institutions and collaborating organizations in advanced educational and information-and-communication technologies for building a flexible multi-level integrated practice-based education system in the field of Climate Services, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation.

The 4th ClimEd training includes

Training materials:

Announcement (aim, training programme in short, organizing committee, organizers, lecturers, target audience, selection criteria, registration details)
Online application (including motivation letter and CV; deadline 1 Apr 2024; go to web-form
List of participants (accepted applicants/ trainees and lecturers/ instructors) and preliminary division of trainees by Groups
Training Programme

Presentations

MONDAY, 6 May 2024

Session 1: Climate Datasets. An Overview. Dr. Enric Aguilar, C3/IU-RESCAT/URV. Part 1, Part 2.

Quality Control. Dr. Enric Aguilar, C3/IU-RESCAT/URV

Climate Data Homogenization. Basic Concepts. Dr. Enric Aguilar, C3/IU-RESCAT/URV.

Climate Indices. Dr. Enric Aguilar, C3/IU-RESCAT/URV

Session 2: Introduction to Work in Groups

Videos:

Lecture I. Climate Datasets, an overview. Dr. Enric Aguilar, URV

Lecture II. Quality Control Climate Data. Dr. Enric Aguilar, URV

Lecture III. Climate data Homogenization. Concepts and examples. Dr. Enric Aguilar, URV

Lectura IV. Climate Change Indices. Past experiences and new developments. Dr. Enric Aguilar, URV

Introduction to work in groups. Dr. Jon Olano, URV

TUESDAY, 7 May 2024

Co-creation for climate services. Concepts and methodology. Dr. Jon Olano Pozo, Dra. Anna Boqué Ciurana. Centre for Climate ChangeC3, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Co-Creation Methodology for Climate Services

Template – Co-creation

Videos:

Lecture V. Scenarios (including Climate Change) for Agricultural Landscapes’ Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Dr. Kalev Sepp, Volha Kaskevich , Lagle Lõhmus; EMU

Lecture VII. Co-creation and user engagement methodology. Dr. Jon Olano & Dra. Anna Boqué, URV

Lecture IX. An example of co-creation of Climate Service: C2Risk. Dr. Federico Foria & Marianna Brichesse, ETS

Group Workshop. Part 1. Dr. Jon Olano & Dra. Anna Boqué, URV

Group Workshop. Part 2. Dr. Jon Olano & Dra. Anna Boqué, URV

Group Workshop. Part 3. Dr. Jon Olano & Dra. Anna Boqué, URV

WEDNESDAY, 8 May 2024

From global drought assessment to drought climate services. Sergio Vicente Serrano

Gridded Data of Daily Atmospheric Precipitation and Minimum, Mean and Maximum Air Temperature for Ukraine, 1946-2020. Oleg Skrynyk

Sensitivity of Heat Wave Metrics Calculation to Input Gridded Climate Data (based on a case study of Ukraine). Oleg Skrynyk

Videos:

Lecture VIII. Sensitivity of heat wave metrics calculation to input climate data (based on a case of Ukraine). Dr. Oleg Skrynyk (online), URV

Lecture IX. Possible application of meteorological and atmospheric dispersion/trajectories models in analysis of climate/weather extreme events. Dr. Oleg Skrynyk (online), URV

Lecture X. Deriving climate products. Dr. Sergio Vicente, CSIC-IPE

Lecture XI. Drought in Ukraine. Dra. Inna Semenova, CSIC-IPE

THURSDAY, 9 May 2024

Concepts and examples of communication from a climate service. Dra. Anna Boqué Ciurana, Centre for Climate Change C3, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, IU-RESCAT

Participatory Climate Services: Case Studies. CS for surfing activity. Dra. Anna Boqué Ciurana, Centre for Climate Change C3, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, IU-RESCAT

Climate Change Economics: Some Words. Dr Juaa Antonio Duro, Economics Department, URV

Climate Services for Intangible Heritage. Human Towers in Catalonia. Anna Boqué, Jon Olano and Òscar Saladié

Videos:

Lecture XII. Climate Services in Climate-Dependent Sectors: Calendar Crops. Dr. Enric Aguilar, URV

Lecture XIII. Climate Change Economics. Dr. Jose Manuel Giménez, URV

Lecture XIV. Co-Created Climate Services for Climate Dependent Sectors: Insights from Posadas, Argentina. Caterina Cimolai, URV

Lecture XV. Climate Policies. Dr. Juan Antonio Duro, URV

Lecture XVI. Potential uses of climate services in tourism: surf, beach and snow tourism. Dra. Anna Boqué, URV

Lecture XVII. Climate Services for Intangible Heritage: Catalan Human Towers. Dr. Òscar Saladié, URV

Lecture XVIII. Participatory Climate Services: Case Studies for Surfing Activity.

Lecture XIX. Climate Services for Intangible Heritage. Human Towers in Catalonia.