国际气候与环境科学中心International Center for Climate and Environment Sciences

Zhaohui LIN

CAS-TWAS-WMO Forum 2011

International Center for climate and Environment SciencesInstitute of Atmospheric Physics Chinese Academy of Sciences

CTWF 2011 Motivation & Sponsors

CTWF 2011 Sessions & Agenda

CTWF 2011 Committees

CTWF 2011 Propaganda

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CTWF 2011 ParticipantsV

Contents

I. CTWF 2011 Motivation

Main Goal of the CTWF 2011• Reinforce the scientific capacity related with climate change

research among young research fellows from developing Countries.

• Provide linkages among the developing countries, in general, and participating institutions in particular to share their experiences in the impact assessment of regional climate change, and local experiences on the management and adaptation methodology for regional climate and environmental change.

Joint International Training Workshop on “Regional Climate Change and Its Impact Assessment”

September 26-29, Beijing, China

I. CTWF 2011 Sponsors

Organized byChinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS)World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Commission on Science and Technology for Sustainable Development in the South (COMSATS)

Co-sponsorsUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Ministry of Science and Technology of China (MOST)Chinese Meteorological Administration (CMA)Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP), CASInternational Center for Climate and Environment Sciences (ICCES)

CAS provides annual funding of 300,000 CNY (around 46,000 USD), COMSATS, together with UNESCO provides a 12,000 USD funding support

for CTWF participants in 2011.

II. CTWF 2011 Sessions

The CTWF 2011 international training workshop will cover four sessions, with lecturers and participants from China and abroad.

a)Facts of regional climate changes and the detection techniquesb)Impact of climate change on regional water resourcesc)Impact of climate change on agriculture and ecosystemd)Regional Climate Model and its applications for climate change studies

II. CTWF 2011 Tentative Agenda

Time Morning Afternoon

Sep. 25 On-site Registration

Sep. 26 Inauguration Session I (Lecture & Discussion)Sep. 27 Session II (Lecture & Discussion) Session III (Lecture & Discussion)Sep. 28 Session IV-1 (Lecture & Discussion) Lab Visit

Sep. 29 Session IV-2 (Lecture, Discussion & Wrap-up session) Scientific Tour

Important Dates:Abstract submission: August 10, 2011Notification of Acceptance: August 20, 2011On-site registration: September 25, 2011

CTWF 2011 Venue

Beijing Friendship Hotel

Beijing Friendship hotel is in No. 1 South St. of Zhong Guan Cun in Haidian District, the central area of Zhong Guan Cun High-tech Garden. There are some famous site scene like Summer Palace, Winter Palace and Xiangshan, around this area, along with some well-known universities including Beijing University and Tsinghua University. As the largest garden hotel in Asia, Beijing Friendship Hotel is recorded into World Architecture Annals published by Cambridge in UK for its large area and typical folk style.

III. CTWF 2011 Committees

International Scientific Committee:

Prof. Qing-cun Zeng (Executive Director of CTWF, IAP/CAS)Prof. Huijun Wang (Executive Director of CTWF, Director-General of IAP)Dr. Imtinan. QURESHI (Executive Director, COMSATS, Pakistan)Prof. Jiang Zhu ( Deputy director of IAP/CAS; TAC member of COMSATS),Ms. Shuqin Fu (Bureau of International Cooperation,CAS)Mr. Zhenyu Wang (Bureau of International Cooperation,CAS)Mr. Tajammul Hussain (Advisor, COMSATS, Pakistan)Prof. Zhaohui Lin (ICCES, IAP/CAS)Prof. Xunqiang Bi (ICTP, Italy) Dr. Rijan Bhakta Kayastha (Kathmandu University, Nepal)Prof. Xiaodong Zeng (ICCES, IAP/CAS)

Local Organizing Committee:

Lu Zhang (IAP/CAS) Ting Tong (ICCES, IAP/CAS)Jixia Dong (ICCES, IAP/CAS) Yanxia Yang(ICCES, IAP/CAS)

IV. CTWF 2011 Propaganda

The CTWF 2011 has released its announcement through diverse propaganda platforms. Besides the construction of its own websites, CTWF also posted up the announcements through international organizations like COMSATS, TWAS regional office, etc..

http://ctwf.icces.ac.cn/2011ctwfhttp://ctwf.icces.ac.cn

Workshop webpage

IV. CTWF 2011 Propaganda

On-line registration in the workshop homepage

http://ctwf.icces.ac.cn/2011ctwf

www://comsats.org

IV. CTWF 2011 Propaganda

CTWF 2011 Flyer

CTWF 2011 Brochure

V. CTWF 2011 Participants

Young research scientists who are interested and/or active in climate science, especially in the field of Regional Climate Change and Its Impact Assessment are welcome to join CTWF 2011.

Funds are available to partially or fully support selected participants. Participants could apply for financial support by apply to the committee.

Participants will be finally selected through the CV, or/and the abstract they submitted to the workshop by the scientific committee of the training workshop, along with the financial support category.

V. CTWF 2011 Participants

International Participants: Until now, Over 16 applicants from developing countries

conveyed their willingness to join the CTWF 2011, within which, 10 have submitted their abstracts to the CTWF 2011 committee.

From 10 countries, Namely Thailand, Senegal, Nepal, Ghana, Iran, Sri Lanka, Jordan, Pakistan, Malysia, Brazil (status as of July 18th)

The CTWF secretariat has extended meeting announcement and invitations to young research scientists from more developing countries, including Vietnam, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Colombia etc..

V. CTWF 2011 Participants

Domestic Participants:

Until now, Over 20 domestic applicants conveyed their willingness to join the CTWF 2011.

Mainly from domestic universities, research institutions and provincial meteorological administration, e.g: Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource Research,

CAS Institute of Atmospheric Physics, CAS Beijing Normal University

Total expected participants: 40

V. CTWF 2011 Participants

Lecturers:

Around 10 lectures have been invited to give talks on the related topics, including: Prof. SARR Abdoulaye, from National Meteorological Agency of Senegal (ANAMS), Lead author of IPCC AR4 reportDr. Xunqiang Bi, Earth System Physics section, ICTP, TWAS, who is in charge of maintaining ICTP regional climate modelProf. Tan Qiu Hong, from Institute of Geographic Science and Natural Resource ResearchProf. Ren Guoyu, from CMA, who is the expert on the detection of past climate change over ChinaProf. Xiaodong Zeng, from ICCES/IAP, who is the TWAS Young Affiliate, and expert on ecosystem modelling……

Prof. Dr. Zhaohui Lin

Director of ICCESEmail: lzh@mail.iap.ac.cn http://www.icces.ac.cn 

You are welcome to recommend young scientists working on climate change related issue to join in

the CTWF 2011!

Thank you!