Advanced Trainings
Organized by: In collaboration with the Met Office, the UK’s national meteorological agency, World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)/Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment (CORDEX), Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), and Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) – Pune
Date: June 2022
The training focused on using the Climate Data Analytical Tool to calculate select indices for different sectors – agriculture, health, and water resources – from a list of more than 50 climate indices of selected representative models for a defined area of interest. The tool also allows spatial and temporal analysis of the calculated climate indices. [Click Here]
Organized by: In collaboration with the Met Office, UK’s national meteorological agency, the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)/COordinated Regional Climate Downscaling EXperiment (CORDEX), the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI); the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), and the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM)
Date: December 2021
The training aimed to build knowledge and skills for analyzing climate change projections using CORDEX regional climate model simulations. It was objectivized to help participants better understand climate model projections using 17 regional climate models, selecting representative models which best replicate historical climate cycles, and assessing spatial and temporal variability of present and future climate change over a defined area of interest. In addition to gaining an overall understanding of climate modelling and downscaling. [Click Here]
Risk informed development planning and Disaster Impact Assessment (DIA) framework in Bangladesh
Organized by: Bangladesh Planning Commission, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh under National Resilience Program (NRP)t Technical Assistance Project funded by United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Date: September 2021
The training aimed to improve the understanding of mainstreaming disaster and climate change related knowledge and information in the national development planning processes through building the capacities to implement risk informed development.
Objectives:
- Understand nature, extent, challenges and opportunities of Risk Informed Development
- Mainstream disaster and climatic risks into national development planning Process
- Implementing Disaster Impact Assessment Framework
- Bridge global and national commitments can contribute to achieve Risk Informed Development
Climate related loss and damage within climate risk management
Organized by: Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) under Global Programme on Risk Assessment and Management for Adaptation to Climate Change Program, German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development
Date: August 2021
The training course deals with climate- related Loss and Damage as part of climate risk management. It was specifically designed for relevant stakeholders including technical staff of institutions and decision- makers in partner countries. The training provideed and explained different concepts, approaches and measures to avert, minimize and address Loss and Damage.
Sea level rise science and use of regional sea level projections for South Asia
Organized by: UK Met office as part of the Climate Analysis for Risk Information and Services in South Asia (CARISSA) project, under the Asia Regional Resilience to a Changing Climate (ARRCC) program funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development
Date: November 2020
The training was targeted to develop organizational capacity in Bangladesh, especially who are involved in work on coastal adaptation, impacts assessment, risk reduction and policy. It aimed to improve awareness of climate information on past estimates of sea-level trends and projections of future sea-level change, while also providing guidance on the scientific limitations and uncertainties that need to be considered when using information on sea-level changes.
Attention was given to the open-source information from satellite and tide gauge observations, along with projections from the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC). The training also provided hand-on experience in using new sea-level projections produced under the CARISSA project based on methods from the Met Office 2018 UK Climate Projections.