Summer School on “High Resolution Climate Change Projections”

One of the main purposes of the ClimaProof project is to improve technical capacities of the countries in the WB region. Therefore, a Summer School was organized by the UN Environment Programme (Vienna Programme Office), in co-operation with Institute of Meteorology and Climatology (BOKU-Met).

The Summer School took place from 2. to 6. July 2018 at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna. In total 14 experts in the fields of meteorology and hydrology from the Western Balkan region, specialized in the subjects of climate modelling and climate change attended the Summer School. The program consisted on both theoretical lectures and practical coursework were provided.

A newly developed bias corrected, localized ensemble of climate change scenarios for the Western Balkan Region produced by BOKU-Met was presented, and participants received a hands-on training in handling the data. Furthermore, participants received training on handling the specially developed ICC-OBS tool. The ICC-OBS tool allows the integration of additional local observational data to improve bias correction.