ESRs Workshop 1 - Online workshop on climate data analysis for climate extremes for Early Stage Researchers

The Online workshop on climate data analysis for climate extremes for Early stage researchers (ESRs) was held on April 12, 13, 15, 21 and 22, 2021. at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Science as an activity in the ExtremeClimTwin project. 

This workshop was the first in a series of EXtremeClimTwin ESRs workshops on Climate extremes to foster an outcome-oriented, interactive trainings. 

The first day of the Workshop was dedicated to “Hydro-climate information sources and applications” by Prof. Dr. Robert Wilby. The aim of the morning session was: to introduce the hydromet information flow, to raise awareness of the various causes and types of errors that can occur within climate and hydrological data, and to cover ways of detecting errors and biases in climate and hydrological information flows.

The title of the lecture delivered by Dr. Manfred Mudelsee during the morning session on the second day was “Basic Introduction to Climate Time Series Analysis: Lecture”. The focus of the lecture was on the basics of climate time series analysis and the application of the different methods on climate extremes. The afternoon practical session was dedicated to presenting the software and its application to climate data. 

On the third day of the Workshop, Dr. Carley Iles introduced the participants to climate models and climate reanalysis. The talk was about the global and regional climate models, their use in the studies of climate extremes, and impact studies. Dr. Tom Matthews hosted the afternoon session of the third day of the ESRs Workshop. The title of the practical session was “Programmatic downloading and manipulation of weather station data”.

Dr. Jana Sillmann presented her lecture on the fourth day of the Workshop. The title of the presentation was ”Weather and climate extremes - What are extreme events? How do we identify them? Indices of extreme temperature events; Extreme precipitation”. The afternoon, practical session was hosted by Dr. Marit Sandstad who introduced the participants to the NetCDF file format, their sources, structure, manipulation and visualization. The title of the presentation was “Downloading and working with netcdf files”.