Project has strong presence in Argentine Meteorology Congress

Several project investigators participated in the 10th Argentine Meteorological Congress, CONGREMET X, that took place in Buenos Aires, 5-9 October 2009.

Three posters were presented at a session on climate variability. Maru Skansi characterized the spatial extent and duration of the 2008 drought using the standarized precipitation index (SPI). Federico Bert presented a framework for exploring agricultural outcomes of plausible climate scenarios 25-30 years into the future. Yongku Kim, Rick Katz and Balaji Rajagopalan described an approach to enhance the generation of synthetic climate series by reducing “overdispersion.” Angel Menéndez made a presentation during a panel on water resources, and Claudia Natenzon led a panel on climate disasters and vulnerability.

Maru Skansi	Federico Bert
Angel Menéndez	Claudia Natenzon

>> View poster on 2008 drought in the Pampas [PDF, 1210KB]

>> View poster on framework to explore impacts of plausible climate 25 years hence [PDF, 2236KB]

>> View poster on Enhanced generation of synthetic climatic series [PDF, 2400KB]

Katz teaches intensive course on climate extremes at University of Buenos Aires

Project investigator Rick Katz (National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colorado) taught an intensive one-day course on statistical modeling of extremes in climate change at the Department of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires. The course, which took place on October 2nd 2009, was attended by about 30 students and researchers from the University of Buenos Aires and other Argentine institutions, such as the National Met Service and the Navy Met Service.

The course covered the application of the statistical theory of extreme values to climate, in general, and to climate change, in particular. An innovative aspect was the incorporation of both trends and physically-based covariates into analysis of extremes.The course included two hands-on sessions using the library extRemes for extreme value analysis available within the open source statistical programming language R.

Rick Katz delivers one of the lectures	Dr. Celeste Saulo, Director of the Dept. of Atmospheric and Ocean Sciences introduces the course
Course attendants listen to lectures	Hands-on exercises

>> Links to lectures and exercises