Alpine Summer School: Climate Change and the Mountain Environment
Valsavarenche, Italy
From: 18.06.2013 to: 28.06.2013
Climate Change and the Mountain Environment is the topic of this year's Italian-French Alpine Summer School on Fundamental Processes in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and the Climate System in Valsavarenche, Italy, 18-28 June.
The summer school is organized by the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate - CNR (Italy) and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (France).
The summer school is devoted to understanding how the mountain environment is changing in response to climate variability and the global temperature rise, with specific emphasis on monitoring current conditions, reconstructing past variability and developing projections for future decades.
Specific focus themes of the lectures are: (1) atmospheric circulation and air quality in high-altitude areas, including the role of aerosols, pollution and the properties of precipitation; (2) changes in the hydrological cycle in mountain regions, with specific attention to snow and glacier dynamics; (3) ecosystems and biodiversity in high-altitude areas and their response to climate and environmental change; (4) reconstruction of past variability in mountain regions by ice and sediment core data; and (5) climate modelling in mountain regions.
Students and researchers wanting to anticipate need to submit an application by 12 May.
For more information and a full lecture programme see http://www.to.isac.cnr.it/aosta/index.html.
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