ICIWaRM Supports 6th Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries at UNESCO Center in Trieste
Under the leadership of UNESCO G-WADI, with funding from the U.S. State Department’s Office of Conservation and Water, ICIWaRM helped organize and fund the “6th Workshop on Water Resources in Developing Countries: Hydroclimate Modeling, Information Tools and Simulation Techniques“, from May 20-31, 2024. One hundred twelve water professionals from around the word participated at the event, held at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, a UNESCO Category 1 center in Trieste, Italy.
The U.S. support was targeted towards the in-person participation of African women–three from Ghana and one from Tunisia.
Professors Soroosh Sorooshian, Amir Aghakouchak and Phu Nguyen–all from the University of California, Irvine’s Center for Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing (a G-WADI partner)–lectured on topics such as:
- Satellite precipitation estimation at CHRS UCI: Algorithm Development & Challenges
- The low-resolution secrets of high-resolution statistical downscaling
- UC-Irvine CHRS’s global satellite precipitation products and tools
- Applications of PERSIANN data and CHRS web-based interfaces
- Hydrologic Modeling Requirements: Data Requirement issues
- Hands-on Introduction to Hydrologic Modeling
- Bias adjustment of PERSIANN-CCS estimates using rain gauge observation
Most of the tools discussed in these sessions were developed in collaboration with G-WADI and/or ICIWaRM. These include the global real-time precipitation observation system iRain and the integrated system for global satellite precipitation data and information, RainSphere. Raw data on many CHRS products can be downloaded at https://chrsdata.eng.uci.edu/ .
More information on the event can be found at ICTP’s event page, https://indico.ictp.it/event/10477/overview .
Participants at ICTP Water Resources Course. Source: ICTP.