First WCRP-ICTP Summer School on Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events

The First WCRP-ICTP Summer School on Attribution and Prediction of Extreme Events, also co-organised by CLIVAR, was a success in Trieste. The 35 participants, out of 236 applications, from several countries, had two weeks of interactions with lecturers from leading research institutes around the world.

This Summer School is part of the activities of the WCRP Grand Challenge on "Understanding and Predicting Weather and Climate Extremes".

Further information about the Summer School can be found on www.wcrp-climate.org/index.php/ictp2014-about

A news highlights on the Summer School can be read from ICTP's website.