PRECIS Workshops
PRECIS is made available at workshops run regularly by Met Office Hadley Centre staff, generally in the region where it is to be used. Workshops are provided to give scientific and technical training necessary to use PRECIS and address the many issues involved in its application. There are generally three international and one UK based PRECIS workshops held each year.
A PRECIS workshop usually includes an introduction to the PRECIS system and climate change, constructing climate scenarios for impact studies, uncertainties in climate modelling, designing a RCM experiment, the PRECIS data storage system and data processing and validation and evaluation of RCMs. The afternoons consist of hands-on sessions where the participants use the PRECIS interface to set up and run experiments and use PP utilities and other software to process and analyse the PRECIS output data. A demonstration of how to install PRECIS is given and the PRECIS software is given at the end of the workshop. After the workshop support and follow-up is provided through the PRECIS website and the email.
There have been 34 workshops training covering over 100 countries and over 300 participants. The workshops have been successful in encouraging collaboration between PRECIS users in groups of countries. For example, several countries in the Caribbean have collaborated to run different models and shared their output data. From this a web page was created by INSMET in Cuba, which allows for user specified plots to be generated on the fly.
Previous PRECIS Workshops
| November 2012 | MMD, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| April 2012 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| February 2012 | IMHEN, Hanoi, Vietnam |
| November 2011 | SAIN & ACCC, Beijing & Chengdu, China |
| August 2011 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| March 2011 | PME, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| February 2011 | ICPAC, Nairobi, Kenya |
| September 2010 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| July 2010 | IMHEN, Ha Noi, Vietnam (follow-up) |
| June 2010 | BUET, Bangladesh (follow-up) |
| May 2010 | AGRHYMET , Niamey, Niger |
| February 2010 | PME, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia |
| February 2010 | BUET, Bangladesh |
| October 2009 | ASEAN, Malaysia (follow-up) |
| September 2009 | IMHEN, Ha Noi, Vietnam |
| August 2009 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| June 2009 | Egyptian Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation, Cairo, Egypt |
| August 2008 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| October 2007 | Southeast Asia START Regional Centre , Bangkok, Thailand (follow-up) |
| September 2007 | ICPAC , Kenyan Meteorological Department , Nairobi, Kenya |
| July 2007 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| September 2006 | CCCCC, Belize City, Belize (follow-up) |
| August 2006 | Malaysia Meteorology Department, Petaling Jaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| July 2006 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| April 2006 | University of Accra, Accra, Ghana |
| November 2005 | University Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| September 2005 | WMO Regional Meteorological Training Facility, Alanya, Turkey |
| June 2005 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| January 2005 | IITM, Pune, India |
| November 2004 | CPTEC, Sao Paolo, Brazil |
| July 2004 | Bhutanese National Environment Commission, Thimphu, Bhutan |
| July 2004 | University of Reading, Reading, UK |
| November 2003 | Met Office, Exeter, UK |
| September 2003 | Havana, Cuba |
| August 2003 | Met Office, Bracknell, UK |
| March 2003 | University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa |
