UNESCO Chair on Knowledge Systems for IWRM nominated Lecturer, Ms. Sumera Fahmi Khan of Civil Engineering Department to attend a training workshop titled “Downscaling Global Climate Models for Future Projections of Climate in Pakistan” from May 2-6, 2016 in Islamabad. The workshop was organized by Pakistan Metrological Department (PMD) in collaboration with the Regional Integrated Multi- Hazard Early-Warning System (RIMES), Thailand.

The training workshop aimed to enhance the capacity of young professionals on improved techniques for climate change assessment including selection of General Circulation Models (GCMs), Bias Correction, Downscaling of the corrected output. The training involves user capacity building for application, as well as generation of future climate projections over Pakistan.