Schedule#

This schedule is only indicative!

We will adapt to the participants questions and requests during the workshop.

Day 1 - General overview and scientific presentations#

Saturday 11 March 2023

09:00 - 09:30: Welcome by the organizers
09:30 - 11:00: Presentation of the workshop, introduction to OGGM (Fabien Maussion)
11:00 - 11:30: Morning Tea/Snacks
11:30 - 12:15: Scientific presentation 1 (Adnan Siddique): Machine Learning based efforts towards large scale monitoring of glacial lakes & potential GLOFs in HKH
12:15 - 13:00: Scientific presentation 2 (Jawairia Ashfaq Ahmad): Regional hydrology with a focus on the Upper Indus Basin

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 - 14:45: Scientific presentation 3 (Fabien Maussion): Climate policy and global glacier change - putting an ice cost to our greenhouse gas emissions
14:45 - 15:30: Scientific presentation 4 (Fahad Saeed): Application of University of British Columbia’s Watershed Model over Upper Indus Basin
15:30 - 16:00: Afternoon Tea/Cookies
16:00 - 17:30: Potential and pitfalls of open source models for research in Pakistan. Presentation (Jakob Steiner, Fabien Maussion) and open discussion with participants.

Day 2 - Introduction to Python and OGGM, Mass balance#

Sunday 12 March 2023

09:00 - 09:45: Introduction of the participants
09:45 - 10:45: Brief introduction about glacier system modeling with OGGM
10:45 - 11:15: Morning Tea/Snacks
11:15 - 13:00: Practicals: intro to Jupyter and Python, and a first OGGM simulation

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 - 14:30: Science input of the day (Anouk)
14:30 - 15:30: Glacier mass balance (Anouk, Fabien): climatic mass balance - processes and modeling
15:30 - 16:00: Afternoon Tea/Cookies
16:00 - 17:30: Practicals (temperature index model)

19:30: workshop dinner!

Day 3 - Glacier dynamics - excursion#

Monday 13 March 2023

09:00 - 10:45: Glacier dynamics (Patrick, Fabien): Ice flow dynamics + numerics of ice dynamics
10:45 - 11:15: Morning Tea/Snacks
11:15 - 12:00: Practicals: ice flow parameters in idealized cases (OGGM-Edu), ice flow models in OGGM

12:00 - open ended: excursion to WAPDA offices

Day 4 - Model calibration - OGGM hydrology#

Tuesday 14 March 2023

09:00 - 10:45: Mass balance (Anouk, Fabien): climatic mass balance and climate datasets - calibration, bias correction, projections
10:45 - 11:15: Morning Tea/Snacks
11:15 - 13:00: Practicals (calibration, projections, uncertainties)

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 - 14:30: Science input of the day (Patrick)
14:30 - 15:30: Hydrology in OGGM: partitioning, peak water.
15:30 - 16:00: Afternoon Tea/Cookies
16:00 - 17:30: Practicals. Hydrological projections with OGGM.

Day 5 - Open source - extending OGGM#

Wednesday 15 March 2023

09:00 - 10:15: Water resources - continued
10:15 - 10:45: Tour of the research facilities at LUMS
10:45 - 11:15: Morning Tea/Snacks
11:15 - 13:00: Extending OGGM with your own module or forcing data

13:00 - 14:00: Lunch break

14:00 - 14:30: Science input of the day (Jakob)
14:30 - 15:30: Open source scientific development: working as a community / group of scientists with git / github, zenodo
15:30 - 16:00: Afternoon Tea/Cookies
16:00 - 17:30: Closing session of the workshop