Mekong River Commission Secretariat

Regional Technical Workshop
on Application of Modelling Tools for Climate
Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment

under MRC-CSIRO Climate Change Project on Reducing Vulnerability of Water Resources,
People and the Environment in the Mekong Basin to Climate Change Impacts
8 – 9 September 2009, Landmark Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand

 

Agenda and Presentations

Topics		Presenters
Agenda
Keynote
	Modelling and Decision Support for Integrated Climate Change Impact and Vulnerability Assessment (1.6MB)	Prof. Tony Jakeman, Director of Integrated Catchment Assessment and Management Centre (ICAM), Australian National University, Australia
	Climate Change on Agriculture, Water and EnvironmentClimateClimateChangeChangeon(4.2MB)	Prof. Raghavan Srinivasan, Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Texas A&M University, USA
Session 1:	Application of modelling tools for climate impact and vulnerability assessment of Mekong River Basin : Outcomes of MRC-CSIRO Project (Chair: Dr Anond Snidvongs, SEA START RC, Bangkok, Thailand)
	Next Generation Climate Projection for Mekong Region(616KB)	Dr. Anond Snidvongs, SEA START RC, Bangkok, Thailand
	Analysis of possible rainfall and temperature change in the greater Mekong sub-region over the period 1960-2049 (919KB)	Dr. Guillaume Lacombe International Water Management Institute – Southeast Asia (IWMISEA), Vientiane, Lao PDR
	Overview on assessment of climate change impacts on Mekong hydrological regime (1.9MB)	Dr. Chu Thai Hoanh International Water Management Institute – Southeast Asia (IWMISEA), Vientiane, Lao PDR
	Impacts of climate change on Mekong hydrologic regimes of baseline and development scenarios (4.2MB)	Dr. Kittipong Jirayoot, MRCS
	Mekong climate change project - agricultural impacts and adaptation (1.2MB)	Dr. Mohammed Mainuddin CSIRO Land and Water Canberra, Australia
Session 2:	Learning from international experiences on climate change study -related modelling applications (Chair: Dr Sucharit Koontanakulvong, Department of Water Resources Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand)
	Hydrologic simulations of global warming impact using dynamically downscaled data: Case study of the Seyhan River Basin in Turkey (2.1MB)	Dr. Yoichi Fujihara Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Japan
	Water Resources and Adaptation to Climate Change with a Focus on the Ganges (797KB)	Dr. Peter McCornick Nicholas Institute, Duke University, USA
	Impacts of climate change on rice, sugarcane, cassava, and maize production in Thailand (1.9MB)	Dr. Krirk Pannangpetch Department of Plant Science and Agricultural Resources Faculty of Agriculture, Khon Kaen University, Thailand
	Some experiences on regional climate change and variability modeling, rainfall downscaling & flood inundation in Southeast Asia (6.6MB)	Prof. Dr. Srikantha Herath Environment and Sustainable Development Programme United Nation University, Tokyo, Japan
Session 3:	Member Countries' climate modelling study and research on Mekong River Basin; up-to-date modelling capacity and knowledge (Chair: Representative from NMCs)
	Cambodian capacity and experiences on climate modeling (797KB)	Mr. Heng Chan Thoeun Team Leader of the Vulnerability and Adaptation Thematic Working Group of the Second National Communication
	Lao PDR capacity and experiences on climate modeling (2.1MB)	Mr. Chanseng Phongpachith Chief of Water Resources Research Center, Water Resources and Environment Research Institute (WERI), WREA
	Thailand capacity and experiences on climate modeling (1.7MB)	Dr. Kampanad Bhaktikul Mahidol University
	Viet Nam capacity and experiences on climate modeling (3.2MB)	Mr. Tran Dinh Trong, National Institute of Meteorology, Hydrology and Environment
	Strengthening and networking of regional capacity and experiences on climate modelling for the Lower Mekong Basin (1.5MB)	Suppakorn Chinvanno Southeast Asia START Regional Center

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