Agenda

FOCRAII 2008 Final Programme

April 9(Wednesday), 2008

Registration(08:00-09:00)

Location:Lobby of BeijingClimateCenter

Opening Ceremony (09:00-10:00) (Conference Hall at the 1st floor of BCC)

Chair:LI Weijing

09:00-09:10Welcome address by head of CMA

09:10-09:20Address by WMO representative (Ms.Leslie MALONE)

09:20-09:30Address by Executive Director-General of BCC (Dr. XIAO Ziniu)

09:30-10:00Group Photo and Tea Break

Invited Lectures (10:00-12:00) (Conference Hall at the 1st floor of BCC)

Chair: Chih-Pei CHANG

10:00-10:40Methods and tools for climate adaptation: WMO initiatives

Leslie MALONE, WMO

10:40-11:20Terrain Effects on Southeast Asian Monsoon

Chih-Pei CHANG, USA

11:20-12:00Diagnosis of the atmospheric circulation in winter 2007/08 focusing on unusually strong Siberian high and cold surges over Asia

Kumi HAYASHI, TCC/JMA, Japan

Lunch (12:00-13:30)(CMA’s guesthouse restaurant)

Session 1:Prediction on East Asian Summer Monsoon and summer climate in 2008 (13:30-18:00) (Conference Hall at the 1st floor of BCC)

Invited Lectures (13:30-14:10)

Chair: Liqiang SUN

13:30-14:10 Tropospheric Biennial Oscillation (TBO) and Summer Precipitation in China

DING Yihui, BCC/CMA

14:10-14:50Regional Climate Modeling in Seasonal Climate Prediction: Advances and Future Directions

Liqiang SUN, IRI, USA

Oral Presentations (14:50-15:50)

Topic I: Overview of Recent Climate and Climate Change

14:50-15:10Climate and flood in Cambodia

BIN Chann Mony, DOM, Cambodia

15:10-15:30 TBD

Md. Shadekul ALAM, Bangladesh Meteorological Department

15:30-15:50Overview of Recent Climate over Korea

LEE, Hyun-Soo, CPD/KMA

15:50-16:10 Tea Break

Oral Presentations (16:10-17:530)

Chair: Kumi HAYASHI

Topic I: Overview of Recent Climate and Climate Change (cont.)

16:10-16:30An Analysis of the Snow Storms Affecting China in January 2008

Song YANG, NOAA's ClimatePredictionCenter

16:30-16:50Characters of Meteorological Disasters Caused by the Extreme Synoptic Process in early 2008 inChina

WANG Zunya, BCC/CMA

16:50-17:10Wind Condition Changes in Kazakhstan

Bayan SAZANOVA, Kazhydromet

17:10-17:30Climate in Bahrain

Nader Ahmed Abdulla Mahmood, CAA, Bahrain

17:30-17:50Assessment of Recent Dry Spell and Impacts of La Niña in the Philippines

Rusy G. ABASTILLAS, PAGASA-DOST

Reception by BCC (18:00-20:00)(Hubei Hotel, 36 Zhongguancun Nandajie)

April 10 (Thursday), 2008

Invited Lectures (08:30-10:30) (Conference Hall at the 1st floor of BCC)

Chair: Song Yang

08:30-09:10Improving Observational Data Towards Better Climate Monitoring,

Assessment and Prediction - A Regional Perspective

G. KRISHNAKUMAR, IMD, India

09:10-09:50Monitoring and prediction of the Asian-Australian and Indo-Pacific climate

Song YANG, NOAA's ClimatePredictionCenter

09:50-10:30The APCC prediction efforts: Operations and Research

Karumuri ASHOK, APCC, Korea

10:30-10:50Tea Break

Session 1 (cont.):Prediction on East Asian Summer Monsoon and summer climate in 2008 (Conference Hall at the 1st floor of BCC)

Oral Presentations (10:50-12:30)

Session 1 Topic II: Climate Prediction System and Modeling

Chair:Karumuri ASHOK

10:50-11:10Application of Long-term Climatic Models on the Territory of Tajikistan

Shakhlo RADZHABOVA, MFC,Tajikistan

11:10-11:30Multiyear Hindcast Simulations of Summer Monsoon over Pakistan by Using a Nested Regional Climate Model (BCC_RegCM1.0)

Sajjad SAEED, PMD

11:30-11:50Application Time-Frecuency Wavelet Analyse for the Validation and Verification the NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Model Output

Erwin Eka Syahputra MAKMUR, IMGA, Indonesia

11:50-12:10High Resolution Climate Modeling in Indonesia: Lessons Learned from Applications of Rainfall Prediction in Regency/District Scale

Fierra SETYAWAN, IMGA, Indonesia

Lunch (12:30-13:50) (CMA’s guesthouse restaurant)

Oral Presentations (13:50-18:00) (Conference Hall at the 1st floor of BCC)

Session 1 Topic III: Seasonal Climate Prediction of the summer 2008 over East Asia Area

Chair:SUN Zhaobo

13:50-14:10Seasonal Outlook of the 2008Summer

LEE, Jeong-Seog, CPD/KMA

14:10-14:30Seasonal Outlook of 2008 Summer by the METRI/KMA CPS

KANG, Hyun-Suk, METRI/KMA

14:30-14:50 JMA's Seasonal Forecast for 2008 Summer

Ryuji YAMADA, TCC/JMA, Japan

14:50-15:10Seasonal Outlook of the 2008 Summer: East Asia Monsoon and PrecipitationAnomalies in China

ZHANG Peiqun, BCC/CMA

15:10-15:30Summer Precipitation Prediction and Interdecadal Variations in East China

SUN Zhaobo, NUIST, China

15:30-15:50Prediction of the Tropical Storm Activity over the Northwest Pacific and South China Sea in 2008

JIA Xiaolong, BCC/CMA

15:50-16:00 Tea Break

Topic III (cont.): Seasonal Climate Prediction of the summer 2008 over East Asia Area

Chair:H. Joe KWON

16:00-16:20Forecast for 2008 Rainy Season

LEONG Weng Kun, MGB, Macao, China

16:20-16:40Monthly Temperature and Rainfall Forecasts for Hong Kong

LEE Sai Ming, HKO

16:40-17:00 Latest IRI Seasonal Climate Forecasts

Liqiang Sun, IRI, USA

17:00-17:20Seasonal prediction of TC activity and its validations

H. Joe KWON, Kongju National University, Korea

17:20-17:40Outlook of Summer Prediction over East Asian in 2008 by DCMPS/BCC

KE Zongjian, BCC/CMA

17:40-18:00ENSO Cycle: Recent Evolution, Current Status and Predictions

HAN Rongqin, BCC/CMA

18:00-18:20Prediction of 2008 summer climate anomalies over Asia by IAP DCP

CHEN Hong, IAP/CAS

Dinner (18:30-19:30) (CMA’s guesthouse restaurant)

April 11 (Friday), 2008

Invited Lectures (08:30-09:10) (Conference Hall at the 1st floor of BCC)

Chair: QIAN Weihong

08:30-09:10 Developments in Extended and Long-range Forecasting at theHadley Centre

Richard Graham,HadleyCenter, Met Office

Session 2: Climate Information Application(09:10-10:30)

09:10-09:30 Floods Risks Mapping Assessment in Burundi,Case Study of Burundi with ICPAC

Aaron NTIRANYIBAGIRA, NMH,Burundi

09:30-09:50Projection on the 2008 Summer Climate from the Air-Sea Coupled Relation in the Last Two Decades

QIAN Weihong, Peking University, China

09:50-10:10Climate Monitoring,Assessment And Prediction For Myanmar

Chit Kyaw,DMH, Myanmar

10:10-10:30Climate Monitoring and Long-range Forecast in Laos

Vanhdy Douangmala, DMH, Laos

10:30-10:50 Tea Break

Session 3: Discussion and Summary (10:50-12:10)

Chair:DING Yihui

A summary of predictions on Asian summer 2008 climate will be produced together by APCC,BCC/CMA, CPC/NOAA, IMD, IRI, Hadley Center/UK, JMA, KMA and other NMHSs from Asia.

Closing Ceremony (12:10-12:30)

Chair: XIAO Ziniu

12:10-12:20Speech by representative of FOCRAII participants

12:20-12:30Address by representative of CMA

Lunch (12:30-14:00)(CMA’s guesthouse restaurant)

Dinner (19:00-20:00) (CMA’s guesthouse restaurant)

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