[RegCNET] Invitation for abstracts submission to session AS31 in AOGS2017

[Satyaban B. Ratna]

Dear Colleague,

We are convening the following session (AS31) in the upcoming AOGS
Conference to be held during 6 - 11 August, 2017 in Singapore. Considering
your expertise in the topic we invite you to submit your abstracts to this
session. We will also appreciate if you could kindly circulate this
information among your colleagues interested in this session.

*AS 31: Regional Climate Downscaling and CORDEX: Challenges and Prospects*

There have been significant efforts for a few decades on regional
downscaling to aim for producing regional and/or local climate projection
as well as expanding scientific understanding on climate processes. In this
context, a recent WCRP major project, Coordinated Regional Downscaling
Experiment (CORDEX) provides a common framework that consists of 14
continental-scale domains, in which four initiatives belongs to
Australasia: CORDEX-South Asia, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia.
This region needs to be considered with caution and in- depth, both in
geographical and climatological perspectives, because it covers very unique
and complex climatological phenomena. These include: the most complex
orography with the highest plateau in the world; the strongest monsoon
areas including Indian, East Asian, Northwest Pacific, and Australian
monsoons; the strongest convection in the tropical maritime continents; the
strongest tropical cyclones activities; and even both the northern and
southern Hemisphere. Despite of the successful achievements made by
CORDEX-Asia communities, we still need many issues to be addressed such as
coupling ocean-atmosphere, climate-vegetation, climate-aerosols, and other
climate processes. In addition, statistical/empirical regional climate
downscaling approaches have received increasing attention by stakeholders
in the regions. Hence, this session invites scientists within and outside
the CORDEX initiatives to share their scientific findings on various issues
related to dynamical and statistical/empirical regional climate downscaling
methods. This session covers following themes: 1) Evaluation of regional
downscaling techniques (dynamical and statistical methods), 2) Development
of coupled regional climate model, 3) Added-values in regional climate
downscaling by comparison with high-quality observation datasets, 4)
Process-based studies on sensitivity to the large-scale forcing, regional
forcing, domain size, resolution, physics, and etc., 5) Regional climate
projection and understanding on climate sensitivity, and finally 6) Other
issues relevant to regional climate downscaling including application to
application sectors.

*The abstract submission extended deadline: 15 February 2017*

http://www.asiaoceania.org/aogs2017/public.asp?page=abstract.htm

Conveners: Hyun-Suk Kang (Korea Meteorological Administration), Satyaban B.
Ratna (JAMSTEC, Japan), Fredolin T. Tangang (National University of
Malaysia), Xianxiang Li (SMART, Singapore), Jason Evans (University of New
South Wales, Australia)

Thanks.
Best regards
Satyaban B. Ratna

-- 
******************************************
Dr. Satyaban Bishoyi Ratna
CVPARG/Application Laboratory/JAMSTEC
3173-25 Showa-machi, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama
Kanagawa, 236-0001, Japan
Email: satyaban at jamstec.go.jp
Tel: +81-45-778-5515
******************************************
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ictp.it/pipermail/regcnet/attachments/20170130/75d02ccd/attachment.html>