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

[Fredolin Tangang]

Dear Ratna-san,

I just forwarded your email to colleagues within cordex sea. Hopefully some
would be interested to join. We'll be submitting some soon.

Best regards -- Fred

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Satyaban B. Ratna <satyaban at jamstec.go.jp>
wrote:

> 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 <+81%2045-778-5515>
> ******************************************
>



-- 


Fredolin Tangang, PhD

Professor,
School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences
Faculty of Science and Technology
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
(*The National University of Malaysia*)
43600 Bangi Selangor
MALAYSIA
Phn: +603-89214943 / +6019-2718986
Fax: +603-89253357

Adjunct Professor,
Ramkhamhaeng University Center of Regional Climate Change and Renewable
Energy (RU-CORE),
Ramkhamhaeng University, Bangkok, Thailand

Fellow (FASc), Academy of Sciences Malaysia
Coordinator, SEACLID/CORDEX Southeast Asia (
http://www.ukm.edu.my/seaclid-cordex/)
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