Sponsored by China Meteorological Administration (CMA) and co-sponsored by the State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the SysTem program of Analysis, Research and Training on global changes (START), the 3rd International Seminar on Climate System and Climate Change (ISCS) was held successfully at CMA during July 17-28, 2006.
Four famous international experts were invited to be lecturers at the 3rd ISCS. They were Dr. Susan Solomon, Co-Chair of IPCC WGI, USA; Dr. Dominique Raynaud, Director of National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), France; Dr. Mohan Munasinghe, Vice President of IPCC and Chair of Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Sri Lanka and Dr. Filippo Giorgi, Vice Chair of IPCC WGI and the head of the Physics of Weather and Climate Section of International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy. The topics of ISCS were the climate effects of the atmospheric chemistry and aerosol, the role of cryosphere in climate system and climate change, climate change and sustainable development, and regional climate modeling. More than 220 participants from 62 professional institutes and universities attended this year’s seminar.
Academician Qin Dahe, Administrator of CMA and President of ISCS, made an address at the opening ceremony. He indicated that the global climate change and its impact is a hot spot concerned by all people around the globe and the physical processes and feedback mechanism contributing to climate change are numerous and very complicated. In order to better understand the changes in climate system, it is necessary to study on interactions among various components of earth’s climate system, improve observations and analyses of the processes and mechanisms in the climate system, and develop climate system models. Dr. Qin pointed out that, after many years’ efforts, the Chinese scientists gained more knowledge of climate system and climate change. However, we still need to advance our research ability on different aspects of the spheres of the climate system. We lack of powerful science and technology supporting to improve the climate prediction and projection. All the above require us to learn the latest research results all over the world and strengthen international exchange and cooperation.
The ISCS 2006 was divided into four sections, including 18 lectures by invited professors, 14 teaching assistant classes in Chinese, 5 section discussions, 10 training classes on RegCM application. Furthermore, study tours were arranged to visit the Opening Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Huafeng Group of Meteorological Audio and Video Information, as well as Beijing Climate Centre at CMA.
The 3rd ISCS was of a great success. From the lectures and seminars the participants have got better insight into the international frontier and hot issues of climate and climate change. They were able to better understand the lectures by means of the teaching assistance and group discussions. The training of regional climate model helped them to master the structure, function and application of regional climate models in climate research. The general evaluation of this year’s ISCS showed 90% of the participants felt that the seminar was successfully held.
The Excellent Participant Prize was firstly set up this year. 16 participants were issued the certificate due to their good presence in discussion and research. Additionally, for the first time the stream media courseware of 3rd ISCS was available online at the Beijing Climate Centre website.
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