The Seventh Joint Meeting of Seasonal Prediction on East Asian Winter Monsoon was opened on the morning of 2 November 2006. Dr. Yu Rucong, Deputy Administrator of China Meteorological Administration (CMA), Mr. Chen Zhenlin, Deputy Director-General of Department of International Cooperation, Mr. Zhu Qiwen, Deputy Director-General of Department of Forecasting Services and Disaster Mitigation, Dr. Li Weijing, Deputy Director-General of BCC, Dr. Chen Deliang, Science Director of BCC, and Prof. Ding Yihui, Academician of CAE, attended the opening ceremony. Nearly 40 officials and experts attended the meeting respectively from Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), Seoul National University (SNU), Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), Hong Kong Observatory (HKO), National Agency for Meteorology Hydrology and Environment Monitoring (NAMHEM) of Mongolia, CMA Headquarter, Beijing Climate Centre (BCC), Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS), Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (IAP/CAS), Peking University (PKU), Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology (NUIST), and Regional Climate Centers in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Lanzhou.
The Joint Meeting of Seasonal Prediction on East Asian Winter Monsoon was initiated by CMA, KMA and JMA. The first meeting was held in November 2000 in Beijing. From then on, it was held annually by KMA (in 2002, 2004 and 2005), JMA (in 2004) and CMA (2000, 2001 and 2006).
Dr. Yu Rucong, Deputy Administrator of CMA, expressed warmly welcome to the oversea and domestic guests on behalf of CMA. He briefly reviewed the cooperation on seasonal prediction on East Asian winter monsoon among China, Korea and Japan, pointed out that the operation and research on East Asian winter monsoon is not only a task of a region but also has global influences. Mr. Hong Yoon, Director-General of Climate Bureau/KMA, Mr. Shingo Yamada, Head of Tokyo Climate Center/JMA and Dr. Chen Deliang, Science Director of BCC made addresses in the opening ceremony respectively. Dr. Li Weijing presided the opening ceremony.
Totally 23 presentations will be made in the meeting on the following topics: 1) Recent Development of Climate Prediction Model; 2) Latest Outcomes from Research on the East Asian Monsoon; 3) Review on the East Asian or Global Climate Features since the Winter of 2005 and Verification of Seasonal Prediction; 4) Monitoring of Large-scale Sea-Air Feature and Outlook of ENSO Event in 2006; 5) The Prediction of Winter Monsoon in 2006, East Asian or Global Winter Climate and Typhoon Activities in Northwest Pacific and South China Sea Area.
The meeting will be closed tomorrow.
