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Sessions
Last update: October 21, 2015
All sessions will be held at the Clock Tower Centennial Hall in Kyoto University Main Campus. The travel instructions are found from here. The Clock Tower Centennial Hall is marked by 3 on the Main Campus Map.
Session program with abstracts
Session 1. Modeling and analysis of climate change and monsoons
Session 2. Regional air pollution under changing climate
Session 3. Climatic role of the middle atmosphere
Plenary Session
Invited talks- Toshitaka Tsuda (Professor, Kyoto University, Japan)
- Characteristics of atmospheric gravity waves in the middle atmosphere observed with radars and GPS radio occultation - Yongyun Hu (Professor, Peking University, China)
- Anthropogenic forcings on the Hadley circulation in CMIP5 simulations - Byung-Ju Sohn (Professor, Seoul National University, Korea)
- Recent Walker circulation changes seen from satellite measurements, CMIP and AMIP simulations: The role of static stability
Session 1. Modeling and analysis of climate change and monsoons
Conveners:Masahiro Watanabe (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Tianjun Zhou (LASG/IAP, China)
Jong-Seong Kug (POSTECH, Korea)
Kazuyoshi Kikuchi (IPRC, University of Hawaii, USA)
As rising of global mean surface temperature during the past decades is attributed to human activity with higher confidence, regional aspects of the global climate change have intensively been discussed. On this regard, understanding changes and variability of the Asian monsoon, an important part of the climate system, is not only a meteorological issue but has a strong societal demand. The monsoons involve various phenomena on multiple timescales, such as extreme weather events, intraseasonal disturbances, and interannual to decadal atmosphere-ocean variability.
This session would like to call presentations that focus on the past and future of large-scale climate variability relevant to global climate change and monsoons. We welcome original researches based either on own numerical modeling works or analyses of observational data and CMIP archives, for following topics as examples:
* Asian monsoon variability
* Intraseasonal variability associated with the Asian monsoon
* Climate change attribution
* Extreme weather events
* Seamless climate predictability on timescales from sub-season to a decade
* Atmosphere-ocean interaction in the Indo-Pacific region
We look forward to having submissions especially from young scientists in the partner societies.
Invited speakers
Yimin Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Soon-Il An (Yonsei University, Korea)
Yu Kosaka (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Harry Hendon (Bureau of Meteorology, Australia)
Session 2. Regional air pollution under changing climate
Conveners:Toshihiko Takemura (Kyushu University, Japan) (toshi@riam.kyushu-u.ac.jp)
Hua Zhang (China Meteorological Administration, China) (huazhang@cma.gov.cn)
Sang-Woo Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) (sangwookim@snu.ac.kr)
Asia is the worst region of air pollution in the world. Short-lived climate pollutants (SLCPs), especially tropospheric aerosols, ozone, and their precursors, cause climate change by various and complicated mechanisms through physical and chemical processes as well as health risk. It is an urgent issue for mitigating both of climate change and air pollution that the most suitable path of reducing SLCPs based on scientific knowledge is indicated. In this session, latest researches using modeling and observational approaches on the relation between air pollution and climate change will be discussed, especially in the Asian region.
Invited speakers
Teruyuki Nakajima (EORC/JAXA, Japan)
Hong Liao (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Rokjin Park (Seoul National University, Korea)
Session 3. Climatic role of the middle atmosphere
Conveners:Yoshio Kawatani (JAMSTEC, Japan) yoskawatani@jamstec.go.jp
Masatomo Fujiwara (Hokkaido University, Japan) fuji@ees.hokudai.ac.jp
Yongyun Hu (Peking University, China) yyhu@pku.edu.cn
Wenshou Tian (Lanzhou University, China) wstian@lzu.edu.cn
Hye-Yeong Chun (Yonsei University, Korea) chunhy@yonsei.ac.kr
Seok-Woo Son (Seoul National University, Korea) seokwooson@snu.ac.kr
The middle atmosphere interacts with the troposphere and the thermosphere and plays crucial roles on climatic variability from several days to inter-decadal time scales. For the past few years, new observational instruments, new field observation campaigns, high resolution numerical models, CCM-Val and CMIP5 climate models and renewed theoretical studies have offered new insights into the middle atmosphere sciences. The middle atmosphere has been recognized to be one of the key components of the climate system, resulting in increasing numbers of CMIP models which cover the middle atmosphere and in developing global numerical prediction models including the whole middle atmosphere. The importance of the interactions between the middle atmosphere and oceans/thermosphere have also been recognized recently.
In this session, we invite papers that investigate the roles of the middle atmosphere in a changing climate as well as any topics providing new insights into the middle atmosphere sciences. We are looking forward to having a great opportunity to discuss the current status and future prospects with interdisciplinary East Asian researchers in this joint conference.
Invited speakers
Kaoru Sato (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Baekmin Kim (Korea Polar Research Institute, Korea)
Wen Chen (Chinese Acadey of Sciences, China)
Peter Haynes (University of Cambridge, UK)
Changhyun Yoo (Ewha Womans University, Korea)
Marvin Geller (Stony Brook University, USA)
Wenshou Tian (Lanzhou University, China)