Background and Objectives

Meteorological Society of Japan (MSJ), Chinese Meteorological Society (CMS), and Korean Meteorological Society (KMS) have agreed to strengthen the mutual cooperation and friendship in the field of Atmospheric Science on the basis of equal benefits, organize regional activities in the field of meteorology, and widely inform the activities of the meteorological societies of Japan, China, and Korea to the world community. Based on this agreement, three international conferences have been held in the past:

1. First China-Korea-Japan Joint Conference on Meteorology, 13-14 May 2005, Tokyo, Japan
2. Second Korea-Japan-China Joint Conference on Meteorology, 11-13 October 2006, KINTEX, Goyang, Korea
3. Third China-Korea-Japan Joint Conference on Meteorology, 13-16 November 2007, Beijing, China

After the consultation on the successful cooperation, the three parties have reached an agreement to continue the second round of the joint conferences once in every two years.

Postponement due to the novel influenza

Since this spring, the novel influenza A(H1N1) (swine flu) has been propagating widely across the world, and spreading quickly within Japan since 16 May 2009. Meteorological Society of Japan has prepared the emergence of the possible risk of the flu during the J-C-K Joint Conference, and watched carefully for the situation. In order to secure the health of the participants, we have discussed with the Chinese Meteorological Society and Korean Meteorological Society, and agreed that it is difficult to hold the conference as we initially planned, and we decided to postpone the Japan-China-Korea Joint conference with a great regret.

The new dates of the Joint Conference are now set in 8 - 10 November 2009.

If you have already registered in advance prior to the initial dates of the symposium in May, your registration will be automatically applied for the new dates on 8-10 November 2009. If you cannot attend the conference in November and would like to cancel the registration, we will refund your fees so please send an E-mail to LOC secretariat as soon as possible. We accept the refund of the fees due to the postponement until 31 July (24 JST).

We also welcome new registration and submissions of papers. If you have already submitted your abstract, it will automatically appear in the abstract collection. However, in order to confirm your participation, we would like to ask you to submit your (revised) abstract again. The deadline of the registration and abstract submission is 31 July 2009 (24 JST). To submit your abstract, please use the on-line abstract submission page.

The J-C-K Joint Conference on Meteorology is organized by the Meteorological Societies of the three countries based on friendship and mutual understanding. We encourage you to participate in the Fourth Japan-China-Korea Joint Conference on Meteorology.

We encourage you to participate in the Fourth Japan-China-Korea Joint Conference on Meteorology.