| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Predictability of High-Impact Weather in the Asian Pacific Region |
| Main Convener | Prof. Chun-Chieh Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Dong-Kyou Lee (Seoul National University, Korea, South) Dr. Tetsuo Nakazawa (JMA/MRI, Japan) Dr. Dave Parsons (National Center for Atmospheric Research, United States) |
| Session Description | Major international field campaigns have been designed to improve the predictability of the high-impact weather in the Asian Pacific region under the coordination of THORPEX-PARC (T-PARC). In particular, TH08, KEOP, driftsondes, TCS08, and DOTSTAR will be jointly conducted under T-PARC in the summer of 2008. This is an unprecedented opportunity to collect critical new data to improve our understanding and predictability of the life cycles of the tropical cyclones and other high-impact weather. With the challenging scientific and forecasting issues raised, the attention and efforts put into the above problems from the scientists and government agencies in the Asian Pacific region keep on increasing. In the proposed session, we intend to provide a forum to discuss various subjects related to the predictability of high-impact weather in the Asian Pacific region. Special foci of this session are: a) advances in the dynamics of tropical cyclones; b) physical processes involved in the initial development, movement, structure and intensity change, and rainfall of tropical cyclones; c) the air-sea interaction related to tropical cyclones; d) special observations (e.g., satellite, radar, and aircraft surveillance) for the high-impact weather; e) new findings in modeling and data assimilation of the high-impact weather; e) improvements in prediction of the high-impact weather. We expect to have 20 to 40 presentations in this 1-2-day session in AOGS. |