| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | AMY – a coordinated Asian Monsoon Experiment |
| Main Convener | Prof. Jun Matsumoto (Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Jianping Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Prof. Tieh-Yong Koh (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) |
| Session Description | In March 2007, the international program of Asian Monsoon Years (AMY 2007-2012) was endorsed by the WCRP-JSC as a new cross-cutting initiative between GEWEX and CLIVAR as a part of the International Monsoon Study (IMS) under WCRP. Since then, several workshops have been organized (so far 5 AMY International Workshops) and the AMY session was successfully held in the AOGS2008 at Busan. The goal of AMY is to integrate the ongoing and planned national projects in Asian countries and other international research programs and activities so as to improve understanding of the Asian monsoon system and prediction capacity for societal benefits as well as for additional benefit of each participating project. The activity will focus on a number of scientific objectives which include: ocean-atmosphere interaction, land-atmosphere interaction, diurnal and intra-seasonal to interannual variabilities of the Asian monsoon and human interactions with the monsoon. In the years 2008-2009, a number of field observational campaigns are conducting under AMY. In this session, we will mainly focus on the early achievements of AMY, in conjunction with other related projects on the Asian monsoon. |