| Session Details | |
| Section | AS - Atmospheric Sciences |
| Session Title | Monsoon Variability And Predictability And Its Role In Global Change |
| Main Convener | Prof. Jianping Li (Beijing Normal University, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Prof. Andrew Turner (University of Reading, United Kingdom) Prof. Kyung-Ja Ha (Pusan National University, Korea, South) Dr. Krishnan Raghavan (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, India) Prof. Zhiwei Wu (Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology, China) |
| Session Description | The monsoons are a central component of the climate system, and can have significant impacts not only on global and regional climate variations, but also on water supplies, food security and national economies. Monsoon studies are a key research foci of the CLIVAR (Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change) and the GEWEX (Global Water and Energy Exchanges) projects of the World Climate Research Programme. In this session, research papers are solicited on all aspects of monsoons. Specific topics include fundamental physical processes related to monsoon formation, structure and variability from the paleomonsoon to the present day; scale interactions among different spatial-temporal scales; interactions between climate mean state and different modes of monsoon variability; impacts of monsoons on extreme events; linkages between monsoons and the principal modes of climate variability; impacts of human activities (aerosols, land use change, greenhouse gas emissions etc.) on monsoons; predictive skill of the coupled atmosphere-ocean-land system in the monsoon regions; model intercomparisons on monsoon simulation and prediction; future projection of the monsoons under global warming; and the role of monsoons in global change. |