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The Fifth International Study Conference on GEWEX in Asia and GAME
Kenji Nakamura
Hydrospheric Atmospheric Research Center,
Nagoya University, Japan
The Sixth GAME International Science Panel meeting (GISP) was held at
the Aichi Trade Center, Nagoya, Japan for 1 and 2 October, 2001 under
the auspices of Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and
Technology (MEXT), World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), National
Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA), Center for Climate System
Research (CCSR) in the university of Tokyo, and Hydrospheric
Atmospheric Research Center (HyARC) in Nagoya University. Total 59
participants including observers/experts from 13 countries joined.
The main subject of this GISP was the future plan for the GAME. According to the last (the fifth) GISP agreement that the GAME should continue for a few more years to accomplish the GAME objectives after reviews of the current GAME results, Dr. R. Lawford and Prof. T.-C. Chen presented their reviews. Generally speaking their reviews are very positive. They, however, pointed out that we need more efforts on cross cutting issues and synthesis of data towards the monsoon system understanding. According to the reviews, the GAME Phase-II was approved. (The current result reports appear in the GAME Letters in No. 3 and this one)
To deal with the issues pointed out in the reviews, considering that (1) objective of GISP changes from coordination, implementation and data distribution policy, to synthesis and analysis of data, data distribution, model study for the original GAME objectives, and (2) some regional study groups have already accomplished the observations, re-organization of GISP was proposed. The re-organization includes establishment of advisory board and new working groups. The new working groups will discuss Water and Energy Balance Study(WEBS; under GHP), land surface processes/ABL/AAN, precipitation processes, monsoon system study (analysis /diagnostic study), monsoon system modeling, re-analysis, satellite utilization, GAIN, GAME-Siberia, and Water Resources Application Project(WRAP; under GHP). The new memberships include chairpersons of working groups and reduced number of country representatives with liaisons to WCRP and CEOP. The proposal was adopted though details such as the number of membership were remained to be determined.
The follow on of GAME was another issue. Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) was the focus of the discussion. Considering that CEOP is a big new project, GISP agreed that CEOP or CEOP/CAMP international science panel should be separated from GISP.
Following the GISP meeting, the Fifth International Study Conference on GEWEX in Asia and GAME was held at the same location for 3-5 October, 2001. About 190 participants from 15 countries joined this conference. The presentations were oral and posters and three volume proceedings were delivered at the conference.
The main subject of this GISP was the future plan for the GAME. According to the last (the fifth) GISP agreement that the GAME should continue for a few more years to accomplish the GAME objectives after reviews of the current GAME results, Dr. R. Lawford and Prof. T.-C. Chen presented their reviews. Generally speaking their reviews are very positive. They, however, pointed out that we need more efforts on cross cutting issues and synthesis of data towards the monsoon system understanding. According to the reviews, the GAME Phase-II was approved. (The current result reports appear in the GAME Letters in No. 3 and this one)
To deal with the issues pointed out in the reviews, considering that (1) objective of GISP changes from coordination, implementation and data distribution policy, to synthesis and analysis of data, data distribution, model study for the original GAME objectives, and (2) some regional study groups have already accomplished the observations, re-organization of GISP was proposed. The re-organization includes establishment of advisory board and new working groups. The new working groups will discuss Water and Energy Balance Study(WEBS; under GHP), land surface processes/ABL/AAN, precipitation processes, monsoon system study (analysis /diagnostic study), monsoon system modeling, re-analysis, satellite utilization, GAIN, GAME-Siberia, and Water Resources Application Project(WRAP; under GHP). The new memberships include chairpersons of working groups and reduced number of country representatives with liaisons to WCRP and CEOP. The proposal was adopted though details such as the number of membership were remained to be determined.
The follow on of GAME was another issue. Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) was the focus of the discussion. Considering that CEOP is a big new project, GISP agreed that CEOP or CEOP/CAMP international science panel should be separated from GISP.
Following the GISP meeting, the Fifth International Study Conference on GEWEX in Asia and GAME was held at the same location for 3-5 October, 2001. About 190 participants from 15 countries joined this conference. The presentations were oral and posters and three volume proceedings were delivered at the conference.