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THE SIXTH WMO INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON MONSOONS (IWM-VI)
What: More than 180 researchers and forecasters met to review and discuss recent research and forecast issues ranging from mesoscale weather to climate change in various monsoon regions of the globe.
When: 13-17 November 2017
Where: Singapore
The monsoon is probably the most important atmospheric circulation system in terms of the impact on human lives. It covers more than one-half the globe and affects three-quarters of the world’s population. The International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM) series is a part of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)’s major quadrennial symposia and workshops series under the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP). The IWM series has served scientists a unique venue in that it covers a wide range of scales, both spatial and temporal, recognizing that a monsoon system is inherently a multiscale complex and that it brings theoreticians, field observation specialists, modelers, and forecasters together to make real progress in monsoon science and forecast applications. Since the third IWM (IWM-III) in 2004, the majority of invited review papers of each workshop have gone through a peer review process and been published in the Global Monsoon System: Research and Forecast book series (Chang et al. 2005, 2011, 2017).
IWM-VI was organized by the Monsoon Panel of the WWRP Working Group on Tropical Meteorology Research, in cooperation with the Climate and Ocean: Variability, Predictability and Change (CLIVAR)/Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Monsoon Panel, the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Task Force, the Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Steering Group, the Years of the Maritime Continent (YMC) Scientific Steering Committee, Meteorological Service Singapore, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Climate Center, and the World Scientific Publishing Company. The workshop opened with a special lecture in memory of Dr. D. R. Sikka, former director of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, and closed at the completion of the WMO monsoon training workshop for national meteorological and hydrological service staff and the panel discussion of the Global Monsoons Model Intercomparison Project (GMMIP) contribution to phase six of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6). A total of 169 oral and poster papers were presented, including 38 invited reviews that will be published as the fourth volume of the book series entitled The...