International workshop on “Extreme weather and climate events: detection, monitoring and prediction

The extreme weather and climate event is one of the most severe natural disasters, and can affect all sectors of the economy and the environment, including human health and well-beings. There is scientific evidence that a warming climate will be accompanied by changes in the intensity, duration, frequency, and geographic extent of weather and climate extremes, and future changes in extremes associated with global warming will present additional challenges. In order to reduce the adverse impact of those extreme events, many international and domestic efforts have been taken in monitoring and forecasting such events. Moreover, all countries in the world have been making great efforts to improve their monitoring, forecasting, warning and risk management systems. However, although all countries have made great effective efforts in reducing the vulnerability to weather and climate extremes, we are still confronting with many challenges to reduce weather and climate-induced disasters. Especially for developing countries, due to the insufficient innovative research capability, and the lack of capacity to detect, monitor and predict the extreme events and to manage the risk related with extreme events, they are much more vulnerable to those extremes. In order to enhance the capacity building for developing countries to tackle with the extreme weather and climate events, the international training workshop titled: “Extreme weather and climate events: detection, monitoring, prediction and risk management for developing countries” will be organized. The international renowned scientists from both developed and developing countries will be invited to deliver lectures related with extreme events, and share their experience with the participants mostly from the developing countries, in coping with the extremes from detection, monitoring, predicting and managing the risk, and finally to foster the sustainable development in developing countries.