Asian Monsoon Years (AMY) Open Science Conference

An Open Science Conference (OSC) of the Asian Monsoon Years 2007-2012 (AMY) will be held on 26-27 October 2013 in Zhuhai, China. The AMY-OSC will also be organized in conjunction with the WMO Fifth International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-V) (28-31 October 2013 in Macau). Sessions cosponsored by AMY have been set up in IWM-V as an extension of AMY-OSC. This arrangement provides an opportunity for AMY researchers to interact with the broader global monsoon research and operational forecast communities. The themes of the OSC will center on achievement reports of AMY projects in three major areas: (a) multi-scale interaction (from diurnal cycle to intraseasonal variations), (b) atmosphere-ocean-land interaction and interannual variation and prediction of the Asian monsoon, and (c) monsoon-aerosol interaction. The AMY-OSC will be hosted by Sun Yat-sen University and South China Sea Institute of Oceanography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.