PROMISE coordination

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PROMISE coordination
Julia Slingo, Emily Black, Franco Molteni
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Activities over the past year

• Brochure 8 page brochure shortly to be
  distributed widely within the user and scientific
  community and used to promote the forthcoming
  conference
• Web site revised and updated and also pushed up
  the search engines (now receives over 200 unique
  hits a month)
• Preparations for the international conference
  finalised plans to have the meeting at ICTP,
  applied widely for sponsorship

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Web site

• Development over the next year
• Update the detailed sections about the PROMISE
  partners, publications and research highlights
  based on the second annual report, add powerpoint
  presentations and abstracts from this meeting
• Use the web site as the main tool for promoting
  the international conference (section already
  there)
• Create a section for statistical software tools
  already got the CNRM package. Others will be
  added as they become available

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International PROMISE conference
24th 28th March 2003 ICTP in Trieste currently
sponsored by EU PROMISE, ICTP, WCRP, START/CLIMAG
Monsoon environments Agricultural and
hydrological impacts of seasonal variability and
climate change
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Monsoon environments Agricultural and
hydrological impacts of seasonal variability and
climate change Conference topics

• The impacts of anthropogenic climate change on
  hydrology, agriculture and natural vegetation in
  monsoon-affected countries
• Seasonal predictability of monsoon climates and
  the management of water resources and agriculture
• Data provision for scientists from
  monsoon-affected countries using the PROMISE data
  archive as an example.
• Use of seasonal forecasts as an operational tool
• Applications of crop and hydrological model
  output to decision-making processes in developing
  countries
• Future of integrated climate/impacts modelling

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Monsoon environments Agricultural and
hydrological impacts of seasonal variability and
climate changePlanned sessions

• Seasonal predictability and natural variability
  of monsoon climates
• Assessment of future monsoon climates in response
  to anthropogenic climate change
• Sensitivity of monsoon variability to
  land-surface processes
• Agricultural impacts of climate change
• Hydrological impacts of climate change
• Bringing together scientists and end users

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Monsoon environments Agricultural and
hydrological impacts of seasonal variability and
climate changeParticipants

• PROMISE partners
• Representatives from aid agencies
• Climate scientists from developing countries
• Policy makers / people involved with long term
  planning
• European and American scientists working on
  PROMISE-related topics

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Monsoon environments Agricultural and
hydrological impacts of seasonal variability and
climate changeSponsorship
We aim to provide at least 40 scholarships for
people who could not otherwise attend the
meeting. Progress so far with raising
sponsorship Definitely ICTP, PROMISE,
WCRP Possibly FAO, START/CLIMAG
Also LEAD and several CGIAR centres have
expressed interest in the meeting although they
will not be able to provide sponsorship