Dear AMON readers: The new issue of AMON (Vol. 1, No. 5) is now released to the public on the Web. Please check the homepage of AMON at: http://rossby.metr.ou.edu/~spark/AMON/ or go directly to the current issue at: http://rossby.metr.ou.edu/~spark/AMON/v1_n5/. The contents of this issue is summarized below. Also please note that AMON has opened a new page called "New Asian Ph.D's in Atmospheric Sciences" (http://rossby.metr.ou.edu/~spark/PhD/New_PhD.html). It is aimed at introducing brand-new Ph.D's from Asian institutes or the Asian scientists who recently got their Ph.D's from any institutes around the world. If any of you wants to introduce new Ph.D's around you to AMON please send appropriate information to "spark@rossby.metr.ou.edu". Thank you and I hope you enjoy our new issue. Seon Ki Park Editor, Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter (AMON) http://rossby.metr.ou.edu/~spark/AMON/ spark@rossby.metr.ou.edu, skpark@bluesky.ecas.ou.edu ============================= CONTENTS ==================================== Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter VOL. 1, NO. 5 (December 1997) 1. 20% of Korea's Air Pollutants Blown From China 2. Asian Monsoon and Its Prediction - A New Web Site 3. Global Climate Change Talks - Opinion 4. Kyoto Meeting on Global Warming 5. Typhoon Linda Lashes Southeastern Asia 6. Polluted Oceans are Becoming a Soup of Chemicals - India 7. Fires and Smoke in Southeast Asia o Concern Over Smoke Spreads Across S-E Asia o Forest Fires Reach Doorstep of Tropical Paradise Bali o Rain Washes away Smog, but Causes Floods 8. El Nino ..... o El Nino Shows Pacific Warm Water Mass One and Half Times Size of US o El Nino is Blamed for Fires in S-E Asia o The wrath of El Nino o Record Drought in Indonesia 1. Summary of the 2nd Joint US-Korea Workshop on Storm- and Mesoscale Weather Analysis and Prediction: 6-10 October 1997, Seoul, Korea, by David Jahn "Numerical Weather Prediction in Asia (I)" 1. Outline of the Operational Numerical Weather Prediction at the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) by Masaomi Nakamura 2. Numerical Weather Prediction Activities at Republic of Korea - Operational Viewpoint by Woo-Jin Lee 3. The Performances and Improvements of Taiwan Central Weather Bureau Limited Area Model by Tzay-Ming Leou 4. Numerical Weather Prediction in Thailand by Dusadee Sukawat 5. A Short Note on the Future of NWP in Asia by Ken-ichi Kuma 1. Interannual Variations of the Blocking Highs over the Northeastern Asia in Summer and Their Causes by Riyu Lu and Ronghui Huang 2. Some Results on the Monsoon Studies by Chongyin Li 3. Daily Quantification of Drought Severity and Duration by Hi-Ryong Byun 1. European Geophysical Society XXIII General Assembly, April 20 - 24, 1998, Nice, France 2. 1998 Johns Hopkins Conference in Environmental Fluid Mechanics, April 2-4, 1998, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA 3. 7th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, May 25-29, 1998, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada 4. 3rd International Conference on Multiphase Flow, June 8-12, 1998, Lyon, France 5. 6th International Conference on Precipitation: Predictability of Rainfall at All Scales, June 29 - July 1, 1998, Mauna Lani Bay, Hawaii, USA 6. 1st International Conference on Fog and Fog Collection, July 19-24, 1998, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 7. 1998 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting July 21-24, 1998, Taipei, Taiwan 8. 9th Symposium of the IAMAS Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry & Global Pollution and 5th Scientific Conference on the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project, August 19-25, 1998, Seattle, Washington 9. AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, August 17-21, 1998, Everett, Washington 10. 4th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and Technologies, September 20-25, 1998, Snowmass, Colorado =============================================================================== All AMON Editors send you the following message: ##### ## # ######## ### # ## ######## #### ## ### #### #### ### ##### #### ### ### ######## ######## ## ### ###### ### #### # #### ## #### ### ## ##### ### #### ##### ### # ##### ##### ## ## # #### #### ## # # ## ## ## # ############# ## ### ####### #### ## ##### # ##### #### ## #### # ## # #### ###### # # # ## ##### ### ## # # #### ##### ## ### ############ ##### ### ## ############ ##### ### ## ### ##### ## ## ## ###### # ## # ######### WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!