East Asia And Western Pacific Meteorology And Climate

This collection of selected papers on East Asian and Western Pacific meteorology and climate covers remote sensing, atmospheric physics and chemistry, and the impact of aircraft emissions on atmospheric composition, as well as traditional topics like typhoons, rainstorms, monsoons and climate. The first conference in this series took place in Hong Kong in July 1989. It was run with the innovative bilingual approach, which allowed both Chinese- and English-speaking scientists from various regions of East Asia and across the Pacific to come together, and share and discuss their research. It also proved to be an invaluable networking opportunity leading to a rapid growth of interaction and co-operation among a diverse group of scientists. The Fourth Conference is a testimony to the coming of age of this series of conferences, marking the tenth anniversary of an endeavour that had a modest beginning. This book should be of interest to graduate students, academics and researchers in meteorology/climatology, as well as East Asian weather-forecasting services.