Date 17(Mon.) - 19 (Wed.) March 2008 Venue Climate Change Research Hall, National Institute for Environmental Studies (NIES), Tsukuba, Ibaraki, JAPAN 　Climate condition in March of normal year: 6.5 deg. C 　(Max: 12.4deg. C, Min. 0.6 deg. C) You can check the latest one-week weather forecast for Tsukuba (South (Nambu) Ibaraki) by JMA Organizer Office for Coordination of Climate Change Observation, Japan1 (Ministry of the Environment and Japan Meteorological Agency)                                         And Center for Global Environmental Research (CGER), NIES Objective

The aim of this workshop is to discuss how to develop a comprehensive and integrated climate change observation system in the Asia-Pacific region that takes user needs into consideration. In particular, we will focus on atmospheric, oceanic and terrestrial carbon cycle observation.

2008-4-24    We opened the presentation material for plenary session. 2008-3-14    We put "final version of agenda" for all sessions today!

Overview of Schedule

17 March (Mon.)

Time Venue Name of Session 10:00-18:00 Conference Room, 1F Parallel session for Atmospheric Observations by WMO/GAW Activities and Research Projects Meeting room-1, 1F Parallel session for Oceanic CO2 Observations in the Indian-Southern Ocean Seminar room, 2F Group Meeting for volunteer observation ship (VOS) data analysis 　[concerned parties only] 18:00-20:00 Tsukuba Sansui-Tei 　Air-Sea interaction party

18 March (Tue.)

Time Venue Name of Session 9:00-12:00 Conference Room, 1F Parallel session for Atmospheric Observations by WMO/GAW Activities and Research Projects Meeting room-1, 1F Parallel session for Oceanic CO2 Observations in the Indian-Southern Ocean 13:00-18:10 Conference Room, 1F Plenary session for Asia-Pacific Workshop on Carbon Cycle Observations 18:30-20:30 Cafeteria of NIES 　Banquet

19 March (Wed.)

Time Venue Name of Session 9:00-12:00 Conference Room, 1F Parallel session for Terrestrial Carbon Cycle Observation Seminar room, 2F Group Meeting for VOS data analysis    　[concerned parties only]

1 Contact: E-mail:occco(please add "@nies.go.jp" when sending e-mail), Tel:+81-29-850-2980, Fax:+81-29-858-2645