Kenji Nakamura
Institute for Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Sciences
Nagoya Univesity
nakamura@ihas.nagoya-u.ac.jp
The GAME international conference was held
about once in two years. This year (1999) the conference was jointly held
as: the Third International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy
and Water Cycle jointly with the Fourth Study Conference on GEWEX Asian
Monsoon Experiment. The conference was held for 16-19 June at Beijing,
China.
The fourth GAME International Science Panel
Meeting (GISP) was held from 14 to 15 June, 1999 at the Chinese Meteorological
Administration, Beijing, China (CMA), with kind supports of CMA, National
Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) and WCRP. GISP was just before
the Fourth GEWEX International Conference at the same place. Twenty three
GISP members or representatives and forty two observers/experts from 13
countries participated.
After the opening addresses from Prof. T.
Yasunari, Chairperson of GISP, Prof. Hong Yan, vice-administrator of CMA,
Mr. Sam Benedict, WCRP office, the panel started. First, current status
international activities closely related to GAME, such as GEWEX/WCRP and
GHP were presented. After those, typical observation results of each component
of GAME and related projects are introduced. Typical results include sensible
and latent heat exchange between land and atmosphere in various regions.
GAME Data Management is one of the key for
this kind of project. Mr. Takahashi, MRI showed the guideline of the data
exchange for confirmation. The importance of data availability is recognized
well in the GAME related communities, and many talks were on the schedule
of the data release. Basically, we do not have any serious problem in the
data exchange policy.
Future plan of GAME is one of the big subjects
of this GISP. Several continuation proposals, for example, extended observation
plan for HUBEX and Japan Frontier Observation System for Global Change,
were presented. Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period (CEOP) was proposed
by Prof. T. Koike and the importance of the CEOP was recognized and recommendation
was adopted.
In the wrap up session, future schedule, such as, next GISP and GAME
International Conference was proposed. The former is tentatively scheduled
in June 2000 in Tokyo before or after the Western Pacific Geophysical Union
Meeting. The latter is somewhere in 2001.