2009海洋溢油监测技术与应急反应国际培训班.doc

IOC/WESTPAC Summer School on Monsoon Onset Monitoring and its Social Ecosystem Impacts (MOMSEI) Qingdao, China, 26-30 July Announcement Background: Asia Monsoon plays a significant role in the agriculture and the livelihood of people in the wider Southeast Asian Basin and its neighboring countries since it brings rainfall for the region. However, if the Asia Monsoon deviates from its normal pattern with late or early onset, it will cause floods and droughts, thus finally resulting in the disruption of agricultural operation, even displacement of inhabitants. In this sense, accurate forecasting of the timing of the onset is therefore very important. To this end, in view that the Asian Monsoon is evidently influenced by and coupled with the ocean, the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) initiated in 2009, within its South East Asian- Ocean Observing System (SEAGOOS), one pilot project entitled “Monsoon Onset Monitoring and its Social and Ecosystem Impact” (MOMSEI). The project aims to improve, from the point of view of ocean-atmosphere interaction, the understanding and forecasting of Asia monsoon and its multi-scale variability at a regional scale through developing and carrying out air-sea observations over the Andaman Sea (AS) and Bay of Bengal (BoB) and analyzing the preconditioning role of ocean in the monsoon onset since the Asian Summer Monsoon onsets firstly take place over ASBoB and its vicinity. To meet the demand of MOMSEI participating countries, particularly their young scientists for better knowledge on the role of the ocean in the monsoon system and further facilitate the implementation of MOMSEI, this Summer School is scheduled for 26-30 July 2010 in the Regional Training and Research Center on Ocean Dynamics and Climate with the generous support of the host institute -- First Institute of Oceanography, State Oceanic Administration of China. Training Contents: Selected trainees from MOMSEI participating countries will be provided w