International Conference on Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones and Climate Change

The Conference will bring together leading experts, from both research and operational meteorological environments. The event aims to be a first step towards an ongoing international focus on the potential impacts of climate change on the Indian Ocean, and its proceedings will be published as a WMO technical document. Members of the World Weather Research Programme Expert Team will present papers on various aspects of climate change impacts on tropical cyclones.

• The broad thematic areas of the conference are:
• Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting and warning Systems;
• Progress on tropical Cyclogenesis;
• Climate Change and Tropical Cyclone Activity;
• Assessment of Risk and Vulnerability from tropical Cyclones, including construction, archival and retrieval of best-track and historic data sets;
• Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reduction;
• Recent high impact tropical cyclone events in the Indian Ocean: Nargis, SIDR, Gonu and other events.

For details visit http://web.squ.edu.om/tropicalcyclones/Registration.htm