ROAP forges close ties with APL-JAMSTEC
Participants of the visit to JAMSTEC. Professor Yamagata is seen standing fourth from the left.
The Director of ROAP recently visited the Application Laboratory (APL) of JAMSTEC, the Japan Agency of Marine Earth Science and Technology, to learn of its functions and activities. The Application Laboratory does research on ways and means of applying the results of climate change prediction, climate modeling, and atmospheric composition studies, simulation technologies, and tropical pacific ocean climate study to benefit society.The visit was made in conjunction with attendance of the the APL-SATREPS Symposium entitled Living in the Changing Planet that was held to mark the end of the collaboration between Japan and South Africa that aimed to build capacity on the prediction of climate variations and its applications in South Africa. The director of the APL that sponsored and hosted the visit is a member of the ICSU Regional Committee for Asia and the Pacific. The visit and attendance at the Symposium enabled ROAP to forge closer ties with JAMSTEC and other JAMSTEC agencies responsible for research on global environmental change, the evolution of the earth, and on biogeosciences.
