The Joint Atmospheric Circulation Reconstructions over the Earth (ACRE) Asian workshop held in Wuhan

The Joint ACRE China, SE Asia and Japan Workshop was held at China University of Geosciences (CUG) (Wuhan) on November 4-6, 2019. Forty seven experts from countries and regions including China, Japan, the United Kingdom, Canada, Russia, the United States, Singapore, Portugal, India, Hong Kong and Macao attended the workshop. Professor Xulong Lai, Vice President of CUG (Wuhan) and Professor Teng Ma, Dean of School of Environmental Studies, attended the opening ceremony. Professor Guoyu Ren, Chief Scientist of Department of Atmospheric Sciences, CUG (Wuhan), Chief Expert of NCC, and ACRE-China coordinator, presided over the opening ceremony.

Professor Xulong Lai and Mr. Yuan Sun from the Science and Technology Department of the National Climate Center (NCC), China Meteorological Administration (CMA), delivered speeches at the opening ceremony. Dr. Rob Allan, Professor at the Hadley Center of the UK Met Office and Manager of ACRE program, introduced the progress of the ACRE program and the background of the workshop, and Professor Guoyu Ren outlined the structure and topics of the workshop.

The main objectives of ACRE are to rescue (archive, image, digitize, quality control) and analyze the early-period instrumental data, in order to support the studies of global and regional climate change and the global atmospheric reanalysis for more than 100 years. At this workshop, there were 43 oral presentations and 5 posters. The participating experts exchanged the updated progress in rescue and digitization work of the early-period meteorological observations in China, Japan and Southeast Asia, and discussed a series of issues related to the discovery, imaging, digitization and quality-controlling of the observational data. The issue on applications of early-period data and data-sharing among different research groups was also fully discussed. The experts at the workshop fully recognized and admired the new achievements of the ACRE-China and ACRE-Japan in the past year. They also emphasized the importance to cooperatively investigate into the historical major extreme climate events by applying the early-period data.

On November 6th, the delegates visited Wuhan Meteorological Bureau Meteorological Station, which has a history of more than 150 years, and inspected the facilities and instruments installed in the current observational ground of the station.

The Department of Atmospheric Sciences of CUG (Wuhan), the NCC/CMA and the Hadley Center of UK Met Office gave support to this workshop. During the workshop, teachers from School of Environmental Studies briefly introduced the discipline construction of the school, in particular Department of Atmospheric Sciences.

(Editor:Zheng Xiang)