Global Challenges
in Agricultural Meteorology
under Climate Change & Variability
International Conference on
Global AgroMeteorological Outlook Service Alliance
for Better Climate Services to Agriculture and Food Security
BACKGROUND
The most impending issue under climate changes and variability is the shortage of
human resources with host of experience and expertise which are essential to
overcome confronting challenges in agricultural meteorology for food/water
securities and sustainable rural developments.
The Global Framework on Climate Services (GFCS) will guide the development of
climate services that link science-based climate information and predictions with
climate-risk management and adaptation to climate change. GFCS structure is made
up of 5 pillars; Observations/Monitoring (OBS), Research/Modeling/Prediction (RES),
Climate Services Information System (CSIS) and User Interface Platform (UIP) which are
all supplemented with Capacity Development (CD). Corresponding to each GFCS
pillar.
Global Initiatives in AgroMeteorology (GIAM) has been under implementation by the
Commission for Agricultural Meteorology of World Meteorological Organization since
CAgM XV Session in 2010, recognizing the need for an integrated approach to climate
services, especially under GFCS umbrella, primarily being based on existing/legacy
service frameworks of CAgM. The objectives of GIAM is to meet impending WMO
requirements including strategic plans and implementations on GFCS, WIS, WIGOS,
DRR etc. through resource mobilization and allocations available for human, financial,
infrastructure & governance to build up synergies in a holistic fashion.
Implementation mechanism for GIAM initiatives which include GAMOS, GCREAM,
GFAMS, GAMPP and WAMIS II needs to be aligned with activities of Regional
Associations as well as GFCS, FAO, UNFCC and other international bodies for the
sector of Agriculture and Food Security. In order to facilitate cross-cutting coordination
among different initiatives, it is needed to establish a coordination mechanism to
institutionalize linkages, which can provide supports to GIAM including human and
financial resources for successful implementation by 2017. It underlines the necessity of
setting up of Joint Project Office dedicated to develop bridge for better synergy
between these Sectors.
GIAM consists of five initiatives : Global AgroMeteorological Outlook System (GAMOS)
for OBS, Global AgroMeteorological Pilot Projects (GAMPP) for RES, Global Federation
of AgroMeteorological Society (GFAMS) for UIP/RES, WAMIS next phase for CSIS/UIP,
and Global Centers of Research and Excellence in AgroMeteorology (GCREAM) for
CD, through which next generation experts will be brought up as human resource
procurements in the disciplines of AgroMeteorology.
GOALS
The mission of GAMOS is to facilitate or establish an operational AgroMeteorological
Outlook Service at global scale with coordination mechanism among existing legacy
systems that are relevant to the realm of AgroMeteorology, from in-situ monitoring to
climate services”.
GAMOS shall be an AgroMeteorological Forecast System on crop productivity and
stability being based on multi-disciplinary approaches from classical /empirical
/stochastic climate analysis to dynamic NWP model outputs including Long-range
forecasts, while being supplemented by several key components of GAMOS such as
GDEWS (Global Drought Early Warning System), GLUMS (Global Land Use Monitoring
System), GWHAS (Global Weather Hazard Assessment System), GPPON (Global Plant
Phenology Observation Network), even incorporating state-of-art technologies such
as S2S, GIS-online, cloud computing in the future,
This international conference is therefore devoted to identifying/reviewing existing
activities and establishing global coordination mechanism among entities concerned
for AgroMeteorological Outlook Service Framework, as well as considering the
relevant joint regional/global research projects and operational aspects to provide
guidance for future GAMOS activities, then ultimately their joint contributions to GFCS
implementation for the sector of Agriculture and Food Security.
THEME
Under the banner GAMOS – Global Challenges in AgroMeteorological Outlook for
better Climate Service as a Coordinated Global Crop Productivity Projection System
among existing natural hazard monitoring, early warning, crop status monitoring
systems and S2S predictions, the conference will address the following thematic
threads:

Evolution of Monitoring on Climate System in AgroMeteorology

Prospect of Climate Prediction and Crop Simulation Models

Promising Predictions and Forecasts for Agricultural Meteorology

Feasible Products deliverable tor Agricultural Meteorology community

Improvement of Communication Interfaces between provider and user

Integration of legacy systems through coordination

Implementation of Operational Outlook Services at global scale

Identification of Research challenges at regional/global scale
SESSIONS
The conference sessions will be spread over the four days, concluding with the
wrap-up session to draw up recommendations for future implementation including the
establishment of Committees to facilitate future coordination among entities
concerned. The tentative outline of the sessions is as follows:
DAY 1: 25 NOVEMBER 2014
Keynote Speeches
World Agricultural Outlook Service
Global Framework for Climate Service
Scientific Lectures on Climate Services for AgroMeteorology
Carbon footprint – GHG flux measurements, carbon tracking/inventory
Plant phenology - Climate change detection/assessment
Water footprint – global water cycles, water resource management
Drought Monitoring – Desertification, Heatwave
AgroEcosystem Services – Resilience to CC
Promising Tools for AgroMeteorological Outlook Service
Models : Crop models, NWP models
AGMIP, DSSAT, AMBER/WOFOST
S2S (MME), Climate change projection
Technology
RS technology, GIS OnLine
ICT resources, BigData, Cloud Computing
DAY 2: 26 NOVEMBER 2014
Operational Products tor Agricultural Meteorology community
Early warning systems – Drought, Flood, Frost
Agricultural monitoring system – Crop status, Land use,
AgMet forecasting system - IPM, Yield,
Decision making support system – Irrigation, Harvesting
Risk management system – Heat wave, Tornado, Typhoon,
Evolution of International Activities associated with CAgM
GTOS/FAO, GEO-GLAM/GEOSS, GHG/FLUXNET,
Water/CEOP, BioDiv./CBD, Desertification/UNCCD, IDMP/GWP
GIEWS/FAO, MARS/EU, JAWF/USA,
AgFS/GFCS, GIAM/CAgM (GAPON, WAMIS II)
DAY 3: 27 NOVEMBER 2014
Open Discussion on Global AgMet Outlook Service Alliance
GIAM/CAgM (GAPON, WAMIS II)
User Interface platform : User engagement mechanism,
Supporting Infrastructure resource : ICT sharing system, Service operation
Integration of legacy systems : Coordination, Partnership, Ownership
Governance mechanism: Administrations, Institutionalization, Legal statute
Capacity developments : Human/Infrastructural/Procedural/Institutional
Conference Wrap-up
Establishment of GAMOS Alliances with Committees
Identification of research candidates
Recommendations for implementations : timeframe by 2017 & 2021
Vote of Thanks
DAY 4: 27 NOVEMBER 2014
The 1st Steering Committee meeting of GAMOS Alliance
EXPECTED OUTCOMES

Improved cross-cutting linkages among global entities for better climate
service to NMHSs for the sector of Agriculture and Food Security through
coordinated mechanism

Establishment of Steering Committee for future implementation of GAMOS

Identification of potential overarching research agenda to tackle pending
issues in each theme

Strategy development to employ promising state-of-art technologies and
ICT infrastructures for operational AgroMeteorological outlook services
PARTICIPATION
The international conference will consist of oral presentations on key topics by invited
Representatives primarily from international entities/programs concerned and by
CAgM experts involved in GIAM implementations through WAMIS second phase and
GAMPP. Poster presentations shall be arranged for papers selected from among the
submitted abstracts by participants. Poster presenters shall also have an opportunity
to make short oral (five-minute, quick-fire) presentations. International entities will have
the priority for poster and short oral presentations if requested. Invitees may also
obtain travel support if necessary (subject to availability of funds).
CALL FOR REGISTRATION AND ABSTRACTS
Participants will be able to register and submit their abstract on the conference
st
webpage gamos2014.eventdove.com. Deadline for abstract submission is 31
October 2014. Both invited speakers and poster contributors will need to submit
abstracts of their proposed presentations together with presentation file in PPT or PDF.
No registration fee is required. Full papers based on both oral and poster presentations
will be considered for publication, through a peer review process, in a suitable
international scientific journal.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Local Organizing Committee
Co-Chairs
:
Coordinator :
Members
Zhiqiu GAO / Shuanghe SHEN,
Caifang WANG
: Yuanshu JING, Vice Deans
Professors from other Colleges (Atmospheric Sciences) from NUIST
Experts from University / CMA / CAS / CAMS
Representative of Jiangsu Province
International Organizing Committee
Co-Chairs
:
Prof. Rene GOMMES / Dr. Byong LEE
(BU, China)
Co-Coordinator :
Members
/ Prof. Ray MOTHA
(NCAM, Korea)
(GMU, USA)
Caifang WANG (NUIST, China)/ Antonio MAESTRE (AEMET, Spain)
:
Mr. Robert STEFANSKI (WMO, Switzerland) – AGMP, Chief
Prof. Zhiqiu GAO (NUIST, China) - local host, Dean
Dr. Selvarazu RAMASAMY (FAO, Italy) - GFCS coordinator to WMO
Prof. Gerrit HOOGENBUM (WSU, USA) – DSSAT & Crop Models
Dr. Antonio D. Maura (INMET, Brazil) – RAIII / WMO Vice-President
Dr. Laxman RATHORE (IMD, India) – GFCS Representative, PR
CAAS – Chinese Agriculture outlook
Dr. Mannava SIVAKUMAR (Consultant, Switzerland) – AGMIP, Chair
Dr. Barbara RYAN (GEO, Switzerland) – GEO-GLAM, Exec. Secretary
Dr. Ray DESJARDINTS (AAF, Canada) – GHG footprint
Dr. Neil HUBBARD (JRC, EU) – MARS, Unit Head
Mr. Filipe LUCIO (GFCS, Switzerland) - GFCS Secretary, Chief
Dr. Richard CHOULATON (WFP, Italy) – GFCS coordinator to WMO
Dr. Ania GROBICKI (GWP, Sweden) – NDMP, Executive Secretary
Dr. Harlan SHANNON (WAOB, USA) - JAWF, RAIV
Prof. Jaiho OH (PKNU, Korea) - ICT Infrastructure, NWPs
Prof. John Qu (GMU, USA) - WAMIS second phase, soil moisture with RS
ORGANIZERS
Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology (NUIST) : www.nuist.edu.cn
World Meteorological Organization (WMO): www.wmo.int
China Meteorological Administration (CMA) : www.cma,gov.cn
Jiangsu Province, China : www.js.gov.cn
CONTACTS
Mr Caifang WANG
Prof. Zhiqiu GAO
Dr. Byong LEE
Conference Coordinator
Co-Chair of LOC
Co-Chair of IOC
Coll. of Applied Meteorology
Coll. of Applied Meteorology
CAgM
Nanjing University of Information
Nanjing University of Information
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