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Asia-Pacific Workshop on Indicators and Indices for Monitoring Trends in Climate Extremes

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Title

Asia-Pacific Workshop on Indicators and Indices for Monitoring Trends in Climate Extremes

Project Item Type Metadata

Project Reference No.s

1998-03
1999-13
2001-01
2002-01
2003-01

Programme

ARCP

Project Leader

Michael MANTON/ Neville Nicholls

Email

m.manton@bom.gov.au

Project Summary

This project consisted of a set of data workshops to which participants from individual countries brought their own data and analysed it to develop indicators and indices of trends in climate extremes. A series of papers were submitted to scientific journals, enabling the IPCC to incorporate these results, which are of relevance to policy developers and hazard managers, in the IPCC

Countries Involved

Australia, Cambodia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, P. R. China, Philippines, Republic of Korea, Solomon Islands, Thailand and Viet Nam.

Scientific Thematic Area

Climate Change and Climate Variability

Project Duration

5 years

Year of Completion

2003

Citation

Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN). (2003). Asia-Pacific Workshop on Indicators and Indices for Monitoring Trends in Climate Extremes. Retrieved from http://www.apn-gcr.org/resources/items/show/1429.