Morning Session
Climate Prediction, its Current Stage - from Achievements of "Prediction of Climate Variations and its Application in the Southern African Region"
| 9:30 - 9:50 | Opening Address | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology / Japan Science and Technology Agency / Japan International Cooperation Agency / South African Embassy / The Department of Science and Technology |
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| 9:50- 10:15 | Subtropical Dipole Mode and Climate Predictability | Swadhin K. Behera (JAMSTEC) Francois Dufois (University of Cape Town) |
| 10:15 - 10:40 | Seasonal Prediction in the Southern Africa and its Downscaling | Keiko Takahashi (JAMSTEC) Hannes Rautenbach (University of Pretoria) |
| 10:40 - 11:05 | Improving the simulation of southern African climate variability through climate model development | Tomoki Tozuka (University of Tokyo) Francois Engelbrecht (The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) |
| 11:05 - 11:20 | Break Time | |
| 11:20 - 11:45 | Development of early warning prediction systems for mitigating the impact of climate extremes | Hirofumi Sakuma (JAMSTEC) Willem Landman (The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) |
| 11:45 - 12:10 | Establishment of climate research network with South African scientists: Lecture series in South Africa | Motoyoshi Ikeda (JAMSTEC) Neville Sweijd (Applied Center for Climate and Earth Systems Science) |
| 12:10 - 13:40 | Lunch Time | |
Afternoon Session
Climate Prediction, its Future -for Building the Future Earth-
| 13:40 - 14:00 | Seasonal Climate Prediction and its Rich Potential | Toshio Yamagata (JAMSTEC) |
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| 14:00 - 14:20 | Climate Prediction and its Applications to Economies and Societies | Chin-Seung Chung (APEC Climate Center) |
| 14:20 - 14:40 | Application of Climate Change Projection for Promoting a Local Agriculture | Motoki Nishimori (National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences) |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | A Changing Paradigm in Climate Research | Antonio Navarra (Euro-Mediterranean Center for Climate Change) |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Break Time | |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | The Monsoon Mission: Scaling the Monsoon Predictability Barrier | B.N.Goswami (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology) |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | An early warning system for infectious diseases incorporating climate prediction | Noboru Minagawa (Nagasaki University Institute of Tropical Medicine) |
| 16:00 - 16:20 | Future Earth: An Introduction to the Programme, its Goal and Implementation Plan | Nordin Hasan (ICSU Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific) |
| 16:20 -16:40 | The "Future Earth" Program - A New International Framework for the Sustainable Anthropocene - | Yasunari Tetsuzo (Nagoya Univsersity Hydrospheric Atmospheric Reseach Center) |
| 16:40- 17:00 | Summary and Closing Address | Yoshihisa Shirayama (JAMSTEC) |