Origin

In these years, global warming became an easy target to blame for the occurrence of catastrophic natural disasters. Climate change also became an important subject to be treated seriously. To deal with climate change issues, many countries have started national-level projects, aiming at setting up adaptation strategies based on building a scientific base from the researches of climate change projection and impact assessment. In Taiwan, the National Science Council (NSC) has funded three major projects for climate change-related researches since 2009. The Water Resources Agency (WRA), Ministry of Economic Affairs also started the "Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation on Water Environment" project at the same year. In addition, the Council for Economic Planning and Development just approved the "National Adaptation Policy Frameworks for Climate Change" and "Adaptation Programmes of Action for Climate Change" in 2012.

After the three-year Taiwan Climate Change Projection and Information Platform（TCCIP）project, one of the three major projects which NSC funded, this year （2013） the second phase of the three-year TCCIP project continues to play the major role in national climate change-related researches. The second phase of TCCIP project is still coordinated by National Science and Technology Center for Disaster Reduction （NCDR） and has accomplished some achievements on climate change research, climate change projection over Taiwan, and interdisciplinary research. Based on the experiences of the past three years, TCCIP expects to deliver the most updated data of climate change projection over East Asia and Taiwan area and provide the guidance of data usage to fulfill the needs of “Taiwan Adaptation Policy Framework on Climate Change” in the near future.

The 2014 TCCIP International Workshop on Climate Change （TCCIP-IWCC 2014）is organized by NCDR and National Science Council, and co-organized by the Research Center for Environmental Changes of Academia Sinica and Central Weather Bureau. In addition to local researchers, experts from Australia, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, United Kingdom and the United States are also invited to present their recent work and share their experiences. Through experience sharing and idea exchanging, this workshop aims at introducing the most updated information on climate change study to participants, promoting academic interchange, enhancing the communication between data producers and data users, and seeking collaboration chances in the future. The topics of the workshop will focus on local climate analysis, climate change projection, impact assessments and data services.

Workshop Topics

1. Climate projection and analyses
   • Global and regional climate analyses.
   • Global climate modeling
2. Climate change downscaling
   • Dynamic downscaling methods and data analyses
   • Statistic downscaling methods and data analyses
3. Impact assessments
   • Applications and impact assessments in Hydrology, disasters, health and agriculture etc.
4. Climate services
   • Experience sharing in climate information service and communication between user and data producer nationwide and worldwide.

Information

Time

Jan. 13 - 16 /2014 

Location

Add.: No. 1, Sec. 2, Da Hsueh Rd., Shoufeng, Hualien 97401, Taiwan

Conference room in College of Environmental Studies, National Dong Hwa University.