GAME
Internatinal
Science Panel GISP |
Kenji Nakamura
Institute for Hydrospheric-Atmospheric Sciences
Nagoya Univesity
nakamura@ihas.nagoya-u.ac.jp
The Fifth GAME International Science
Panel (GISP) Meeting was held for 26 and 27 June, 2000 at Seavans,
Tokyo
Japan with kind supports of the National Space Development Agency of
Japan
(NASDA), Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture
(MESSC),
Frontier Research System for Global Change (FRSGC). Sixty-four
participants
are twenty-eight GISP members or representatives and thirty-four
observers/experts from fourteen countries participated.
Participants in GISP meeting were: one
from Bangladesh, four from China, two from India, twenty-eight from
Japan,
four from Korea, two from Malaysia, two from Mongolia, one from
Myanmar,
one from Nepal, two from Russia, one from Singapore, one from Sri
Lanka,
eleven from Thailand, and two participants came from USA. Thus, total
participants
of GISP are sixty-four (GAME-ISP members are twenty-eight,
observers/experts
are thirty-four).
After the opening addresses from Prof.
T. Yasunari, Chairperson of GISP, Dr. Y. Furuhama, Executive Director,
NASDA and a congratulatory message from Mr. K. Yoshio, MESSC, the panel
discussion started. First, current status of international activities
closely
related to GAME, such as GEWEX/GAME, WCRP and GHP were presented
including
an introduction of FRSGC activity and future plan. After those, current
activities and results of each component of GAME were reported. In
addition
to them, GAME-related experiments such as KORMEX and SCSMEX, etc. were
introduced. The activity reports continued until second day morning.
Generally speaking, each component of GAME
does not have any serious problems, and many workshops are planned to
be
held, such as, GAME-HUBEX workshop in September 2000, and GAME-Siberia
Workshop in March 2000. The data opening policy was reconfirmed and
data
will be opened to communities nearly on schedule. However, it is
recognized
that the main objectives of GAME, that is:
A) to understand the role of Asian monsoon in the global energy and
water cycle and
B) to improve the simulation and seasonal prediction of Asian monsoon
and regional water resources.
Data analyses of each component are going well and several interesting
results have been shown, but we are not yet in the phase to link each
analyzed
results. Model studies and reanalysis data set including the GAME
enhanced
observations are essential, and they are now going on. It is too early
to obtain full results from the model studies and reanalysis data set.
Some issues has come out from the observation. One of them is the
so-called
imbalance problem in the surface flux measurement. This problem is
crucial
to
understand the land-atmosphere interaction.
Future of GAME is the biggest subject of this
GISP. One big international Plan is CEOP (Coordinated Enhanced
Observation
Period)/CAMP (CEOP Asia Monsoon Project). CEOP is two year project
based
on the well-established Earth observing satellites, such as US's Aqua,
Japan's ADEOS-II, French ENVISAT. Ocean component will also be included
and CLIVAR will also support CEOP. CEOP observation will utilize the
heritage
of GEWEX projects including GAME. CAMP is the Asian and Australian part
of CEOP. Everybody recognized that CEOP is a timely project and a good
one as a GAME follow-on. However, the objective of CEOP is different
from
that of GAME It is agreed that GAME would support a part of CEOP which
relates to GAME.
As a summary, GISP considered that:
1). According to the GAME Implementation Plan, the period of 1996-2001
is dedicated for data collections including IOP's.
2). The GAME was/would being well conducted,
3). The objective of GAME has not yet achieved, though many interesting
observational results have come out,
4). CEOP which is for a study of the interannual variations of
land-atmosphere-ocean
interactions under a framework of GEWEX/GHP, in corporation with CLIVAR
and CLIC has been proposed.
and, GISP members recommended that:
1) GAME Phase II (2002-2003/4) should be started in 2002 after
reviewing
Phase I activities. The reviewing results will be reported in the next
ISP in 2001,
2) GAME Phase II should be concentrate on deeper data analysis
including
modeling studies for the primary goal of GAME,
3) CEOP/CAMP working sub-committee under GAME-ISP led by Prof. Koike
should be established.
4) The progress of GAME and its future plan including, the initiation
of CEOP/CAMP project 2001-2003 should be presented in the forthcoming
WMO
Regional Association II 12th session in 19th-27th Sep., 2000 at Soul,
Korea.
Other business included that:
1) The Fifth International Study Conference on GEWEX in Asia and GAME
will be held in Nagoya, Japan in October 2001 along with the Sixth GAME
International Science Panel Meeting.
2) GISP membership at least until 2001 were reconfirmed.
3) After confirming that every member has a good access to e-mail
system,
GISP mailing list (GAME-ISP e-mail service) was decided to be made.