Inaugural Meeting of the Climate Science Experts Network
Programme
| Opening Address By Ms Wong Chin Ling, Director-General, Meteorological Service Singapore |
| Keynote Lecture By Dr Chris Gordon, Head of Science Partnerships, Met Office, United Kingdom |
| Presentation 1: “Evaluation of WRF Regional Climate Downscaling Performance for Precipitation Variability over Asia-Pacific” By Dr Jeff Lo Chun-Fung, Research Scientist, Meteorological Service Singapore |
| Presentation 2: “Climate system impacts associated with the sensitivity of black carbon emissions, processing, interactions with other aerosols, and atmospheric feedbacks” By Dr Jason Cohen, Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling, SMART |
| Presentation 3: “Remote sensing of land cover change and deforestation in Southeast Asia and impacts on climate change” By Mr Kwoh Leong Keong, Director, Centre for Remote Imaging, Sensing and Processing, NUS |
| Presentation 4: “Principal Component Analysis of Observed and Modelled Diurnal Rainfall in the Maritime Environment” By Assistant Professor Koh Tieh-Yong, Principal Investigator, Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU |
| Presentation 5: “Use of GRACE gravity data for assessing changes in glacier melting and water storage, and their impacts on sea level” By Assistant Professor Emma Hill, Principal Investigator, Earth Observatory of Singapore, NTU |
| Presentation 6: “Internal characteristics of tropical rainfall” By Associate Professor Tan Soon Keat, Student Director, Maritime Research Centre, NTU |
| Presentation 7: “Impacts of sea-level rise on salinity intrusion in estuarine environments” By Assistant Professor Vivien Chua, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, NUS |
| Presentation 8: “Urban temperature map as a tool for a climatic responsive urban planning for high density city” By Dr Steve Kardinal Jusuf, Centre for Sustainable Asian Cities, NUS |
| Closing Address and Networking lunch hosted by LG(NS) Desmond Kuek, Permanent Secretary for the Environment and Water Resources |
Abstracts
For the presentations, please download abstracts here.
Participants at the Inaugural Meeting of the Climate Science Experts Network.