MSS CCRS
Singapore Government

2nd Meeting of the Climate Science Experts Network

Programme

Opening Address
By Ms Wong Chin Ling, Director-General, Meteorological Service Singapore
Keynote Lecture: “Convective Scale Numerical Weather Prediction at the UK Met Office”
By Prof Dale Barker, Strategic Head of Data Assimilation and Ensembles, Met Office, United Kingdom
Presentation 1: “Response of nonlinear systems to forcing – possibility of rapid and abrupt climate changes”
By Prof Lim Hock, Department of Physics, National University of Singapore
Presentation 2:

  1. “Coral records of 20th century central tropical Pacific SST and salinity: Signatures of natural and anthropogenic climate change”
  2. “Regional climate projections for SE Asia”
  3. “Impacts of black carbon on monsoon systems”

By Dr Benjamin Grandey, Shao Yi Lee,Eun-Soon Im, Intan Suci Nurhati and Alex Cobb, Center for Environmental Sensing and Modeling, SMART

Presentation 3: “Effect of model resolution on downscaling of atmospheric and ocean parameters in typhoons”
By Dr Valliyil Mohammed Aboobacker, Tropical Marine Science Institute, NUS
Presentation 4: “Catchment response uncertainty in a tropical urban environment”
By Dr Ooi Seng Keat, Singapore-Delft Water Alliance, NUS
Presentation 5: “Human-Induced Combustion and Climate: Looking Beyond CO2!”
By Dr Jason Blake Cohen, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, NUS

Abstracts

For the presentations, please download abstracts here.

Events CSEN 27Nov2012 QA 2

During the Q & A session, presenters engaged in lively discussions with the audience and amongst themselves