A Brief Report on 7th WMO’s International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM-7) 22-26 March 2022, New Delhi
The International Workshop on Monsoons (IWM) is a major quadrennial symposia/workshops series under the World Weather Research Programme (WWRP) of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) organized by the WWRP Working Group on Tropical Meteorological Research (WGTMR) IWM is conducted to address monsoon impacts as a part of the societal challenges prioritized by the WWRP: High Impact Weather, Water, Agriculture, Urbanisation and new Technologies in monsoon regions around the world.
The seventh workshop (IWM-7) was jointly organized by India Meteorological Department (IMD), the Ministry of Earth Sciences, the Government of India and the WGTMR, in cooperation with the CLIVAR/GEWEX Monsoons Panel of the WCRP, the International Monsoons Project Office (IMPO) and Indian Meteorological Society (IMS) at New Delhi, India during 22-26 March 2022.
The scientists from across the globe presented their new findings during the 5 Days workshop with 38 Invited talks, 72 Oral talks and another 68 for short Oral papers during the IWM-7 event on the following eight different themes viz.,
- Regional Monsoons,
- Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Predictions,
- Modelling monsoon processes,
- Climate Change and Monsoons,
- High Impact Monsoon Weather,
- Field Experiments and Observational Campaigns,
- Monsoon Information and Prediction for Societal Benefit and
- New Technologies and Tools.
Participants and speakers from 18 countries took part in the IWM-7 A total of 185 abstracts were received with 55 participants from outside India taking part in IWM-7. A total of 24 Technical sessions were conducted during IWM-7. The 38 invited speakers from different institutes across the globe were delivered in 9 Technical Sessions. Similarly, 72 Oral presentations were arranged in 12 parallel sessions. Further, 68 other papers were presented as short Oral presentations along with e-posters in 3 sessions. All these presentations along with YouTube videos of these talks are available on the IWM-7 webpage.
The abstracts of papers presented during IWM-7 are available on the IWM-7 webpage. It is proposed to bring out a special issue of the journal MAUSAM: Quarterly Journal of Meteorology, Hydrology & Geophysics, published quarterly by IMD based on the invited talks and some of the Oral talks after the peer review process.
(For more details about IWM-7, please visit https://mausam.imd.gov.in/IWM7/)
Training workshop: https://impo.tropmet.res.in/iwm7training.php