IGU Klimatoloji Komisyonun Aralık 2018 Bülteni yayınlandı
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The year 2018 is coming to a close. This year’s climate was really extreme. For example,
during the Baiu‐season, we experienced a record breaking heavy rainfall in West Japan in early
July and lost more than 200 lives. After that events extremely hot summer arrived, and making a
new highest daily maximum temperature records of 41.1°C at Kumagaya, Japan, and 41.0°C at
Hongcheon, South Korea. Besides, extreme high temperature was recorded in many other places
in the northern hemisphere mid‐ and high latitude regions. In September, we were attcked by
several Typhoons. Typhoon Jebi’s strong wind related storm surge on September 4 forced a
closure of Kansai Airport, Japan for more than two weeks. Typhoon Mangkhut, the most intense
typhoon in this year, hit Hong Kong, China on September 16 with exceeding 100 miles per hour
wind gusts, and causing floods, electorisity damages and so on. Actually, I was to visit on Hong
Kong on that day, and forced to stay overnight at Haneda Airport. Surprisingly, there were no
casualities due to this strong typhoon in Hong Kong. Our role of climatologists has becoming
further important.
By the way, this August, a number of CoC sessions were organized at the IGU Regional
Conference in Quebec. Please enjoy the session report in P4 to 7. We appreciate the conference
organizers for their wonderful management. We learned a lot in that conference, and will
prepare for the coming IGC2020 Istanbul, Turkey from the next year (See P9 and 10 for detail). I
wish all the best for the New Year, and all of your research efforts will be productive.
Best Regards,
Jun Matsumoto
(Chair of the Commission on Climatology)
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