2015 US-Taipei Severe Weather and Extreme Precipitation Workshop in Taiwan

台湾科技部代表团赴美访问2014年7月举行的双边科技会议。 出席会议的有国家科学基金会（NSF）地球科学项目主任。 作为此次访问的结果，MOST和NSF将于2015年5月29日至5月31日在台湾组织三次研讨会。这些是：一个关于地球科学和造山运动的讲习班，一个关于工程科学和光子学，第三个关于大气科学和气象学。 该项目旨在支持美国科学家参加气象学研讨会。本课题包括：1.恶劣天气（例如，飓风/台风、暴洪等）观测和预报;2。地形诱发降水与中尺度风暴系统;3. WRF和数据同化系统的应用。JOSS请求资金派遣选定的美国科学家到台湾参加研讨会。智力价值美国和台湾一直在合作研究，旨在了解极端降水事件的动力学和社会影响，地球系统建模和COSMIC无线电掩星科学任务。这次研讨会将是长达数十年的合作中的最新一次，这一合作提高了对这些科学领域的科学理解。更广泛的影响美国和台湾几十年来都经历了严重的降水事件。这些事件造成当地山洪暴发，财产损失，有时甚至造成生命损失。 提高了解这些极端事件动态的能力，以及随后向公众提供更好和更及时预报的能力，将大大减少当地洪水和财产损失的负面社会影响，并可能减少生命损失。

A delegation of Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) came to the United States (U.S.) for a bilateral science and technology (S&T) meeting in July 2014. Attending were National Science Foundation (NSF) program directors of geosciences. As a result of this visit, MOST and NSF are organizing three workshops in Taiwan between May 29 and May 31, 2015. These are: workshop on Earth Science and Mountain Building, one on Engineering Science and Photonics, and the third one on Atmospheric Science and Meteorology. This project is to support U.S. scientists to participate in the Meteorology workshop. The topics include:1. Severe weather (e.g., hurricane/typhoon, flash flood, etc.) observation and forecasting;2. Orographic induced precipitation and mesoscale storm systems;3. WRF and data assimilation system applications.JOSS requests funds to send selected U.S. scientists to Taiwan for the workshop.Intellectual merit The U.S. and Taiwan have been cooperating in research aimed at understanding the dynamics and societal effects of extreme precipitation events, earth system modeling and the COSMIC radio occultation satellite science missions. The workshop will be the latest in a decades-long collaboration that has resulted in enhanced scientific understanding of these areas of science.Broader impacts The U.S. and Taiwan have both experienced severe precipitation events for many decades. These events cause local flash flooding, property damage and, occasionally, loss of lives. The enhanced ability to understand the dynamics of these extreme events and the subsequent ability to provide better and more timely forecasting to the general public will materially reduce the negative societal effects of local flooding and property damage, and may result in fewer lives lost.