Workshop on Monsoons and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zones: The Annual Cycle in the Holocene and the Future

题为季风和热带辐合带(ITCZ)：全新世和未来的年度周期的研讨会将于2015年9月15日至18日在哥伦比亚大学举行。它将促进精通古气候观测和建模的科学家、大气一般环流理论家、对流和降雨扰动组织专家以及气候建模人员和专注于未来预测的气候科学家之间的互动。研讨会将提供一个论坛，供该领域的杰出领导者、早期职业科学家以及来自主办机构和附近机构的参与学生，包括纽约城市大学等少数族裔入学率较高的机构的学生进行活跃的思想交流。国家科学基金会的支持将用于支持学生和博士后学者的参与，特别是科学和工程领域代表性不足的群体的参与。重点将放在对海洋ITCZ和陆地季风在当前、过去和未来气候中的年度循环的模拟和理论理解上。耦合的大气环流模式不能准确地再现热带降水极大值在当前气候和过去气候中的位置和强度。讲座将在会后发布在专题讨论会的网站上，并将发表一篇总结文章，重点介绍研讨会的结论。

The workshop entitled Monsoons and Inter-tropical Convergence Zones (ITCZ): the annual cycle in the Holocene and the future will be held at Columbia University, September 15-18, 2015. It will foster interactions between scientists versed in paleo climate observations and modeling, theorists of the general circulation of the atmosphere, experts in convection and the organization of rain-bearing disturbances, and climate modelers and climate scientists focusing on future projections. The workshop will provide a forum for a lively exchange of ideas between eminent leaders in the field, early career scientists, and participating students from both the host institution and nearby institutions, including those with high minority enrollment, such as the City University of New York. NSF support will go towards support for the participation by students and postdoctoral scholars, in particular from groups underrepresented in science and engineering. The focus will be on modeling and theoretical understanding of the annual cycle of oceanic ITCZ and land monsoons in the present climate, the past, and the future. Coupled General Circulation Models fail to accurately reproduce the position and strength of the Tropical precipitation maxima both in the current climate and in the past. Talks will be posted on the symposium website after the event, and a summary article highlighting the conclusions of the workshop will be published.