200 - Typhoon Committee

ESCAP/WMO
Typhoon Committee Annual Review 2007
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When he was elected as a member of the WMO Executive
Council (EC) during the 15th World Meteorological
Congress, Mr. Man-Ki Lee, Administrator of the KMA,
pledged KMA’s further expanded contribution to the
capacity building of in particular developing countries in
meteorological and hydrological services (Fig. 1.5).
Tropical Cyclones (JWTC) every year from 2008 (Fig.
1.6).
As part of efforts to meet the expected role, KMA is
planning to expand the scope of training areas and the
number of trainees from developing countries and will
actively participate in the WMO Voluntary Cooperation
Programme by increasing its contribution of funding and
in kind.
The ninth session of the joint working group in the field
of Meteorology between KMA and CMA
The Ninth Session of the joint Working Group on
Cooperation (JWG-9) in the field of Meteorology between
KMA and the China Meteorological Administration (CMA)
was held from 10 to 12 October 2007 in Seoul. At the
session both sides decided to hold Joint Workshop on
right and Mr. Shen Xiaonong, Deputy
Administrator of CMA) of the session signed
on the summary report
As a follow-up to JWG-9, several KMA experts were sent
to the Shanghai Typhoon Institute from 6 to 9 November
2007 in order to participate in the 14th National Workshop
on Tropical cyclones (NWTC-XIV) of China, where they
had a working-level discussion about some practical
issues such as agenda to be addressed at the first JWTC
to be held in Seoul, 2008.
e. Research Progress
Predicting the extratropical transition of typhoons
A number of tropical cyclones usually move into
the midlatitudes and some of them transform into
extratropical cyclones. This process is referred to as
extratropical transition (ET). The storms undergoing ET
experience an asymmetric thermal structure with the
approach into the baroclinic midlatitude environment
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