1. International Pacific Research Center Introduction and issues December 5, 2007

2. Introduction

3. Spring 1997: Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto and U.S. Vice President Gore added the category of global climate-change research to the “Japan-United States Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective.” History

4. October 1997: Toward this governmental directive, the IPRC was established at the University of Hawaii (UH) as a Collaborative Agreement between JAMSTEC and UH. History

5. Spring 1997: Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto and U.S. Vice President Gore added the category of global climate-change research to the “Japan-United States Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective.” October 1997: Toward this governmental directive, the IPRC was established at the University of Hawaii (UH) as a Collaborative Agreement between JAMSTEC and UH. May, 1999: NASA joins the IPRC, providing support for general research focused on the use of satellite data. History

6. Spring 1997: Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto and U.S. Vice President Gore added the category of global climate-change research to the “Japan-United States Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective.” October 1997: Toward this governmental directive, the IPRC was established at the University of Hawaii (UH) as a Collaborative Agreement between JAMSTEC and UH. May, 1999: NASA joins the IPRC, providing support for general research focused on the use of satellite data. Spring, 2001: NOAA joins the IPRC, in support of activities for the IPRC’s Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center (APDRC). History

7. Spring 1997: Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto and U.S. Vice President Gore added the category of global climate-change research to the “Japan-United States Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective.” October 1997: Toward this governmental directive, the IPRC was established at the University of Hawaii (UH) as a Collaborative Agreement between JAMSTEC and UH. May, 1999: NASA joins the IPRC, providing support for general research focused on the use of satellite data. Spring, 2001: NOAA joins the IPRC, in support of activities for the IPRC’s Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center (APDRC). April, 2004: JAMSTEC and UH sign a new MOU and Cooperative Agreement to continue IPRC research activities. History

8. Spring 1997: Japanese Prime Minister Hashimoto and U.S. Vice President Gore added the category of global climate-change research to the “Japan-United States Common Agenda for Cooperation in Global Perspective.” October 1997: Toward this governmental directive, the IPRC was established at the University of Hawaii (UH) as a Collaborative Agreement between JAMSTEC and UH. May, 1999: NASA joins the IPRC, providing support for general research focused on the use of satellite data. Spring, 2001: NOAA joins the IPRC, in support of activities for the IPRC’s Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center (APDRC). April, 2004: JAMSTEC and UH sign a new MOU and Cooperative Agreement to continue IPRC research activities. Fall, 2006: JAMSTEC and IPRC Theme Leaders meet face-to-face to prepare the JAMSTEC/IPRC Initiative. History

9. IPRC Mission To provide an international, state-of-the-art research environment to improve understanding of the nature and predictability of climate variability in the Asia- Pacific sector, including regional aspects of global environmental change

10. IPRCResearchStrategy IPRC Research Strategy To achieve its Mission, the IPRC emphasizes numerical modeling and diagnostic studies, rather than observational ones.

11. Research staff Faculty: 9+1 Researchers: 9 JAMSTEC: 2 Visitors: 5 Postdocs: 16 Computer staff: 8 TOTAL: 50 Computer staff:

12. Theme 1: Theme 1: Indo-Pacific ocean climate Understand climate variations in the Pacific and Indian Oceans on interannual-to-decadal time scales Pacific and ENSO decadal variability Interactions of IOD with ENSO and PDV (Theme 3) Ocean-to-atmosphere feedback Influences of salinity on the climate system Ocean and atmospheric processes

13. Determine the influences on Asia-Pacific climate of western-boundary currents, the Kuroshio-Oyashio Extension system, marginal seas, and the Indonesian Throughflow Theme 2: Theme 2: Regional-ocean influences Kuroshio-Oyashio studies Bifurcation latitudes of the NEC and SEC Indonesian Throughflow South China Sea Ocean mixing (Theme 1)

14. Understand the processes responsible for climatic variability and predictability of the Asia-Australian Mon- soon system and its hydrological cycle at intraseasonal through interdecadal time scales Theme 3: Theme 3: Asian Australian Monsoon System Intraseasonal oscillations ENSO/monsoon interactions (Theme 1) Tropical biennial oscillation Tropical cyclone dynamics and pathways Model development

15. Identify the relationships between global environmental change and Asia-Pacific climate Theme 4: Theme 4: Impacts of global environmental change Global impacts of volcanism Regional response to global climate forcing Analysis of coupled models of global change Paleoclimate variability

16. Theme 5: Theme 5: APDRC To increase understanding of climate variability in the Asia-Pacific region by developing the computational, data management, and networking infrastructure necessary to make data resources readily accessible and usable by researchers, and by undertaking data- intensive research activities that will both advance knowledge and lead to improvements in data preparation and data products

17. JII Science Themes 3) Asia-Australian monsoon system 5) Asia-Pacific Data-Research Center 1) Indo-Pacific ocean climate 4) Impacts of global environmental change 2) Regional ocean influences Scientists in several IPRC Themes expect to contribute to JII Theme 1 4) Ecosystem dynamics 6) Paleoclimate dynamics 7) Data management, data serving, and product development 1) Model development, diagnosis, and application 2) Atmospheric composition 3) Climate variability and predictability 5) Hydrological cycle and monsoons

18. 1) Finances: year-to-year nature of “institutional grants”; 10th IPRC faculty member; mortgage assistance for new faculty members 2) Building and grounds: running out of office space; air conditioning 3) Administration: assistance for grant submission; perhaps JIMAR can help here 4) Computational support: SOEST help to purchase computer servers; an expert in state-of-the-art visualization techniques for SOEST 5) International relations: researcher and student exchange with international institutions: Should IPRC, meteorology or oceanography host the students? What student costs can be waived? Issues