The APN Network for Climate Extremes is supported by the Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN ). The APN is an intergovernmental agency that aims to promote capacity building in the Asia Pacific region. The APN works closely with the System for Analysis Research and Training (START), which is a non-governmental program developing capacity building activities on behalf of the three global change research programs of WCRP, IGBP and IHDP.
The APN Network for Climate Extremes involves participants from seventeen
countries in the Asia Pacific region: Australia, Cambodia, China, Fiji,
French Polynesia, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Caledonia, New
Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Thailand,
and Vietnam.
The APN has supported three workshops of the APN Network for Climate Extremes over the last few years. The workshops have been hosted by BMRC in Melbourne, Australia. The First Workshop on Climate Extremes was held in December 1998, and it provided the basis for the development of the Network. The Second Workshop on Climate Extremes was held in December 1999, and one result of that workshop was a joint paper by all the participants on Trends in extreme daily rainfall and temperature in southeast Asia and the south Pacific: 1961-1998 (Manton et al., 2001, Int. J. Climatol, 21, 269-284). The Third Workshop on Climate Extremes was held in April 2001, and at that meeting the participants updated the results from the previous workshop and tested new software for analysing daily climate data. The Third Workshop was partly supported by the AEON Foundation.