This collection of selected papers on East Asian and Western Pacific meteorology and climate covers remote sensing, atmospheric physics and chemistry, and the impact of aircraft emissions on atmospheric composition, as well as traditional topics like typhoons, rainstorms, monsoons and climate. The first conference in this series took place in Hong Kong in July 1989. It was run with the innovative bilingual approach, which allowed both Chinese- and English-speaking scientists from various regions of East Asia and across the Pacific to come together, and share and discuss their research. It...

The East Asian summer monsoon has complex space and time structures that are distinct from the South Asian summer monsoon. It covers both subtropics and midlatitudes and its rainfall tends to be concentrated in elongated rain belts that stretch for many thousands of kilometers and affect China, Japan, Korea, and the surrounding areas. The circulation of the East Asian winter monsoon encompasses a large meridional domain with cold air outbreaks emanating from the Siberian high and penetrates deeply into the equatorial Maritime Continent region, where the center of maximum rainfall has long...