Overview

The 12th Asia Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users’ Conference (AOMSUC-12), hosted by the Japan Meteorological Agency, was held full virtually from 11th to 18th November 2022.

In 2010 the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (AuBoM), the China Meteorological Administration (CMA), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA), the Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA), the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) organized the first Asia Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users’ Conference in Beijing, China. Since that first conference, conferences have been held annually in China (2010, 2014, 2021), Japan (2011, 2015), Korea (2012, 2016), Australia (2013, 2019), Russia (2017), and Indonesia (2018).

In June 2016 the Permanent Representatives of Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Korea, together with the Secretary-General of WMO, signed the Memorandum on the Asia-Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users’ Conference during the sixty-eighth session of the WMO Executive Council in Geneva.

The 2016 Memorandum formalises the AOMSUC as a permanent mechanism for facilitating dialogue and improved collaboration among the space agencies and user communities in the Asia-Oceania region, and for enhancing the use of satellites for weather, climate, and disaster mitigation services.

Over the past decade, the AOMSUC has become the premier annual event for the meteorological and broad earth sciences community across Asia Oceania where satellite operators, users, scientists, and students from Asia Oceania and across the globe come to share their findings and plans for the use of meteorological satellite data.

The theme of AOMSUC-12 was “Full Exploitation of Today’s Advanced Global Meteorological Satellite Observing System”.