Convener:*Yosuke Yamashiki(Global Water Resources Assessment Laboratory - Yamashiki Lab. Graduate School of Advanced Integrated Studies in Human Survivability Kyoto University), Swadhin Behera(Climate Variation Predictability and Applicability Research Program Research Institute for Global Change/JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Yokohama 236-0001), Yukio Masumoto(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Yasumasa Miyazawa(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Toshio Yamagata(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Kaoru Takara(Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University), Chair:Yukio Masumoto(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology), Swadhin Behera(Climate Variation Predictability and Applicability Research Program Research Institute for Global Change/JAMSTEC, 3173-25 Showa-machi, Yokohama 236-0001), Toshio Yamagata(Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology)