Beijing Climate Centre (National Climate Centre of China Meteorological Administration) has the obligations to deliver climate service for neighboring and surrounding countries in Asia and international climate community. Beijing Climate Centre organizes and coordinates research efforts on regional climate, operational predictions and climate application and services, among others. It also provides climate services to China and other Asian countries for disaster prevention and mitigation and for socio-economic development.

Main tasks

• Monitor and diagnose global atmospheric and ocean conditions, especially in East Asia, as well as significant climate events (e.g. ENSO);
• Provide global climate predictions and impact assessments at monthly, seasonal and inter-annual timescales, particularly in East Asia;
• Carry out research on global and regional climate change, detection development of regional climate scenarios and response strategy options;
• Strengthen collaborations between National Meteorological and Hydrological Service (NMHS) on related observation, communication and computing networks for data collection and exchange;
• Provide climate data base and archiving services;
• Provide relevant climate products services such as interpretation, evaluation, processing, detection and issue etc.