? 4- 6 August 2020
Virtual event
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and international science partners are hosting a virtual global symposium to review the relationship between weather, climate, and environmental factors and the spread of COVID-19.
The coronavirus pandemic continues to spread globally, within a wide range of climates and seasonal and environmental settings.
This international virtual symposium will help elucidate what is known, understood, and can be reliably predicted about environmental variables’ influence on the trajectory of the COVID-19 epidemic, from global, hemispheric, regional, and local perspectives. Symposium outcomes will include a synthesis of the information presented and recommendations for further research at local to global scales.
“It is critical to understand whether meteorological, climatological and environmental factors promote the spread of the disease either outdoors or indoors. This is a pertinent scientific question that is the subject of numerous studies,” said Professor Jürg Luterbacher, WMO Chief Scientist and Director of Science and Innovation.
More than 450 participants will consider some 100 contributions on the topic from researchers from around 20 countries. There will be several keynote presentations, and panels and breakout sessions on understanding dynamics, forecasts and projections, and actionable information.
The outcomes of the conference will also support the work of a newly established WMO Research Board Task Team on COVID-19 and climate and environmental factors, which will provide official scientific direction on the topic through 2021.
Original source: WMO
Published on 30 July 2020
