IOTCCC 2009 - First International Conference on Indian Ocean Tropical Cyclones & Climatic Change 2009 in Oman

he broad thematic areas of the conference are:

1. Operational Tropical Cyclone Forecasting and warning Systems

2. Progress on tropical Cyclogenesis

3. Climate Change and Tropical Cyclone Activity

4. Assessment of Risk and Vulnerability from tropical Cyclones, including construction, archival and retrieval of best-track and historic data sets

5. Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reduction

6. Recent high impact tropical cyclone events in the Indian Ocean: Nargis, SIDR, Gonu and other events.