China - Climate Science for Service Partnership (CSSP) - Work Package 3 - Met Office Climate change research focused on impacts on regional water cycle and climate extremes within East Asia.  Collaboration between scientists in UK and China to strengthen research capacity and increase understanding of drivers of regional drought and flooding, thus contributing to developing the capability of early warning methodology. Increase the understanding of East Asian climate variability and assessment of its predictability for improving climate prediction skills over East Asia on seasonal to decadal timescales.

Increase the understanding of drivers of regional drought and flooding and developing the capability of early warning methodology.

Develop convection permitting models for the East Asian region, to capture extreme climate events and their impacts such as heat waves, flash floods and the impact of large scale urbanisation and mega cities.