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Background Asia/Oceania Meteorological Satellite Users’ Conferences provide an excellent forum for members within the Asia/Oceania community to meet and enhance their joint efforts in the utilization of satellite data and products for better weather, climate and disaster mitigation services. The Conferences have proven to be very effective in: promoting satellite observations and determining possible application areas, with a focus on regional issues; informing on recent advances in remote sensing science; fostering the dialogue between satellite operators and the user community on current and future satellites; and engaging young scientists. Asia/Oceania is a region prone to weather and other natural disasters such as tropical cyclones, volcanic activity, floods, and wildfires. For example, super typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, caused significant casualties and severely disrupted socioeconomic activities in South-East Asia. Most observations of the typhoon were taken from space, with satellite data playing an important role in determining the typhoon’s position and strength, and in forecasting its evolution. The Global Framework for Climate Services is an UN initiative lead by the WMO with the goal of guiding the development of science-based climate information and services in support of decision-making in societal sectors, such as agriculture and food security, disaster risk reduction, health, and water management. Satellite-based climate data records have a growing role in the provision of climate services. The architecture for climate monitoring from space provides the framework for collaboration among the Asia/Oceania space agencies and user community to generate satellite-based climate data records in a coordinated and sustainable manner.