8TH CYCLONE WORKSHOP SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY, VAL-MORIN, QUEBEC, CANADA, 12-16 OCTOBER 1992

The Eighth Cyclone Workshop was held at the Far Hills Inn and Conferen ce Center in Val Morin, Quebec, Canada, 12-16 October 1992. The worksh op was arranged around several scientific themes of current research i nterest. The most widely debated theme was the applicability of ''pote ntial vorticity thinking'' to theoretical, observational, and numerica l studies of the life cycle of cyclones and the interaction of these c yclones with their environment on ail spatial and temporal scales. A c ombination of invited and contributed talks, with preference given to younger scientists, made up the workshop.