Events below are in chronological order and include WMO meetings, workshops and other International Conferences. Please also check the Exhibition Page for other events, conferences and WMO meetings that have exhibitions included with them, which may not be listed here.

60th Session of the WMO Executive Council, Geneva, Switzerland, 18-27 June 2008
The Executive Secretariat and the HMEI Chairman will attend this session on behalf of HMEI. Other HMEI Council Members, may also attend on request; please contact the HMEI office via email: hmei@wmo.int. Documents are available at: http://www.wmo.ch/pages/meetings/cbodies_en.html.

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WMO/ ET on Metadata Implementation 3rd meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, 30 June - 2 July 2008
This meeting will look at issue such as: development and implementation of the WMO metadata standard; operational information catalogues; use of related metadata standards such as the ISO 19100 series for development of WIS; interaction with ISO TC 21. Please see the agenda and meeting documents at: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/WDM/IPET-MI-III/documents.html.

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WMO Steering Group on Radio-Frequency Coordination (SG-RFC) Brasilia, Brazil,  9-11 July 2008
HMEI has an expert on this team. Documents are available at:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/ISS/Meetings/SG-RFC_Brasilia2008/documents.html

General information on the work of this group is available at the recently created WMO/SG-RFC page: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/TEM/WMO_RFC/WMO_RFC.html

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WMO/ET on Surface Technology and Measurement Techniques, 2nd Session, Geneva, Switzerland, 22-26 September 2008
HMEI will participate in this meeting. HMEI has four experts who are part of this team. Documents are available, including the agenda, at: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/meetings/Surface/ET-STMT-2/Doc.Plan.htm.

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IGAC 10th International Conference, Annecy, France, 7-12 September 2008
The 10th Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project, has as this year's program theme, “Atmospheric Composition: Bridging the scales from local to global”. There will be a particular focus on interactions between earth system components across these scales.

Online registration for the conference is available until 31 August 2008. Further in formation is available at: www.igacfrance2008.fr/

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JCOMM 24th Session of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel (DBCP), Cape Town, South Africa, 13-16 October 2008
Information is currently minimal on this event, but further information and documents as they become available will be at: http://www.jcomm.info/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=192

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WMO Commission for Hydrology - 13th session, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-12 November 2008
Whilst this Commission meeting has been announced, there is as yet no other information available on it. As soon as information becomes available HMEI will send this on to Members.

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Regional Association (RA) II Technical Conference and Regional Association (RA) II (Asia) 14th session, Tashkent, Uzbekistan, 3-11 December 2008
The Technical conference will be for the two days of the 3-4 December and the RA II -14th session will run from 5-11 December, both at the same venue.

Further details will be sent to HMEI Members as they become available.

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CBS-XIV and Technical Conference on the WMO Integrated Global Observing Systems (WIGOS), Dubrovnik, Croatia, March 2009
Exact dates in March are still to be decided, however the Technical Conference on the WMO Integrated System (WIS) will be held the preceding toe days before the Commission for Basic Systems 14th session (CBS-XIV).  There will be an exhibition held with Technical Conference focusing on equipment pertinent to the WIS.

Further details will be sent to HMEI Members as they become available.

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AMS Meeting List
The American Meteorological Society has a list of 2008 conferences of possible interest to HMEI members.
Please go to: http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/meetinfo.html

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Copernicus Meeting List
Copernicus organises several scientific meetings each year (for example they organise EGU and EMS each year). Others they organise in the Geo and Environmental fields may be of interest to HMEI members. Please see the list at: http://meetings.copernicus.org/ 

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