New
HMEI Office and Executive Secretary
The HMEI has established
its new office in Geneva. The new address is that which is currently noted
on this website. The Office is situated in the WMO building in Geneva. The
location, adjacent to the WMO offices, gives HMEI the opportunity to keep
in touch with international issues of relevance to the HMEI objectives and
its members' interests.
The HMEI also has a new
Executive Secretary, Bruce Sumner, who commenced work June this year and
is working from the Geneva HMEI office.
Bruce is an Australian by birth who is currently living just outside
Geneva in neighboring France. He has a wide Meteorological background,
having worked for many years in the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia, in
both the Perth and Melbourne Met offices. He was the Chief of Data Management
for many years at the Australian Bureau. Bruce has strong links to the WMO,
having served on several WMO teams over a period of more than 10 years.
With meteorological expertise and knowledge of the WMO, Bruce brings to
the Executive Secretary position a wide perspective, that will benefit
the HMEI's aims and objectives. He is available to members
for all enquires about HMEI matters.
New Members
The Association of
Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes the
following companies as new HMEI members:
Campbell
Scientific Ltd. - U.K.
Environmental
Measurements Ltd. - U.K. IBL
Software Engineering- Slovakia Meisei
Electric Co. Ltd. - Japan Modem
- France
New
Member Information
This section
provides information written and supplied to us by the member companies
themselves. HMEI bears no responsibility for, nor endorses this information. Campbell
Scientific Ltd.
Campbell Scientific
is a major manufacturer of automatic weather stations, which have been
supplied to most countries in Europe. We purchase sensors from reputable
suppliers and configure systems to customers requirements.
We specialize
in data loggers. peripherals and data collection software, and also supply
many other manufacturers with loggers, to form the heart of their own
weather stations. Environmental
Measurements Ltd.
Manufacturers of a
range of weather monitoring instrumentation. Including wind speed and
direction sensors, aerodynamic rain gauges, temperature humidity probes,
radiation sensor shields, barometric pressure sensors, surface wetness
probes, data loggers and automatic weather stations.
Distributors in the U.K. for the Vaisala (Finland) range of surface
weather products. IBL
Software Engineering
IBL Software
Engineering is one of the leading companies providing meteorological
communication systems. Our primary customers are aeronautical and
meteorological organizations worldwide. IBL offers its customers advanced
tools for monitoring, analyzing and visualizing
meteorological data.
IBL Software Engineering provides complex software solutions built upon
five fully interoperable systems: Visual Weather, for visualizing
meteorological data; Moving Weather, for automated message exchange; Aero
Weather, for easy access to complete pre-flight documentation; Talking
Weather, for ATIS/VOLMET broadcasting; Online Weather, for web-based
customer services
The systems are able to cooperate with other systems, as well as to
establish meteorological networking environment to connect a
meteorological office to the AFTN and GTS network, observing stations,
automatic weather stations (AWS), doppler radar facilities, satellite
receivers, and others. Meisei
Electric Co. Ltd.
Meisei develops,
designs and manufactures meteorological equipment for upper-air weather,
surface weather, traffic weather, aviation weather,
environmental weather and remote sensing and debris-flow monitoring and
dam management systems.
1.Upper-air observing system including GPS Radiosonde, Rawsonde, and Ozone
sonde and its ground station.
2.Surface weather observing system provides with weather information,
Network System, automated meteorological data aquisition system.
3.Traffic weather offered by road/railway visibility sensors and present
weather identifier, and weather information Network System.
4.Aviation Weather Observing System (AWOS) provided with data aquisition
and editing equipment, and aviation sensors such as runaway visibility,
wind speed and direction, and pressure....
5.Environmental weather provided with pollen sensor and CO2 observation
sensor.
6.Remote sensing to measure wind direction, wind speed and temperature in
the lower atmosphere.
7.Debris flow monitoring system monitors the rainfall evacuation level on
the surface and water crisis level in the river as well as monitoring
mudslide, to advise residents for evacuation.
8.Dam Management System included with equipment such as water level gauge,
dam gate control gauge, water discharge warning equipment, dam embankment
observation equipment, dam weather observation equipment, and rainfall
observatory. Modem
MODEM is a French manufacturer of upper-air systems and related
radiosondes with Research & Development capabilities.
Modem is also operating as an European distributor of meteorological
instruments such as KAYSAM balloons, PROTON hydrogen generator and so
forth.
New Opportunities
for Members
 The
WMO is
currently looking to procure meteorological station equipment for stations
worldwide that have been prioritized as in need of certain minimal
equipment to be fully functional climate stations
within
the GCOS Upper Air Network (GUAN). Please contact the Executive
Secretary for more details.
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