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ANNOUNCEMENT
of
 General Assembly
Association of
Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry
ROMOEXPO Exhibition Centre
Bucharest, Romania
Wednesday 4th May 2005
2pm – 4pm
Agenda
· Opening
and Welcoming of Guests
· Reading
and Vote of Acceptance for Previous General Assembly Minutes
· HMEI
President’s Report
· Address
by WMO Guest Speaker
· Address
by ISO Guest Speaker, Mr. Paul Fransioli
· Secretary’s
Report and Financial Statement
· Voting
in of Council, Chairman and Vice Chairman for Following Four Years
· Other
Business Items (to be advised to members before the General Assembly)
· Close
of Meeting
INVITATION:
The
general public and attendees of the conference are invited to attend the
HMEI General Assembly. However, although the Assembly will be open to the
public, only HMEI Member Companies can vote and voting will be in
accordance with the HMEI Articles of Association and Rules and Procedures
of the Association.
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Proxy
votes for election of HMEI
positions for Council, Chairman and Vice Chairman
The 4 year terms of most HMEI Council positions will end this year. Re-elections for these
positions will take place at the 2005 HMEI General
Assembly during the METEOREX 2005.
All terms will be for four years from the General Assembly of the HMEI in
2005 until the General Assembly of HMEI in 2009.
Those not attending the General Assembly will wish to have proxy votes. So
please contact the HMEI
Secretariat at hmei@wmo.int for proxy forms
to be emailed to you.
Those voting, as well as those standing for positions, must be from companies who are current financial members of
HMEI at the time of election.
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HMEI
BOOTH at METEOREX 2005
The METEOREX 2005 Organizing Committee from the Romanian Met Service,
have kindly donated a booth at no cost for HMEI at the Romoepxo Exhibition
center. Thus HMEI hopes to repeat the success it had with its booth
at the 85th AMS, at METEOREX 2005 in Bucharest.
The booth will again be supervised by the HMEI Secretariat staff. We will have the HMEI Member
Products Catalogue on display again and also
brochures from member companies.
Our booth number is A5b. We look forward to welcoming our members to the
booth and to introducing HMEI to potential new members and to new HMEI
Catalogue users, as well meeting other colleagues with whom HMEI would
like to cooperate.
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MEETING
OF ISO/TC146
(Air Quality) / SC5: Meteorology in Bucharest, 2-3 May 2005
Immediately
preceding TECO/METEOREX 2005, will be held the ISO meeting ISO/TC146. This
meeting has been convened to coincide with METEOREX 2005, in Bucharest
The HMEI Executive Secretary will be attending the meeting, which, as the
agenda below shows, will be dealing with liaison with HMEI, amongst other
subjects.
ISO/TC14,
2-3 May 2005 - Agenda
Opening
of the two-day meeting (2005-05-02, 0900)
Roll call of delegates |
| Election
of the Chairman |
Adoption
of the agenda
Doc. ISO/TC 146 / SC5 N64 |
| Appointment
of the drafting committee |
| Report
of the Secretariat |
| Status
of all items of the programme of work and actions taken on drafts
17713-1 and 17714 |
| Work
items on which no progress is being made – (none) Status and
action to be taken (not applicable) |
| Liaison
status with WMO, and Liaison status with HMEI |
| Items
for future work |
| Requirements
concerning a subsequent meeting – to be discussed |
| Any
other business |
| Approval
of resolutions |
| Closure
of the meeting (2005-05-03, 1600) |
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HMEI on the AMS
Exhibit Advisory Council
The HMEI Executive
Secretary, Bruce Sumner, has been invited to participate on the Exhibits
Advisory Council of AMS. Following the HMEI booth at AMS-85 and the strong
showing of HMEI members at AMS- 85, input from HMEI is now seen as a
valuable contribution on behalf of the exhibitors from the manufacturing
community.
Mr. Sumner is now participating in the affairs of the Advisory
Council via email and phone conferencing. Mr. Sumner is able in this
position to promote views and ideas beneficial to HMEI members who exhibit
at AMS.
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HMEI
on Steering committee for NOAA workshop
The
HMEI Executive Secretary, Bruce Sumner, has also been invited to serve on
the Steering Committee for the second NOAA/GCOS Workshop to Define Climate
Requirements for Upper-Air Observations. This
workshop is to be held in late Northern Hemisphere summer or early fall of
this year, to consider instruments/technologies/platforms/deployments to
meet the requirements which were outlined in the first of these workshops
in Boulder this year.
Initially, upon being invited, the Executive Secretary expressed interest
in HMEI participating on this Steering Committee, but suggested that a
member from the HMEI Council would perhaps be more suitable to give
expert guidance to the Committee. However after discussion with the
Steering Committee it was decided that the Executive Secretary, as the
overall representative of HMEI members' interests, would in fact be the
most suitable person to represent the HMEI at this Steering Committee.
Mr. Sumner will generally be unable to go in person to the Steering
Committee meetings but his participation by email correspondence and by
phone conferencing is quite acceptable to the Committee.
As
part of the Steering Community HMEI will, particularly, be able to
contribute by providing input on identifying potential participants with
the appropriate expertise to contribute to the workshop, providing
important access to in-depth instrument expertise, and extensive contacts
with the upper-air manufacturing community.
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HMEI
support to NOAA-WMO for exhibition in Costa Rica
HMEI
was asked to assist NOAA and WMO in the organization of the Exhibition
associated with the International Workshop on Flash Flood Forecasting to
be held in Costa Rica, 19-23 September 2005. The HMEI Executive Secretary
participated in a recent conference on the organizational details for this
exhibition.
HMEI
has been able to provide support to the organization of the
exhibition by supplying information on
exhibiting infrastructure and exhibitors requirements.
Only limited general information is currently available at: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/iao/iao_meetingsEvents.php
for those interested in this exhibition. However with its inside knowledge
of this exhibition, the HMEI secretariat should soon be able to supply
more details to members interested in exhibiting.
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HMEI
invited to co-sponsor WMO Technical Conference in China
HMEI has been formally
invited by WMO to financially co-sponsor the Exhibition associated with
the Technical Conference "Climate As A Resource" to be held in
Beijing, China, 1-2 November 2005.
HMEI is investigating the practicality of financial co-sponsorship of this
Exhibition. The decision will ultimately depend on the benefits, if any,
which co-sponsorship might bring to HMEI members.
In the event that HMEI is not able to provide financial sponsorship, we
would provide support to the Exhibition in the form of provision of
information and promotion of the event.
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Update
on HMEI participation in ITU
The
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has contacted the HMEI
Secretariat, regarding possible future liaison with our Association.
Former exploration by HMEI of a liaison with ITU revealed that this was
only possible with a substantial membership payment being paid to ITU,
which as a small association HMEI could not afford.
However it appears that ITU has realized the potential of some
Associations, such as HMEI, to make a significant contribution, even if
their bank account sizes are not those of countries or multinational
companies (who compose the majority of members of ITU). Therefore ITU is
investigating the options for creating participation opportunities for
HMEI in a more affordable way. Details of this are not yet defined, nor
success guaranteed. However it is heartening to see ITU looking for ways
to be inclusive to HMEI and we appreciate the recognition of HMEI to
represent industry matters that this implies.
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WMO
57th Executive Council
The
HMEI has received its invitation to attend the WMO's 57th Executive
Council (EC 57), which will be held in Geneva, 21 June to 1 July 2005. The HMEI
Secretariat will, as usual, be attending and making a report of items of
interest to HMEI members.
Please contact the HMEI Secretariat at hmei@wmo.int
if you would like a copy of the provisional agenda of EC 57.
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10th
Session of the Working Group on Hydrology of WMO Regional Association VI
(Europe)
This Working Group of the
Commission for Hydrology (CHy), will be held in Prague, Czech Republic,
4-7 May 2005.
Several members of HMEI were keen to attend this meeting, which is HMEI's
first attendance at a WMO hydrology working group, following the HMEI Secretariat's
participation in the Commission for Hydrology (CHy) in Geneva last year.
However the Working Group requested that HMEI limit its attendance at the
Prague meeting to two representatives. For this reason the first two
HMEI member companies involved in hydrology who confirmed attendees
are those who are representing HMEI on this occasion.
HMEI
member representatives who will attend this meeting are:
• Rudolf
Duster - SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH
and
• Luis Gomez - SIAP +
MICROS s.r.l.
Further CHy working group meetings will provide future opportunities for
other HMEI member companies to be involved in the work of this Commission.
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Intercomparisons
• The 10th
International and Regional Pyrheliometer Intercomparison (IPC-X, RPCs)
will be held in Davos, Switzerland, 26th September to 14 October 2005.
Whilst this Intercomparison is mainly by invitation to National
Radiation Centers for calibration of their instruments, it is
possible that manufacturers could have their instruments included if there
is room for extra instruments, as is often the case. Also manufactures are
also able to attend the workshops that will be held, when and as bad
weather allows during the Intercomparison period.
Any HMEI members who are interested in participating in the
Intercomparison and/or workshops, please contact the HMEI Secretariat at hmei@wmo.int
• The
WMO Laboratory
Intercomparison
of Rainfall Intensity (RI) Gauges, to which ten of our members are
supplying instruments, has been ongoing since the 15th September in
laboratories in France, Italy and Netherlands. It is now due to conclude
on 14th June 2005.
• The WMO
Intercomparison of High Quality Radiosonde Systems in Mauritius - February
2005,which seven of our members were involved with, is reported to have
had some highly satisfactory outcomes. A great deal of useful information
has resulted from the Intercomparison and the preliminary results of it are due to be
reported on officially at TECO/METEOREX 2005.
Please go to the Intercomparisons
page on the HMEI website for further information on these
Intercomparisons.
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Coastal
Environmental Visits HMEI
HMEI
was pleased to be able to welcome Kevin Klustner, from Coastal
Environmental Systems, to the Geneva HMEI office in March. Coastal
Environmental is a new HMEI member from the USA.
Kevin was interested to find out more about HMEI and how Coastal
Environment can be involved in the Association. After discussion with
Bruce Sumner, the HMEI Executive Secretary, Kevin has expressed his
intention to be actively involved in the Association's work.
The Secretariat welcomes visits from personnel from member companies. It
is always a pleasure to put faces to the names we too often only know from
email contact. So if you are planning a visit to or near Geneva do think
about visiting the HMEI office, where our members are, naturally, always
welcome.
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The
1st Qatar international expo on meteorological techniques
(QIMTech)
At
the QIMTech Exhibition held in Doha in Qatar, 15 - 18 March 2005, HMEI
member companies exhibiting, included:
Hydrometeorological
Instruments & Facilities,
DRS Weather Systems, The
Republic Group, and AMS-Gematronik GmbH.
HMEI Councilor,
Mike Ueltzen and Dyrk
Peters from
Hydrometeorological
Instruments & Facilities, joined forces to promote the Association of
HMEI to the
23
Arab Countries' Met Directors, who attended the meeting and exhibition.
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Report
on the 13th
session of the CBS (CBS-XIII), St.
Petersburg, Russian Federation, 23 February - 3 March 2005
HMEI was represented at
this session by: HMEI Vice Chairman, Jan Hörhammer.
Ben Dieterink the HMEI Chairman was unable to attend due to illness.
The documentation presented at this conference is available at: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/BAS/CBS-info.html
The WMO/CIMO Final Report of this ET is available at: http://www.wmo.int/web/www/IMOP/reports.html
For the HMEI
report on the session please click here.
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Report
on the ASAP Programme at the JCOMM
Ship Observations Team, third Session
The Joint
WMO/IOC Commission
for Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM)
Ship Observations Team, Third Session (SOT- III), was held on 7-12 March 2005,
in Brest, France.
The
Automated
Shipboard Aerological Programme (ASAP) Panel 15th session was part of this
JCOMM session. Rémy
Pepin from Modem represented HMEI
at the ASAP
session.
Please
click here for Mr. Pepin's report on the ASAP session.
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REPORT
ON the expert
team on Remote Sensing Upper-Air
Technology and Techniques, March 2005, Switzerland.
The HMEI representative
participants at the Expert Team (ET) on Remote Sensing Upper-Air
Technology and Techniques held 14-17
March 2005 in Geneva, Switzerland were:
Martti Husu
from Vaisala Oyj; Bruce Sumner, HMEI Executive Secretary; and Christine
Charstone HMEI Administrator.
Documents presented at this meeting are available at: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/meetings.html
For the HMEI
Secretariat report on this meeting please click here.
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HMEI NEW
MEMBERS
The Association of Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes
the following companies as new HMEI members:
Advanced Designs
Corporation (ADC) - USA
Coastal
Environmental Systems - USA
Fairmount Weather
Systems - UK
Japan Meteorological Business
Support Center (JMBSC) - Japan
Muir Matheson Ltd. -
UK
TOA
Systems, Inc. USA
Wilh.
LAMBRECHT GmbH - Germany
New
Member Information
This section
provides information supplied by the member companies
themselves. HMEI bears no responsibility for this
information.
Advanced Designs
Corporation (ADC)
Advanced
Designs Corporation (ADC) produces Doppler Weather Radar & Weather
Data Displays.
Coastal
Environmental Systems
Coastal
Environmental Systems designs, manufactures, and installs extensive
lines of professional-grade weather stations, dataloggers, and
remote data
acquisition systems. We build weather stations for every need: from
aviation weather to naval shipboard, and from military weather to
hazmat. Coastal's durable professional weather stations can be
portable—deploying
in seconds—or permanent—mounting on the ground or on towers up
to 300 feet
tall. Because our weather systems can operate on extremely low
power, they
can be deployed anywhere; they even withstand the harsh climate and
extreme
cold of the south pole, Antarctica. A brief sampling of Coastal's
impressive list of customers includes the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air
Force,
National Weather Service, FAA, NATO, NASA, EPA, NOAA, U.S. Coast
Guard, 3M,
Motorola, over 400 fire departments, and many notable international
customers.
Fairmount Weather
Systems
Fairmount Weather Systems was founded in 1988 and since then we have developed a range of conventional surface instruments and automatic weather stations that have been supplied to many Meteorological Departments over the years including the UK Met
Office. We offer supply, installation and training. The majority of equipment offered by Fairmount is manufactured at our engineering workshop in the UK and is made to international
standards. Our product range can be seen on our website :
Japan Meteorological Business
Support Center (JMBSC)
JMBSC provides
the following services:
1.To disseminate the Met. Information, which were produced by Japan Meteorological
Agency, to the users.
2.To conduct the examination for the certified Forecaster.
3.To give the official approval for use of meteorological observation instruments.
4.To promote international technical cooperation program in the field of Hydro-Meteorology between Japan and developing countries.
5.To conduct research and development in the field of meteorological data application.
Muir Matheson Ltd.
Muir Matheson specialists in the design, manufacture, installation and maintenance of weather monitoring systems aimed at the marine and aviation markets in addition to national meteorological services. We have the following specialist
products: Metcom – aviation meteorological software to produce
METAR/SPECI reports with a built-in ATIS. Pace – general meteorological data acquisition, display, archiving and distribution package. Includes software for cloud and visibility analysis and SYNOP and CLIMAT report production either automatically or with human
intervention. WebMET – data networking system for Internet distribution. Applications include national meteorological service’s data distribution and marine networks in UK and Caspian Sea.An active research and development programme includes further development of the WebMET system and automatic image processing for cloud and visibility analysis.
TOA
Systems, Inc.
TOA Systems, Inc. of Melbourne, Florida is a uniquely capable manufacturer of integrated lightning location and lightning hazard warning systems. It’s time-of-arrival based Lightning Location System (LLS) technology has been proven in operational networks in the U.S.A., Canada, Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Israel, Spain, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Australia. This technology, with latest enhancements forms the basis for ALPS™, the Advanced Lightning Positioning System – the cutting edge solution to real-time thunderstorm monitoring. The company also manufactures an Advanced Lightning Warning System
(ALWS™) which is based on a proprietary Electric Field Mill (EFM) technology, again pioneered by TOA. Lightning warning systems, using this basic design are currently installed and operational at the airports in Miami, Orlando, Phoenix, Jacksonville, Tampa, Pittsburgh, Denver and a number of military facilities. TOA specializes in providing clients worldwide with turnkey system solutions, including fully integrated
LLS/EFM networks which are ideal for such critical applications as airports, space launch facilities and the like.
Wilh.
LAMBRECHT GmbH
The company has been developing, producing and
distributing meteorological measuring equipment in Germany since 1859.
Innovation, functionality, quality and durability are the factors of
success of this long-lasting presence in the market.
The products are precise measuring instruments and sensors for the
determination of wind direction, wind speed, air temperature, humidity,
air pressure, precipitation, evaporation, radiation and air flow.
LAMBRECHT products fulfill the standards of the World Meteorological
Organization and national weather services. Also special standards for
military and off-shore applications are covered.
• Tradition
mechanical devices, e.g. drum-chart recorder, pilot tubes
• Electronic sensors
and indicators
• Automatic weather
stations
• Data collection
systems
• Handheld measuring
instruments
• Ship weather
stations
• Systems for special
vehicles
The advantages
• Reliability and
precision for security and satisfaction
• Hand made products
for decades of successful use
• Application in all
climate zones worldwide, indoor / outdoor
• Project
engineering, installation, training and complete solution
• Calibration in our
wind tunnel
The customers in more than 100countries of the world trust in
LAMBRECHT
Weather services•Hydrological
services•Universities•Environmental
protection•Airports•Wind
energy plants•Traffic
engineering•Mining
industry•Agriculture
and forestry•Industrial
companies•Shipbuilding•Storage•Quality
assurance•German
Federal Armed Forces•Museums•Galleries•Building
engineering•Chemistry-medical
technology
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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
The HMEI website in its Exhibitions page has a brief description and contact
information of exhibitions which come to our attention which would be
of interest to our members.
Currently the page has information links regarding upcoming exhibitions
including:
The European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna,
Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005.
The International Weather Forecast Expo & Conference 2005
(IWFEX'05) 24- 26 May 2005, Abu Dhabi.
9th
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
(IAMAS) Scientific Assembly, 2-11 August 2005, Beijing, China.
The Royal Meteorological Society Conference 2005, University of
Exeter UK, 11 - 16 September 2005.
The 5th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society, 12-16
September 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The International Workshop on Flash Flood Forecasting, September
19-23 2005, Costa Rica.
The 3rd China International Exhibition on Meteorological Technology and
Equipment and The China Forum and Exhibition on Lightning Protection
Technology and Equipment, 26-28 October 2005, Shanghai, China.
For
updated information on these exhibitions please go to
the HMEI website Exhibitions page.
If you know of
an exhibition of interest to our members, please email details to the HMEI
Administrator at hmei@wmo.int
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