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You
are invited to the
Association of Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry
General Assembly Meeting
at
86th AMS
in
Room A310,
Georgia World Congress Center,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
on
Tuesday 31st January 2006
9.15 to 10.45am
Please click here for the agenda
HMEI will
also have BOOTH 640
at the AMS 86th General Assembly Exhibition. We hope to introduce HMEI to
potential new members. We will also be promoting the HMEI Catalogue to hydro-meteorological
product users and giving out free copies of the HMEI Catalogue on CD. We invite you all to visit the booth and look forward to meeting new people and
renewing old friendships there.
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 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
The HMEI was a co-sponsor
of this exhibition and was noted as such on the exhibition announcements and displays at the exhibition main entrance. The organizers of the event have
expressed their appreciation for HMEI's support and have sent HMEI a CD of the opening ceremony of the exhibition.
HMEI had a colour full page advert in the exhibition catalogue, provide at no cost by the exhibition organisers.
HMEI
member companies who exhibited at, or were represented at, Shanghai were:
• Kipp & Zonen
• IMKO Micromodultechnik
• MPS
System
• OTT
Messtechnik
• The
Republic Group Corporation
• Vaisala
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UPDATE ON THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FLASH FLOOD FORECASTING WORKSHOP, 13-17 MARCH,
2006,
COSTA RICA
As noted in the previous newsletter, HMEI
was invited to assist the WMO with advice from the manufacturers point of view
on the possible organization an Exhibition to accompany this International
Workshop on Flash Flood Forecasting.
The
organizers have decided that
they will provide a small exhibition area for those manufacturers presenting papers at this event. The person to contact for this event is Mr.
Wolfgang Grabs in the WMO Hydrology and Water Resources Department, Tel: +41-22-730-8358, email: WGrabs@wmo.int
Manufacturers also have the possibility of providing a short presentation, in absentia, and /or brochures and leaflets, which would be included in the workshop
documentation.
HMEI
Member manufacturers currently involved with this event are:
Enterprise Electronics Corporation (EEC) - USA
SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH - Germany
Weather
Decision Technologies (WDT) - USA
WMO/NOAA are seeking additional sponsorship, in the form of host dinners which would also be an opportunity to have brief slide shows/films on products
and services that bear direct relevance to the subject of the workshop.
The workshop is by invitation only.
To request an invitation or if you are interested in sponsoring or making a presentation at this event please email
HMEI. HMEI will be sending members a general participants package that is
currently being developed. It is expected to be ready in the first week of January.
For additional information please look at the PDF information
document. Please note that in the paragraph headed WORKSHOP DATES AND VENUE, the dates for this event are incorrectly stated as being in September
2005, this was a date originally considered and since revised to March 2006.
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 6th Session of the WMO
Working Group on Hydrology, Regional Association V (South-West Pacific),17-21 October 2005, Nadi,
Fiji
Bill
Barratt from Hydrological Services, Australia, represented HMEI at this meeting. The report from Bill
is expected shortly and will be posted on the HMEI website when received.
The WMO report should be available in January and HMEI members will be informed when this is so.
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REPORT - CIMO ET on Upper-Air Systems
Intercomparisons, 2nd Session; & International Organizing Committee (IOC) on
Upper-Air Systems Intercomparisons, 2nd SessioN, 28-30 NOV 2006, GENEVA
HMEI Members on this Expert Team who attended were Florian Schmidmer (Graw); Fred Clowney(InterMet);
Mr Shinichi Tsuda and Mr Makoto Fujita (Meisei); Rémy Pepin (Modem); Tom Curran (Lockheed Martin-Sippican); and Paul Ruppert.(Meteolabor). The HMEI
Secretariat also attended this meeting.
The meeting
reviewed the Draft report of the results of the High Quality Upper-Air Systems Intercomparison. The link to the resulting Final Report on the Intercomparison
will be posted on the HMEI website Intercomparisons page as soon as it is available.
Please click here for the HMEI Secretariat's report of this meeting.
For the CIMO report on this meeting please see: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/reports.html
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REPORT - CIMO ET on Surface-based Instrument Intercomparisons
and Calibration Methods, 2nd Session; & International Organizing
Committee (IOC) on Surface-based Intercomparisons, 2nd Session
The two HMEI Members on the ET for Surface-based Instruments, Gerhard Prevny (Logotronic) and Panu
Kopsala (Vaisala), and HMEI Secretariat attended this meeting.
For the CIMO report on this meeting please see: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/reports.html
The meeting
reviewed the Draft report of the results of the RI
Gauges
Intercomparison. The link to the resulting Final Report on the Intercomparison will be posted on the HMEI website Intercomparisons page as soon as it is available.
This meeting also made decisions on:
 WMO Field Intercomparison of Rainfall Intensity (RI) Gauges to take place at Italian Air Force Centre of Meteorological Experimentation (ResMA) site in Vigna
di Valle, Italy, at the beginning of 2007;
and
WMO Combined Intercomparison of Thermometer Screens/Shields in
conjunction with Humidity Measuring Instruments, proposed to be held in Ghardaia, Algeria, focusing on Instruments in desert conditions, proposed to commence in November 2006 and to finish in October 2007.
Please click here for the HMEI Secretariat's report of this meeting.
For the CIMO report on this meeting please see: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/reports.html
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CIMO
Expert Team on Meteorological Radiation and Atmospheric Composition Measurements, 6-10 February 2006 in Davos, Switzerland
HMEI has received advanced
notice of this ET from CIMO. Working Documents for this meeting are available at the CIMO website at: http://www.wmo.int/web/www/IMOP/meetings/Surface/ET-MRandACM_Davos/DocPlan.html
The HMEI nominated representatives on this Expert Team are from:
Kipp & Zonen, Middleton Solar and Vaisala.
To date Mr. Kees
Hoogendijk from Kipp & Zonen has confirmed
he will attend.
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14th WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), 16-24 February
2006, Cape Town, South Africa
HMEI has received an official invitation to attend this meeting. Ben Dieterink has expressed interest in representing HMEI at this meeting.
Other members interested in attending please contact the HMEI Secretariat at: hmei@wmo.int
For more information please see details at the International Meetings page.
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Chairman
of the WMO Steering Group on Radio-Frequency
Coordination Visits the HMEI Office
HMEI is an invited expert to this Steering Group. The new Chairman, Mr Philippe Tristant, emailed HMEI
requesting a meeting with the HMEI Executive Secretary, Bruce Sumner. As a result, on December 14, Bruce had the pleasure of welcoming Mr Tristant, to the
HMEI office in Geneva.
Mr Tristant is the Programme Manager of the EUMETNET protection of radio frequencies group, in addition to his role as Chairman of the WMO Steering Group on Radio-Frequency Coordination. He is keen to have input from the manufacturers on radio frequency issues with which
our industry is concerned. The Executive Secretary and Mr Tristant discussed how HMEI involvement in the Steering Group would facilitate input from a
manufacturer’s perspective into the radio frequency issues of concern to hydrology, meteorology and satellites. At Mr Tristant's invitation HMEI will be
actively involved in the EUMETNET and WMO initiative regarding protection of relevant radio frequency bands.
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HMEI
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY INVITED TO ADDRESS THE CBS/ISS CORDINATION TEAM ON TABLE DRIVEN CODE FORMS
The
1st session of the WMO Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) OPAG on ISS Coordination Team on Migration to Table Driven Code Forms, was held on 1-4 November 2005
in Geneva.
The Chairman, Fred Branski, invited the HMEI Executive Secretary, Bruce Sumner, to address the meeting and introduce the Association of HMEI to the attendees
of the meeting. Fred Branski wishes to have stronger involvement of manufacturers in this team and has asked HMEI to act as the facilitator for manufacturers'
participation in the 2nd session of the meeting of this team, to be held in May 2006.
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Change
of Co-Chair for CIMO OPAG on Surface Observation Technology
Dr Carolin Richter (Germany) has resigned as CIMO-MG member and as Co chairperson of the OPAG-Surface
Observation Technology due to a new assignment in Germany. Mr Karl-Heinz Klapheck (Germany) is the new OPAG Chairman.
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New
HMEI CONTACT AT Integrated
Weather and Environmental Systems Business Development at Lockheed Martin
Gerry Allen has left his previous position in Integrated
Weather and Environmental Systems Business Development at Lockheed Martin, for a different position in the company. His
replacement is Bryce Ford, who will also be the new contact for HMEI at Lockheed Martin. HMEI wishes all the best to Gerry, with whom it has been a great pleasure
to work. We welcome Bryce and look forward to working with him.
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Changes and Updates on the
HMEI Website
On your next visit o the HMEI website you will see that we have revised the colour scheme for the website front page and introduced a background on all pages
similar to that used for HMEI Member Products Catalogue section. The Reports page, Meetings page and Exhibitions page have also been updated.
A new item "New Products" has also been added to the website recently. Members who have a new instrument, technology or system, can send us a short
announcement on the new product and an electronic leaflet or hyperlink to details of the new product and these will be put into the New Products section on
the website.
We hope that this will be a useful addition for members, in that visitors to our website will see that HMEI is the best resource to quickly find the best new
products introduced into our industry.
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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
2006 AMS 86th Annual Meeting, Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta,
GA. 29 January 2006 - 02 February 2006
The
information on this meeting and exhibition are available at: http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/index.html
Please
see the programs and events page for a complete listing of conferences and
symposia along with dates and deadlines at: http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/programsandevents.html
You can access the
exhibitor services website for this event by going to:
http://www.ametsoc.org/netapps/es/esevent.aspx?ec=86ANNUAL&ty=E
EWEC - European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition 2006 February 27 - March 2, 2006, Athens, Greece
The European Wind Energy Conferences are widely recognised as premier wind energy events, and are said to attract a
high number of professionals, leading experts and exhibiting companies from across the globe.
The conference programme includes over 500 confirmed oral and poster presentations from the top players in and beyond the wind power industry.
For information please go to: http://www.ewea.org/06b_events/events_2006EWEC.htm
Oceanology
International 2006, 2-23 March, 2006, London, UK
The exhibition and conference, held every two
years, showcases the cutting-edge technologies and advancing the sciences
related to the future of the global ocean planet. It is advertised as the
"World's Largest Marine Science & Ocean Technology Meeting". It
is sponsored by WMO and IOC amongst others.
Information on this exhibition can be found at: www.oi06.com
13th
International Road Weather Conference, 25-27 March, 2006, Turin,
Italy
Exhibition space will be
available at the conference for suppliers of weather and snow/ice control and
forecasting systems, and for suppliers of winter maintenance management
systems or winter maintenance equipment. Manufacturers who are interested, please contact them for further details on
available space and equipment and about the costs.
Details are available at: http://www.sirwec.org/docs/sirwec2006.pdf
WASSER
BERLIN 2006, 3-7
April, Berlin, Germany
This international trade show and conference features discussion forums with international experts on a variety of water-related topics.
Details are available
at: http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.wasser-berlin/index_e.html
13th
ISARS 2006,
International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary Layer Remote
Sensing, 17-20 July, 2006, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
The symposium will be a forum for
single-session oral presentations, for posters, and for the display of
instrumentation. For further information please go to: http://imk-ifu.fzk.de/isars/
OTHER INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
The HMEI website in its Exhibitions
section http://www.hydrometeoindustry.org/Exhibitions.htm has a brief description and contact information of exhibitions which come to our attention
which would be of interest to our members.
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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