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Association of Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry
at
86th AMS Jan. 2006
An HMEI General Assembly was held at
86th AMS, 9.15am on Tuesday 31st January 2006
in
Room A310,
Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
The announcement of the HMEI General Assembly and an article on HMEI was featured on the front-page of the Monday 30th January BAM, the daily paper of the AMS Exhibition and Conference.
Please click here for the minutes of the HMEI 2006 General Assembly meeting.
HMEI
also had a booth at the AMS 86th General Assembly Exhibition. Where the Executive Secretary was in attendance with the latest edition of the HMEI Catalogue on
CD available for visitors and with the HMEI website live on line for visitors to the booth to see.
The HMEI Executive Secretary Bruce Sumner at
the HMEI booth in AMS-86.
Photo thanks to Mr. Yuji Hayashi, Oriental Electronics, Inc. |
Bruce Sumner and Mr. Serizawa, Director,
International Div., TOTEX Corporation, at the HMEI booth.
Photo thanks to "Aki" Nakazato, Totex Corporation. |
Naturally
many HMEI Members were exhibiting at AMS-86. HMEI Members constituted 35 of the 109 exhibitors at AMS this year, with other HMEI Members also attending the AMS
conferences.
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 REPORT
- CIMO ET on Meteorological Radiation and Atmospheric Composition Measurements, 6-10 February 2006, Davos, Switzerland
The HMEI was represented at this meeting by Mr. Kees
Hoogendijk from Kipp & Zonen, Bruce Sumner and Christine Charstone from the HMEI Secretariat.
Mr. Hoogendijk made some pertinent and useful observations to the
meeting. He has been invited to pass his comments on amendments to Chapter 7 of the CIMO Guide, to Dr Bruce
Forgan, so that they can included in the Chapter's revision.
Click here for the HMEI report for this meeting.
The WMO official report of this meeting is available from the CIMO website at: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/reports/2003-2007/ET-MR&ACM-1_Final%20Report.pdf
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16-24 February
2006, 14th WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), Cape Town, South Africa
The
HMEI Chairman is currently attending this meeting. A report on the meeting, from Mr Dieterink will be made
available after the meeting on the HMEI Reports page.
For more information please see details at the International Meetings page.
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13-17 MARCH,
2006, THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FLASH FLOOD FORECASTING,
COSTA RICA
As a result of the HMEI collaboration with WMO, all the exhibiting/presentation opportunities associated with this workshop have now been filled.
HMEI Manufacturers making presentations
and exhibiting are:
Almos BV (Telvent) - Netherlands (Spain)
EEC (Enterprise Electronics Corporation) - USA
OTT Messtechnik - Germany
SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH - Germany
SELEX - Germany
SIAP + MICROS - Italy
SUTRON - USA
Vaisala - Finland
WDT (Weather
Decision Technologies) - USA
A provisional version of the programme for this workshop is available here.
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16-18
March 2006, Steering Group on Radio-Frequency Coordination (SG-RFC), Geneva Switzerland
AND
20-21 March 2006,
Workshop
on Radio-Frequencies for Meteorology, Geneva, Switzerland
These two meetings follow on one from the other, with a break on the Sunday in-between.
The Executive
Secretary of HMEI has been invited to attend for HMEI, however an expert in the field is needed from our members, to be the HMEI representative to this Expert
Team.
So if you are an experienced expert, who can represent HMEI in this Expert Team, and who would like to attend, for either one or both of the meetings, you are
particularly needed. Please contact Bruce Sumner at hmei@wmo.int if you are interested in attending.
For information on both meetings please see: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/BAS/CBS-meetings.html
For the Workshop agenda go to: http://www.wmo.int/web/www/TEM/RF-W-2006/agenda.doc
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 20-24
March 2006, CBS/IOS
Expert Team on Requirements for Data from Automatic Weather Stations (ET-AWS), fourth session,, Geneva, Switzerland
The HMEI Member expert representing HMEI at this meeting will be:
Mr. Thomas Fröhlich from Logotronic - Germany
Topics at this meeting will include:
 Guidelines for AWS Quality Control Procedures
The Development of Standards for the Standardization of AWS Platforms
Development of Practical Examples for a Standard Set of Metadata for AWS
HMEI and CIMO Cooperation in Defining Metadata
Needs for the Future WMO Information System
Updating AWS Code and Descriptor Tables
More information on this meeting is available at: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/OSY/Meetings/ET-AWS4-2006/DocPlan.html
The provisional agenda is available at: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/OSY/Meetings/ET-AWS4-2006/Doc%201.2(1).doc
The HMEI Administrator, Christine Charstone, will also attend to make the HMEI report of the meeting.
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 2-7 April 2006,
General
Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria,
The EGU General Assembly 2006 aims to bring together geoscientists from all over Europe and the rest of
the world into one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences.
For information on this meeting please go to: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/
There is also an exhibition associated with the meeting will be held on the Yellow Level
of the Austria Center Vienna (ACV), from the 3rd to 7th April.
For information on this exhibition please go to: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/general_information_for_exhibitors.html
The HMEI Secretariat will be attending this exhibition, thanks to the generous sponsorship by Gerhard Pevny from Logotronic, who has offered to pay for accommodation expenses for the Secretariat attending EGU in Vienna.
Mr. Pevny made his generous gesture at the HMEI General Assembly in Atlanta. Mr Pevny said that he believes it would be beneficial for the HMEI Secretariat to
attend EGU in Vienna in April, to make contact with potential new members and to generally introduce HMEI to as many people as possible. HMEI expresses its
gratitude to Mr. Pevny for his kind offer.
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4-7 April 2006,
CIMO
Expert Team on Regional Instrument Centres, Quality Management Systems and Commercial Instrument Initiatives, Geneva, Switzerland (Reduced
Session)
HMEI has one person nominated for this team, Mr. Kimmo Ristolainen,
Vaisala,
Finland, who will be invited to represent HMEI at this meeting.
The reduced format of the meeting has meant that the Commercial Instruments Initiative item will not be discussed on this occasion.
For information on this meeting, including the agenda outlining the reduced items of the session, please go to: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/meetings/CB/ET-RICs_Geneva/DocPlan.html
Any other HMEI members interested in attending this meeting and/or nominating as experts to this ET, can contact the HMEI Secretariat at hmei@wmo.int
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25-28
April, CBS/ISS Expert Team on WIS-GTS Commuinication Techniques and Structure (ET-CTS) Japan
(to be confirmed)
Whilst the venue of this meeting is tentatively Japan, no details are yet available from CBS. HMEI will forward
details, to Members, as they become available.
However members who are interested in nominating for representing HMEI on this Expert Team and who would be interested in attending the meeting, please contact
Bruce Sumner at hmei@wmo.int
For information on the Terms of Reference for this Expert Team, please see page 141 (in Annex X) of the Report of CBS XIII at: http://www.wmo.int/files/www/CBS-XIII/WMO-985_English.pdf
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8-12
May 2006, CBS/ISS JOINT
meeting ET-DRC and CT-MTDCF ET on Data Representation and Codes; and CT on Migration to Table Driven Code Forms, Montreal, Canada
HMEI members who will be experts at this meetings are:
Paul Heppner from 3SI - USA
Michal Weis from IBL Software Engineering - Slovakia
Agenda and documentation are not yet available for this meeting. The HMEI Secretariat will inform Members
when documentation is posted at the CBS website: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/BAS/CBS-meetings.html
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8-12 May 2006,WMO
Training Workshop on Upper-Air Observations for RA-III (South America), Buenos Aires, Argentina
The HMEI Secretariat was contacted by WMO to provide names of
Upper-Air manufacturers, as possible participants in this workshop. WMO have now invited four HMEI Member manufacturers to participate:
International Met Systems - USA
Lockheed Martin-Sippican - USA
Modem - France
Vaisala - Finland
Further information on this workshop, including the programme and local arrangements is available at the CIMO meetings webpage: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/meetings.html
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9-16 May,
WMO
Regional Association V (South-West Pacific)-14th Session, Adelaide, Australia
HMEI
has received the official invitation to attend this session. HMEI
Members with an interest in this Region may wish to attend this meeting.
Items
in the agenda include:
Looking
at the Integrated Observing System (IOS) and Instruments and Methods of Observation Programme (IMOP), including issues related to Instrument Development,
Training and Capacity Building.
A review of the Information Systems and Services (ISS);
including reviewing the status of WWW Data Management in the Region, codes and migration to table driven codes and matters related to radio frequencies for
meteorological activities.
Information on the development of the Global Climate
Observing System (GCOS).
Report on the Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW), including
support to ozone and other environment-oriented conventions.
The implementation of the World Weather Research
Programme (WWRP), including THORPEX.
Review of the Technical Cooperation Programme (TCPO) in
the Region, including the WMO Voluntary Cooperation Programme development of partnerships with funding institutions, national governments and development
partners.
Hydrology, Marine and Aeronautical Meteorological
Programmes in the Region will also be discussed.
Interested
members please contact the HMEI Secretariat at hmei@wmo.int
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22-24
May 2006, GCOS/ NOAA Workshop on Upper-Air Requirements for Global Climate Observing, Seattle, USA
All
HMEI Upper-Air manufacturers will by now have received an invitation from GCOS to this workshop. HMEI Members who have stated their intention to attend this
workshop are:
Fred Clowney from InterMet
Tom Curran from Lockheed Martin-Sippican
Modem will also send a representative
The HMEI Executive Secretary, Bruce Sumner, who is a member of the steering committee, has also been invited to attend, but due to budget restrains will not probably
not attend.
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20-30
June, WMO Executive Council - Fifty-Eighth Session, Geneva, Switzerland
This
annual event will as usual be attended and reported on by the HMEI Secretariat and such members of the HMEI Council as are available to come. Further
information on this Council session will be put on the HMEI web as it becomes available.
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Intercomparison
Reports
The
two major WMO Intercomparisons held and/or finalized in 2005, with which HMEI manufacturers were considerably involved, have now had their Final Reports published on the CIMO website.
The Final Report
for the WMO Laboratory Intercomparison of Rainfall Intensity Gauges is available at:
http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/reports/2003-2007/RI-IC_Final_Report.pdf
For
the Data Sheets from the RI Intercomparison download the zip file at: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/reports/2003-2007/RI-IC_Final%20DataSheets.zip
The
Final Report on the
WMO Intercomparison of High Quality Radiosonde Systems is
available at: www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/reports/2003-2007/RSO-IC-2005_Final_Report.pdf
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New
director of the World Weather Watch (WWW) in WMO
The former Director of WWW in WMO Dieter Schiessl has retired from his position as of February 2006. Mr Schiessl was much involved with the initial set-up of
HMEI and is well know with the HMEI founding members.
The new Director of WWW is now Mr John L. Hayes, from the USA. Jack Hayes is well know and respected in the meteorological community. HMEI will be interested in
meeting and working with the new Director. Bruce Sumner, the HMEI Executive Secretary, will be arranging to formally meet with Mr Hayes later this in March.
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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
February 27 - March 2, 2006,
EWEC - European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition 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
2-23 March, 2006,
Oceanology
International 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
25-27 March, 2006, 13th
International Road Weather Conference, 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
3-7
April 2006, WASSER
BERLIN 2006, 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
2-7 April 2006, General
Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria
The EGU General Assembly 2006,
as reported above, has an exhibition associated with the meeting and will be held
on the Yellow Level
of the Austria Center Vienna (ACV), from the 3rd to 7th April.
For information online about this exhibition please go to: http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2006/general_information_for_exhibitors.html
24th to 26th May 2006, 4th International Conference on Experiences
with Automatic Weather Stations - 4th ICEAWS,
Lisboa, PortugaL
This is being organized by the Instituto de Meteorologia - Portugal.
There is also an Equipment Exhibition associated with this conference, for exhibition of meteorological equipments and services, related with the themes of 4th
ICEAWS.
Please, check the Portuguese Meteorological Institute Web site:
http://web.meteo.pt/en/extras/webICEAWS/iceaws_home.htm
17-20 July, 2006,
13th
ISARS 2006,
International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary Layer Remote
Sensing, 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/
3-7
September 2006, 6th Annual Meeting
European
Meteorological Society Conference and Exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenia
This EMS
will be partnered with the 6th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC).
The
2006 EMS will
consist of a broad and open scientific conference with oral and poster presentations as well as symposia and special lectures
and an
associated Exhibition.
For information on the Exhibition see: http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2006/index.html
Further information
on the conference see: http://www.emetsoc.org/EMS6/index.html
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, updated as they 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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