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 HMEI
at the General
Assembly of the European Geosciences Union (EGU), Vienna, Austria 2-7 April 2006
The EGU General Assembly 2006 is a conference that brings 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. The scope is huge and in April 2006 there were over 600
lecture sessions, plus hundreds of corresponding poster sessions.
Lecture Topics covered:
Atmospheric Sciences;
Biogeosciences; Climate;
Cryospheric Sciences;
Energy Resources & Environment;
Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology & Vulcanology;
Geodesy;
Geodynamics;
Geomorphology;
Geophysical Instrumentation;
Hydrological Sciences;
Magnetism, Paelomagnetism, Rock Physics & Geomaterials;
Natural Hazards;
Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics;
Ocean Sciences;
Planetary and Solar Sciences;
Seismology;
Soil System Sciences;
Solar-Terrestrial Sciences;
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology & Palaeontology;
Tectonics ands Structural Geology.
The exhibition associated with the meeting was held
on the ground floor of the Austria Center Vienna (ACV), from the 3rd to 7th April, 9am to 6pm each day. The situation for the exhibition booths was excellent for the 45 exhibitors, as it was
at the entrance to the conference areas and all attendees inevitably passed through the exhibits area. Whilst the exhibitors covered a range of related
sciences, many were focused towards to the seismic and vulcanology or geological sciences and 8 were science book vendors.
Five HMEI members exhibited at the EGU this year:
Logotronic |
Kipp & Zonen |
METEK |
SCINTEC |
Skye Instruments |
The HMEI Secretariat, Bruce Sumner and Christine Charstone, attended this exhibition, thanks to the generous sponsorship by Gerhard Pevny from Logotronic, who paid for accommodation expenses for the Secretariat attending EGU in Vienna.
Bruce and Christine were pleased to be able to renew acquaintances with the attending HMEI Members, as well as participants and attendees at the
conferences. They introduced the HMEI Association to potential new HMEI members. Valuable information and contacts were also gained for a future
publications section on the HMEI website, which will allow Members to easily access relevant science publications.
Contact was established with Katja Gäenger, the
Copernicus meeting organizer, which will assist with future Copernicus meetings such as EMS 2006 and the 2007 EGU in which HMEI and its Members will be
interested in participating.
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 Report
- the 14th WMO Commission for Atmospheric Sciences (CAS), Cape Town, South Africa 16-24 February 2006
The
HMEI Chairman, Ben Dieterink, attended this meeting on behalf of HMEI.
There were representatives from 43 WMO member countries, 13 international invited experts, invitees from 7 international organisations (of which HMEI was one),
the 9 people from the WMO Secretariat, 2 officers of the session and 3 other participants. For more
the full (pdf) list of the participants please click here.
A detailed report on the meeting, from Mr Dieterink, is available at the
HMEI Reports page.
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Report
- Steering Group on Radio-Frequency Coordination (SG-RFC), Geneva Switzerland, 16-18 March 2006
AND
20-21 March 2006,
Workshop
on Radio-Frequencies for Meteorology, Geneva, Switzerland
These two meetings followed on one from the other, with a break on the Sunday in-between.
The Executive Secretary, Bruce Sumner, is a member of the Steering Group and represented HMEI at that session.
Ilkka Ikonen from Vaisala, attended the Workshop on
20 and 21 March as the HMEI expert representative.
Mr Sumner's report of the Steering Group meeting is available
on the HMEI Reports page.
For information about both meetings please see: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/BAS/CBS-meetings.html#RecentMeetings
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 REPORT
- CBS/IOS
Expert Team on Requirements for Data from Automatic Weather Stations (ET-AWS), fourth session, Geneva, Switzerland, 20-24
March 2006
Mr. Thomas Fröhlich from Logotronic - Germany,
represented HMEI as an expert at this meeting and presented a paper Logotronic's
Integrated Quality Management System, outlined the development by Logotronic of a Data Logger with in-built Quality Management System conforming to
guidelines suggested by WMO.
Christine Charstone the HMEI Administrator, also attended the meeting and made the HMEI report of the meeting available
at the HMEI Reports page.
The
WMO Final Report of the meeting is available at: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/CBS-Reports/IOS-index.html
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REPORT
- CIMO
Expert Team on Regional Instrument Centres, Quality Management Systems and Commercial Instrument Initiatives, Geneva, Switzerland (Reduced
Session), 4-7 April
2006
HMEI has one person nominated for this team, Mr. Kimmo
Ristolainen from
Vaisala,
Finland, who attended as the HMEI representative at this meeting. The HMEI
Secretariat was unable to attend due to a prior commitment to attend the EGU in Vienna.
On behalf of all HMEI, Kimmo Ristolainen presented a report on Commercial
Instrument Initiatives made by the HMEI Secretariat at the request of the ET Chairman.
A presentation on Vaisala Initiatives was also presented by Mr Ristolainen to the meeting.
The WMO Report of this meeting will be available soon at: http://www.wmo.int/web/www/IMOP/reports.html
The Secretariat would like to know of any other Members interested in nominating as experts to this ET, for future meetings. Please contact the HMEI Secretariat at hmei@wmo.int
if you are interested.
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REPORT
- THE INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON FLASH FLOOD FORECASTING, 13-17 MARCH,
2006, COSTA RICA,
HMEI Manufacturers who
made presentations
and exhibited at this event were:
ALMOS BV (Telvent) - Netherlands (Spain)
EEC (Enterprise Electronics Corporation) - USA
MEISEI - Japan
OTT Messtechnik - Germany
SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH - Germany
SELEX - Germany
SIAP + MICROS - Italy
SUTRON - USA
VAISALA - Finland
WDT (Weather
Decision Technologies) - USA
Some comments HMEI has received from Member participants, on their experience of the event, follow:
Kurt Nemeth
OTT MESSTECHNIK GmbH & Co.KG
"Due
to other activities in the workshop week, I arrived just before my presentation and unfortunately I left the nice conference area the next day. I have
enjoyed the Costa Rica entertainment dinner at the dancing spot and I am absolutely sure that I have missed lots of mutual and competent presentations and
conversations during, before and after the official workshop. Next time I shall be present the whole time and be part of the workshop community and will
appreciate the friendly and competent atmosphere of the workshop happening.
I appreciated the presentations and thanks for the kind attention of the auditorium."
Wolfgang Zasche
SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH
"The conference in general was very well booked. Participants from
all central America, USA, Europe and Asia have been there. Only a few number of experts from South America. It was very well organized and I think all
participants have been satisfied. The exhibition itself was not very well visited, as the interest in instruments was small. Nevertheless it was worth to
have participated."
Irma Ylikangas
Business Development Manager
Vaisala Oyj
"The congress in general was very good.
We had some slight difficulties with the exhibition. The exhibition was in separate room and the coffee breaks where kept in other areas. I asked the
organizer to put the coffee to the same room than where the exhibition was after that we had two coffee breaks in the exhibition room and then the room
was crowded. Also the exhibition was not that well marketed in the beginning and some of the vendors took the board and wrote on it an arrow to the exhibition.
I want to give my best thanks to the organizer that vendors did have a chance to give a presentation. This was organized very well. The presentations
where the last ones of the day, but the audience stayed in the room until the end. My best thanks to audience about it."
Dr. Shanker Man Shrestha
Meisei Electric Co., Ltd.
"It was an immense pleasure and honour to participate in the International Workshop on Flash Flood
Forecasting held in Costa Rica, 13 to 17 March 2006. We (Meisei Electric Co. Ltd) got an opportunity to meet the researchers, scientists, executives and
professionals from various country and international organizations in the sideline of the conference. In addition, we received first hand feed back from
the end user of various country representatives, which is a great assets for the system manufacture like MEISEI, to design and manufacture highly precise,
reliable, user friendly and low cost Flash Flood Forecasting equipment using our cutting edge technology. Since the flash flood is a global problem and
the disaster and catastrophe are on an unpredicted scale in terms of life and property, cooperation and partnership among the global communities, such as,
scientist, policy maker, system manufacturer and end users, is an essential aspect to combat with the flash flood challenges. In this seminar, we had an
opportunity to talk with the representatives from the various countries and also had an opportunity to examine the possibilities to promote the
partnership, collaboration and business among the international funding organization and business organizations. We are pleased to notice that great
efforts have been done by the developed and the underdeveloped countries form their level to combat the flash flood problem using technology, such as
satellite, radar, rain gauze measuring devices and so on. In this scenario, MEISEI would like to take pleasure to present the proposals for Flash Flood
Forecasting (FFF) using its high tech and high touch technology to simple and reliable technology, which is explained as in the attachment."
Also see Meisei's Costa Rica Presentation
Luis Gomez
Siap+Micros
"We
want to high-light the following points:
•
The requirement to develop an end-to-end (from monitoring and
prediction through to appropriate on the ground action to save lives and economic impact) system to reduce the impacts of flash floods.
•
Any end-to-end flash flood forecasting and warning system will only
be as strong as its weakest link. The best forecasts alone will not save lives unless the impacted communities translate them into appropriate actions for
life saving activities.
•
There is a need for national disaster management strategies that
integrate many types of disasters, that is, a multi-hazard approach needs to be implemented.
•
Communities have a major role to play in the management of flash
flood risks. The concept of ‘Community Based Disaster Risk Management’ (CBDRM) should be promoted in parallel with the concept of ‘Community-based
Natural Resources Management’ (CBNRM) since the management of resources and risks go hand in hand.
•
The existing meteorological and hydrological networks for data collection and transmission in many countries are inadequate for forecasting and to provide
early warning.
• There
were illustrated some case studies about regional satellite rainfall estimation over ungauged basins for flood forecasting purposes, the results confirmed
that without ground-based observations, the error estimation and the risk of false alarms can be very high.
• The workshop final session discussed future demonstration
projects, donors, international cooperation etc, unfortunately the progress in this field was very little. The USAID Agency that was one of
the organizers didn't show any specific proposal.
Within
our presentation we highlighted the fact that the EuropeAid Agency was not invited to participate, which have a specific
cooperation programme in this field. The DIPECHO
Disaster Preparedness ECHO Programme funded between 1996 and 2004 more than 319
projects worldwide with an overall amount of €78 million."
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25-28
April, CBS/ISS Expert Team on WIS-GTS Communication Techniques and Structure (ET-CTS) Tokyo,
Japan
Update:
The venue of this meeting has now been confirmed in Tokyo, Japan. New details are now available from CBS.
Please go to: http://www.wmo.int/web/www/TEM/ET-CTS06/documents.html for
information.
A block booking at a hotel in Tokyo has been made for attendees. This information is also available at the
above web link.
Due to the short notice of firm details on this meeting, no HMEI members have nominated to be HMEI representatives at this Expert Team meeting. Any
members who are interested in attending the meeting, please contact
Bruce Sumner at hmei@wmo.int
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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
Update:
The documentation, in particular the Provisional Agenda is now available for this meeting on the CBS website: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/BAS/CBS-meetings.html
HMEI members who will be experts at this meetings are:
Paul Heppner from 3SI
Michal Weis from IBL Software Engineering
Michal Weis from IBL will have a proposal to present to the meeting. More on this will be given in the HMEI report on this meeting in the next newsletter.
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8-12 May 2006,WMO
Training Workshop on Upper-Air Observations for RA-III (South America), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Update:
The confirmed HMEI attendees of Upper-Air manufacturers as participants in this workshop are:
Fred Clowney from International Met Systems
Remy Pepin from Modem
Aleksis
Kajava and Toni Stormdell from Vaisala
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 to date one representative attending this meeting:
Mr Bob Wright from Environmental Systems and Services (ES&S),
which is a newly joined member of HMEI.
Details
of items on the agenda of this meeting were given in the previous newsletter.
The
Provisional agenda is now available at ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/sessions/XIV-RA-V/English/pdf/d02-2_en.pdf
Other documents for this meeting are also available at: ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/sessions/XIV-RA-V/English/pdf/
Other Members interested in attending 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
Update:
HMEI
Members
who have confirmed their attendance at this
workshop are:
Fred Clowney from
International Met Systems
Tom Curran from Lockheed Martin-Sippican
Pat Kelly from Coastal Environmental Systems will represent Modem
Hannu Jauhiainen and Ken Goss from Vaisala
The agenda and other information for this meeting can be found at:
http://www.oco.noaa.gov/index.jsp?show_page=page_meetings_gcos.jsp&sub_page=page_sub_DCRUAO2.jsp&nav=universal&link=agenda
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20-30
June, 2006, WMO Executive Council - Fifty-Eighth Session, Geneva, Switzerland
The
HMEI Chairman Ben Dieterink will be unavailable to attend this year's WMO EC. The Executive Secretary and Administrator are currently the representatives
nominated as attending for HMEI.
Other HMEI Councillors are invited to nominate themselves as attendees for all or part of this EC session. Please contact HMEI at hmei@wmo.int
if you are interested in attending.
Further
information on this WMO Council session will be put on the HMEI web as it becomes available.
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17-21 July
2006, WMO Climate Risk Conference and Exhibition, Espoo, Finland
Living with Climate Variability and Change: Understanding the Uncertainties and Managing the Risks
Organized by the World Meteorological Organization, co-hosted by the Finnish Meteorological Institute and International Research Institute for Climate
and Society and co-sponsored by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, this Conference is looking to also host an associated Exhibition.
The WMO organiser has contacted HMEI in the last month for advice in this regard. Whilst HMEI has pointed out that a longer preparation time for the
exhibition would have been desirable, HMEI has nevertheless been cooperating with advice on the exhibition possibilities and have agreed to send all information to its Members as soon as this is available, hopefully by the week of 24th April. An information package, on booths prices etc, is currently being
put together.
If you are interested in this exhibition in July please contact the HMEI Secretariat with your
expression of interest at hmei@wmo.int
The conference also invites one page abstracts for poster presentations, which should be emailed to , wmo2006abs@fmi.fi.
The deadline for the submission of poster session abstracts was 21 April 2006. However HMEI is negotiating for an extension for our Members, should they
wish to put a poster into the conference. Please contact HMEI on hmei@wmo.int
if you wish to submit a poster abstract.
.
First
Announcement of Conference as text (HTML)
The conference will review opportunities and constraints in integrating climate risks and uncertainties into the mainstreams of decision-making
where sensitivity to climate variability and change is but one among many factors to consider. It will draw on the experiences of public and private
organizations worldwide that have been engaged in managing risks including those of a climatic origin.
The focus of the conference, therefore, is on decision-processes in real-world contexts, including agriculture, water resource management, disease
control, power generation and disaster mitigation, where climate is one of the factors to be considered.
Conference participants will be drawn from many disciplines in both the private and public sectors, including mathematics, psychology, climate,
agriculture, health, hydrology, sociology, governance, development, energy and environment.
For up-to-date information see www.livingwithclimate.fi/
For expressions of interest and general inquiries (conference) email wmo@2006fmi.fi
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3-7
September 2006, HMEI AT the 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).
HMEI
has been in contact with the organisers of the Conference and they have kindly offered HMEI reserved booth no P-06 free of charge for HMEI to use. Both
HMEI and EMS are keen to foster cooperation between their two organisations.
The
HMEI Secretariat will attend the 6th EMS and "man" the HMEI booth. HMEI will, of course, be passing all information it receives from EMS to its
Members and looks forward to seeing many of them at the EMS Exhibition this September.
There
will also be an HMEI Council meeting held during this EMS.
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.
HMEI has been contacted to invite its Members to submit abstracts for the EMS this year. EMS are interested in having as many submissions from our
members as wish to participate. Abstract submissions are DUE on 28th April 2006.
EMS includes an "Instruments Session" in the programme this year. This is as a result of a suggestion by Richard Ellis from Campbell Scientific,
an HMEI member. His suggestion was also to have, as a main convenor, an academic person "as they may
have an impartial view and be best placed to avoid any commercial entanglements". EMS has therefore found an academic convenor, Jose Knez, director
of the Monitoring Office of the Slovenian Environmental Agency.
For Further 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
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18-
22 September 2006, Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD 2006), Barcelona, Spain
HMEI Members were directly informed at the beginning of April, of the Fourth European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD 2006) taking
place in Barcelona, Spain, 18 – 22 September 2006.
Aims & Scope
The ERAD conference series has been established as a biennial forum for the technical, atmospheric and hydrological sciences communities to discuss
advances in radar technology and applications.
Call-for-Papers / Abstract Submission
Submission of abstracts to the topical sessions has been invited.
Please use this link to access information; http://www.grahi.upc.es/ERAD2006/index.php
The deadline for the abstract submission was 10 April 2006, but this may be flexible.
There are Oral and Poster Programmes in 15 session topics. Please go to http://www.cosis.net/members/meetings/programme/view.php?p_id=217
for the list of these topics
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TWO
New WMO Intercomparisons for Surface Instruments
In March this year, HMEI was able to inform directly its Members of two WMO Intercomparisons coming up in
2007 and 2008:
WMO Field Intercomparison of RI Gauges WMO Field Intercomparison of RI Gauges in Italy, 2007-8
There will be a WMO Field Intercomparison of RI Gauges following up from the WMO Laboratory Intercomparisons of RI Gauges in 2005.
All kinds of instruments, which are being used or considered for future use within national networks, and are capable of measuring rainfall intensity of
at least 200mm.h-1 at a time resolution of 1 minute, could be accepted for participation. Those instruments accepted that did not participate in the
previous Lab Intercomparisons, will undergo a Laboratory Intercomparison prior to the Field Intercomparisons.
More information can be found on the CIMO/IMOP website:
www.wmo.int/web/www/IMOP/reports.html
The questionnaire to potential participants of this Intercomparison, was available by emailing a request for one to HMEI at hmei@wmo.inmt.
They were due for return to Dr M. Ondras at WMO by 14 APRIL 2006.
WMO Combined Intercomparison of Thermometer Screens/Shields in Conjunction with Humidity Measuring
Instruments, to be held in Ghardaïa, Algeria, beginning 2007 to beginning 2008.
For this Intercomparison all kind of instruments, which are being used or considered for future use within national networks, could be accepted for
participation.
Further information is available about this Intercomparison via the letter of invitation from WMO which is available from the WMO/CIMO website at:
http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/intercomparisons/Temp-Hum-2007/Circular-letter.doc
Although this letter specifically mentions countries as submitting instruments, HMEI members are also being invited to nominate instruments.
The completed questionnaires, which can be found at http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/intercomparisons/Temp-Hum-2007/QI.doc
, were due to be returned to Dr M. Ondras at WMO before 17 APRIL 2006.
Several HMEI Members have expressed interest in participating their instruments in these Intercomparisons.
More information on these will be posted in as it becomes available in future HMEI Newsletters and on the HMEI website.
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HMEI
involvement in OPACHE groups operated by the WMO Commission for Hydrology
HMEI has been officially informed by Bruce Stewart, President of the Commission for Hydrology (CHy), the he
would be pleased to enable access to HMEI expertise in the three OPACHEs (the CHy equivalent to CBS OPAGs) that HMEI has identified as being suitable for
our involvement.
The HMEI Executive Secretary will now be discussing with the CHy Secretariat how this may be best achieved. HMEI Members can soon expect to be called on
to nominate representatives for these OPACHEs. Further information will be sent direct to Members.
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TECO-2006
to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 December 2006
HMEI Members have been interested to know when the next TECO-CIMO will be held and if there will be an Exhibition with it.
HMEI has received the official invitation to attend TECO-2006, 4-6 December and CIMO, December 7-14 this year. There is no exhibition with these events in
2006; rather the next WMO exhibition opportunity will be at METEOHYDEX in May 2007.
However TECO-2006 will be of
interest to manufacturers. Presentations and/or posters have been invited to be submitted and several manufacturers have asked for information on this
from HMEI.
TECO-2006 is for experts in instrument and methods of observation from the
National Meteorological and Hydrological Services, research institutes, and the private sector to exchange information on the latest developments in
instrumentation, systems and services. TECO will also provide a valuable opportunity for training and capacity building, particularly for participants
from developing countries.
HMEI will send information to any financial members requesting it by email.
Abstracts of papers for the conference are due by 15th of May and can be sent to HMEI at hmei@wmo.int to forward to the CIMO
Secretariat.
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HMEI NEW
MEMBERS
The Association of Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes
the following companies as new HMEI members:
ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS & SERVICES Pty. Ltd. -
Australia
Parallel advances in observing technology, including specialised radar, satellites and highly
innovative platforms, such as the Aerosonde autonomous aircraft, enable observations that can support these analyses and computer modelling systems.
Environmental Systems & Services (ES&S) plays a major role in these fields and was a key contributor in the development of the Aerosonde.
Seismological and geotechnical monitoring and analysis plays a key role in many industries including water
storage and resource extraction and civil tunnelling.
We at ES&S, are proud of our ability to compete successfully in a global marketplace for
meteorological, environmental, seismological and geotechnical projects.
LI-COR Biosciences -
USA
LI-COR Biosciences is a leader in the design, manufacture, and marketing of integrated instrument systems for
agronomic and environmental research. LI-COR instruments for photosynthesis, carbon dioxide analysis, leaf area, and light measurement are recognized world wide
for innovation in plant science research and environmental monitoring. LI-COR solar radiation sensors have been an industry standard for more than 30 years,
with more than 100,000 light sensors sold. The light sensor product line includes quantum sensors (terrestrial and underwater), pyranometers, photometric
sensors, data loggers, and light meters. LI-COR’s gas analyzer line includes economical CO2 analyzers for atmospheric monitoring, as well as high precision,
high speed analyzers for CO2/H2O flux studies.
Founded in 1971, LI-COR Biosciences is based in Lincoln, Nebraska. LI-COR systems are used in over 100 countries and are supported by a global network of
distributors. LI-COR is ISO 9001:2000 certified.
METEO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL - France
Long term partner and integrator of global
meteorological projects to develop NMSs service capability.
Meteo France International is a subsidiary of Météo-France.
Thanks to this unique knowledge and experience of complex meteorological operations, Meteo France International (MFI) brings a global response, based on
proven solutions used in Météo-France, to the specific requirements of National Meteorological Services. Meteo France International provides and
integrates complete, customized meteorological solutions ranging from observation systems (thanks to MFI industrial partners) to information systems and
services to end-users.
Meteo France International’s unique strategic positioning allows National Meteorological Services to work face to face with a meteorologist, a
consultant, an integrator, and a supplier all in one.
Meteo France International aims to define, supply and integrate all necessary components in order to build a powerful, modern meteorological
information and telecommunication system, through a variety of professional solutions, including telecommunication systems (TRANSMET Automatic Message Switching System, RADOME Data Collection System, RETIM Météo-France data dissemination system) ; Global Meteorological
Information System (CLISYS Climate Data Management System, CIPS
Central Information and Processing System including High Power Computing -HPC- system, real time databases scheduled operational suite, and
Archiving/back-up system, WEDIS Pilot meteorological briefing system, SYNERGIE
Meteorological expertise and weather forecasting workstation) ; production systems of customized services to end-users (METEOFACTORY®
Integrated weather services production system, TVMET TV weather report production system).
Meteo France International has built a reliable and unmatched operational team
and its strength relies on the large panel of services that can be delivered by these highly experienced meteorological experts, such as :
• Audits and
master plans
• Assessment of suitable technical solutions and design of complex architecture
• Supply and integration of all basic and advanced meteorological components
• Implementation of complex projects
• Assistance in project
management
• Technical support
• Assistance in change management
• Academic, tailored, and/or on-the-job training
• Transfer
of knowledge and know-how
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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
 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, of meteorological equipments and services, related
to 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/
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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