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REPORT
- WMO
Training Workshop on Upper-Air Observations for Regional Association III (RA-III) (South America), Buenos Aires, Argentina, 8-12 MAY, 2006
Thanks to Modem for the photo of the attendees at the Upper-Air Workshop
HMEI attendees of Upper-Air manufacturers as participants in this workshop
were:
Fred Clowney from International Met Systems
Rémy Pepin from Modem
Aleksis
Kajava and Toni Stormdell from Vaisala
The
workshop was a successful event, for which WMO has extended thanks to the participating HMEI manufacturers. The official letter of thanks from WMO can be
viewed here.
Comments from some HMEI Members who attended:
Rémy Pepin
Modem
"The training workshop on upper-air observations held at Buenos-Aires, Argentina from 8 to 12 May 2006, was organized by WMO in the scope of its Capacity
building programme. The workshop was aimed at improving the knowledge and skills of senior operational staff in charge of the national upper-air networks
of South America countries (RA III).
The workshop had both theory and practical sessions. Theory consisted in lectures presented by invited experts accompanied with fruitful exchanges and
dialogue. During the practical part, participants had the opportunity to learn more about the latest developments, practice and operate some
radiosoundings on manufacturers' equipments. Multisonde comparative flights were also performed. Presentation of the results has shown the quality and
consistency of measurements provided by MODEM M2K2 GPSonde which is considered as one of the first rank high quality GPS radiosondes.
Perfect organisation and the hospitality of our hosts from "Servicio Meteorologico Nacional" was highly appreciated by all the participants."
Aleksis
Kajava
Vaisala Oyj
"The workshop was fine and interesting. It think it was very convenient for all of us to meet representatives of the Region 3 countries as
well as representatives of other manufacturers in Buenos Aires. So all in all it was a goof workshop. The only negative thing was that it was
very difficult to get our system out of the customs. In fact it took us 3-4 weeks to make the custom clearance as a "temporary
clearance". In the future workshops we will have to take that into account, but due to shortage of demo equipment it is not always possible."
The programme of this workshop is available at the CIMO meetings webpage: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/meetings.html
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REPORT
- WMO Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) JOINT
meeting on Data Representation and Codes; and Coordination Team on Migration to Table Driven Code Forms, Montreal, Canada, 8-12 May,
2006
HMEI members who were experts at this meetings:
Paul Heppner from 3SI
Michal Weis from IBL Software Engineering
Michal Weis from IBL presented a document to the meeting. Click
here to see this paper.
Paul Heppner's HMEI report on the meeting
is available here.
The conference leaders (Mssrs. Dragosavac, Branski, and Martellet) are reported to have been extremely warm
and welcoming to the HMEI Member representatives, and to have appreciated the participation of HMEI as observers. HMEI opinions were solicited, when
appropriate, and the exchange proved extremely valuable. The HMEI representatives had the opportunity to hear very important information that the
industry needs to know about in the manufacture of equipment which process and display the meteorological data.
Problems which the HMEI Members raised, as representative of Industry, where on confusion on BUFR -
flexibility vs. standardisation. However a common conclusion has not yet been found and the problems persist. It is hoped that the future will
bring those answers soon, because without it, real implementation of BUFR could be very difficult or even impossible.
A validation service, which was proposed in Mr Weis's paper,
will probably be established in a near future, however it is questionable what back-end will be used, and whether it will serve for all the goals that it
should.
HMEI would like to extend it thanks to the conference leaders for what has been described as a "wonderful, interactive experience".
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 REPORT
- WMO
Regional Association V (RA-V) (South-West Pacific)-14th Session, Adelaide, AustraliA, 9-19 May, 2006
HMEI
had one representative attending this meeting:
Mr Bob Wright from Environmental Systems and Services (ES&S).
Mr Wright was able to attend 9-10 May.
This
was a major WMO meeting covering issues for the whole South West Pacific region. Information on issues discussed can be found on
Mr
Wright's report on this meeting, available here.
The
WMO report is in preparation.
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REPORT
- Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)/National
Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Workshop on Upper-Air Requirements for Global Climate Observing, Seattle,
USA, 22-24 MAY 2006
HMEI
Members who attended this
workshop were:
Fred Clowney from
International Met Systems
Tom Curran from Lockheed Martin-Sippican
Rémy Pepin from Modem
Hannu Jauhiainen and Ken Goss from Vaisala
The agenda and other information on 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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REPORT - EXHIBITION AT THE 4th International Conference
on Experiences
with Automatic Weather Stations (4th ICEAWS),
Lisbon,
PortugaL 24-26 May, 2006
This conference was organized by the Instituto de Meteorologia - Portugal. It also had an associated Equipment Exhibition,
of meteorological equipments and services, related
to the themes of 4th ICEAWS.
HMEI members exhibiting at this event were:
All Weather Incorporation
- USA
CAE S.P.A. - Italy
Campbell Scientific, Ltd. - UK
Geonor AS - Norway
Telvent - Spain (Almos Systems is a Telvent Company)
Vaisala Ltd. - UK
Comments from some HMEI Members who attended:
Steve Glander (Senior Sales Engineer)
All Weather, Inc.
"Gary Wagner and I (Steve Glander) attended the ICEAWS this year in Portugal
where I presented on our dual technology visibility sensor. All the
presentations were good and pertained to relevant issues concerning
automated weather stations and their usage. I highly suggest visiting the
ICEAWS web site for a review of the papers presented and the poster exhibits
that were there. A good conference."
Dick Saffell
CAMPBELL SCIENTIFIC
"The location was good and hotel easy to get to from the airport. Our equipment arrived on time and the hotel staff assigned to help were
excellent. The exhibition organisation was good and informal. We met a number of existing customers and I would say that overall a very good conference
and exhibition."
Other non-member companies exhibiting were:
CSE - Servelec Group, Ltd. - UK
ITISE - Equipamentos Técnicos de Precisão e Científicos, Lda. - Portugal
MRA, Instrumentação, Portugal (Grupo Alava, Ingenieros)
PRIMETEC - Engenharia de Sistemas, Lda. - Portugal
PULSONIC - France
VÓRTICE - Equipamentos Científicos, Lda. - Portugal
These companies have been contacted by the HMEI Executive Secretary, and asked if they would like to join HMEI.
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20-30
June, 2006, WMO Executive Council - Fifty-Eighth Session, Geneva, Switzerland
The Executive Secretary and Administrator
are currently attending this year's WMO EC, representing HMEI during the two weeks of the meeting. A report will be made of points pertinent to HMEI for the next HMEI newsletter.
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5-13
Sept, 2006, WMO Regional Association iii (RA-iii), Lima. Peru
There
is a regional association for Region lll, the South American region. HMEI has received an official invitation to attend this meeting.
HMEI members who are interested in representing HMEI at this meeting, please contact HMEI
at hmei@wmo.int
The Provisional Agenda can be seen here.
Other documents to be presented at the meeting are
at: ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/SESSIONS/XIV-RA-III/English/word/
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28
October
- 3 November, 2006,14th WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology (CAgM-XIV), New Delhi, India
This meeting of the Commission is held every four years. HMEI has received a nomination from
Eijkelkamp,
for Prof. Kees Stigter to represent HMEI at this meeting. HMEI has accepted this recommendation.
Prof. Stigter is well known to HMEI having attended several of our meetings and he represented Eijkelkamp at the HMEI General Assembly in Bucharest.
Mr Stigter is a former principal delegate to CAgM for the Netherlands (1985 – 2005), a former vice-president (1986 – 1991) and president (1991 –
1999) of CAgM and still an active member of its Management Group, is a Technical Advisor for the Netherlands Delegation and is president of the
International Society for Agricultural Meteorology (INSAM).
If there are other HMEI Members who would like to attend this meeting as representatives of HMEI, please contact HMEI at hmei@wmo.int
Information
on this meeting will be available at: http://www.wmo.int/web/wcp/agm/CAgM/CAgMmenu.htm
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9-16
Nov, 2006,
WMO
Commission for Basic Systems
(CBS)
- Extraordinary session 2006,
Seoul, Republic of Korea
CBS
hold their Commissions four yearly as do the other WMO Commissions, additionally they hold an extraordinary meeting such as this one in the middle of each
inter-session period. Thus CBS can deal with Commission issues every two years.
HMEI members who are interested in representing HMEI at this meeting, please contact HMEI
at hmei@wmo.int
Documents
for this meeting are not yet on-line, however they will be found at http://www.wmo.int/web/www/BAS/CBS-info.html
when they are available.
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21-22
Nov 2006
Commission
for Aeronautical Meteorology
(CAeM)
Technical Conference
and 23 Nov - 1 Dec, 2006 13th WMO Commission for Aeronautical
Meteorology (CAeM-XIII),
Geneva, Switzerland
The Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (CAeM) is holding two meetings following on from one another.
The first is a Technical Conference on: " How can we better meet the Current and Future Needs of Aviation?" The other is the four yearly Commission's meeting, its 13th session.
Both
meetings were expected to be held in Egypt, however the venue has now changed to Geneva.
HMEI members who are interested in representing HMEI at this meeting, please contact HMEI
at hmei@wmo.int
The Provisional Agenda of the CAeM-XIII can be seen here.
Other documents to be presented at the meeting are
at: ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/SESSIONS/CAeM-XIII/
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Update
- WMO Climate Risk Conference and Exhibition, Espoo, Finland, Living with Climate Variability and Change: Understanding the Uncertainties and Managing the
Risks, 17-21 July 2006
Due to the lack of response from potential exhibitors, as of June 2006, the exhibition proposed to be held
with this conference has been cancelled.
The organizers had left arranging the exhibition to a very late date, which is the probable explanation for the lack of interest in the exhibition.
Only one manufacturer had expressed definite interest in the exhibition. HMEI has advised the organisers from WMO that a much longer lead time is
necessary for the arrangements of such an exhibition.
However the Conference will go ahead as previewed. Please go the the HMEI International Meetings section for
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Update
-
HMEI AT the 6th Annual Meeting European
Meteorological Society (EMS) Conference and Exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 3-7
September 2006,
The
HMEI Executive Secretary and Administrator will be at the HMEI booth no P-06 at the EMS exhibition. They look forward to meeting many of the HMEI Members
there and introducing new people to HMEI.
Opening times of the exhibition are:
Monday, 4 September, 12:00 –18:00
Tuesday –Thursday, 5 –7 September, 09:00 –18:00
Friday, 8 September, 09:00 –12:00
There
will also be a HMEI Council meeting held during this EMS, on Wednesday 6th September at 8am. HMEI Councillors will be informed further of the meeting
venue nearer the time.
Members who are exhibiting at the EMS exhibition, preceded in this list by the booth number, are:
P-01 Modem
P-02 Kipp & Zonen B.V.
P-03 Scintec AG
P-04/P-05 Vaisala Oyj
P-06 Association of Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry
P-09 Biral
P-10 MicroStep-MIS
So far there are two non HMEI Member also exhibiting, booth P-07will be used by COST and booth P-08 by AMES D.O.O.
As there have been requests for more booths by potential exhibitors, EMS has enlarged the exhibition area and three further booths are now available
for additional exhibitors. Please see the revised exhibition plan at: http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2006/download/Exhibition.pdf
For Further information on the Exhibition see: http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2006/index.html
For
further information
on the Conference see: http://www.emetsoc.org/EMS6/index.html
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Update - Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD 2006), Barcelona, Spain, 18-
22 September 2006
Five HMEI Member companies are presenting papers at this conference:
Enterprise Electronics Corporation (EEC)
GAMIC
Selex-Gematronik
Sigmet (part of the Vaisala Group)
Weather Decision Technologies (WDT)
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 has now been extended to 30th June 2006.
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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WMO Field Intercomparison of
Rainfall Intensity (RI) Gauges in Vigna di Valle,
Italy, 2007-8
This WMO Field Intercomparison of RI Gauges follows on from the WMO Laboratory Intercomparisons of RI Gauges in 2005.
Results of the selection have not yet been released but should be available very shortly. HMEI will publish the selection list on the Intercomparisons
section of our website when they are known.
Current information on this Intercomparison is available at:http://www.wmo.int/web/www/IMOP/intercomparisons.html
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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 kinds of such equipment, which are being used or considered for future use within national networks, have been selected for
participation.
HMEI Members with instruments selected for participation in this Intercomparison from the recommendations of HMEI are:
Metspec - UK
R. M. Young - USA
Sutron Corp. - USA
Vector Instruments (Windspeed Ltd.) - UK
HMEI members with instruments selected for participation in this Intercomparison from the recommendations of Meteorological Agencies
are:
CAE - Italy
Casella - UK
Eigenbrodt - Germany
Lambrecht - Germany
Meteolabor - Switzerland
Rotronic - Switzerland
Vaisala - Finland
Out of 36 instruments in total proposed only 18 were accepted due to the space restrictions on the test
site.
For a full list of accepted instrument please go to http://www.wmo.int/web/www/IMOP/intercomparisons.html
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 WMO
sends Questionnaire on Maintenance and Calibration of Instruments to the NMHSs
WMO sent, on the 7th June, a questionnaire to the NMHSs requesting in formation on the maintenance and
calibration of instruments the NMHSs are using. This has been done following a request from the 57th WMO Executive Council (EC).
The aim of this exercise is to help ensure that there is guaranteed minimum required data quality, and the worldwide compatibility and homogeneity of the
data, via the traceability of measurements to the International System of Units (SI). This survey will also help the WMO Secretariat to report back to the
EC the capacity of WMO Member NMHSs' in the areas of calibration and maintenance.
This questionnaire is due to be returned to the WMO CIMO Secretariat by 15th July 2006.If you would like
to see a copy of the questionnaire sent to the NMHSs, please go to: http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/Questionnaires.html
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New
on the HMEI Website - WMO Expert Teams and their Terms of Reference (TOR)
The HMEI website now has a full listing of the WMO Expert Teams in the WMO Commissions and details of their
Terms of Reference. Please click here to go to the HMEI and WMO Teams page and then click on All
WMO Teams.
If
you would like to participate in any of these expert teams and have an
input in international decisions affecting our industry, please
contact the Executive Secretary at hmei@wmo.int. HMEI representatives for teams other than CIMO teams are
particularly required.
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HMEI NEW
MEMBERS
The Association of Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes
the following companies as new Members:
Delta-T
Devices Ltd
- UK
Established in 1971, Delta-T Devices specialises in sensors and data loggers to measure
and record hydrological, meteorological and other environmental parameters.
The range includes weather stations, solar radiation sensors and soil moisture sensors and also data loggers able to accept from 2 to 62 inputs.
Delta-T introduced the world’s first solar radiation sensor able to simultaneously measure total and radiation plus sunshine duration.
G. K. Walter Eigenbrodt -
Germany
EIGENBRODT, as a manufacturer of meteorological and environmental measurement equipment, is located in the North of Germany close to Hamburg and has experience in export sales worldwide for almost 60 years.
Our sensors and instruments are working in many national and international measurement networks, such as the German Weather Service, Alfred-Wegener-Insitut, Met
Office UK, EMEP, and GAW.
We offer:
- Innovative Meteorology
- Collection and analysis of atmospheric deposition
- Hydrology/groundwater control
- Consulting for environmental technology
Leosphere SAS -
France
Leosphere is a company specializing in large scale transport of aerosols. Leosphere provides Lidar instruments for the remote-sensing of
Tropospheric aerosols and wind. Leosphere Lidars are dedicated to atmospheric research, meteorology, air quality monitoring, air traffic and wind energy purposes.
MTX Italia srl - Italy
Our company operates in the hydrological monitoring field, both for physical
and chemical parameters.
Our main products are: sensors for the measurement of all above mentioned parameters; loggers for easy data recording; remote sensing; systems check, both
automatically and not; and software for processing collected data (for maintenance, management, data evaluation, use of analysis or forecasting models, services
computerization data, and elaboration publishing).
Our main services offered to our clients are systems planning, their turnkey realization, and management after sale for maintenance and instruments calibration.
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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
 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/
NO
METEOREX with TECO-2006, Geneva, Switzerland, 4-6 December 2006
There is no exhibition with TECO-2006; rather the next WMO exhibition opportunity will be at METEOHYDEX,
held during WMO Congress in Geveva, May 2007.
However TECO-2006 has invited presentations and/or posters to be submitted and several manufacturers have asked for information on this
from HMEI. Abstracts of papers for the conference were due by 15th May. Posters are still being accepted.
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.
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS IN 2007
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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