The HMEI Executive
Secretary and Administrator both attended EMS this
year and set up and manned the HMEI Booth, provided thanks to the EMS. The HMEI booth welcomed visitors from the conference, who were shown the HMEI online Member Products Catalogue and given information about HMEI and its aims. The booth also of course welcomed HMEI Members attending the conference, and the other exhibitors at the conference, most of whom were HMEI Members.
Lockheed Martin visit the HMEI
booth
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The HMEI
booth at EMS 2006
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The HMEI Executive
Secretary, Administrator and Members exhibiting at EMS this year,
identified various issues and ideas for improving future EMS exhibiting
experience. The HMEI Chairman, Ben Dieterink and the HMEI Executive
Secretary, Bruce Sumner, met with the EMS President, David Burridge, the
EMS Executive Secretary, Martina Junge, and the Copernicus Meeting
Co-ordinator, Katja Gaenger, towards the end of the EMS conference/exhibition
period. Thanks to the input gathered from HMEI Member exhibitors at this
years EMS, Ben and Bruce were able to give accurate feedback on
the exhibitors perspective of the exhibition and thus to discuss ideas
to continue to improve and raise the profile of the EMS exhibitions in
future years. Bruce has suggested to EMS that earlier and higher profile
mention of the exhibition associated with EMS, in the literature sent
out about EMS in 2007 and posted on the EMS website, could be helpful in
attracting more manufacturers to exhibit, as manufacturers often plan
their exhibition budget and schedule considerably in advance. Early and
higher profile advertising of the exhibition component of the EMS, would
also encourage the attendance of a more technical audience from the
various agencies who send representatives to EMS. The HMEI
Secretariat will continue to liaise with EMS and help to create another,
even more, successful EMS exhibition and conference next year. Ben
Dieterink, as Chairman of HMEI, will attend the first meeting of
the EMS conference committee for the preparation of the 2007 EMS
conference, which will convene in early November this year.
The next EMS and ECAM 2007 will take place 1 - 5 October 2007 in El
Escorial, Spain (50km south of Madrid).
There
was a HMEI Council meeting held during this EMS, on Tuesday 5th September.
Two HMEI Councillors, Gary Wagner - All Weather and Kevin Klustner -
Coastal Environmental Systems, have resigned from the Council.
The Council decided that
new Councillors would be called for from the membership, to be voted on
at the next HMEI General Assembly. This will be held at METEOHYDEX in May, 2007.
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Report - Technical Conference on Natural Disaster prevention & Mitigation,
4-6 Sept, 2006 and
WMO Regional Association iii (RA-iii), Lima, PerU, 5-13 Sept, 2006.
Claudius
Marschalik of Selex Sistemi Integrati GmbH (Gematronik)
attended
as the HMEI representative.
Report by
Claudius
Marschalik:
There is an increased need for the region
to become more involved in the detection, prevention and mitigation of
natural disasters. The Technical Conference was the first one of a
series of relevant actions initiated by the WMO. Statistics presented in
the conference indicate that about 90% of the natural disasters in South
America are of hydro-meteorological origin. It was revealed that the
standards of meteorological and hydrological services and systems within
the different South American countries vary significantly.
Furthermore, it became very clear that
the funds for investment opportunities in this region of the world are
very limited. The only chance for raising funds in an appropriate amount
is through development banks such as the World Bank (International Bank
for Reconstruction and Development) who also presented their financial
services. Projects must be initiated by the national
Hydro-Meteorological organizations. The World Bank BID typically funds
around 50% of a project, the rest must be financed by the national
organizations.
The highlights of the agenda of the
subsequent WMO XIV session were:
-
WWW (World Weather Watch) Program
implementation and regional aspects.
-
IMOP (Instruments and Methods of
Observation Program) Integrated Observing Systems.
-
Information system and services, in
particular the development and implementation of WIS (WMO
Information System)
-
WCP World Climate Program regional
aspects
-
AREP (Atmospheric Research and
Environment Program) regional aspects
-
AMP (Applications of Meteorology
Program) regional aspects, in particular public weather services,
aeronautical meteorology, marine and oceanography, hydrology and
water resource program.
Both events excelled by their
professional organization and execution. Special thanks shall be
extended to the Peruvian Weather Service for their warm welcome of the
participants.
Further information can be found on the
WMO websites.The
Provisional Agenda of the RAIII 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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Hydrology - Global Synthesis Workshop,
Poster Presentations, WMO, Geneva, Switzerland, 20-23 November 2006.
Although this WMO Workshop is not inviting vendor presentations to be included as part of the
conference
itself; HMEI has been able to facilitate an opportunity for Poster Presentations in the foyer outside the
conference room.
To date the following HMEI Members have indicated they will send
posters:
Delta-T Devices Ltd.
Eijkelkamp Agrisearch Equipment
Leosphere SAS
Meteo France International
OTT Messtechnik GmbH & Co. Kg
SIAP + MICROS s.r.l.
Please email us here at hmei@wmo.int if you are interested in putting up
a
display and/ or poster. A program if available if you are interested in knowing the
subjects
in the conference and hence what would be relevant posters and displays.
Also HMEI is allowed to send observers only to the
meeting. The HMEI Secretariat will attend and report any items of
interest to HMEI Members. Any HMEI Members who may wish to attend and
observe please email hmei@wmo.int
The participants of the conference will be mainly experts from national
meteorological and hydrological services of some 15 countries; it is
expected all together there will be some 30 participants.
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Update -
6-8 Nov, 2006 Technical Conference on the WMO Information System and 9-16
Nov, 2006,
WMO
Commission for Basic Systems
(CBS)
- Extraordinary session 2006,
Seoul, Republic of Korea
HMEI Members who
will
represent HMEI at the meeting are:
Mr.
Patrick Bénichou - Meteo France International
Mr. Michal Weis - IBL Software Engineering
Mr. Yuji Hayashi - Oriental Electronics, Inc.
Documents
for this meeting are available at http://www.wmo.int/web/www/BAS/CBS-info.html.
Click on Docs and Pinks and then folder CBS Ext(06), where they are available in
several languages.
The Commission
meeting is preceded by the Technical Conference on the WMO Information System
(6-8 Nov 2006).
A half day of this technical conference will be dedicated to presentations by
manufacturers. Presentations will only be from manufacturers invited by WMO/CBS.
The following HMEI Member
manufacturers of GTS Message Switching Systems (MSS) will make presentations:
IBL Software Engineering
Meteo France International (MFI)
Oriental Electrics, Inc.
The other manufacturers who have
accepted to make presentations are: Netsys
International and IBM.
Side exhibition to the Technical
Conference:
This will be a small exhibition in the foyer area of the
conference.
The approx cost of the exhibition booths is 750 USD.
NOTE
that booth 6 has already been allocated to IBL.
HMEI Members
who will be exhibiting are:
Jinyang
Industrial Company
IBL Software Engineering
Meteo France International (MFI)
Several other local manufacturers are also expected to exhibit at the
conference.
Other HMEI Members interested in
exhibiting please contact
Bruce Sumner at hmei@wmo.int.
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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 - Update
HMEI members who will attend both CAeM-XIII and the
Technical
Conference preceding the main Commission
as HMEI representatives are:
Mr. Hannu Katajamäki and
Mr. Juhani
Polvinen
from Vaisala's
Aviation Weather Business Unit.
The
Executive Secretary of HMEI and the HMEI Administrator will also attend
and make a report of the meeting. If
you wish to attend this meeting and also represent HMEI, 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/
There is the
possibility of making a presentation at the TECO, from 21-22
November, which may be of interest to some HMEI Members. For HMEI Members
making a presentation there would be the possibility to negotiate a small table
top exhibition.
Please contact HMEI at
hmei@wmo.int
if you are interested in this opportunity.
There
will be a Poster Session; the submission form for this can be found at http://www.caem.wmo.int/caemtechconf/postersubmission.doc
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4-6
December 2006, CIMO Technical Conference (TECO) and 7-14 December 2006, Commission for
Instruments and Methods of Observations (CIMO), Geneva, Switzerland -
Update
HMEI Members who have advised they will
be sending
representatives to attend CIMO/TECO are:
Biral
- Richard McKay
Delta-T Devices Ltd.
- Tony Peloe
Environmental Measurements Ltd. -
Mark Dutton
International Met Systems - Fred Clowney
Kipp & Zonen B.V. - Ben
Dieterink (HMEI Chairman)
Leosphere SAS
- Iwona Sylwia
Stachlewska
Lockhheed Martin Sippican - Tom Curran
Logotronic GmbH - Gerhard Pevny
Meteolabor - Paul Ruppert and Rolf Maag
Modem -
Patrick Charpentier and Rémy
Pépin
OTT Messtechnik
GmbH & Co. Kg - Kurt Nemeth
Seba Hydrometrie GmbH - Wolfgang Zache
Selex Sistemi Integrati GmbH (Gematronik) - Gabriele Kandar
Telvent (Almos Systems) - José Bellide, Javier Garoz, Alexandra
Libarto and Foeke Kuik
Vaisala Oyj - Jan Hörhammer and Raisa
Lehtinen
Although there is no METEOREX with this CIMO, Posters and Presentations will be accepted for TECO and
contributions from manufacturers are actively encouraged.
As CIMO/TECO is in Geneva this year, the HMEI Executive Secretary and
the HMEI Administrator will both attend and report on the events.
For information and documentation for CIMO/TECO please go to
http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/CIMO/cimo-teco-meteorex.html
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Niger-HYCOS Project
The Chief of the WMO Hydrology Division,
Mr. Mohamed Tawfik, contacted the HMEI Executive in late September,
requesting that HMEI distribute to its Members details of a call for
tenders from the Niger Basin Authority. The tenders were for the
provision of various equipment, including observation equipment to NHSs
in the Volta basin, as well as to the Volta-HYCOS Regional Centre in
Niamey.
The information for the tenders was subsequently circulated to the
Members by the HMEI Secretariat. Further information on the tenders was
sent to several HMEI Members at their request.
Four HMEI Member companies have expressed interest in the project:
Environmental Systems &
Services Pty. Ltd.
Lockheed Martin-MS2 Radar Systems
Logotronic GmbH
Tecmes srl
HMEI informed Mr. Tawfik of these
Members' interest in the project and forwarded the relevant contact
details.
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Geonor Visits WMO
Mr Oywind Klevar, Managing Director of Geonor AS, visited
WMO and HMEI on
22 September this year.
Geonor is a Norwegian instrument manufacturer, making hydrological
equipment, AWS and high quality precipitation equipment.
Mr Bruce Sumner, the HMEI Executive Secretary was able to arrange
meetings with some key WMO personnel.
Mr Klevar
had a meeting with Andrei Iline the WMP Procurement Officer,
Dusan Hrcek and Didier VandeVyvere
from the Regional Development Programme. Subsequently
Mr Klevar met with
Miroslav Ondras, the
Senior Scientific Officer at
WWW/Observing System Division.
Mr Klevar considered his WMO visit well worthwhile, and was happy to
be able to introduce Geonor's current products to those he met with,
also gaining valuable information and WMO contacts from his visit.
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New Member
The Association of
Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes the
following companies as new HMEI members:
Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.
- Japan
Report - 6th Annual Meeting
EMS Conference and Exhibition, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 2006 
OTHER INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS IN 2007
