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HMEI
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The next HMEI General Assembly meeting will be held in January 2004,
at the 84th
American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting in the Washington State
Centre, Seattle, USA. For information on the AMS meeting click on the
hyperlink above.
For Further details on the HMEI GA please contact the HMEI Executive
Secretary.
NEW
EMAIL ADDRESS FOR HMEI
Please note that HMEI's email has changed. The new email address
is:
hmei@wmo.int
MEETINGS
Third Annual
Meeting of the European Meteorological Society in Italy
This meeting was held in Rome from 15 to 19 September 2003. It was
attended by representatives from HMEI member companies Kipp & Zonen B.
V. and Vaisala OYJ .
CIMO Expert Team Meeting
on Upgrading the Global Radiosonde Network
This will be the first session of this team. It will be held in
Geneva, Switzerland from 3-7 November. HMEI member companies who will be
attending are: International Met Systems; Modem; Vaisala OYJ.
CIMO Expert Team Meeting
on Surface-based Instrument Intercomparisons and Calibration Methods
This is a joint meeting with the International Organizing Committee
(IOC) on Surface-based Intercomparisons. It will be held on 24-28 November
in Trappes, France. Logotronic GmbH will be attending as an HMEI member
company.
Upper Air Training
Workshop in Casablanca, Morocco, from 1 to 5 December 2003
This workshop is for French speaking countries. Two HMEI
members, Modem and Vaisala will be participating in this workshop.
EXPERT
TEAMS
The WMO has set up Expert Teams under CIMO, they will address various
topics as described below:
A1 Expert Team on Surface Technology and Measurement Techniques
A2Expert Team on
Surface-based Instrument Intercomparisons and Calibration Methods
A3Expert Team on Meteorological Radiation and Atmospheric Composition Measurements
B1Expert Team on Upgrading the Global Radiosonde Network
B2Expert Team on Upper-Air Systems Comparisons
B3Expert Team on Remote Sensing Upper-Air Technology and Techniques
C1Expert Team on Training Activities and Training Materials
C2Expert Team on RICs, Quality Management Systems and Commercial Instrument Initiatives
C3Expert Team on CIMO Guide and
Information Dissemination
The Following companies
have volunteered to represent HMEI at Expert Team Meetings:
Logotronic
GmbH a representative for Teams A1 and A2
Kipp & Zonen
B. V. a representative for Team A3
International Met Systems a representative for Teams B1 and B2
Modem a representative for Teams B1 and B2
Vaisala OYJ a representative for teams B1, B2 and B3
The HMEI is calling for all members to consider nominating personnel
to participate at the Expert Team Meetings relevant to their areas of
interest. The HMEI seeks to create a representation of experts from across
the range of companies in HMEI, both in terms of size and regions. In this
way a true representation of the HMEI membership will be possible.
NEW
MEMBERS
The Association of
Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes the
following companies as new HMEI members:
AMS-Gematronik GmbH - Germany
CAE Srl - Italy
Kaysam Worldwide Inc. -
USA
Logotronic GmbH - Austria
Middleton Solar
- Australia
New
Member Information
This section
provides information written and supplied to us by the member companies
themselves. HMEI bears no responsibility for, nor endorses this information.
AMS-Gematronik GmbH
AMS-Gematronik is
illustrating its position as the leading weather radar systems
manufacturer worldwide. During the last ten years, AMS-Gematronik has
installed and operates more than 120 weather radar systems
worldwide.
With state-of-the-art weather radar series METEOR 500 and 1500,
AMS-Gematronik offers magnetron and klystron systems in C-band and S-band.
As a standard all AMS-Gematronik radar systems include a digital receiver,
solid state modular and the most advanced signal processor for
high-resolution real-time data aquisition Aspen® DRX.
Dual polarization weather radars are also available.
With more than 50 products, the Rainbow® application software contains
products ranging from forecasting, warning, hydrology to airport
surveillance.
AMS-Gematronik offers turnkey project management. Presently, comprehensive
METEOR radar networks are being realized in Poland, Venezuela and France.
CAE Srl
CAE is the largest
Italian company specializing in the production, installation and
maintenance of environmental monitoring system for meteorology, hydrology,
agrometeorology, water and air pollution.
Founded in 1977, the company manufactured, installed and maintains more
than 3200 stations, 15 large real-time monitoring networks and 85
sub-networks, covering about 75% of the Italian territory. Each network is
composed by automatic peripheral stations, able to measure the
environmental parameters with dedicated sensors; connected through
advanced data transmission systems (mainly radio links) to central
units for the elaboration, storage and distribution of collected
data, by means of specific software programs developed by CAE itself.
CAE is widely appreciate for its ability to supply, operate and maintain
complex environmental systems, offering the client a permanent highly
qualified support, often exceeding contract commitments and client
expectations. Logotronic
GmbH
Logotronik is developing and supplying environmental technology since 1982.
The product line is based in the different Gealog-measuring systems for Hydrology, Meteorology, water quality measurements and soil investigations, using Gealog data-loggers, Gealog sensors and Gealog Evaluation Software. Turn-key measuring stations and turn-key measurement networks with remote data transfer are supplied world-wide.
Special products for Hydrology and Meteorology have been developed, like the QTRACE measuring for flow measurement by salt tracer dilution method, or like TAKLIS small and
decentralized weather stations with short distance radio data transfer.
Logotronic is active world-wide through local companies, subsidiaries or agents. Kaysam
Worldwide Inc.
Kaysam is one of
the world's leading manufacturers of meteorological balloons.
Products include all sizes of pilot, ceiling and sounding balloons. In
addition, Kaysam provides parachutes used in the launching of soundings.
Products are provided to a worldwide base of customers, including
meteorological agencies and defense agencies in the United States and
North America, Western and Eastern Europe, South America Africa, Asia and
the Middle East.
Products are mainly provided through local representation Middleton
Solar
The Middleton Solar range of solar radiation and sun duration sensors has been sold globally for more than forty years. Middleton Solar provides a complete range of solar instruments including first class (EQ08) up to secondary standard (EP09) as classified by ISO 9060 and WMO standards.
Advances in technology allow Middleton Solar to continually develop new products in order to satisfy customer demand and refine existing products and concepts. More recently, Middleton solar has added sun photometers and active solar trackers to its increasing product range.
For soil energy budget studies, where radiative heat loss and gain is needed for determining heat transfer in walls, roads and bridges, the Middleton CN3 is an accurate low cost alternative. OPPORTUNITIES
FOR MEMBERS
The
WMO is
currently looking to procure meteorological station equipment for stations
worldwide that have been prioritized as in need of certain minimal
equipment to be fully functional climate stations
within
the GCOS Upper Air Network (GUAN).
Manufacturers are being sought to tenders for the equipment. Contact the
Executive Secretary at hmei@wmo.int for
further information.
NEWS
FLASH
HMEI is now sending
a regular update of members to the WMO Procurement Office, which gives
members the advantage of having their company details readily available to
WMO when it sends out for tenders.
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