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General Assembly Meeting of the HMEI
to be held
Salle 5 (3rd floor) of the International Conference Centre
Geneva,
on Wednesday 9 May 2007,
during
MeteoHydex at the WMO
Congress in Geneva, Switzerland
The Assembly will be a breakfast meeting with
refreshments offered. All MeteoHydex attendees are invited to
attend.
Please click here to see the provisional agenda of the meeting.
HMEI at MeteoHydex, Geneva, Switzerland, 8-10 May 2007
MeteoHydex 2007 will be held at the CICG - International Conference
Centre Geneva. MeteoHydex will be held in conjunction with the Fifteenth
World Meteorological Congress (Cg-XV) held 7-25 May, 2007 in Geneva,
Switzerland. Information is available at
http://www.meteohydex.com/meteohydex.html
HMEI will be holding its
2007 General Assembly during MeteoHydex, details of which can
be seen above.
The organizers of METEOHYDEX have kindly offered a space for HMEI to set up a
display at the exhibition. HMEI extends its thanks to them. All members
and those wishing to find out about HMEI are invited to visit us at
booth 29.
Fifty-seven (57) HMEI Members are listed as exhibiting at METEOHYDEX,
they are:
ADOLF THIES
ALL WEATHER
BARON SERVICES
BELFORT INSTRUMENT
CAE
CAMPBELL SCIENTIFIC
CASELLA
CIMEL
DAVIS INSTRUMENTS
DEGREANE HORIZONS
DELTA-T DEVICES
ENTERPRISE ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
ENVIRONMENTAL MEASUREMENTS
ES & S
GAMIC
GEONOR
GILL INSTRUMENTS
GRAW RADIOSONDES
IBL SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
IMKO
INTERMET SYSTEMS
IPS METEOSTAR
JENOPTIK
JINYANG INDUSTRIAL
LEOSPHERE
LOCKHEED MARTIN - Coherent
Technologies
LOCKHEED MARTIN - MS2 Integrated Weather and Environmental Systems
LOCKHEED MARTIN - SIPPICAN
LOGOTRONIC
LSI - LASTEM
METEK
METEO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL
METEOLABOR
MéTéORAGE
KIPP & ZONEN
MICROSTEP
MODEM
MUIR MATHESON
OTT
PAWAN EXPORTS
PRECIS MECANIQUE
PROTON ENERGY SYSTEMS INC
R.M. YOUNG
RADIOMETRICS CORP.
ROTRONIC
SAGIM
SCINTEC
SEBA HYDROMETRIE
SELEX - GEMATRONIK
SIAP + MICROS
SUTRON
TELVENT (ALMOS)
THE REPUBLIC GROUP
VAISALA
VCS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
WDT INC.
WILH. LAMBRECHT
There are also fourteen (14) other non-HMEI member exhibitors.
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Training
Course for BUFR and Migration to Table Driven Code Forms
WMO is arranging a training course for BUFR and migration
to Table Driven Code Forms, to be held at Deutscher Wetterdienst, Langen,
Germany on 17 to 21 April 2007.
The course is mainly for meteorological personnel from European (RA VI)
Meteorological Services, but there are some places available for
representatives from the manufacturing industry. HMEI Members have been
informed of the course. So far
two
representatives from HMEI Member companies are attending:
Sakari Kajosaari from Vaisala
and
Thomas Brossi from Meteolabor
The programme and the information package is available at:
http://www.wmo.int/web/www/ISS/Meetings/Training-BUFR_Langen2007/DocPlan.html
To attend you need to complete a nomination form. HMEI can provide this
if you are interested in attending. Please contact us by email at:
hmei@wmo.int
As spaces are limited, attendance will be on a first come basis.
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Exploratory Meeting for the Proposed Assessment of the Performance of Flow
Measurement Instruments and Techniques, Geneva, Switzerland, 25- 27
April 2007
This "Exploratory Meeting” on the proposal, with the objective of
defining more precisely how to move this concept ahead, preparing its
Terms of Reference, discussing the organizational context and structure
required is to be held at the WMO Headquarters in Geneva. HMEI has been
invited to attend.
Attending the meeting for HMEI will be:
The HMEI Secretariat
Gerhard Pevny from Logotronic
(Mr Pevny will be accompanied by associates from YSI,
Gayle Rominger and Ian Thompson)
A report will be made for HMEI members with information
on the progress the meeting makes towards the projected assessment.
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4th China International Exhibition on Technology and Equipment of
Meteorology Science & Hydrology, Guangzhou, China, November 2007
This event also includes the 6th China International Forum and
Exhibition on Lightning Protection Technology & Equipment. WMO are
co-sponsors of this Chinese event and HMEI is a co-organiser of the exhibition.
The organisers of this event have confirmed the dates of the exhibition.
Date: November 23-25, 2007.
Venue:
Guangzhou Jinhan Exhibition Center, Guangzhou, P.R. China.
For enquiries, information and to book exhibition space please contact:
Chris Wang,
Project Manager,
The Organizing Committee of the Exhibition
newfexpo2@yahoo.com.cn
HMEI Members will receive 20% off the normal exhibition rate.
HMEI
has been given a booth and an entry in the exhibition
catalogue by the organizers. The HMEI Secretariat will attend the
exhibition and man the HMEI booth. HMEI has sent information
directly to its members on the event and supplied a mailing list of our
members to the organisers.
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Report: WMO Regional Association I (Africa) 14th Session,
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 14-23 February 2007
The Provisional Annotated Agenda of this meeting is available at:
ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/SESSIONS/XIV-RA-I/English/DOCs/pdf/d02-2rev1_en.pdf
Documents presented at this meeting are available at:
ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/SESSIONS/XIV-RA-I/
Michel Pousse from Meteo France International
(MFI) was able to attend and represent HMEI for two days of this meeting.
HMEI thanks Mr Pousse for his attendance on
February 15 and 16 and for providing the following report, on points of interest
during his attendance, for HMEI Members.
Official Opening
The session opening took place on February 14th, 2007 in presence of
Michel JARRAUD. All topics included in the program received
contributions from regional National Met Services and exchanges were
rich.
Global Observing Systems (GOS), WIS and creation of regional Global
Information System Centers (GISCs)
Debates on this concluded that the creation of GISCs will come only
after CIMO. Algeria and Guinea pointed out that the Rapporteurs’ mission
was hard to insure, mainly due to a lack of guidelines in their duties.
Regional Aspects of the Climatology Program
CLIMSOFT system received contributions from Namibia, UK and Zambia that
are using it with quite good profit and Uganda will also do so soon. As
the project also includes Zimbabwe, Guinea and others, WMO wishes a
better recognition of all these contribution in further texts.
Atmospheric Research and Environment Program (AREP)
AREP, and particularly THORPEX, consider that WMO should finance
research on tropical meteorology with a regular budget and allow a
better control from National Met Services of what is going on in
THORPEX. The meeting was informed that this will be the case in 2008,
but with limited amount.
Application of Meteorology programs (AMP)
AMP and specifically meteorology programs for Agriculture and
Aeronautics have been key issues of the conference as well as the
Hydrology and Water Resources program, on which there were presentations
on several regional realisations.
Election of President and Vice-President of the RA-I
Mr. Bah from Guinea and Mr. Makarau from Zimbabwe were elected
respectively as President and Vice-President of the RA-I.
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REPORT: ITU-R CONFERENCE PREPARATORY MEETING
(CPM), GENEVA (SWITZERLAND), 19 FEBRUARY-2 MARCH 2007
Thanks for this report to Ilkka Ikonen from Vaisala, who attended
this meeting. Ilkka has been, and continues to be, the very able HMEI
representative at these frequency meetings.
SG-RFC participants*:
Roger CARTER (UK Metoffice)
Markus DREIS (EUMETSAT)
David FRANC (NOAA)
Bob LECK (NOAA)
David Mc GINNIS (NOAA)
Carmelo RIVERA (NOAA)
Jean-Michel RAINER (WMO)**
Philippe TRISTANT (Météo France)**
Alexandre VASSILIEV (ITU Staff)
Other Eumetfreq participants*:
Edoardo MARELLI (ESA)
Manfred OTTER (ESA)
Jean PLA (CNES)
Bjorn ROMMEN (ESA)
Klaus RUF (DLR)
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* unlike CEPT, EUMETNET is not a recognised body within ITU-R and
EUMETNET participation to these meetings is made under national or WMO
delegations.
** Also representing WMO
Introduction:
The ITU-R Conference Preparatory Meeting (CPM) aims at finalising the
“CPM Text” that will serve for all administrations to prepare their
national proposals to the forthcoming World Radiocommunication
Conference (WRC-07).
Recognising that the whole preparatory work during the last 3 years has
only been followed by a limited number of Administrations, the CPM is
also the first ITU meeting at which most of the ITU Member
Administrations are represented and can learn the issues related to
different agenda items.
For most of these agenda items, the CPM text is assumed to reflect the
different diverging views and hence propose different Methods to satisfy
each of these agenda items.
1 General comment:
The national delegations in CPM are led by National Radio
Administrations and it appears that, for a majority of these delegation,
from developing countries but also some developed countries, there is a
general lack of understanding of the meteorological and scientific
processes as well as requirements related to radio-frequency.
WMO inputted two documents to this CPM, one on the specific WMO
positions related to all agenda items of interests (Document CPM/65 and
its addendums) and the second one presenting on behalf of GEO the
“Importance of radio spectrum for the Global Earth Observation System of
Systems (GEOSS) and related frequency protection requirements” (Document
CPM/82).
These documents certainly allowed for a better appreciation of WMO and
Earth Observations community requirements by the Radiocommunication
community but there will be a need for maintaining and increasing
pressure and communication efforts to advertise our positions to
National Radiocommunication Administrations (NRA) up to WRC-07.
2 Report on specific agenda items :
Agenda item 1.2 : Issue 1 : Protection of the 36-37 GHz EESS (passive)
band
The CPM text on this issue proposes 2 Methods :
C1 : proposing mandatory limits to be applied to active services to
protect EESS (passive)
C2 : only encouraging administrations to make the best effort to protect
EESS (passive)
Method C1 is in line with WMO and EUMETNET positions and, following
discussions during CPM, one can assume that it may have a good chance of
succeeding.
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Agenda item 1.2: Issue 2: Extension of the 18 GHz METSAT allocation
The CPM text on this issue proposes 3 Methods:
A1 : proposing an extension of the current METSAT allocation (18.1-18.3
GHz) in the 18-18.1 GHz band
A2 : proposing an extension of the current METSAT allocation (18.1-18.3
GHz) in the 18-18.1 GHz band but with a specific provision related to
the protection of the BSS (Broadcasting Satellite Service) plan.
A3 : proposing an extension of the current METSAT allocation (18.1-18.3
GHz) in the 18.3-18.4 GHz band
Method A1 and A2 are not favoured by a number of developing countries
whereas A3 is not supported by the US Administration but the
principle of the 100 MHz extension is globally supported. WRC-07 would
“only” have to choose whether this extension should be made upward or
downward and the only strong requirement from WMO and EUMETNET is that
this extension be made on a worldwide basis.
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Agenda item 1.2: Issue 3: Protection of the 10.6-10.68 GHz EESS
(passive) band
The CPM text on this issue proposes 3 Methods:
B1 : proposing a tightening of the current limits on active services to
ensure a proper protection of EESS (passive)
B2 : proposing roughly to maintain the current limits
B3 : only encouraging administrations to make the best effort to protect
EESS (passive)
Despite evidence of current interference from active services to EESS
(passive), there is still a number of oppositions (Japan, Arab countries
and few European countries) to tighten the current limits to ensure
future operation of EESS (passive) in this band, arguing about the
constraints imposed on active services. WMO and EUMETNET of course
favour Method B1 that is limiting the constraints on active services
while improving the EESS (passive) situation recognising that, under
methods B2 and B3, development of active services would lead to a total
loss of this important passive band.
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Agenda item 1.3 : Issue 1 : Upgrading and protection of radiolocation
in the 9 GHz range
The CPM text on this issue proposes 2 Methods :
A1 : upgrading the radiolocation service status from secondary to
primary but with a footnote stating that Radiolocation shall not cause
harmful interference to Radio navigation services
A2 : upgrading the radiolocation service status from secondary to
primary
This is a pure principle issue on whether or not a primary service
(radiolocation) is not able to protect another primary service (radio
navigation).
WMO and EUMETNET favour method A2, recognising that there are currently
a number of meteorological radars operating under the secondary
radiolocation service without any adverse impacts on radio navigation
systems.
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Agenda item 1.3 : Issue 2 : extension of the Earth exploration
satellite service (EESS) allocation at 9500-9800 MHz
The CPM text on this issue proposes 2 Methods :
B1 : extension of the EESS (active) in the 9300-9500 MHz, limiting this
extension to systems requiring more than the current 300 MHz bandwidth
B2 : extension of the EESS (active) in the 9800-10000 MHz
According to Resolution 747 (WRC-03), B1 is to be considered in priority
before B2. WMO and EUMETNET do not favour one of these 2 methods but
note that under B1, protection of meteorological radars operating in the
9300-9500 MHz band is ensured by the limitation of use of this extension
by systems only requiring more than the current 300 MHz bandwidth in the
9500-9800 MHz band. One can also note that the German proposal to
increase this extension to 300 MHz hence covering the 9300-9900 MHz band
has not been agreed as a new Method, under the argument that it is not
in line with the agenda item, but is mentioned in the CPM text as a
proposal by some administrations.
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Agenda item 1.4: Impact on meteorological radars and satellite C-Band
related to future frequency bands for IMT-2000
It is rather difficult to summarise the methods under this agenda item
since they refer to generic allocations without specifying any
frequency bands.
On the other hand, the CPM text provides a list of frequency bands to be
considered by WRC-07, giving, for each of these bands, advantages and
disadvantages.
From the meteorological prospective, 2 bands are of interests for WMO
and EUMETNET and have been lengthily discussed during CPM :
• 2700-2900 MHz band: one of the 2 major bands for meteorological
radars. One cannot say that the CPM text is negative for our interest
but a potential identification of this band for IMT-2000 is still open
(even though there is only few European administrations supporting it)
since technical studies and in particular consideration of possible
mitigation techniques, are yet to be finalised. On the other hand, it is
felt that a big majority of administrations would oppose identification
of this band, hence following the WMO and EUMETNET position.
• 3400-4200 MHz band: this band is not allocated to meteorological
services but is quite heavily used for broadcasting of meteorological
information and alerts. According to the discussion during CPM, it is
likely that the whole band would not be identified for IMT-2000 on a
worldwide basis but WMO and EUMETNET would have to make sure that, at
least, sufficient capacity and availability for meteorological related
broadcasts be maintained. It has to be noted that mentioning this use in
the CPM text has been very difficult to obtain and required a certain
insistence of WMO to get the following text “The use of the band 3 400
4 200 MHz by FSS also includes governmental uses and international
commitments within the WMO, which are essential for civil aviation and
weather, water, climate and environmental alerts and which are currently
using only a few channels, mainly in the 3 600 3 800 MHz band “. On a more general basis, one can note that discussions on the inclusion
of the above text on 3400-4200 MHz band have shown that a number of
administrations are ready to follow WMO requirements. This is something
that would have to be kept in mind under this agenda item but also on a
more general basis.
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Agenda item 1.12: Coordination and notification procedures for Earth
Exploration Satellite Service (EESS) (active and passive) sensors
This agenda item concerns quite a wide range of regulatory issues among
which meteorological services are only concerned with the issue related
to coordination and notification of EESS active and passive sensors.
The CPM text makes only one proposal supporting such coordination and
notification possibility, hence in line with WMO and EUMETNET positions.
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Agenda item 1.17: Protection of the 1.4 GHz EESS (passive) band
There is now a general consensus to delete the secondary FSS allocation
in the bands 1390-1392 MHz (Earth-to-space) and 1430-1432 MHz
(space-to-Earth) and the CPM text only proposes a consistent Method, in
line with WMO and EUMETNET position.
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Agenda item 1.20: Unwanted emissions in EESS (passive) bands
This is certainly the more important agenda item for the meteorological
community since it refers to essential passive bands all listed in RR
Footnote 5.340 (1.4 GHz, 24 GHz, 31 GHz and 50 GHz).
Even though this agenda item will likely be one of the more complex at
WRC-07, finalisation of the CPM did not led to difficult discussions.
The CPM text on this issue proposes 3 Methods :
A : proposing mandatory limits for unwanted emissions falling in the
related passive bands
B : proposing recommended levels for unwanted emissions falling in the
related passive bands
C : only encouraging administrations to make the best effort to protect
EESS (passive)
WMO and EUMETNET are supporting method A, the only solution to ensure
worldwide protection of the EESS (passive) bands, and are definitively
opposed to see Method C retained as a solution in any of the
frequency band. One can note that the WMO proposal to delete this Method
C was not supported and that, on the contrary, a number of
administrations strongly supported its maintaining, arguing about
flexibility given to administrations.
From the discussions, it clearly appears that the most difficult issue
will relate to the protection of the 1.4 GHz band, in particular from
radars, and that, even though diverging views on the required protection
level for the 31 and 50 GHz bands (ranges of levels are provided in the
CPM text), the case of the bands above 20 GHz may be easier to solve.
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Other Agenda items: 1.5, 1.6, 1.8, 1.18 and 1.19
On all these agenda items, meteorological interests are not endangered.
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Report:
WMO Expert Team on Observing Requirements and Standards for Climate,
Geneva, Switzerland,
28-30 March 2007
Report by the HMEI Secretariat attending the meeting.
Documents for the meeting can be accessed from
the link here.
The WMO report
of the meeting is available here.
Meeting Participants
Mr P. Bessemoulin,
METEO-FRANCE, President of Commission for Climatology (CCl)
Dr Raino Heino (OPAG 1 Chair),
Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)
Dr W. Wright (ET Leader), Australian
Bureau of Meteorology
Dr B. Howe,
Meteorological Service of Canada
Dr R. Ali Hassan,
The Egyptian Meteorological Authority
Dr H. Isobe,
Japan Meteorological Agency
Dr C. Boroneant,
National Meteorological Administration, Romania
Dr M. Deuircan,
Turkish State Meteorological Service
Mr A. Kruger,
South African Weather Service
WMO Secretariat
Mr Donald E. Hinsman,
Director Space Program
Mr Omar Baddour,
Chief, World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme
Mr Hama Kontongomde,
Scientific Officer,
World Climate Data and Monitoring Programme
HMEI Secretariat
Mr Bruce Sumner,
Executive Secretary
Ms Christine Charstone, Administrator
Opening of Meeting
Dr Hong Yan opened the meeting and welcomed Mr Bessemoulin, Dr
Heino, Dr Wright and the delegates to the meeting and to Geneva. He
stated that observations and data are the primary requirement of
Members, but many gaps still exist which this team is invited to
address.
Mr Bessemoulin, President of CCl, addressed the meeting. He advised the
group that a new chapter for the CIMO Guide has been approved by the
CIMO President, tentatively entitled Guidelines for severe monitoring,
assessment and network planning. There is currently no information on
this topic in the Guide.
Report
from the WMO Technical Commission for Climatology
(CCl)
This report, given by Omar Baddour, gave information on the CCl and its position within the WMO structure,
the functions that CCl performs, and its interactions with other WMO Commissions and
International Organisations.
Key
information presented was:
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The meeting was advised of the CCl
meeting structure: Congress (4 years), EC (yearly), Regional
Associations (4 yearly) and Technical Commissions ( yearly);
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Activities of OPAG I include: guidance on
their choice of instruments and sensors; guidance for improved data
exchange; and setting standards for the exchange of metadata;
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OPAG II is responsible for observation
needs for climate change detection;
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A priority is to assist Least Developed Countries' (LDC’s)
in meeting the challenges of automaton of observations;
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Climate requirements need to be provided
to the sensor manufacturers, particularly for satellite observations.
More information at
http://www.wmo.int/web/wcp/ccl/index.html
Presentation by ET Chair – Dr Bill Wright
Dr Wright's report identified several important issues to be dealt
with by this ET.
AWS issues
- Loss of data needs to be minimized
- Observational accuracy, errors of +/- 15% can occur
- Homogeneity of data is an issue, due to sensor change
Developing Counties' issues
- Sustainability
- Maintenance and training
- Not much deployment of AWSs
International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report - Dr
Raino Heino
The report highlighted the growing changes being observed in
rainfall, drought and hurricanes worldwide. The changes appear
dramatic enough that there is an urgent need to accurately
observe and track these increasing changes.
It was noted that the work of this ET had the responsibility to try
to ensure that climate observations and observational practices be as
good as they can possibly be, in order that accurate information can be
provided in a time when the changes in climate and weather may need to
be known ever more quickly and accurately for disaster management and
other decision making at high levels.
Presentation on CEOS Database - Jerome Lafeuille
This presentation looked at the present state of the CEOS/WMO User
Observational Requirements databases. The user requirements now include
both Optimum and Threshold values for observational requirements.
These databases are available at:
http://192.91.247.60/sat/aspscripts/Requirementsearch.asp
Presentations by Global Climate Observing System (GCOS); World
Climate Programme (WCP); Global Earth Observing System of Systems
(GEOSS); and Global Observing System (GOS)
Detailed overviews and discussion in the various climate programmes,
including CCl, WCP, GEOSS, GCOS and GOS, and how the interactions
between these programmes occurs, including with UNFCCC and IPCC.
Overview of the GCOS Regional Workshop, with 10 workshops between 2000
and 2005, enabling WMO members to know the importance and procedures for
climate data observations and networks.
All speakers emphasized the need for reliable and high quality daily
data, including atmospheric composition observations, is the key
requirement to all climate programmes and applications. Also stressed
was that the need for access to the data is a primary requirement for
climate change detection, monitoring and modelling
Sustained climate networks are required, especially in Least Developed
Countries (LDCs)
Models are not the be-all and end-all, the various players need to be
made aware that daily high quality observations are the basic
requirement for climate monitoring. Automatic Weather Stations for
Climate Observations
It was noted that there are many benefits for climate observations, but
also some disadvantages, such as data loss because of damaged
instruments, data spikes, loss of visual observations, lack of homogeneity
between sensor changes and/or CWS (Classical Weather Stations) to AWS
changes.
Standards need to be set for climate requirements, such as:
- 99 per cent of observations need to be obtained;
- Visual sensors on some AWS;
- Data backup (need for data loggers so data not lost),
- Alert system for failures;
- High precision meeting WMO guidelines (0.3 or 0.1 degrees C);
- Regular inspection and maintenance;
- Mix of automatic and manned stations;
- Quality control;
- Metadata;
- Vandalism.
Guideline for Observational Standards in Developing Countries
This part of the meeting looked at the needs for Developing and Least
Developed Countries (LDC).
The need for training programs was particularly identified.
Also the problems of costs of adequate climate observation
instrumentation and systems were noted. The meeting discussed ways to
overcome the cost problems and considered that it was important to look
to ways to raise the profile of climate monitoring with the governments
of such countries, in order that the expenditure on good instrumentation
and systems was emphasised as economically and socially useful to the
country.
Consideration was also given to methods of financial aids that are or
may be possible to help particularly LDCs in respect to their
participation in global climate monitoring and networks.
Guidelines on Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) of
Surface Meteorological Data
Dr Wright presented a document on some considerations in regard to this
QA/QC. The meeting found this document useful for the outline to guide
the ET in specifying the QA/QC needed. Bruce Sumner from HMEI also
pointed out that many QA/QC elements in various WMO Guides would
also be helpful to the ET in formulating the specific QA/QC it is
working on.
Work Plan
The Team set itself tasks to be undertaken during the next several
years. Three tasks were identified, and each task was divided into a
series of sub-tasks.
The three primary tasks are:
- Develop an updated list of standards for AWSs for climate
purposes;
- Develop or contribute to a Guideline document for climate
observation standards in developing countries (noting the special
problems in these countries regarding sustainability and limited
resources for maintenance), and provide advice relevant to the GEOSS
project. This should involve, inter alia, collaboration with GCOS
Lead Centres,
- Complete the Guidelines document on Quality Control/Quality
Assurance that commenced in 2005 – “Guidelines in Quality
Assurance/Quality Control of Surface Meteorological Data”, including
the provision of an appendix addressing feedback to observational
system providers.
Comments
The HMEI presence at the meeting was noted as most useful by both
Dr W. Wright, the ET Leader, and
Dr Raino Heino, the OPAG 1 Chair. The HMEI Secretariat's knowledge of
WMO Guides and Databases, as well as the knowledge of manufacturers'
products and possibilities for instrumentation, was a
resource for the ET's
discussions.
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MEMBERS' NEWS: HMEI members CAE and Eijkelkamp visit WMO and HMEI in Geneva
The HMEI Secretariat was pleased to welcome
representatives from two HMEI members who visited WMO in Geneva in March
this year:
CAE SpA of Bolgna, Italy.
Dr. Giancarlo Pedrini (vice President of CAE), Prof. Stefano Tibaldi (ARPA
Emilia Romagna), Dr. Francesco Chierici (Commercial Manager of CAE), and
Dr. Gianni Crema (CAE Consultant for International Development), visited HMEI and WMO in Geneva on 15 March 2007. They gave presentations about CAE to some dozen WMO people, particularly illustrating the
CAE "system approach" in building and maintaining Hydrometeorological
monitoring networks. CAE then hosted a generous lunch for attendees to
their presentation.
Eijkelkamp Agrisearch Equipment, Netherlands. Mr. Albert Knol and
Mr. Jos van Zuilen visited HMEI and WMO on the 22nd March and
23rd March. On the 22nd they gave a presentation about Eijkelkamp and
their e-SENSE field monitoring system and followed up with individual
visits to specific WMO personnel in the afternoon. On 23rd March
Mr. Knol and Mr. van Zuilen attended the World Meteorological Day
celebrations. They were WMO invitees to this event, as
Eijkelkamp was one of the sponsors in the Polar Year calendar
project.
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Members'
News:
HMEI contact changed at Yokogawa Denshikiki
Mr. Shoujirou Ichikawa has, as from 1st April 2007, replaced
Mr. Hiromasa Takahashi as HMEI contact at Yokogawa Denshikiki Co. Ltd.
HMEI wishes a regretful farewell to Mr. Takahashi, with whom it has been a pleasure to work. We welcome Mr.
Ichikawa and now look forward to working with him.
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New Members
The Association of
Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes the
following companies as new HMEI members:
ATTEX Ltd. - Russia
Website: www.attex.ru
Email: info@attex.ru
Founded in February 1992, ATTEX is a company that specializes in
development and manufacturing of remote sensing methods and instruments
for investigation of the atmosphere parameters. It has experience in
design and manufacturing of passive microwave instruments in both ground-based, air-based and space application.
The company has several areas of expertise. These areas are applied to
physics of the atmosphere as well as surface parameters of different
kinds of background by remote sensing.
ATTEX manufactures:
Microwave temperature profilers
Microwave systems for measurement of liquid water content in clouds
Microwave systems for measurement of water vapor and ozone in atmosphere
Equipment for detection of fog, clouds and rain origination/dissipation
Microwave systems for measurement of road surface state as: dry, wet,
snow and ice
JENOPTIK Laser, Optik,
Systeme GmbH - Germany
Website:
www.jenoptik-los.com
Email: marketing@jenoptik.com
JENOPTIK Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH is a fully-owned subsidiary of the
JENOPTIK AG technology group of Jena, Germany (ISIN DE 0006229107). The
company’s business units Lasers, Optics, Micro-optics and Sensors
develop, produce and distribute laser sources, optical and micro-optical
components, modules and system solutions as well as the technologies
used in the precise measurement, imaging, structuring and analysis of a
variety of materials. The company’s success is anchored in its use of
the latest in technology and its custom-designed applications.
JENOPTIK Laser, Optik, Systeme GmbH was founded in 1995, currently has
about 650 employees and is part of the Laser & Optics branch of the
technology group.
The CHM 15k, the new laser ceilometer of Jenoptik, measures
simultaneously cloud base and boundary layer height, and vertical
visibility. With an operating range of up to 15 kilometres it is the
first commercial LIDAR instrument capable to reliably and routinely
detect multi-cloud layers and high-lying cirrus clouds with low
backscatter coefficients. The low-maintenance sensor is designed to work
autonomously in all meteorological and climatological applications. The
CHM 15k is configured and controlled by an intuitive command set. The
measurement data can be individually evaluated with the help of three
different data telegrams.
Additional software modules are available for data recording and
analysis (JO_DataClient) and graphical visualisation of backscatter data
(JO_Visual).
Further meteorological products, like e.g. sensors for visibility, snow
height and water level are under development, but already available for
demonstrations.
YSI Hydrodata Ltd.
- United Kingdom
Website: www.ysihydrodata.com
Email: Europe@ysi.com
YSI Hydrodata Ltd. provides sales, service, rental and maintenance of
water quality instruments and flow meters.
New
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Obituary for Professor Obasi
It was with sadness that HMEI learnt of the death of Professor Godwin Olu
Patrick Obasi, Secretary-General Emeritus of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
He passed away in Abuja, Nigeria on March 3rd 2007.
Professor Obasi was, as many know, the person at whose suggestion the
concept of HMEI was first formulated. In March 2000 Professor Obasi
wrote a letter, bringing to the attention of manufacturers of instruments and equipment
the possibility of establishing an association of manufacturers as a way
to enhance collaboration with WMO.
Professor Obasi's far sightedness in proposing an
association which has become HMEI is remembered and appreciated.
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Update: JCOMM 4th session of the Ship Observations
Team (SOT-IV), Geneva, Switzerland, 16-21 April, 2007
The SOT includes the Voluntary Observing Ship (VOS) , the
Ship-of-Opportunity Programme (SOOP) and the Automated Shipboard
Aerological Programme (ASAP).
HMEI has received an official invitation to be represented at
this meeting. A copy of the
Provisional Agenda is available here.
Additional information is available from the JCOMM website:
http://www.wmo.int/web/aom/marprog/Forthcoming-Events/forthcoming-events.htm
Representing HMEI as an expert at this meeting will be:
Rémy Pepin from Modem
The HMEI Secretariat will also attend and record a report of the
meeting for HMEI members.
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Update: WMO Expert Team on Data Representation and Codes,
Darmstadt, Germany, 23-27 April 2007
Documentation on this meeting is available at
http://www.wmo.int/web/www/ISS/Meetings/ET-DRC_EUMETSAT2007/DocPlan.html
Mr Michal Weis from IBL, who has represented HMEI before
in this area, was invited to represent HMEI at this meeting but is
unable to attend.
HMEI members with some expertise in this area, who would like to
attend and represent HMEI, please contact Bruce Sumner at
hmei@wmo.int
The provisional Agenda is available here.
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Update: WMO Intercomparisons involving HMEI Members' Instruments
Up-to-date details on both the the WMO Combined Intercomparison of
Thermometer Screens/Shields in Conjunction with Humidity Measuring
Instruments, in Ghardaïa, Algeria and the WMO Field Intercomparison of
Rainfall Intensity Instruments, Vigna di Valle, Italy, are now available
at the WMO/CIMO website:
http://www.wmo.ch/web/www/IMOP/intercomparisons.htm
The information there includes the final list of accepted instruments and
some interesting reports and details on the progress of the
arrangements.
In the Rainfall Intensity Intercomparison 18 of the manufacturers were HMEI Members, out of the 23 manufacturers, who had one or more
instruments selected.
For the Thermometer Screens/Shields in Conjunction with Humidity
Measuring Instruments Intercomparison, 12 manufacturers are HMEI Members
out of the 15 who had one or more instruments selected.
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Update:
7th EMS Annual Meeting - Application of Meteorology, Spain, 1-5
October 2007
Exhibition:
Information for exhibitors is now available at the "Exhibition" link at
http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2007. EMS are looking to make the
exhibition an important feature of this year's meeting. It will be held
at Congress Center Euroforum in San Lorenzo de El Escorial,
Spain.
This EMS focuses on High Impact Weather and is held in
conjunction with the 8th European Conference on Applications of
Meteorology (ECAM).
Pre-registration is now open.
Oral presentations or poster presentations:
The call-for-papers and abstracts was launched in mid-February is still open until
25 May 2007.
For further information go to
http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2007 and also from EMS directly at
www.emetsoc.org/ems2007
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OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES IN 2007
More information, on the conferences, is available at the
HMEI website International Meetings page.
UN/Morocco/ESA International Workshop on the
Use of Space Technology for Sustainable Development, Rabat, Morocco, 25-
27 April 2007
An Information Note describing the background of the Workshop and its
objectives, together with an application form are available on the
website of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs at:
http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SAP/rs/index.html
Fifteenth World Meteorological Congress (Cg-XV) and Executive
Council - 59th session
EC-VIX,
Geneva, Switzerland, May 2007
The Fifteenth World Meteorological Congress (Cg-XV) will
be held 7-25 May, 2007 at the CICG - International Conference Centre,
and will be followed by EC-LIX, to he held at the WMO Building, in
Geneva, Switzerland. The MeteoHydex 2007 exhibition will be held in
conjunction with the Cg-XV. Information and documents are available at
http://www.wmo.ch/web/meetingsnew.html
1st International Summit on Hurricanes and Climate Change, Crete,
Greece, May 27 - 1 June 2007
The meeting, to be held at the Aldemar Knossos Royal Village
Conference Center is designed to serve as a forum to discuss the most
recent progress in hurricanes and climate change.
The pre-registration form on-line is at:
http://www.aegeanconferences.org/Registration/meetingregistration/hurricanes.asp
Registration materials, including abstract and hotel reservation forms,
are available on the web site at
www.aegeanconferences.org
17th World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, Canada,
8-11 July 2007
The conference program includes speakers
from many parts of the world from Emergency
Planning/Management, Business Continuity, Emergency Communications,
Emergency Response, Disaster Management Research, Risk Management,
Security, IT, HR, Environmental, Community Planning and the
organizations which supply and service these professions."
For further information see:
http://www.wcdm.org/
Third
International Conference on Climate and Water, Helsinki, Finland, 3-6 September
2007
Information is available at
http://www.environment.fi/syke/cw3
4th European Conference on Severe Storms, Trieste, Italy,10-14 September 2007
Deadline for the abstract submission:
01 May 2007
Information is available at:
http://www.essl.org/ECSS/2007/ecss2007.htm
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OTHER INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS 2007
More information on the exhibitions is available at the
HMEI website Exhibitions page.
European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2007, Vienna,
Austria, 15- 20 April 2007
All EGU 2007 information can be found at
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007
Exhibition information is available at:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2007/general_information_for_exhibitors.html
EWEC - European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition 2007, May 7 - 10, 2007, Milan, Italy
For information go to:
http://www2.ewea.org/06b_events/events_EWEC2007.htm
IUGG XXIV 2007, Perugia, Italy, July 2-13 2007
The International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) will be holding its 24th General
Assembly in Perugia in July 2007. This conference is also marking the occasion of the 50th International Geophysical Year.
Please
click here for the 2nd Circular for this event.The conference has as its theme "Earth: Our Changing Planet".
There will be Poster Sessions and an Exhibition associated with this
event. For more details on these go to:
http://www.iugg2007perugia.it/custom.asp?inAct=V&inObj=107&
17th World Conference on Disaster Management, Toronto, Canada,
8-11 July 2007
This conference has a two day exhibition associated with it and sponsorship
opportunities.
For further information see: http://www.wcdm.org/
7th EMS Annual Meeting - Application of Meteorology, Spain, 1-5 October 2007
Please see the update above.
4th China International Exhibition on Technology and Equipment of
Meteorology Science & Hydrology, Guangzhou, China, late September
2007
Please see the update above.
12th International Energy Conference & Exhibition, Sustainable Energy:
Challenges and Opportunities for the 21st Century, 26-30 November 2007
This exhibition will be held at the Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore. See the
exhibition profile information at:
http://www.enviroasia.com.sg/exhibit_profile.html
The HMEI exhibition
page is updated as new exhibition opportunities come to our
attention.
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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