In this newsletter:
HMEI
Annual General Meeting will be held at the
90th AMS Meeting, in Atlanta, GA, USA, on
19 January 2010
90th AMS Meeting, “Weather, Climate, and Society: New Demands on
Science and Services”, Atlanta, GA, USA, 17-21 January 2010
Report -
JCOMM-III, Marrakesh, Morocco, November 2009
14th Commission
for Aeronautical Meteorology (CAeM-XIV), Hong Kong, February 2010
15th Commission for Climatology
(CCl-XV), Antalya, Turkey,
February 2010
First Conference of Ministers
Responsible for Meteorology in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2010
Photography Competition EUROPHOTOMETEO 2009
Upcoming WMO Meetings and Workshops
Upcoming Conferences and Exhibition/Sponsorship Opportunities
Other Conferences and Event Links
The Next HMEI
Annual General Meeting will be held at the 90th AMS Meeting, in Atlanta,
GA, USA, on 19 January 2010
During the 90th meeting of the AMS HMEI will hold on Annual General
Meeting at 8am to 9.30am on Tuesday,
19 January 2010 in Room B204 of the Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta, GA, USA. This HMEI AGM will
see elections for HMEI Chairman and HMEI Vice-Chairman as well as
several Councillor positions elected.
Adenda of the HMEI AGM January
2010
• Opening by Chairman of HMEI
• Acceptance of previous General Assembly minutes
• Election of Office Bearers and Council members
• Acceptance of new members in HMEI
• Acceptance of 2008 Audit
• Financial Statement and Budget for 2010
• The Economic Slowdown and its effect on our industry
• Requirements for members attending meetings as HMEI representatives
• Upcoming events for the year – METEOREX, etc.
• Any Other Business
• Close of Meeting
HMEI cordially invites members and other attendees at the Atlanta AMS to come to the meeting.
90th AMS Meeting, “Weather, Climate, and Society: New Demands on
Science and Services”, Atlanta, GA, USA, 17-21 January 2010
Information on the program etc.
is available at:
http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/annual/#
HMEI will be at
booth 638 at AMS, provide thanks to the organisers. Mr Bruce Sumner the HMEI
Executive Secretary will be in attendance at the booth and looks forward
to welcoming Members and visitors to the booth
So far 31 HMEI members are listed as exhibiting at AMS in 2010. The exhibitors list is available at:
http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/annual/get_exhibitlist_annual.cfm?ec=90annual&pr=0
All exhibition information is available from:
http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/annual/exhibitors.html
Report - WMO/CIMO ET on Meteorological Radiation and Atmospheric
Composition Measurements, Davos, Switzerland, 14-18 September
2009
The HMEI member representative at this meeting was Joop Mes from Kipp &
Zonen.
Documents for this meeting are online at:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/meetings.html
The WMO/CIMO report of this meeting is available at: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/reports/2009/ET-MRACM-2_FinalReport.pdf
Report -
3rd Session of the Joint WMO-IOC Technical Commission for
Oceanography and Marine Meteorology (JCOMM-III), Marrakesh,
Morocco, 4-11 November 2009
No HMEI representative attended this meeting. However the HMEI Executive
Secretary, Bruce Sumner, has a good working relationship with both the
JCOMM Co-President, Peter Dexter, and with the CIMO Secretariat Liaison
with JCOMM, Etienne Charpentier. Therefore we have had good feedback
from this meeting regarding the on-going co-operation between JCOMM and
HMEI.
As a result HMEI has received notification that the following statement will be in the final report of the meeting:
"Cooperation with manufacturers
6.2.6 The Commission noted a recommendation from the JCOMM Pilot Project
for WIGOS to establish closer links with manufacturers. The Commission
considered the Association of Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry
(HMEI) could be a mechanism to represent manufacturers within the WMO
and UNESCO/IOC through JCOMM, and therefore suggested that the HMEI
could be given similar status within the UNESCO/IOC as those
non-governmental organizations that were already granted consultative
status by WMO. In the meantime, the Commission noted that for the time
being the HMEI included a very small number of marine instrument
manufacturers in its members, and requested the Secretary-General of WMO
and the Executive Secretary of UNESCO/IOC to facilitate arrangements to
ensure that the main marine meteorological and oceanographic instrument
manufacturers eventually become HMEI members. This would allow: (1)
future interaction, cooperation and collaboration of HMEI with both the
WMO and the UNESCO/IOC, including JCOMM Expert Teams and Panels; and (2)
the participation of HMEI in specific JCOMM activities such as pilot
projects, technology developments, instrument evaluations, and
Intercomparisons [see agenda item 10.2]. The Commission noted that
certain groups and panels including the DBCP had been maintaining close
collaboration with manufacturers over the years. It therefore requested
the panels and groups under OPA to look for ways for enhanced linkage
with manufacturers."
Documents presented at this meeting are
available from the link on the page at:
www.jcomm.info/. The WMO final report for JCOMM-III will be online in due course.
Report -
HMEI experts at Management Committee for the CHy Project on the Assessment of
the Performance of Flow Measurement Instruments & Techniques,
Geneva, Switzerland, 18-19 November, 2009
Following an invitation from WMO, HMEI sent expert
member representatives to this meeting.
Dr Skripalle from SEBA attended as the HMEI
expert representative. Mr R. Haimelin from Vaisala also
attended as an expert,
HMEI thanks Mr Haimelin for the the following
report.
MEETING REPORT by Mr. R. Haimelin
Background
The Management Committee (MC) for the CHy Project on the Assessment of
the Performance of Flow Measurements and Techniques was established in
2007. The aim for the committee is to unify the determination of
uncertainty in discharge measurement. As the uncertainty includes
instrument precision, industry representatives (HMEI) were invited into
this first meeting in order to for the committee to hear industry's
opinion and on the other hand give a message to hydrological equipment
manufacturers to work on unifying how instrument accuracy is expressed.
There is nowa Flow Measurement Techniques website at:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/hwrp/FlowMeasurement.html.
Notes
The meeting first summarized what has been done during the past two
years.
- A survey to National Hydrological Services by J. Fulford and S. Busaz has been conducted to find out what kind of equipment and from which manufacturer is used in the country to measure discharge. COMMENT: Only 14% of WMO members responded, mainly from western countries. According to the survey, mechanical instruments are used for over 70% of flow measurements.
- A paper on General Uncertainty Management (GUM) method by J. Fulford.
- An example of GUM in flow measurement by M. Muste
- Discussion papers on instrument specifications by P, J. McCurry
It was suggested that the GUM method should be recommended by WMO in
estimating uncertainty. Until now there hasn't been one general and
widely accepted method in estimating uncertainty. It was the idea of
Climate and Water Department of the WMO to investigate and finally
propose one general method and terminology. The GUM method is widely
used and suitable for almost all uncertainty estimations. The basic
principle is that it takes into account all sources of uncertainty, for
example such as the experience level of the person conducting a
measurement. The division of uncertainty sources differs from
traditional way where sources of error are either random or systematic,
so that now the error is defined either by statistical analysis (Type A)
or other means (Type B).
The ISO representative pointed out that this method is widely used in
their standards and recommended its use. There was a general
understanding among the meeting participants that GUM is the way to
proceed with estimating uncertainty.
It was proposed that WMO should recommended national hydrological
services to let the manufacturers conduct the testing of their equipment
in each country in an independent testing company to meet the individual
national requirements. An estimation was given that such a test would
cost something around 10 000 USD. Another proposal was that the industry
should express the uncertainty of devices in a transparent and traceable
way so that the declared accuracy of any device could be used as such in
the uncertainty assessment procedure.
The vision of the CHy/WMO is to expand the uncertainty assessment
procedure (GUM) to be recommended by all the WMO branches and eventually
include the uncertainty assessment in modelling. Members of other
branches were invited to take part in the meeting to hear about the GUM
method and its applicability in all uncertainty assessment.
Representatives from Climatology, and Argrology were present at the
meeting.
It was agreed that the committee will try to produce a PC-software which
can be used to estimate uncertainty in flow measurement. The idea is to
provide an easy user interface so that everyone with basic computer
skills could use it. The software could be then used either for
comparing different measurement techniques and finding the most suitable
for one's needs before purchasing the equipment, or for estimating the
uncertainty for equipment already in use.
The message from the Management Committee towards industry was that the
manufacturers should work through HMEI in establishing a common and
general way how the uncertainty of equipment is expressed, so that one
can easily compare for example sensor accuracy from different
manufacturers. It was suggested by J. Fulford that the accuracy would be
for example expressed in the measured units over the full declared
operational range of the equipment with 95% confidence determined with a
relevant distribution.
The meeting concentrated mostly on the second day in how to proceed from
here. A working website is established and progress can be followed
there.
Meeting Participants
Ms Zsuszsanna Buzás
Ministry of Environment and Water, Hungary
Ms Janice Fulford
Testing Section Chief, Hydrologic Instrumentation Facility, U.S.
Geological Survey, USA
Mr P. J. McCurry
National Manager, Hydrometric Operations, Hydrometric Monitoring
Division, Water Survey of Canada, Environment Canada, Canada
Dr Marian Muste
Research Engineer, IIHR - Hydroscience & Engineering, The University of
Iowa, USA
Dr Paul J. Pilon
Engineering Advisor, International Joint Commission, Canada
Ms Jenny Pellaux
Technical Programme Manager & Technical Editor, ISO Central Secretariat,
Switzerland
Dr Jürgen Skripalle (Representing HMEI)
Chief, Flow Division, SEBA Hydrometrie GmbH, Germany
Mr Bruce Summer
Executive Secretary, Association of HMEI, Switzerland
Prof. Gordon Young
President, IAHS, Canada
Mr Claudio Caponi
Chief, Capacity Building in Hydrology and Water Resources Office
Climate and Water Department, Switzerland
Mr. Risto Haimelin (Representing HMEI)
Application Specialist, Meteorology, Vaisalala OYJ, Finland
Report - COST ES702, Integrated Ground-based Observations of Essential
Variables for Climate and Operational Meteorology, Funchal, Madeira,
Portugal 24-26 November
This was the fourth session of this COST action. HMEI had
three members involved with this action: R. Lehtinen from Vaisala; W.
Sokolowski from Jenoptic;
and L. Sauvage from Leosphere.
HMEI would like to thank Mr. R. Lehtinen from Vaisala for the
following report.
meeting Report by Mr.
R. Lehtinen
Background
The general meeting of COST Action ES0702 (European Ground-Based
Observations of Essential Variables for Climate and Operational
Meteorology) was held in Funchal, Madeira, on November 24 - 26. The
agenda included national reports and progress reports since the previous
meeting in Oslo in March. The second half of the 3-day meeting was used
for parallel sessions of the four working groups. New member countries
Austria and Belgium had representatives in the meeting.
More information on the COST science program and the Madeira meeting
(including presentations at this meeting) can be found at
http://www.eg-climet.org/. See
also the previous HMEI report from March 2009.
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| The beautiful view from the meeting venue |
Brief meeting notes
The meeting agenda covered a wide range of topics in atmospheric
studies. Cloud physics, water vapour profiling and the planetary
boundary layer profiling were some of the topics of special interest.
One of the intended outcomes of COST 0702 will be an operational
European ceilometer network, with the development of a generic boundary
layer depth algorithm. Numerical models still have difficulties
assimilating and exploiting the boundary layer depth. Better
parameterization techniques are being developed to improve this in near
future.
New Lidars are available with more attractive pricing and with valuable
capabilities, such as Doppler and depolarization measurements. The
affordable FMCW cloud radar received a lot of interest, although
sensitivity does not quite reach that of the conventional pulsed radars.
The 8th WMO Radiosonde Intercomparison will be held in Yangjiang,
Guangdong, China in July 2010. The special target of the campaign will
be the relative humidity (RH) measurement accuracy in upper level
clouds. Radiosonde temperature measurements have been tested in the past
and observed reliable; RH performance has more uncertainty. Low
temperature RH will be observed as well, as temperatures get down to
-80C above the Yangjiang area. There will be a wide range of remote
sensing instruments, and users and manufacturers are invited to
participate with their instruments. Tim Oakley from UK Met Office is the
contact person.
The FUND program test bed of the UK Met Office will start observations
in January 2010. One area of interest is to validate the boundary layer
depth algorithms for wind profiler data. The HyMex campaign (Hydrology
studies in the Mediterranean basin) will have several observation
periods in 2011-2015. Special targets are heavy precipitation, intense
cyclones and flash flooding.
The data assimilation group had defined a list of new relevant
measurement techniques. The topics included weather radar radial winds,
GPS zenith tropospheric delay (ZTD), radiometer measurements, weather
radar reflectivity, and wind profiler winds. The impact of weather radar
winds has been inconclusive so far, but more work is being done on
improving the assimilation algorithms.
The instrumentation working group discussed ongoing work on improving
the operational quality control of wind profilers and weather radars.
The European WINPROF network now operates successfully, with bi-annual
data quality evaluations that have enhanced the performance
significantly. The Hungary MET service reported on a RASS study which
demonstrated a good agreement with Radiosonde temperature measurements.
MeteoFrance has continued a study on retrieving humidity and temperature
profiles using VHF and UHF wind profilers. The Clermont-Ferrant VHF
profiler has proven a capability for both measurements, and operational
use of the data will happen in near future.
Future plans
The meeting agreed on a number of short-term scientific missions to be
held before the next general meeting in Reading, UK, in the end of March
2010. January 15 is the deadline for abstracts for the 15th
International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary Layer Remote
Sensing (ISARS 2010) in Paris in June 2010. The symposium invites
instrument users and manufacturers to hold presentations as one-hour
field lectures, involving live demonstrations of individual
instruments.
The agenda and other documents for this meeting are available under: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/meetings.html. The WMO Final Report is also expected to be there before Christmas.
meeting Report by Mr. J. Zillmer
The session was held at the Direction de la Météorologie Nationale. The session followed the agenda, whereas the main item of discussion was the evaluation scheme for regional instrument centres. This scheme should help the centres to improve the procedures of calibration as well as the calibration equipment.
Another topic was a discussion about the recommendation for test and calibration equipment. Theodor Friedrichs presented during this part of the session the range of products the company can offer. Some of these products are in operation at various Instrument centres since many years. Special interest was shown on the Wind tunnel for calibration of wind speed sensors. Note: the participation of Theodor Friedrichs was appreciated by the experts and it was very helpful for our company as well.
14th Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (CAeM-XIV), Hong Kong,
3-10 February 2010
This will be a 5.5 day meeting preceded by a 1.5 day Technical
Conference. HMEI Members interested in
attending as HMEI representatives at this meeting please contact the
HMEI Secretariat at:
hmei@wmo.int.
A small exhibition may be arranged as part of this event. If you are
interested in exhibiting there please contact the HMEI Executive
Secretary at: hmei@wmo.int.
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15th Commission for Climatology
(CCl),
Antalya, Turkey,
19-24 February 2010
WMO has invited HMEI representatives to attend the Commission for
Climatology meeting at Antalya, Turkey from 19 to 24 February 2010. A
copy of the invitation is available
here. This document includes a link to the document site, where you
can also see the agenda for this meeting.
The HMEI Executive Secretary has had preliminary discussions with the local organizer in Turkey
regarding having a small exhibition with this meeting. It was agreed that
this would be a good idea. It is suggested to have 5 or six booths as a
small associated exhibition. Costs, etc. have not yet been finalized.
Please advise Bruce Sumner at hmei@wmo.int
if you are interested in either attending the Commission meeting itself,
or are interested in exhibiting during this event.
The First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa,
Nairobi, Kenya, 12-16 April 2010
WMO has approached HMEI to assist with arranging a small exhibition
during the First Conference of Ministers Responsible for
Meteorology in Africa.
This meeting is expected to attract most African ministers involved with
meteorology. Over 40 countries are expected to attend, and the total
number of participants is expected to be about 1500 people. The meeting
will be held in the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in Nairobi.
A brochure has been issued that provides details of this meeting
see the brochure here,
however note that the dates on
the brochure are incorrect, the correct dates being 12-16 April, 2010.
If you are interested in exhibiting during this event please contact
Bruce Sumner at hmei@wmo.int as soon
as possible so that the necessary arrangements can ne made with the
local organizers.
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Regional
Association V (South-West Pacific) - 15th session (XV-RA V), Bali,
Indonesia, 30 April-6 May 2010
HMEI is hoping to arrange a small exhibition area at this regional
meeting. HMEI Members wishing to participate in the exhibition or attend
the RAV as a HMEI representative please contact Bruce Sumner at
hmei@wmo.int.
METEOREX 2010,
Helsinki, Finland 31 August - 2 September 2010
Dates for METEOREX have been confirmed. These
dates are during 2 days of the CIMO Technical Conference (TECO) and the
first day of the Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
(CIMO) Session XV.
Photography
Competition EUROPHOTOMETEO`2009
EMS is requesting submissions of photos related to meteorology that were
taken in 2009.
Submissions should be sent by e-mail to:
europhotometeo@emetsoc.org
The deadline for submission is 31 January 2010.
The terms & conditions are available at:
http://www.emetsoc.org/awards/documents/EMS_EUROPHOTOMETEO_announcement.pdf,
and they include details on the material to be sent and when candidates
will be informed on the outcome.
Should you have any questions related to the terms & conditions of the
competition, please contact Fernando Bullón at
europhotometeo@emetsoc.org.
Opportunities for Members
In November the HMEI Secretariat received requests from the WMO
procurement office for names of suitable suppliers for the
following:
A list of suppliers of Climate Stations for Angola - This
is for a procurement of 8 GSN (Global Surface Network) Climate Stations
for Angola. HMEI supplied WMO with a list of potential suppliers
from the HMEI membership.
A list of suppliers of weather instrumentation for Uruguay - This
is for a requisition for instruments for 4 GSN observatories in Uruguay.
HMEI supplied WMO with a list of potential suppliers from the HMEI
membership.
Upcoming
Intercomparisons
WMO Intercomparison of Radiosondes in
China
The report of the CIMO Expert Team on Upper-Air Systems
Intercomparisons and International Organizing Committee on Upper-Air
Systems Intercomparisons that was held in Yangjiang, China, from
31 August to 4 September 2009 is now available on the WMO website under:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/reports.html.
From the set up meeting reported above, it is now decided that the
8th WMO Intercomparison of High
Quality Radiosonde Systems will be in Yangjiang, China, 12 - 31 July
2010. The website for further information as it comes to hand is
at: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/intercomparisons.html
There is a 'pre-planning' manufacturers meeting planned to be held
on 27th-28th January 2010, (to include all participants if possible).
This is expected to be held in Geneva or Exeter UK. Invitations to participants will be
sent in due course.
11th International and Regional, Pyrheliometers Intercomparisons (IPC-XI,
RPCs), Davos, Switzerland, 27 September - 15 October 2010
This Intercomparison has now been announced. HMEI will be the main liaison
with the manufacturers and will send details to members as soon as information is
made available
Arctic Intercomparison of Screens, Temperature and Humidity Sensors,
Canada, 2011
A follow up Intercomparison of screens, temperature and humidity sensors
is planned to be held in a cold locality, namely the Arctic, starting in
the spring of 2011. Canada has volunteered to host this Intercomparison.
It is expected that the participants will be the same as those in the
recently finished Ghardaïa, Algeria Intercomparison.
Upcoming WMO Meetings, and
Workshops
Intergovernmental Meeting for the High-Level Taskforce on the
Global Framework for Climate Services, Geneva, Switzerland,
11-12 January 2010
The WMO has invited HMEI, as an observer, to attend a
follow-up meeting resulting from the World Climate Conference 3,
held in Geneva from 31 August to 4 September 2009. This will be
an Intergovernmental Meeting for the High Level Taskforce (HLT)
on the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).
The HMEI Executive Secretary will attend the meeting.
Please contact Bruce Sumner at
hmei@wmo.int if you would like to be a HMEI representative
observer at this meeting. The letter of invitation from WMO
available here provides more information.
14th Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology (CAeM-XIV), Hong Kong,
3-10 February 2010
See the item earlier in this newsletter.
15th Commission for Climatology (CCl-XV), Turkey
19-24 February 2010
See the item earlier in this newsletter.
2nd GRUAN Implementation-Coordination Meeting (ICM-2),
Payerne, Switzerland, 2-4 March 2010
This will be held at the MeteoSwiss GRUAN site in Payerne, Bruce Sumner
the HMEI Executive Secretary has been directly invited and will attend
to represent HMEI at the meeting.
The meeting affords an opportunity for the Working Group on Atmospheric
Reference Observations (operating under the GCOS/WCRP Atmospheric
Observation Panel for Climate), the GRUAN Lead Centre, initial GRUAN
candidate site representatives and other stakeholders to review progress
to date, highlight issues and exchange views. Meeting participants will
instigate and agree an annual short-term GRUAN work plan within the
framework of the GRUAN Implementation Plan 2009-2013 (see
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/gcos/Publications/gcos-134.pdf).
WMO-BIPM workshop on Measurement Challenges for Global Observation
Systems for Climate Change Monitoring: Traceability, Stability and
Uncertainty, Geneva, Switzerland, 30 March - 1 April, 2010
This will be a workshop jointly hosted by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures (BIPM). Participation in the Workshop will be by invitation. The draft agenda for this workshop is available here.
TECO-CIMO and CIMO XV, Helsinki, Finland, 31 August - 9 September 2010
The METEOREX 2010 will be held concurrently with these sessions, see the
item earlier in in his newsletter.
Upcoming
Conferences and sponsorship/exhibition
opportunities
90th AMS Meeting, “Weather, Climate, and Society: New Demands on
Science and Services”, Atlanta, GA, USA, 17-21 January 2010
See item at the beginning of this newsletter.
SIRWEC, Québec City Canada, 5-7 February 2010
The Standing International Road Weather Commission (SIRWEC) conference
will also have an exhibition, with booths placed in Room 2000B of the
Québec City Convention Centre where the conference will be held. More
information is available at:
http://www.sirwec.org/menu/nextconference.html This link includes
the plan showing the layout of the exhibition area. The section reserved
for poster sessions is also in this room.
Topics for the conference include: Forecasting Methods / RWIS; Winter Maintenance / Cost Benefit; Sensors and Equipment; Decision Support System; Intelligent Transportation System; Education / Cooperation; and Best Practices using road weather.
First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa,
Nairobi, Kenya, 12-16 April 2010
See the item earlier in this newsletter.
EWEC2010, Warsaw, Poland, 20-23 April 2010
Leosphere, Scintec, Vaisala and Vector (Windspeed) are
HMEI members listed as exhibiting at this event.
The European Wind Energy Conference & Exhibition (EWEC) is a
professional, comprehensive and informative event in the wind sector.
Register before 18 January at early bird rates. More information is
available at:
http://www.ewec2010.info/
EWEC is an annual event which combines an extensive exhibition of the
leading players with a conference covering every key aspect of the wind
market – from technical and theoretical to policy and practice, with
over 7,000 key players in the wind industry for four days of networking
and professional development.
European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2010, Vienna,
Austria, 02- 07 May 2010
The submissions for your session of interest must received be no later than
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/index.html
Registration for exhibitors to rent a booth and/or insert an
advertisement in the Information & Schedules Book for the EGU General
Assembly 2010 is open now.
The president of the EGU, Prof. Tuija Pulkkinen, as well as the
organizers of the exhibition, the Copernicus GmbH, cordially invites you
to exhibit your innovations, products and publications and to reach a
publicity of 9,000 scientists from 90 countries working in all fields of
Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences.
The 2010 exhibition offers the unique option to exhibit in the Job and
Education Market. Located in the highly frequented poster area, you have
the opportunity to combine your booth with meeting young scientists
looking for a career and to present your company/institution on a public
stage scheduled in the programme. In 2009, 26 % of the participants were
PhD students, i.e. more than 2,300 out of 9,000 people.
Please find detailed
information on booth rental at:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2010/exhibition/
BALWOIS, Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia, 25-29 May 2010
The theme for the Fourth International Scientific Conference BALWOIS
2010 will be: Water Observation & Information System for Decision
Support.
The conference is designed to facilitate sharing of experiences in
water issue and management through presentation of scientific and
technical papers and posters on planning research and development
activities. Topics for 2010 are: Climate and Hydrology; Environment and
Human activities; Water related risks; Integrated Water Resources
Management; Ecohydrology; and Computing and technologies. The first
announcement is available at:
http://www.balwois.com/2010/index.php?option=com_docman&task=doc_download&gid=1&Itemid=69
There will be an exhibition of current hardware and/or software in the
field of water. Exhibition information is at:
http://www.balwois.com/2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=58&Itemid=70
Further information is available at:
http://www.balwois.com/2010/
Intersolar
2010, Munich, Germany, 9-15 June 2010
Intersolar brings people and markets together under the guiding
principle, "Connecting Solar Business". And as trade visitors from over
145 countries have confirmed: no other event brings together so many
decision makers from industry, trade and commerce with solar industry
manufacturers, suppliers, institutes and associations. The world's
leading solar trade fair therefore facilitates the targeted, personal
exchange of valuable information relating to products, markets and
services. See more information at:
http://www.intersolar.de
Information on exhibiting is available at:
http://www.intersolar.de/index.php?id=58&L=1
ISARS 2010 Paris, France 28-30 June 2010
Whilst the International Society of Acoustic Remote Sensing of the
Atmosphere and Oceans (ISARS) 2010 has no exhibition, this event invites presentations and
poster submissions.
The symposium invites instrument users and manufacturers to
hold presentations as one-hour field lectures, involving live
demonstrations of individual instruments.
Abstracts for submissions are due before
15 January 2010.
Topics for the conference are:
Ground-based remote sensing measurement techniques and instruments;
Inversion, retrieval, analysis methods and observation strategies;
Process studies in the atmospheric boundary layer; Remote sensing data
for modelling of boundary layer and surface processes; and Operational
applications of boundary layer research.
More information is available at:
http://www.isars2010.uvsq.fr/
5th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, Munster,
Germany, 25-30 July 2010
Whilst there is no exhibition, this event invites presentations and
poster submissions. Early-bird submission of abstracts is by 1 December
2009. Regular submission of abstracts is by 31 March 2010.
More information is available at:
http://www.irc.nl/page/46818
ERAD 2010 Meteorology and Hydrology Conference, Romania, September
2010
The 6th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology ERAD
2010 will be held in Sibu, Romania, 6-10 September 2010, hosted by
the Romanian Meteorological Administration (ANM).
More information is available at the website
http://www.erad2010.org/
10th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and
the 8th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC),
in Zürich, Switzerland, 13-17 September 2010
Information about these meetings is at
www.ems2010.ch
A first-announcement leaflet
is attached
here.
EMS & ECAC 2010 Conference theme: High resolution climatology –
towards climate change services.
The underpinning theme of the ECAC is the development of climate
change services; it will provide a platform for policy makers,
practitioners and researchers. The programme will consist of three
programme groups:
* Monitoring
* Understanding
* Services.
The EMS Annual Meeting programme will feature three streams, namely
* The Atmosphere and the Water Cycle
* Communication and Education
* Numerical Weather Prediction.
A detailed session programme will become available in mid-February 2010
at
http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2010
Abstract submission deadline: 30 April 2010.
Abstract submission with award/waiver applications: 09 April 2010.
Exhibitor opportunities will be an important feature of this conference
and information will be available in due course at:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2010
OTHER
Conference EVENTS links
WMO Events List
WMO has a list of conference events related to weather, climate and
water at:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/meetings/conferences_en.html
Environmental Expert
List
Environmental Expert has a calendar of Air & Climate Events listed
at:
http://air.environmental-expert.com/events.aspx?level=1&
AMS Meeting List
The American Meteorological Society has a list of
conferences of possible interest to HMEI members.
Please go to:
http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/meetinfo.html
Copernicus Meeting List
Copernicus organises several scientific meetings each year (for
example they organise EGU and EMS each year). Others they organise in
the Geo and Environmental fields may be of interest to HMEI members.
Please see the list at:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/
International Association of Hydrological Sciences
The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS)
has a list of Hydrology related meetings on its website. Please see:
http://iahs.info
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
The AGU has meetings listed at:
http://www.agu.org/meetings.shtml
World Water Forum
The WWF website has a Hydrology/Water events calendar at:
http://portal.worldwaterforum5.org/wwf5/en-us/Lists/Calendar/UpcomingEvents.aspx