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HMEI
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
The January 2004 HMEI General Assembly in Seattle, USA, was highly successful. The
meeting was well attended and included members,
non--member companies representatives and guests from WMO, AMS, NOAA,
the UK Met Office and all
HMEI Council Members.
The new Secretary General of the WMO, M.
Jarraud, gave an introductory speech, which emphasized the importance
of the cooperation between the WMO and HMEI. The full details of the
meeting are contained in
the Minutes, which can be accessed by Members using the HMEI password, please click
here.
Both
the HMEI Executive Secretary and the HMEI Administrator were able to
attend the General Assembly in Seattle, thanks to the extra funding kindly
supplied by Council Members, Joe Parini, Ben Dieterink and Mike Ueltzen.
The AMS exhibition gave a good opportunity for the Secretariat staff to
meet some of our current members, as well as potential members of the HMEI
who were exhibiting at the AMS Exhibition. The Executive Secretary and the
Administrator talked with various non-HMEI member exhibitors and for the
most part the response to the idea of joining the Association seemed
highly favourable. Contacts established with these companies are being
followed up and a resulting increase in membership is not only expected
but has already started.
MEMBER
SURVEY
Thanks
you to those companies who filled out the survey. The suggestions and
comments made in them have been discussed in council and will influence
the way the Association operates.
HMEI NEW
MEMBERS
The Association of
Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes the
following companies as new HMEI members:
LOCKHEED MARTIN-MS2 Radar
Systems - USA
DESIGN ANALYSIS ASSOCIATES, Inc
- USA
ALMOS SYSTEMS PTY LTD
- Australia
GEONOR
AS - Norway
EIJKELKAMP
AGRISEARCH EQUIPMENT - Netherlands
METEOLABOR AG
- Switzerland
GRAW RADIOSONDES GmbH & Co KG
- Germany
CLR PHOTONICS, INC. - USA
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.
LOCKHEED MARTIN-MS2 Radar
Systems
Leveraging our
meteorological domain knowledge and expertise as a leading provider of
pulse Doppler weather radars and wind profilers, Lockheed Martin provides
turnkey, fully integrated national weather and hydrological systems.
Employing our structured SEI Level 5 and CMMI Level 4 methodology,
Lockheed Martin implements systems tailored to the customer's operational
needs, integrating existing and new sensors and commercial communications
systems and modern meteorological workstations. We provide the latest
weather detection, tracking and prediction tools available, while
preserving previous investments in weather detection technology and
enhancing current operations during transition phases.
DESIGN ANALYSIS ASSOCIATES, Inc
Design Analysis Associates, Inc. (DAA) is a world-wide company specializing in high-precision Hydrological and Meteorological Real Time Data systems and instrumentation. We can transmit the collected Real Time Data directly via satellite, telephone, internet, radio and ALERT radio. We also receive Real Time Data directly on a laptop, PDA and remote communications from anywhere in the field.
Design Analysis Associates, Inc. Is one of the fastest growing companies in the Hydrological and Meteorological industry. The WaterLOG® products are known for their high quality and ease of use. We offer training, installation and support solutions for any of your projects (weather, floods, water level, dams, irrigation, rainfall, fire weather, etc.) DAA products are used in a broad base of
measurement applications. Products include instruments for water-level monitoring such
as submersible and non-submersible sensors, data loggers, dry gas pressure measurements systems (bubbler), telemetry systems, radio links, and a sensor for gate heights. We also offer products to measure temperature, relative humidity, wind, precipitation, as well as a variety of other instruments.
ALMOS SYSTEMS PTY LTD
Almos Systems is a market-leading supplier of a wide range of Meteorological and Aviation solutions. Almos has been supplying meteorological systems since 1986. With a professional staff of over 50 employees, we design, manufacture and install our systems worldwide, in accordance with our accredited ISO9001 Quality System. We have manufacturing and development facilities in Australia and The Netherlands, and representative offices in 26 countries.
Our METWORX® product range includes:
- Automated Weather Observation System (AWOS)
- Automated Terminal Information Service (ATIS / D-ATIS/VOLMET)
- Low Level Windshear Alert System (LLWAS)
- Weather Briefing Terminal (SADIS/ISCS)
- Forecaster Workstations- Meteorological Switches
- National Meteorological Networks
Almos is the exclusive supplier of entire National Weather Networks in several countries.
We have the technology to build total integrated and scalable meteorological solutions for airports, from helicopter landing strips to international airports. Almos systems have been selected recently for airports in Australia, South East Asia, Middle East, South America and for international airports in Europe.
GEONOR
AS
Geonor AS manufactures and supplies T-200 all weather precipitation gauges for accurate measurement of snow and rain.
The company also manufacture and market equipment and instruments for geo-technical and civil engineering applications.
EIJKELKAMP
AGRISEARCH EQUIPMENT
Development, production and sales of research equipment for soil, (ground) water, plant and climate.
We have equipment for measuring and monitoring all kinds of important parameters for air, water and soil, including long distance communication through Modem and Internet.
METEOLABOR AG
Meteolabor AG, founded in 1965 by the two engineers Paul W. Ruppert
and Walter K. Büchler is principally active in two fields:
-Physical measurement technology, particularly for meteorological
applications
-Electromagnetic compatibility with focus on lightning and NEMP
protection
First automatic weatherstation network was implemented in the seventies as
a pioneering project by the Swiss Meteorological Institute in cooperation
with Meteolabor AG and has been in successful operation ever since. The
project triggered a number of activities at Meteolabor AG. For most
meteorological parameters, modern sensors with electrical outputs were
developed which today are used in many measuring stations.
Since its foundation Meteolabor AG has been working in the specialized
field of aerological measurement technology. At the beginning of the
eighties Meteolabor AG developed it’s first secondary radio sonde
systems for civilian and military weather services in Switzerland. These
radio sonde systems are still in operational use and achieve high accuracy
and reliability.
Meteolabor AG is a worldwide specialist in the protection of electronic
systems against lightning and other electromagnetic influences. For such
protection concepts Meteolabor AG provides consulting engineering services
and also supplies the necessary components.
GRAW
RADIOSONDES GmbH & Co KG
GRAW is a well established company developing and manufacturing Upper Air Sounding Systems since 1938.
The GRAW GPS Radiosonde system meets all requirements of aerological measuring technology, be it as a routine
radiosonde for use by meteorological services, for military applications or as a research radiosonde for scientific purposes.
CLR
PHOTONICS, INC.
CLR Photonics, Inc, division of CTI, manufactures the WindTracer® Infrared Doppler Radar (LIDAR). This remote sensing instrument provides high resolution wind and aerosol data.
Windshear, microbursts, turbulence and gust fronts are hazardous to the safe operation of many airports. The WindTracer® detects these hazardous winds at distances up to 10 km. An easy to use graphical user interface, with alarms, allows the user to quickly ascertain the severity and location of these conditions. Airport capacity is a function of several interdependent events including the spacing between airplanes. This spacing is a result of the affect of wake vortices created by the airplane moving through the atmosphere.
The WindTracer® is used to detect and measure these wake vortices in addition to the ambient wind conditions. WindTracer® is also used to detect aerosol levels including those that may pose a health hazard such as biochemical aerosols in support of Homeland Defense.
UPCOMING
EXPERT
TEAM MEETINGS AND INTERCOMPARISONS
The
next WMO CIMO Expert Team Meeting will be the Joint
Meeting of the CIMO Expert Team on Upper-air Systems Intercomparisons and
International Organizing Committee on Upper-air Systems Intercomparisons
being held in 18-20 March 2004 in Geneva.
HMEI members, InterMet, Modem, Vaisala, Meteolabor, Meisei and Graw have been
nominated to WMO and subsequently invited to the meeting. The Secretariat
will also attend the meeting. A report of this meeting will be available
in the next newsletter.
The next WMO CBS meeting will be the Expert Team on Requirements For
Data From Automatic Weather Stations -3rd Session being held in
Geneva on 28 June - 2 July 2004.
The information available so far on this meeting is only the provisional
agenda. Items listed on this for discussion are:
Reviewing and refining definition of radiation;
Issues related to the maintenance of meta-data;
Reviewing and refining of reporting of water vapor measurements;
Possibility of reporting both nominal and instrument values in BUFR/CREX;
Issues related to documentation of AWS' algorithms.
The Executive Secretary will be contacting members directly with further
information on this meeting as it becomes available. If you wish to
attend this meeting please advise the HMEI
Executive Secretary by email.
The
next WMO Laboratory
Intercomparison
of Rainfall Intensity (RI) Gauges will take place in Italy, France and
Netherlands during September 2004. Five HMEI member companies have had the
relevant documentation forwarded to them.
Any other members who have instruments they wish to nominate for
submission for this Intercomparison will need to fill in a WMO
questionnaire before the end of March. Please contact
the Executive Secretary for this form to be emailed to you.
NETWORKING
The Executive Secretary is currently networking with various WMO
departments, NMHSs and other Organizations, to raise the profile of HMEI
and seeking new opportunities for HMEI and its members.
Some results to date:
The President of the Commission for Aeronautical
Meteorology (CAeM), Neil Gordon, has been contacted. He is keen for HMEI
to be involved in Expert Teams in the areas of both Integration of Systems
and Observations in the Terminal Area. HMEI has one company so far, CLR Photonics, who have expressed an interest in joining an ET
in this area.
The
President of CIMO, Ray Canterford, has been appraised of HMEI’s
involvement in the CIMO ETs and is very supportive of our involvement.
HMEI involvement with the
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Study Group 7,
which deals with Radio Frequency allocations and procedures has
been discussed with Mr. Jean-Michel Rainer (in the Secretariat of the
Commission for Basic Systems (CBS)), who has also suggested that HMEI
should be involved with the ISO standards organization. Jean-Michel has
supplied information about both these issues to HMEI, in order that these
can be followed up. The executive Secretary is currently applying for
HMEI's associate membership in the ITU.
CIMO has added the HMEI
experts to its Membership of CIMO Management Group and Expert Team
list at www.wmo.ch/web/www/CIMO/cimo13-membership-overview.html
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HMEI General Assembly
2004 Minutes