In this newsletter:
Report - 2nd GRUAN Implementation-Coordination Meeting (ICM-2),
Payerne, Switzerland, March 2010
WMO Final Report
- CBS OPAG on Integrated Observing Systems, 5th ET on Satellite Utilization
and Products, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2010
First Conference of Ministers
Responsible for Meteorology in Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2010
Update
- Regional Association V (South-West
Pacific) - 15th session (XV-RA V), Bali, Indonesia, April/May 2010
Update - METEOREX 2010
Upcoming WMO Meetings and Workshops
Upcoming Conferences and Exhibition/Sponsorship Opportunities
Other Conferences and Event Links
Report - 2nd GRUAN Implementation-Coordination Meeting (ICM-2),
Payerne, Switzerland, 2-4 March 2010This was held at the MeteoSwiss GRUAN site in Payerne, Switzerland, Bruce Sumner the HMEI Executive Secretary was directly invited and represented HMEI at the meeting and made the following report.
Meeting
Opening
Opened at 8.30am by G. Müller, Deputy Director of MeteoSwiss. He
welcomed delegates for this important meeting and wished them a fruitful
meeting.
Session 1 – Update of
Progress since ICM-1
- Peter Thorne spoke on the GRUAN Implementation Plan. He advised that the Implementation Plan is a 4 year plan, that can be modified and changed as necessary, but these changes need to be well documented. It is also necessary to follow this plan during development.
- Holger Vömel discussed the current progress of GRUAN, and noted that there are currently no reference instruments to measure the parameters to the level of accuracy required by GRUAN.
- Another important component is developing the GRUAN data flow, including collecting, pre-processing, archiving and further processing to add error bars, final archiving and dissemination.
- A GRUAN blog has been established as a discussion forum. Address is www.gruan.wordpress.com. This is an open discussion community, open to everybody.
- The GRUAN website is a tool of static pages for GRUAN correspondence, see www.gruan.org.
- Several Intercomparisons have been held, including LUAMI in Sept 2010 and Lapbiat 2 campaign at Sonankylä, currently underway, which includes participation of HMEI members, Vaisala, Sippican, Intermet, Graw, EEC,. and also CHF, FLASH, Cobald.
Session 2 – International Programme Perspectives
Wenjian Zhang advised that WMO is a proud co-sponsor of GCOS, and that collaboration between both WMO and GCOS is important for both communities. Dr Zhang also advised that GRUAN is now one of the Pilot Projects in WIGOS. He also strongly emphasized the importance of observations in WIGOS, and that models did not provide all the answers.
Dr Ghassem Asrar spoke on the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), including current work and future plans. The role of high quality observations was emphasized. WRCP supports the implementation of GRUAN with respect to the long term trends in observations, research and analysis.
Johannes Stähelin spoke on the Global Atmospheric Watch (GAW) Programme. The need for long term monitoring of ozone was confirmed, with the emphasis on high quality ground-based observations being very important for long term monitoring.
Session 3 – Reference Measurements
Franz Immler spoke on guidelines for upper-air reference measurements, and that there is no “true value” of a physical quantity and that error is replaced by uncertainty. The importance of traceability of a measurement was emphasized. A GRUAN sensor should be calibrated with a traceable transfer standard. In summary, the three main issues to be considered for performing reference measurements are – SI traceability, specified uncertainty and documentation.
Session 4 – Research Issues
Report by GRUAN Analysis Team for Network Design
and Operations Research (GATDNOR)
Dian Seidel spoke about the GATNDOR work plan. This is to perform focused,
short-term analyses addressing specific questions of the GRUAN science
and management community. The approach – questions come up and the team
assesses possible research approaches, a team member takes responsibly
and meets quarterly by email and provides answers back to the community.
Currently there are five research questions:
- Collocation of observations – how far apart can observations be to be considered to represent the same atmospheric column?
- Management of change – what overlap between old and new observations are needed to ensure homogenous record?
- Scheduling protocol – how frequently must profile measurement be made to characterize long-term changes?
- Quantify the value of complementary observations – how much is measurements uncertainty reduced by having redundant measurements?
- Network configuration – where, when and how many stations are needed to characterize long-term changes?
June Wang spoke about the value of complementary observations. She advised that the value of complementary observations were:
- To help identify and quantify changes
- To correct errors/biases in individual instruments
- To reduce uncertainties in Measurements.
Session 5 – Site
considerations and Network Composition
Session 5.1 – Measurement needs for trend detection – Peter Thorne
This was an open discussion of the entire group, and was not limited
to trend detection. There is no quantifiable
evidence as to how many of each type of observations need to be
performed. This needs to be defined. It was proposed that a small Task
Team be established to address this issue.
Session 6 – Network protocols
and communication
Michael Sommer described the various ways to contact GRUAN, including
the many email mailing lists, the website, with more detailed
documentation to be added, Also discussed was the dynamic system, a blog
hosted by wordpress.com, and administered by the lead centre. It allows
easy publishing of information. It allows everybody to comment on
everything. There are many features in the blog. There were some
concerns expressed about putting all information on an open site. This
will be looked at.
Anna Kuhn spoke on the status of the GRUAN Guide of Operations. A draft
skeleton has been developed, but many elements to be added. The Guide
would be linked to the WMO Guides, and available via the WMO system. It
was also advised that GRUAN needs to be incorporated into various WMO
Publications, namely The Manual on the GOS, the Guide on the GOS and
CIMO Guide No. 8. The possibility that some of the CIMO Guide may be
made into a mandatory Manual. The chapter on ground-based remote sensing
will probably need to be revised to insert the relevant GRUAN
documentation.
Session 7 – Site reports
All of the GRUAN sites presented a site report, indicating current
status, proposed developments, difficulties, etc. Marshall mentioned
that they are planning an Intercomparison, the Marshall Site
Intercomparison March 29 to April, run by Sue Wang. The Vaisala
Reference Radiosonde (RRD100) will be included, as will RS-92. This is
in reality a side-by-side evaluation of balloon-based water vapour
sensors. The other sites made presentations about their commitment to
GRUAN, and how close there current operations would need to be enhanced
to meet the GRUAN requirement. Payerne mentioned that the current
Radiosonde programme uses SRS-400 analog sondes, which stop at
the end of 2010 and will be replaced by the digital SRS.C34 sonde.
Session 8 – Data Policy and
Communications
There was considerable discussion of whether WIS could be beneficial to
GRUAN. It was considered that the initial raw data from GRUAN would be
of benefit to real time NWP, and that feeding the data into a real time
communications system such as WIS would be useful. Also model data from NWP could be
passed back to GRUAN by WIS.
Session 9 - Working Group
Task Teams
Four task teams are proposed:
Task 1 - Radiosondes
Task 2 - Ground-based GPS receivers
Task 3 - Measurement (measurement schedules and associated
instrument-type requirements
Task 4 - Site assessment, expansion and certification
Task 5 - Ancillary measurements
The proposed Terms of Reference were discussed for
each team, and the composition of each team was also discussed. No firm
decisions were made.
Session 10 – Partnerships
10.1 – GRUAN WIGOS Pilot Project
A progress report was presented. Having GRUAN as a Pilot Project has
opened many doors into WMO, and will assist GRUAN to interface
effectively with the WMO observation systems.
10.2 – Other partnerships
HMEI made a presentation advising how liaison between GRUAN and HMEI
could benefit GRUAN. It was also proposed that HMEI experts could
participate in some of the GRUAN Task Teams, in particular Task 1 and
Task 2 (see Session 9 above).
Meeting Conclusion
- ICM-2 agreed in principle to the Guide of Uncertainty, and that it should be published.
- ICM-2 agreed to form task teams
- ICM-2 updated its yearly Work Plan
Next Meeting
The next meeting is planned for about March 2011. Proposed location
was Lauder, NZ or somewhere in China.
Meeting Closure
The meeting closed at 4.00pm Thursday 4 March.
Report -
CBS OPAG ON INTEGRATED OBSERVING SYSTEMS, 5th ET ON SATELLITE
UTILIZATION AND PRODUCTS, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, 15-19 MARCH 2010
Although there was no HMEI representation at this
meeting, a link to the WMO Final Report of the meeting
is is given here for the information of HMEI members:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/sat/documents/ET-SUP-5_FinalReport.pdf.
Please note that Annex III of the Final Report contains a summary list
of Actions and Recommendations.
Report - 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 workshop, was jointly hosted by the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO) and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
(BIPM), with participation of experts by invitation only. The HMEI
Executive Secretary, Bruce Sumner, is on the Steering Committee of this
workshop.
The agenda for the workshop and the information on sessions is available
in the PDF brochure here.
Two HMEI members participated in the workshop: John Petheram from
Lockheed Martin in sessions B1 "Stable time-series for key
GHGs and other trace species" and B2 "Remote sensing of
atmospheric composition and traceability issues in spectroscopic
data" and Atte Salmi from Vaisala in sessions B2 "Remote
sensing of atmospheric composition and traceability issues in
spectroscopic data" and C "Radiation and earth energy balance".
The HMEI Secretariat, Bruce Sumner and Christine Charstone also attended
the plenary and report sessions of the workshop and made the following
report. Please note that this report covers aspects of the workshop
considered of relative to HMEI members and is not intended to be
definitive.
the Plenary
Session - 1st Day of Workshop
The Plenary session was opened with a welcome address by WMO
Secretary General, Michel Jarraud.
The Prioritization of Activities item on the Programme was changed to
being a general Panel Discussion of the issues overall.
This was followed by several key speaker's presentations:
WMO global observing systems for climate monitoring, by
WMO Director of OBS, Wenjian Zhang
see presentation
here
This address introduced to the meeting the various elements and
operations of the observing systems around the world which WMO supports.
Dr Zhang noted the importance of good Metrology for all weather, climate
and environmental measurements and the importance of this to the
standards which WMO is now involved in forming with ISO.
Metrology for the long-term measurement data by Ernst D.
Göbel, President of PTB (DE) and CIPM
see presentation
here
This presentation outlined the work of the BIPM. Particularly noted was
the Key Comparison Database of national measurement standards and of
calibration and measurement certificates issued by national metrology
institutes, which has great importance for the quality of various
climate data.
The database is online at:
http://kcdb.bipm.org/
The difference between the calibrations carried out in ideal BIPM
conditions and the difficulties that real world conditions bring to the
measurements used by WMO, was noted. It was expressed that these
differences need to be discussed, with the hope that this workshop will
be a forum for such issues.
Climate change and its impact by Jean-Pascal van Ypersele,
Vice-chair of IPPC
In this presentation the importance of knowing clearly the uncertainty
of climate measurements was stressed, in order to be able to make
appropriate decisions for mitigation of Climate Change.
The importance of metrological traceability for climate change
assessment by James G. Anderson, Philip S. Weld Professor of
Atmospheric Chemistry, Harvard College (US)
see
presentation here
Professor Anderson's presentation looked at the critical nature of
traceability to standard metrology in climate data for societal
objectives, such as to inform effective decisions and actions related to
climate change. He noted work by the Climate Absolute Radiance and
Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Mission which was one result of
the National Research Council (NRC) recommendation for an Objective
Global Benchmark Climate Record, the requirement for which has been
driven by societal objectives.
Workshop
Sessions - 2nd Day of Workshop
The sessions of the workshops were carried out on the second day
and for the first half of the third day of the workshop. These technical
workshops covered eight areas as listed below in the session reports
section.
Unfortunately a ninth session, Session E "Aerosol composition and
radiative properties", which Darrel Baumgardner from Droplet
Measurement Technologies,
was to attend, representing HMEI, was cancelled. (however the
presentation that was to introduce Session E
is available here.)
HMEI was represented as follows:
- John Petherham from
Lockheed Martin - Space Systems at:
Session B1 "Stable time-series for key GHGs and other trace species" and
Session B2 "Remote sensing of atmospheric composition and traceability issues in spectroscopic data" - Atte Salmi from
Vaisala at:
Session B1 "Stable time-series for key GHGs and other trace species"
Session B2 "Remote sensing of atmospheric composition and traceability issues in spectroscopic data" and
Session C "Radiation and the Earth Energy Balance"
Reports From Sessions and Discussions - 3rd Day of Workshop
Session A - Climate Trends from Satellite Data
-
see presentation here
Some general points from this session are:
- Satellite pre launch testing phases need to be more intensively led by instrument scientists, in addition to standard manufacturer calibration and testing.
- To identify climate trends there is a need for multiple satellite observations and ground based observations from as many different instruments as possible.
Session B1 - Stable Time Series for Key GHGs and Other Trace
Species
see presentation here
Some general points from this session's findings were:
- WMO, BIPM, and other international agencies should produce independent data sets using different technologies to increase redundancy of measurement and improve measurement uncertainty.
Session B2 - Remote Sensing of Atmospheric
Composition and Traceability Issues in Spectroscopic Data
see presentation here
Some general points from this session were:
- Recommendation that satellite measurements be validated with other satellite measurements and also ground based, aircraft and balloon based measurements.
- Recommended that Spectroscopic reference standards should be validated against both laboratory and atmospheric reference spectra.
- Recommendation that Benchmark spectra should be made freely available for testing and validation.
Session B1 and B2 - issues noted by John Petheram from Lockheed Martin - Space, a HMEI member attending sessions B1 and B2:
- Issue unique to satellites - data from satellites
can't be verified or calibrated on-site because of their innate
remoteness (i.e. in space).
- With Global Climate measurements, satellite data
is usually of meteorological accuracy - not climate accuracy.
- There is no long-term plan for climate data satellites to overlap. Perhaps they should do so following the example of weather satellites which do overlap.
Session B2 - issues noted by Atte Salmi from Vaisala, a HMEI member attending primarily session B2:
- Traceability to SI is very challenging where
remote measurements are concerned. In addition to satellite based
measurements, ground based remote measurements should be involved in
to the discussion too.
- Vaisala Radiosondes and many of our surface
weather instruments are calibrated against SI-units. In January
2009, Vaisala made a corporate commitment, launching a program to
develop an operational reference-grade Radiosonde that could be used
in GRUAN (GCOS Reference Upper-Air Network) and other applications
where enhanced Radiosonde sensor performance is required. The
program is being implemented in close collaboration with the
meteorological research community, and the benefits will be shared
equally with all countries. Vaisala has also set aside commercial
gain from this program in keeping with its Corporate Social
Responsibility Program.
- The goal of GRUAN is to produce very precise and comprehensive atmospheric measurements for the study of climate change. It can also be used to evaluate the accuracy of other observations and to calibrate instruments. One of the tasks in GRUAN is to verify and calibrate data from other global systems such as satellites. Even though Vaisala is not in satellite based remote measurement business, through the GRUAN type of programs, we are able to give value to collaboration discussed in the WMO-BIPM workshop.
Session C - Radiation and the Earth Energy
Balance see
presentation here
Some general points from this session were:
- The WMO CIMO Guide should be revised and expanded to reflect current measurement techniques and proceedures in both Metrology and Meteorology.
Session D - Earth Surface (land and water)
Temperature
see presentation here
Some general points from this session were:
- Recommendation that surface drifting buoy networks, for the measurement of sea surface temperature (SST) should be maintained and improved, to validate and compliment the satellite SST record
- Recommendation that Intercomparisons between different manufacturers buoys was essential
Session F - Microwave Imagery Data in Climate
and NWP
see presentation here
Some general points from this session were:
- Recommended to have best practice procedures to establish sensor to sensor consistency.
Session G - Surface Properties: albedo, land
cover and ocean colour
see
presentation here
Some general points from this session were:
- Not all field instrumentation is SI traceable, in-situ measurements need to be traceable and continuous.
- Recommended Intercomparisons, which can assist with traceability.
Session H - Ocean Salinity - The Driving Force
see presentation here
Some general points from this session were:
- Conductivity salinity is not SI traceable.
- Recommended that traceability to SI be addressed.
- Recommended that a new density based salinity standard be developed.
- Recommendation for new instrument and measurement procedures to obtain surface and sub-surface salinity observations.
Discussion
A discussion of the full plenary took place with a Panel of the Chairmen
of the Sessions to respond to issues/question. The issues of
traceability and the need for the various communities to work together
was stressed.
During the WMO-BIPM Workshop, it was announced that WMO had signed a
Comité International des Poids et Mesures - Mutual Recognition
Arrangement (CIPM MRA) for national measurement standards and for
calibration and measurement certificates issued by NMIs. See
www.bipm.org/en/events/wmo-bipm_workshop/signature_cipm_mra.html for
further information.
Comments from attending HMEI members:
- "This was an excellent meeting. As more and
more of the satellites we build are pressed into contributing
measurements for long term climate records the need for rigorous
pre- and post-launch calibration and traceability to standards
becomes ever more apparent. This bringing together of the
meteorology and metrology communities was exactly what is required.
It was a pleasure to take part."
John Petheram from Lockheed Martin
- "Since my group [in Vaisala] is working
mainly with ground based remote sensing, I was looking for talks dealing
with ground based measurements from session B2. However, I enjoyed
very much and learnt new things."
Atte Salmi from Vaisala
The Final Report of the Workshop, with the official findings and recommendations, is expected to be available in June/July this year.
The First Conference of Ministers Responsible for Meteorology in Africa,
Nairobi, Kenya, 12-16 April 2010
A major result of the conference was that more than 30 African
Ministers, responsible for Meteorology, adopted the historic Nairobi
Declaration on 16 April in Nairobi, Kenya. More information on this
and a link to the Declaration itself is available from:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/news/index_en.html#mra.
The exhibition at this conference was 3 1/2 days held on 9am 12th April
to 15 April at 3pm in the Kenyatta International Conference Centre in
Nairobi .
At WMO's request
HMEI assisted the local organisers with the exhibition by inviting
HMEI members to attend. This meeting proved very popular for
exhibitors and WMO and the local organizers have expressed their
satisfaction with the aid provided by HMEI for this extremely successful
exhibition.
There were 29 exhibitors, 18 of whom are HMEI members. HMEI member manufacturers
there were:
Baron Services;
Casella; Corobor; CIMEL; Degreane Horizon; EEC;
Fairmount; Graw; InterMet (Africa);
Kipp & Zonen; MFI; Modem;
Pawan; Sagim; Selex-Gematronik;
SIAP+MICROS;
Scintec; Sutron; Vaisala.
WMO also invited exhibiting HMEI manufacturers to attend the open
sessions.
A programme of the event is on the website:
http://www.wmo.int/africaconf.
CANCELLATION -
CBS/IOS Expert Team on Requirements and
Implementation AWS Platforms, Geneva, Switzerland, 20-23 April 2010
Due to the much
publicized volcanic ash cloud from Iceland and the subsequent chaos with
flights in and out of European airspace, this meeting was cancelled.
The meeting will be reconvened on 22-25 June 2010.
Information and the agenda for this meeting is available at:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/OSY/Meetings/ET-AWS6-2010/DocPlan.html
Attending HMEI representatives from Vaisala
and CAE have been informed .
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Update - Regional
Association V (South-West Pacific) - 15th session (XV-RA V), Bali,
Indonesia, 30 April-6 May 2010
Even with the current uncertainties with flights from European airspace, WMO
is planning to go ahead with this meeting.
The HMEI Secretariat is still planning to attend and to promote the Association's work and the HMEI Catalogue to
attendees. EEC and Vaisala have also planned to send representatives
to the RA-V meeting.
The HMEI Executive Secretary, Bruce Sumner, has worked with the local
organisers to arrange a small exhibition area with eight booths at this
regional meeting. The exhibition will be a 3 day event. Of the exhibitors,
6 are HMEI
members: Baron Services;
EEC;
MTECH Systems;
Selex-Gematronik;
Vaisala and WDT. The exhibition will be held from 8.30 to 18.30 on the 30th
April, 1st May and 3rd May (the 2nd May is a Sunday and there will be no
exhibition or conference sessions on that day).
For the WMO documents for the RA-V meeting see:
ftp://ftp.wmo.int/Documents/SESSIONS/XV-RA%20V/English/DOCs/
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Update - METEOREX 2010,
Helsinki, Finland 31 August - 2 September 2010
METEOREX 2010 will take place during 3 days of the CIMO Technical Conference (TECO) and the
first days of the Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observation
(CIMO) Session XV, to be held in Wanha Satama ("Old Harbour"), which is
situated within walking distance from the Helsinki city centre. See more
on TECO & CIMO in the WMO meetings section further on in this
newsletter.
METEOREX contact persons in Wanha Satama are:
Katariina Vedenkannas
katariina.vedenkannas@wanhastama.com, sales and marketing, tel. +358
9 1733 4423
and
Marja Pekkanen
marja.pekkanen@wanhasatama.com, constructions, furniture, additional
exhibition services, tel. +358 9 1733 4250.
The METEOREX website is available with information at:
http://meteorex2010.fmi.fi. An
accommodation link is also available there.
Sponsoring opportunities for the CIMO and TECO conferences are also
available, please contact the local organising committee at:
CIMO-TECO-METEOREX@fmi.fi
There will also be a WMO side-meeting with HMEI members on one evening,
to talk about WMO issues related to instruments, systems, standards,
testing and WIGOS.
A poster section, specifically for instrument presentations from
manufacturers, will also feature at METEOREX. Dr Calpini, Vice-Chairman
of CIMO, is encouraging manufacturers to participate and submit
posters to this section. Contact Bruce Sumner at:
hmei@wmo.int if you are interested in
this.
Opportunities for Members
Meteorological Balloons for the Bangladesh Meteorological Department
The HMEI Secretariat received information from Powertec Engineering
that the Bangladesh Meteorological Department was urgently seeking to
buy Meteorological Balloons. We passed the contact detail information
about this to all HMEI members on 6 April.
TOTEX have responded to this opportunity.
Upcoming
Intercomparisons
8th WMO Intercomparison of High Quality
Radiosonde Systems, Yangjiang, China, 12 - 31 July 2010
The website for further information is
at: http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/intercomparisons.html
The WMO report for the setup meeting for this Intercomparison was 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.
There was a special session at the 2nd GRUAN Implementation-Coordination
Meeting (ICM-2), Payerne, Switzerland, 2-4 March 2010 for the
setup of this Intercomparison. WMO requested that Bruce Sumner, the HMEI
Executive Secretary, be the Intercomparison participating
manufacturers' representative at this special session (see GRUAN meeting
report earlier in this newsletter).
11th International and Regional, Pyrheliometers Intercomparisons (IPC-XI,
RPCs), Davos, Switzerland, 27 September - 15 October 2010
HMEI will be the 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
WMO Executive Council - Sixty-second Session (EC-LXII), Geneva,
Switzerland, 8-18 June 2010
The HMEI Secretariat will as usual attend the EC and make a report for
HMEI members, a representative from Council member - Vaisala will also
attend.. HMEI Council members who wish to also attend please
contact Bruce Sumner at: hmei@wmo.int
CBS OPAG-IOS 6th session Implementation Coordination Team on Integrated
Observing Systems, Geneva, Switzerland, 28 June to 2 July 2010
Information, agenda and documents are available from:
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/OSY/Meetings/ICT-IOS6/DocPlan.html
HMEI members interested in attending this meeting please contact the
HMEI Executive Secretary at: hmei@wmo.int
WMO Commission for Agricultural Meteorology -
Fifteenth Session (CAgM-XV), Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 15-23 July, 2010
The dates and place for this meeting is tentative only and yet to be
confirmed. HMEI will pass on confirmed information to members as it
becomes available.
TECO-CIMO and CIMO XV, Helsinki, Finland, 30 August - 8 September 2010The TECO will be from the 30 August to 1 September with the CIMO sessions immediately after until the 8th September.
The METEOREX 2010 will be held concurrently from 31 August to 1 September, see the item earlier in in this newsletter.
Information and documents for TECO/CIMO are available from http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/CIMO/cimo-teco-meteorex.html.
Regional AMDAR Workshop & AMDAR Panel, Mexico City (tentative), Mexico, 13-20 September 2010
The Regional workshop will proceed the AMDAR panel meeting. Information on this meeting will be passed to members as it becomes available.
Fifteenth Session of Regional Association III (South
America) (XV-RA III), Bogotá Colombia, September 2010
Exact dates for this meeting are to be confirmed. HMEI will confirm
dates when they become available.
26th session of the Data Buoy Cooperation Panel and 30th session of
the Argos Joint Tariff Agreement, Oban, UK, 27 September to 2
October
This 26th session will be held in Scotland, United Kingdom, at the kind
offer by the Scottish Association for Marine Science for hosting the
session. The session will start with the Scientific and Technical
Workshop, on 27 September 2010.
Information will be available at:
http://www.jcomm.info/index.php?option=com_oe&task=viewEventRecord&eventID=566
as documents are posted.
Commission for Basic Systems/OPAG on Public Weather Services
Implementation Coordination Team on Public Weather Services, Shanghai,
China, 20-24 September 2010
More information, which will be available from
http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/amp/pwsp/PlannedEvents_en.htm, will be
passed to HMEI members as it comes to hand
CBS-EXT Technical Conference and CBS Extraordinary session (CBS-EXT),
Windhoek, Namibia, 15-24 November, 2010
The Technical Conference is to be held from 15-16 November, followed by
the CBS
Extraordinary session from 17 to 24 November. More information will be
passed to HMEI members as it comes to hand.
Upcoming
Conferences and sponsorship/exhibition
opportunities
European Geosciences Union (EGU), General Assembly 2010, Vienna,
Austria, 2-7 May 2010
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/
HMEI members listed as exhibiting this year are: Campbell Scientific Ltd, Delta-T Devices Ltd, Eijkelkamp Agrisearch Equipment, EKO Instruments, Jenoptik, Kipp & Zonen, Leosphere, LI-COR Biosciences, METEK, Scintec and Skye Instruments.
2nd Annual Joint Aeronautical Information Exchange
Model (AIXM) / Weather Information Exchange Model (WXXM) Conference,
Washington DC, May 4-6, 2010
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will host this
conference, which is intended for the aeronautical information and
aviation meteorological (MET) communities; including software
developers, program managers, experts, and users of aeronautical and
weather information.
For information and free registration, see:
http://www.aixm.aero/public/standard_page/2010_05_aixm_met.html
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.
HMEI members, Vaisala and SEBA are listed as sponsors of
the event.
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
10th International Precipitation Conference (IPC-10), Coimbra,
Portugal, 23-25 June 2010
IPC-10 will be held at the Civil Engineering Department of the
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. The objective of the 2010
Conference is to continue promoting interdisciplinary discussions of the
present state of knowledge in research and applications related to
precipitation, with the special theme: "Space‑time precipitation from
urban scale to global change". More information is available at
http://www.ci.uc.pt/imar/ipc10/.
This conference will have a technical exhibition, they particularly
welcome the following fields:
- Instrumentation and novel precipitation observing systems.
- Software: expert systems, statistics and databases.
- General scientific/laboratory materials related to engineering applications for precipitation.
- Publishers: books and journals.
The technical exhibition will take place during the conference, on the 23rd, 24th and 25th (morning only) of June. For each exhibition stand of area of 9 m2, the cost of each stand will be 750€. For specific information on the exhibition, please contact the IPC 10 secretariat (ipc10@dec.uc.pt).
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.
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/
The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS)
Atmospheric Science Conference, Manchester, UK, 5-7 July 2010
There will be an exhibition with this conference and also sponsorship
opportunities.
See
http://ncasweb.leeds.ac.uk/conference2010/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4&Itemid=7
for details of these.
The conference will consist of 7 plenary sessions including those
covering:
- Technology for Observing and Modelling the Atmosphere
- Atmospheric Composition
- The Atmosphere as Observed from Space
- Weather
The Abstract for papers deadline is 23 April 2010. There will also be poster sessions. See more information at: http://www.ncas.ac.uk/conference2010
International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society - IGARSS 2010,
Honolulu, Hawaii,
25-30 July 2010
This is the 30th anniversary of IGARSS, They will celebrate their
accomplishments over three decades of leadership in remote sensing
instrumentation, techniques, and applications development. An
importantly aspect will be to look ahead to the future of this field
with some fresh approaches and perspectives through the conference
theme: Remote Sensing: Global Vision for Local Action. One such activity
will be embodied in a plenary session, which will focus on the emerging
field of Community Remote Sensing (see:
http://www.igarss2010.org/CommunityRemoteSensing.asp).
There will be an exhibition at IGARSS 2010 from
27 to 29 July 2010,
which will bring together over 2,000 engineers, researchers, teachers,
students, and scientists from around the world to review the latest
issues and studies of Earth remote sensing, and their environments in
space. Join companies, government agencies, educational institutions,
research facilities, scientific societies, and others exhibiting the
latest in geoscience instruments, equipment, software, books and
journals, and scientific programs at the International Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Symposium.
For exhibition information go to:
www.igarss2010.org/ExhibitsSupportOpportunities.asp
Note: Exhibit space reservation deadline extended to 1 May 2010
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.
More information is available at:
http://www.irc.nl/page/46818.
World Water Week, Stockholm, Sweden, 5-11 September 2010
The 2010 World Water Week will take place from September 5-11 at
Stockholm International Fairs. The theme for 2010 will be "The Water
Quality Challenge – Prevention, Wise Use and Abatement". It will be the
second year under the niche “Water: Responding to Global Changes”. For
more information on the 2010 World Water Week, please visit
www.worldwaterweek.org.
ERAD 2010 Meteorology and Hydrology Conference, Romania, 6-10 September
2010
The 6th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology ERAD
2010 will be held in Sibu, Romania, hosted by
the Romanian Meteorological Administration (ANM). More information is available at the website
http://www.erad2010.org/.
Exhibition places are available only for sponsors, for more information
contact info@erad2010.org.
10th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) and
the 8th European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC), 13-17
September 2010, Zürich, Switzerland.
This event has a thematic focus on High resolution climatology
- towards climate change services.
Exhibition information is now available at:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2010/exhibition/general_information.html.
Of the eleven exhibitors noted, 8 HMEI members are so far noted as
exhibiting: Meteolabor AG, Kipp & Zonen, METEK GmbH,
MODEM, Rotronic AG, Scintec AG,
SELEX-Gematronik, Vaisala and also HMEI has a booth there.
The scientific programme and abstract submission are now accessible at:
http://meetings.copernicus.org/ems2010.
Deadline for abstract submission: 30 April 2010.
In the Abstract Submission Tool, submitting authors will be asked
whether they agree that their presentation at the EMS10/ECAC8 2010 will
be made publicly available at
www.emetsoc.org
Information on registration, accommodation and visa requirements as well
as exhibition opportunities will also become available on this
conference web
site. Local information is available at
www.ems2010.ch
The Session programme consists of six programme groups:
- Monitoring the climate (ECAC)
- Understanding processes and climate change (ECAC)
- Climate (change) services (ECAC)
- The Atmosphere and the water cycle
- Communication and education
- Numerical weather prediction
Further information at
www.ems2010.ch
2nd Marine Board Forum: Towards a European Network of Marine
Observatories for Monitoring and Research, Brussels, Belgium,
16 September 2010
This one day forum will address the following questions:
- What role do marine observatories play in the provision of long-term (decadal-scale) time series data from European seas?
- What are the technical challenges for an effective interoperability between systems, new observational capabilities and improved data management?
- What observatories and projects are currently in place and what are the critical gaps in coverage and measurements?
- How can sustained funding schemes, new partnerships and innovative governing structures be designed to best support a stable observatory network?
Attendance is open to European and National policy makers/advisors and programme managers, marine scientists, industry and NGOs. Information is available at: http://www.esf.org/index.php?id=6834
3rd International Scientific Conference on “Energy and
Climate Change ”, Athens, Greece, 7-8 October 2010
The PROMITHEAS Network ( The Energy and Climate Change Policy
Network) is organizing this conference for the third year.
Please find more details regarding this event (venue, members of the
Scientific Committee, themes and topics, registration fees) at:
http://www.kepa.uoa.gr/PROMITHEAS_Conference.htm
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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
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Environmental Expert has a calendar of Air & Climate Events listed
at:
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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