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 THE HMEI
MEMBER PRODUCT CATALOGUE
The HMEI Secretariat has created a new feature on the HMEI web site,
the HMEI Member Product Catalogue.
This new initiative gives all members of HMEI the ability to be easily
found according to the different categories of products they produce.
Interested customers and users of meteorological products will find it a
valuable and comprehensive reference. It is a guide to the best
hydro-meteorological products and manufacturers worldwide.
As an on-line catalogue it gives customers and users links directly to the
HMEI member companies. No summarizing of products that quickly becomes
outdated, this catalogue is updated frequently and is a portal to the most
up-to-date information direct from the manufactures themselves.
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HMEI NEW
MEMBERS
The Association of
Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes the
following companies as new HMEI members:
YOKOGAWA DENSHIKIKI
CO.,Ltd. -
Japan
RADIOMETRICS CORPORATION
- USA
SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation)
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS OPERATION - USA
TOTEX CORPORATION
- Japan
SIPPICAN
Inc.
VECTOR INSTRUMENTS
(Windspeed Ltd)
- UK
TIANJIN METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENT WORKS
- China
CASELLA
CEL - UK
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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.
YOKOGAWA DENSHIKIKI
CO.,Ltd.
Yokogawa Denshikiki Co., Ltd. was funded in 1960. The capital is 300 M yen. The company has five main business domains. Those are Defense, Environment, Navigation/aviation and aerospace, Kitchen facility, Data transmission/security and combustion.
In the business areas, products are required to have high quality and reliability, as well as high performance, since they are usually operated under harsh environmental conditions. As a consequence we are continuing research and development activities to surpass existing state-of-the-art technology. The environmental department covers meteorological and hydrological sensors, data acquisition system, data transmission system, data processing system, engineering of system and maintenance service. These are high accuracy pressure sensors, water level meter, radio flow meter, temperature sensor, humidity sensor, anemometer, rain gauge, laser snow depth meter, atmospheric pressure sensor, heliograph, dew point meter, battery driven field logger, filed information server, information integration software, small to large system engineering capability and nation wide
maintenance service.
RADIOMETRICS CORPORATION
Radiometrics Corporation develops and manufacturers microwave radiometers for atmospheric remote sensing. These patented passive instruments provide continuous profiles of atmospheric temperature and humidity up to 10 km in height, and a single layer cloud liquid profile. The cycle time is less than 20 seconds. The accuracy of radiosondes and radiometer temperature and humidity soundings are equivalent when used in numerical weather analysis. A radiometric profiler provides timely upper air soundings for improved short term precipitation and fog
forecasting.
SAIC
(Science Applications International Corporation)
ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS OPERATION
Science
Applications International Corporation (SAIC) is the largest
employee-owned research and engineering company in the United States,
providing information technology, systems integration and eSolutions to
commercial and government customers.
Our
information systems and technology solutions are helping speed and improve
service delivery and giving decision makers better information to make
decisions. Our next generation networks are helping clients create new
markets in converged voice, video, and data services. Our e-business
solutions are creating unprecedented collaboration and efficiency
throughout complex value chains. Our wireless solutions are opening up new
communications with remote areas faster and better than ever before. SAIC
is also a portal to advanced technologies. We provide access to the latest
technologies developed by a host of organizations worldwide, including our
own world-class research organizations. We bring more than three decades
of experience making new technologies succeed in real-world, real-time
business.
TOTEX CORPORATION
TOTEX Corporation, founded in 1937, are specialists in manufacturing all sizes of Meteorological Balloons and supply internationally these quality balloons to North America, Latin/South America, Western Europe, NIS/Eastern Europe,
Asia, Australia/Pacific, Middle East and Africa.
We firmly believe that the extensive experience we now have will enable us to contribute towards the continued improvement of weather observation around the world.
SIPPICAN Inc.
Sippican, Inc. is a world leader in the design and manufacture of meteorological and oceanographic instrumentation, underwater vehicles, submarine communication, and countermeasure systems. Sippican is a leading international supplier of radiosondes upper air processing systems, with customers in over 70 countries throughout the world. A variety of system and configurations are available to meet the requirements of synoptic, military, and research/scientific users, for both fixed and
mobile upper air sounding applications.
Sippican is the only company in the world capable of providing a single, fully integrated system for performing shipboard radiosonde and expendable bathythermograph (XBT) soundings.
VECTOR INSTRUMENTS
(Windspeed Ltd)
Vector Instruments (Windspeed Ltd) is mainly concerned with the development and production of wind measuring sensors. Widely known as a supplier of the Porton anemometer which was originally developed for micro-met applications, the company is now an important supplier to the wind power industry. Here, the requirement for ever more exacting standards has driven product development in this
specialized field. However, the company's range of anemometers and other sensors have, and continue to be employed in many 'traditional' meteorological fields since their initial development in the 1970s.
Besides anemometers, the product range includes a potentiometer windvane, a self-referencing windvane for use on floating platforms, a precision aspirated temperature sensor of Met Office design and a psychrometer, as well as items of signal conditioning and display
equipment.
TIANJIN METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENT WORKS
Tianjin Meteorological Instruments Factory possesses a variety of advanced manufacturing and inspecting methods, as well as satisfactory quality keeping and service system.
Our main products: some 40 kinds of apparatus, instruments and sensors, covering all sorts of measurements in wind direction, wind velocity, rainfall, evaporation, temperature, humidity, radiation, sunshine, etc.; various kinds of automatic meteorological stations, single rainfall station, single wind measuring station, radiation station, fully automatic sun tracker; five categories of inspecting apparatus of meteorological instruments of air pressure, humidity, temperature coefficient, rainfall, wind tunnel, etc.
CASELLA
CEL
Casella
CEL Ltd. are specialist providers of environmental monitoring technologies
for a wide range of environmental health and safety issues. The extensive
range of instrumentation manufactured and supplied includes real-time dust
and noise monitors, indoor air quality monitors, meteorological equipment
and environmental enclosures for PM10 and PM2.5 monitoring.
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Expert Team on Upper-air Systems Intercomparisons and
International Organizing Committee on Upper-air Systems Intercomparisons -
Report
The
WMO Joint
Meeting of the CIMO Expert Team on Upper-air Systems Intercomparisons and
International Organizing Committee on Upper-air Systems Intercomparisons
was held on 18-20 March 2004 in Geneva.
HMEI members, InterMet, Modem, Vaisala, Meteolabor, Meisei, Graw and
Sippican attended as did the Executive Secretary. For the HMEI report of this meeting
click here.
For a link to the (pdf) WMO
Report on the meeting please click here.
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UPCOMING
EXPERT
TEAM MEETINGS AND INTERCOMPARISONS
 The next WMO CBS meeting
of relevance to members, 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 HMEI Secretariat will be attending this meeting at the request of
interested HMEI members.
The
next WMO Laboratory
Intercomparison
of Rainfall Intensity (RI) Gauges will take place in Italy, France and
Netherlands during September 2004.
Six HMEI member companies are submitting instruments:
Geonor; Design Analysis Associates; Environmental Measurements;
Casella CEL; CAE Srl; Yokogawa Denshikiki; and Vaisala.
There
will be a CIMO Expert Team on Training Activities and Training
Materials - 1st Session, to be held in Geneva on 10 - 13
November 2004.
HMEI members who have already expressed an interest are:
Gematronik; Environmental Measurements; Design Analysis: and SAIC.
If there are any other HMEI members who would like to participate in the
meeting please email the HMEI Executive
Secretary.
For
the latest updates to information on upcoming event and meetings please see the Activities
page/Upcoming Meetings and Events on this website.
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ITU
MEMBERSHIP UPDATE
As reported in the last Newsletter the Executive Secretary was networking with various Organizations,
including the International Telecommunication Union
seeking to expand the influence of HMEI and its members.
HMEI applied for Associate
Membership of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Study Group 7,
which deals with Radio Frequency allocations and procedures.
However the 10,500chf annual fee was too great for the HMEI budget at this
stage and an exemption to the fee was requested in view of the limited
HMEI budget. Despite the strong support for our application by Mr. Jean-Michel Rainer
in the Secretariat of the
Commission for Basic Systems (CBS) and the support of the Chairman of the
Working Party for 7C, Mr. Eduardo Marelli, the request for an exemption
has been denied. Therefore HMEI will not at this point be able to be a
separate voting member of Study Group 7.
However Mr. Jean-Michel Rainer has offered to allow the HMEI
Executive Secretary to participate as a member of the WMO delegation. Thus
HMEI will be able to attend
relevant meetings and have an input into the work of this group.
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EMS
EQUIPMENT EXHIBITION
The European Meteorological Society, as you may be aware, is
holding its next meeting in conjunction with an exhibition, which may be
of interest to HMEI members. This will be held in Nice on 26-30 September
this year.
For those members wishing to exhibit at this joint
exhibition/meeting, please refer to the EMS exhibition web-site
at http://www.copernicus.org/ems/2004/exhibition.htm
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NEXT
HMEI GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN EUROPE
The next General Assembly for the HMEI is proposed to be held
during CIMO Technical Conference and METEOREX 2005 in Bucharest, Romania
in May 2005. The Chairman Ben Dieterink has proposed this move, in order
that the General Assembly could be attended more easily by European HMEI
members. The proposal will need to be discussed and ratified by the HMEI
Council in full. Further news on this will be given in the next
newsletter.
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