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INVITATION
TO ATTEND THE 13th
Session of the WMO Regional Association – II (Asia)
HMEI
has been invited by the WMO Secretary General to attend the Thirteenth
Session of the Regional Association – II (Asia), which will take
place in Hong Kong, China, from 7 to 15 December 2004.
As the HMEI Executive Secretary is unable to attend this meeting, we are
asking for any HMEI Members
who would like to attend this meeting as HMEI Member Representatives, to
please contact the local organizing committee in Hong Kong as soon as
possible to register, as registration is almost at closing point.
For information on the Agenda of this meeting, please look at the
following ftp address: ftp://www.wmo.ch/Documents/sessions/XIII-RA-II
The
documents to view at this site are:
DO2-2(1).doc (Agenda)
DO2-2(2).doc
(Explanatory Memorandum)
INF01.doc
(Information and Hotel Info.)
The person to contact if you wish to attend is: Mr. Wing-Mo LEUNG, Hong
Kong Observatory.
Telephone: (852) 2926 8441 and Fax. (852) 2377 3472
Email: loc_raii_xiii@hko.gov.hk
If
you are do decide to attend please also let Bruce Sumner, HMEI Executive
Secretary, know by email at hmei@wmo.int
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HMEI
at AMS
85th Annual Meeting in San Diego- January 2005
HMEI
has been offered a booth by AMS. So HMEI will be in Booth 120 from
10-13 January. Please feel free to drop by and visit us during the AMS
Exhibition.
The booth will be in addition to the two
HMEI Meetings being held in Room 10 of the Convention Centre on Monday
10th January:
1)
Open Meeting from 9am to 10.30am on the theme of "Private
Industry and An Integrated Earth Observing System"
2) Members Meeting from 10.35am to 11am.
The official meeting announcement will be sent out by email in December.
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Smaller
Booths now available again at METEOREX 2005
Emails were recently received by the HMEI Secretariat from
some of its members, indicating that at METEOREX 2005 small booths where
no longer available and that exhibitors were only being offered large size
booths, even if they were too large and expensive for their requirements.
Following intervention by HMEI and the CIMO Secretariat, negotiation with
the METEOREX 2005 Organizing Committee has achieved an agreement that more
small booths will now be available for those exhibitors needing
them.
If you are interested in exhibiting in one of these booths please contact
the exhibition coordinator for METEOREX 2005 at elisabeta.cserwid@meteo.inmh.ro
There are currently 26 HMEI members booked to exhibit at METEOREX 2005
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HMEI
at METEOREX 2005
When HMEI Executive Secretary met with the representatives
from the METEOREX 2005 Organizing Committee from the Romanian Met Service,
on their recent visit to Geneva, they kindly agreed to donate a booth for
HMEI's use at the Romoepxo Exhibition center, with all the necessary
furnishing. So the Association of HMEI will have a presence at METEOREX
2005 in Bucharest. We are also holding the 2005 HMEI General
Assembly during the METEOREX 2005. Here the Organizing Committee have
donated a room for us to hold the General Assembly in, on Thursday 5 May
2005, 8.30am - 10am.
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ISO Meeting in Stockholm
HMEI
Report of ISO/TC 146 Air Quality - Sub-committee
5 (SC5) – Meteorology - Stockholm, Sweden, 13-17 September 2004.
The
HMEI Executive Secretary, thanks to the financial support of the HMEI
Chairman, was able to attend this meeting. This is the first meeting of
the International Standards Organization in which HMEI has been able to
participate.
HMEI was invited as a observer to Subcommittee 5 (SC5) - Meteorology by
the Secretary of that Subcommittee, Mr. Paul Fransioli. HMEI is now
applying for Liaison Status with ISO and will be a
future participant of ISO meetings within the meteorological area. Click
here to go to the Executive
Secretary's report on this meeting
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HMEI
meeting with MEMBERS Japanese Meteorological Support Center members
The HMEI Executive Secretary met with members of the Japanese
Meteorological Business Support Center (JMBSC) in Geneva on 1st October 2004.
The meeting was extremely cordial and mutually informative.
Mr. Tetsuro Fukui, as the main English speaking spokesman for the visiting
contingent from JMBSC, has written to HMEI expressing their satisfaction
with the information they obtained on their visit. He also stated their
desire to continue to pursue further discussions and cooperation with us,
as they are very interested in developing projects related to meteorology
worldwide.
Mr. Yuji Hayashi from Oriental Electrics also accompanied the JMBSC
contingent. The HMEI Executive Secretary invited Oriental Electrics to
join HMEI and Mr. Hayashi expressed great interest in joining our
association. He has since written to inform HMEI that Oriental Electrics
will be pleased to become a member of HMEI, and that they are currently
looking into their procedures for joining HMEI as soon as they can.
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CIMO Expert Team Meeting on Surface Techniques and Measurement
Techniques
Hannu Kokko from Vaisala, Gerhard Pevny from Logotronic and Dr. Andrew Sandford
from Cambell Scientific (UK) were the A1 Expert Team Members attending this
meeting, held on 13-16 October 2004 in Geneva, Switzerland.
The ET Chairman at this
meeting was Dr.Jitze P.van der Meulen from the Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute.
This Expert Team meeting dealt with topics including issues on:
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Standardization of AWS algorithms and present weather systems;
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Industry development of state of the art instruments and automated
surface observation systems;
•
Progress of
urban and road meteorological measurements;
•
Future training needs and training materials.
The official WMO report of this meeting is available on CIMO website at:
http://www.wmo.int/web/www/IMOP/reports/2003-2007/ET-STMT1_Geneva2004.pdf
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Commission for Hydrology
(CHy) 12th Session
HMEI
representatives attended the twelfth session of the Commission
for Hydrology (CHy) of the WMO in Geneva, 20 to
29 October 2004.
The HMEI representatives at the meeting were:
Mr. Wolfgang Zasche from SEBA Hydrometrie, from
20th to 22nd of October;
Mr. Gerry
Allen from Lockheed Martin, from 23rd to 26th October;
and
The
HMEI Chairman, Mr. Ben Dieterink,
from KIPP & ZONEN, and Bruce Sumner, HMEI Executive Secretary from
27th to 29th October.
HMEI
extends its thanks to Gerry Allen from
Lockheed Martin who has sent in a report (please click here) of the part of
the meeting he attended and has outlined some interesting points for HMEI
and its members. The HMEI Secretariat will be following up on these points.
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HMEI NEW
MEMBERS
The Association of Hydro-Meteorological Equipment Industry welcomes
the following companies as new HMEI members:
BARON
SERVICES INC.
- USA
CLIMATRONICS
CORP. - USA
Gill
Instruments Ltd. - UK
HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL
INSTRUMENTS & FACILITIES (H.I.M.) - Germany
R.M.
YOUNG COMPANY - USA
STERELA
- France
Weather
DECISION TECHNOLOGIES - USA
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New
Member Information
This section
provides information supplied by the member companies
themselves. HMEI bears no responsibility for this
information.
BARON
SERVICES INC.
- USA
Baron Services is a premier
developer and supplier of ultra-modern real-time, site-specific weather
forecasting tools for a worldwide
customer base. Baron Services manufactures Doppler Weather radars in the
S, C and X frequency bands customized to the user's specific performance
requirements.
Baron’s VHDD and XDD series of Doppler Weather radars are configured
with advanced state of the art technology in solid-state
modulators of the transmitters, digital receivers, and signal processors
providing high definition real time data acquisition and product
displays.
As an aggressive innovator of new weather technologies, Baron Services
offers a complete suite of sophisticated weather monitoring and display
tools for real-time Doppler radar, advanced storm tracking and detection,
instant alerts, weather sensors, mobile weather vans and Internet
displays.
Our weather monitoring and display systems incorporate 2D and 3D
visualization technology, which continues
to enhance the meteorologist’s ability to acquire, analyze and
disseminate significant weather events.
CLIMATRONICS
CORP. - USA
Climatronics is
recognized worldwide as a leading manufacturer of high quality, dependable
meteorological instrumentation and systems for accurate and reliable
climate monitoring and recording as well as environmental data
acquisition.
Products range from instruments that measure a single phenomenon to
automatic environmental observation systems measuring a full range of
environmental parameters, and feature the latest in “no-moving part”
wind sensing technology, microprocessor-based signal conditioning;
wireless communications, and PDA-compatible data display software.
Customers include the armed forces, aviation administrations,
environmental protection agencies, meteorological services, water
management authorities, research centers, and domestic and foreign
federal, state and municipal government organizations.
Gill
Instruments Ltd. - UK
Gill is a world leader in
ultrasonic anemometers, which we have been designing and manufacturing for
over fifteen years. We have the largest range of ultrasonic products
available in the market today.
Highest Reliability.....Our extensive range of ultrasonic anemometers are
specifically designed to operate in the worst of environmental conditions,
including the measurement of wind speed and direction in hazardous areas
in the petrochemical industry, naval ships, wind turbines, ocean data
buoys and airport meteorological stations. With both Lloyds and FM
approval, our sensors are used in applications where the highest
reliability is demanded.
Low Cost of Ownership.....With no moving parts requiring replacement, Gill ultrasonic
wind sensors need no expensive regular serving or calibration. Units are
supplied as standard with an in built self test routine, providing a
continuous status code confirming correct operation.
Broad Product Range.....Building on our expertise gained in the demanding
research field we develop new products as part of a structured development
plan. We have sensors that range from the basic measurement of wind speed
and direction in meteorological applications, up to and including the
measurement of 100 Hz 3-axis wind data for research applications.
Worldwide Support.....Our products are supported by a worldwide network of
distributors which provide local support if required.
HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL
INSTRUMENTS & FACILITIES (H.I.M.) - Germany
Our
Company Hydrometeorological Instruments and Facilities (H.I.M.) is a
supplier of complete or parts of Hydrometeorological Surface Observation
Stations (manned or automated) and deals with components of aerological
stations such as balloons (for radiosondes and pilots) . We are open to
find special solutions for the requirements of our customer.
R.M.
YOUNG COMPANY - USA
Now
in our 40th year, R. M. Young Company specializes in the
manufacture of quality meteorological instrumentation. Our products include
sensors for measuring wind, temperature, humidity, rainfall, atmospheric
pressure and other variables. Company
facilities encompass plastic injection molding, CNC machining,
sheet metal fabrication, circuit board production, instrument
assembly, calibration and warehousing functions.
A wind tunnel is on site offering NIST traceable calibrations.
Young
products are used successfully in meteorology, oceanography, air quality
monitoring, agriculture and forestry, fire and emergency response,
transportation, energy development, and many other
fields.
A
network of international
distributors ensures prompt, professional
assistance with orders and service needs worldwide.
STERELA
- France
STERELA, based in Toulouse (FRANCE), is a very dynamic company
which specializes in electronic systems for aeronautic, transport, and industry. Our products are
designed, manufactured and maintained in our factory. We are one of the major actor in real-time systems for data collection, supervision and transmission. Meteorology is one of our
activities and we have developed several types of equipment such as a modular road meteorology station and an automatic weather report transmission system for
airports. We are also developing an automated meteorological station for
the METEO FRANCE weather network for Surface Observation Stations. The main purpose of this station will be to collect data from all the airport sensors and to transmit them to the monitoring and display
systems.
Weather
DECISION TECHNOLOGIES - USA
Weather Decision
Technologies, Inc. (WDT) is a world leader in the provision of
meteorological decision support systems, solutions, and services.
WDT’s expertise lies in engineering operational Doppler weather
radar based Nowcasting systems which provide automated short-term
predictions of severe and hazardous weather, and user oriented numerical
weather forecasting solutions. Please see www.wdtinc.com/international
for further details on these systems.
WDT is the only commercial weather systems and services provider that can
provide a full suite of radar-based applications that provide predictions
and forecasts for the 0-60 hour timeframe.
WDT is headquartered in Norman, Oklahoma and maintains an
international marketing office in Arlington, Virginia.
The founders and employees of WDT are all veterans of world-leading
weather research and development organizations; people with unmatched
experience in applying the latest technologies to the critical problem of
accurately predicting severe weather conditions and utilizing weather
radars to provide a broad range of products and services to clients.
WDT has developed a number of systems, and maintains those systems, for
both domestic and foreign government agencies and private industry. WDT
personnel have been involved in developing, testing, and setting up
operational systems for the United States National Weather Service (NWS).
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INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS
HMEI has listed some International Exhibitions which have newly
come to our attention on the new Exhibitions page which we have introduced
on the HMEI website as of this month.
The Exhibitions web page will have a brief description and contact
information of any exhibition which comes to our attention which would be
of interest to our members
Currently the page has information links regarding eight upcoming exhibitions
including:
The 2004 American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting 13 to 17 December 2004, San
Francisco, USA.
The European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna,
Austria, 24 - 29 April 2005.
The International Weather Forecast Expo & Conference 2005
(IWFEX'05) 24- 26 May 2005, Abu Dhabi.
The Royal Meteorological Society Conference 2005, University of
Exeter UK, 11 - 16 September 2005.
The 5th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society, 12-16
September 2005, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
The International Workshop on Flash Flood Forecasting -
September 12 - 16 - Costa Rica.
For
information on these exhibitions please go to
the HMEI website Exhibitions page.
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