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AMS Call for Papers
2010 AMS Meetings
Announcement
29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, 10–14 May 2010, Tucson, Arizona
The 29th Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Tropical Meteorology and Tropical Cyclones, will be held 10–14 May 2010, at the JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa, 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd., Tucson, AZ Preliminary programs and registration details will be posted on the AMS website (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/fainst/201029Hurricanes.html) in early January 2010. General information on hotel accommodations is already available on the AMS website.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of tropical meteorology and oceanography, including convection, tropical cyclones, intraseasonal variability, monsoons, air-sea interaction, climate, observing systems, and prediction.
Several special sessions are planned. Over recent years, several major field programs have been conducted and new results continue to become available. Therefore, papers resulting from such programs as the Hurricane Rainband Experiment (RAINEX) and the African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) Program are solicited. Additionally, a session is planned to focus on air-sea coupling with results from the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST) program that are relevant to a new program, Impact of Typhoons on the Pacific Ocean (ITOP). Several field programs have recently been conducted. These include the THORPEX Pacific Asian Regional Campaign (T-PARC) and Tropical Cyclone Structure-08 (TCS-08). Papers are solicited on initial results from these programs. New programs are on-going or planned in the near future. These include the Year of Tropical Convection (YOTC), Cooperative Indian Ocean Experiment on Intraseasonal Variability (CINDY2011), and the Dynamics of the MJO (DYNAMO) program. Therefore, session(s) are planned to address Indian Ocean weather and climate to highlight research pertinent to upcoming programs. Finally, a series of sessions is planned to highlight topics addressed in the NOAA Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP). Individual sessions will focus on all aspects of the hurricane forecast process. These include: (i) model guidance with special emphasis on numerical prediction of hurricane intensity and intensity change; (ii) predictability and forecast uncertainty with emphasis on the generation and use of probability forecasts, ensemble prediction, and communication of uncertainty; and (iii) societal impacts with emphasis on forecast use and emergency planning. Participants with additional suggestions for the program are encouraged to contact the program chairperson.
The deadline for abstracts has passed. Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via e-mail by late-December 2009. Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS website. Extended manuscripts (file size up to 3 MB) must be submitted electronically by 15 April 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts, and presentations will be made available on the AMS website.
For further program information please contact the program chairperson, Patrick Harr, Department of Meteorology, Naval Postgraduate School, 254 Root Hall, 589 Dyer Road, Monterey, CA 93943-5119 (tel:831-656-3787, email: paharr@nps.edu). (8/09; r2/10)
Announcement
38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology, 23–27 June 2010, Miami, Florida
Mark Your Calenders. The 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology is 23–27 June 2010 in beautiful Miami, Florida.
We want to see your latest case studies, research, new technology, techniques and business strategies. Don't be shy. Is there a weather event you have studied that all of us could benefit from? Is there a presentation you have seen that might rock the conference? Is your research project ready to be shared? How do you wow them at work? All ideas are welcome. This is more than a call for papers. It is your chance to shape the future of our conference.
The board of Broadcast Meteorology is working to create a top quality, educational and fun experience.
Some exciting new changes for the 2010 conference include format, schedule, presentations, training, vendor involvement, member involvement, and social activities.
Over the next 8 months we will send out frequent e-mails with conference updates, schedules, speakers, activities, a list of fellow attendees, and any discounts we are able to obtain.
The purpose of this conference is for Broadcast Meteorologists to increase their knowledge and skills.
Presentations are welcome from AMS members, the media, universities, government, research facilities, students, and private entities
Papers were solicited on multiple themes, including, but not limited to: Regional weather patterns, challenges in forecasting, climate change, environmental issues, tropical weather, oceanography, severe weather, lake effect, mountain weather, winter weather, flooding, satellite, radar, hydrology, natural disasters, space weather, historical weather, forensic weather, local or unusual weather phenomenon, HDTV, new tools and applications for broadcasting, changes in the business of broadcasting, salaries and strategies. PLUS, we want Case-studies of how you handled a severe weather event. These are always helpful to colleagues. In short, show us how you make a difference and improve the meteorological awareness in your DMA. The deadline for abstracts has passed.
As Broadcast Meteorologists we now hold the title of the "Station Scientist". We are an important conduit between science and the public. So, share those papers with us and we will share them with everyone nationwide.
This year we are also proud to announce plans for a half day trip to the National Hurricane Center and The Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML). This will give broadcasters an opportunity to meet with the experts, see the latest technology and research and observe techniques used in studying tropical systems.
The 38th Conference on Broadcast Meteorology is sponsored by the American Meteorological Society. The Conference is organized by the AMS Board of Broadcast Meteorology. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site, http://www.ametsoc.org, by 1 March 2010. Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) by 8 March 2010.
A special vendor event and session is being planned this year with hands on demonstrations of their latest tools for forecasting and covering significant weather events. The deadline to submit abstract to the vendor session has passed. Participation in the Vendor Session is included in the exhibit booth fee.
If you plan to attend the conference, have further questions or want updates e-mailed to you please contact the 2010 conference co-chairpersons: Joe Murgo, murgo@wtajtv.com or Tammie Souza, tammies@10connects.com or tammie.souza@gmail.com (9/09; r12/09; r2/10)
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13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation, 28 June–2 July 2010, Portland, Oregon
The 13th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Atmospheric Radiation will be held 28 June–2 July 2010 at the Doubletree Lloyd Center in Portland, Oregon. The conference will be held in conjunction with the 13th Conference on Cloud Physics. Hotel and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (www.ametsoc.org) in mid-November 2009.
Papers are solicited in all areas of atmospheric radiation spanning radiative transfer theory, cloud and aerosol remote sensing, Earth radiation budget, new approaches to radiation measurement, and radiative parameterizations in regional and global models. Joint sessions with Cloud Physics on optical and radiative properties of clouds, cloud remote sensing, and indirect effects are planned.
Please submit your abstract electronically by 1 March 2010 via http://ams.confex.com/ams/. A fee of $95 (payable by credit card or purchase order) will be charged at the time of abstract submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted). The $95 abstract fee includes the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation that will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts. Authors will be given the choice of a poster or oral presentation when submitting the abstract; those authors presenting more than one paper should clearly indicate which they prefer for a possible oral presentation.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via e-mail by 3 May 2010. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web. Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 21 June 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact the program chairperson, Norman G. Loeb, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA 23681, (e-mail: norman.g.loeb@nasa.gov; tel: 757-864-5688). (8/09)
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13th Conference on Cloud Physics, 28 June–2 July 2010, Portland, Oregon
The 13th Conference on Cloud Physics, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Cloud Physics, will be held 28 June–2 July 2010 jointly with the 13th Conference on Atmosphere Radiation, at the Doubletree Hotel Portland~Lloyd Center in Portland, OR. Hotel and general information will be posted on the AMS web site (http://www.ametsoc.org) by mid-November 2009.
Papers are solicited under the following general topics: stratiform clouds; shallow convective clouds; deep convective clouds; cirrus clouds; warm and cold cloud microphysics and precipitation; cloud chemistry; cloud model development; cloud instrumentation; and clouds in a warmer climate. Joint sessions with the Conference on Radiation on remote sensing of clouds, indirect effects and optical and radiative properties of clouds are envisioned. Authors are encouraged to list which session best fits their study when submitting their abstract. The division of topics is designed to facilitate communication between investigators using different theoretical, observational and laboratory approaches as well as large eddy simulations and cloud resolving, mesoscale and global-scale models. Presentations using an integrated analysis of recent field project data (e.g., ACTIVE, ARCPAC, ARCTAS, ASCOS, COPS, ICE-L, ISDAC, M-PACE, NAMMA, POST, RACORO, RAINEX, RICO, SPARTICUS, TCSP, TC4, TWP-ICE, VOCALS, and others), long-term surface and satellite observations and model simulations are particularly encouraged.
Please submit your abstract electronically by 1 March 2010 via http://ams.confex.com/ams/. A fee of $95 (payable with a credit card or purchase order) will be charged at the time of submission of each abstract (refundable only if abstract is not accepted). The $95 abstract fee includes the submission of your abstract, the posting of an optional extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation which will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts. Authors will be given the choice of a poster or oral presentation when submitting the abstract; those authors presenting more than one paper should clearly indicate which they prefer for a possible oral presentation.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via e-mail by 3 May 2010. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web. Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 21 June 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact the program chairperson, Greg M. McFarquhar, Dept. of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois, 105 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL, 61801-3070 (e-mail: mcfarq@atmos.uiuc.edu; tel: 217-265-5458). (8/09)
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29th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 2–6 August 2010, Keystone, Colorado
The 29th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, the Biometeorology and Aerobiology community and the AMS Board on Atmospheric Biogeosciences, will be held 2–6 August 2010. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site starting mid-November, 2009.
Papers for this conference are solicited on all aspects of biosphere-atmosphere interactions. One area of particular emphasis is assessing local responses to regional and global climate change. Special sessions on multi-site synthesis, data-model fusion, scaling of hydro-meteorological processes, particulate and trace gas exchanges are planned. Joint sessions will be conducted with co-convening conferences on Boundary-Layer and Turbulence and the Urban Environment. Additionally the Committee on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology will conduct a student oral and poster competition for students who enter when they submit their abstracts. Students must be the first author and presenting their own, original work.
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by the deadline date of 5 April 2010 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://ams.confex.com/ams/.) An abstract fee of $95 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted). The $95 abstract fee includes the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation that will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via e-mail around 7 May 2010. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web, Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 28 July 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost to viewers.
For additional information please contact the Agricultural and Forest Meteorology program chairperson Nathaniel Brunsell (e-mail: brunsell@ku.edu) the Atmospheric Biogeosciences co-chair Dr. Judy Chow (e-mail: judy.chow@dri.edu). (01/10)
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19th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, 2–6 August 2010, Keystone, Colorado
The 19th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and organized by the AMS Committee on Boundary Layers and Turbulence will be held in Keystone, Colorado. The dates are 2–6 August 2010. Information including location, travel/flight information, abstract submission procedures, hotels, and other general information will be posted at the AMS Web site (www.ametsoc.org) starting mid-November, 2009.
This symposium is being held in conjunction with the 9th Symposium on the Urban Environment and 29th Symposium on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Joint sessions will be held on topics associated with boundary layer processes, observations and modeling. For the second time, a special lecture is to be given by a prominent scientist in the field.
Papers and posters will be invited on all subjects dealing with atmospheric boundary layers and turbulence including observational, modeling, theoretical, and applied studies. We particularly encourage papers related to the boundary layer processes, observations, and models.
We anticipate and invite presentations and posters addressing some of the following themes:
• boundary layer processes, observations and modeling related to renewable energy applications,
• boundary layer clouds,
• observations in complex and urban terrain (with Urban Environment and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology),
• exchange of trace gases (CO2, BVOC, Nitrogen) between the surface and the PBL for forest ecosystems (with Urban Environment and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology),
• modeling in heterogeneous, complex, and urban terrain (with Urban Environment and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology) ,
• theoretical and practical issues associated with multi-scale simulations,
• boundary layers processes in global and regional climate or weather prediction models,
• land-surface-PBL coupling, impact of heterogeneity as seen in modeling and observations (with Urban Environment and Agricultural and Forest Meteorology)
• morning and afternoon transitional behavior of the boundary layer
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 5 April 2010 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html.) An abstract fee of $95 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not ac-cepted).
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) around 7 May 2010. All ex-tended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web, Instruc-tions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 28 July 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost to viewers.
In addition to the symposium, a one-day short course with the title: “Boundary layers and turbulence theory, modeling, and measurements for renewable energy applications,” is planned for Sunday, 1 August before the start of the symposium. The short course will include six one-hour lectures covering a range of topics. Lecturers will be experts in related fields from academe, industry, and national laboratories. The short course will be mostly geared toward students, but all interested are welcome to attend. More details about the short course including lecture titles, lecturers, and fees will be announced through the AMS meeting Web site.
Proposals for other sessions are welcome. For further information, please contact the program chairs: Branko Kosovic (e-mail: branko@ucar.edu) and Wayne Angevine (Wayne.M.Angevine@noaa.gov). (01/10)
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Ninth Symposium on the Urban Environment, 2–6 August 2010, Keystone. Colorado
The Ninth Symposium on the Urban Environment, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Board on the Urban Environment, will be held 2–6 August 2010, Keystone, Colorado (90 miles west of Denver International Airport). The symposium is being held in conjunction with the AMS 19th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence and 28th Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/annual/) no later than 3 May 2010.
Papers and posters are invited on all subjects dealing with urban environment issues, including in-situ and remote-sensing observations, modeling, theoretical, forecasting, and applied studies such as societal and economic impacts of urbanization.
Joint sessions are planned with the Boundary Layers and Turbulence Conference on Observing and Modeling Boundary Layers Over Complex Urban and Terrain Environments for Energy Applications. We also plan joint sessions with the Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Conference on impacts of urbanization on agriculture and forest ecological system.
Other planned session-themes include: energy and water balances; urban canopy and roughness sublayers; modeling, observation, and input data requirements for understanding and predicting interdisciplinary urban phenomenon; global climate change and urbanization; biometeorology and public health in urban areas; role of aerosols on precipitation in urban areas; weather forecasting for urban areas; urban climate; extreme weather, and urban planning. Persons with additional program suggestions are encouraged to contact the program chairs.
The $90 abstract fee will now include the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation, which will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts.
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 5 April 2010 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html.) An abstract fee of $90 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted).
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) around 7 May 2010. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web, Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 28 July 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact the program co-chairs: Julie Lundquist (Julie.Lundquist@colorado.edu), and Fei Chen (e-mail: feichen@ucar.edu). (01/10)
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14th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, 30 August –3 September 2010, Lake Tahoe Vicinity, CA
The 14th Conference on Mountain Meteorology, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Mountain Meteorology, will be held 30 August–3 September 2010, at the Resort at Squaw Creek, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains near Lake Tahoe, CA. General information on hotel accommodations and transportation options will be posted soon on the AMS website (http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/). The Resort at Squaw Creek offers numerous recreational and dining experiences suitable for people of all ages (http://www.squawcreek.com/). The resort is accessible via a shuttle from the Reno, NV, airport or via automobile from Sacramento or San Francisco, CA.
Papers are solicited on all aspects of mountain meteorology including orographic precipitation, boundary layers and turbulence in complex terrain, numerical modeling, convection, mountain hydrometeorology, thermally driven flows, atmospheric dynamics, foehn and bora, mountain waves and rotors, weather forecasting, mountain climates, global climate change in mountain areas, downscaling, wind power and forecasting, recent field experiments, biometeorology, and air quality. Special sessions are planned for new results from the European Convective and Orographically-induced Precipitation Study (COPS) and the Science and Nowcasting of Olympic Weather for Vancouver 2010 (SNOW-V10) Study. Lead-authored student presentations are especially encouraged; awards for best student talk and poster will be presented at the conference. Due to parallel sessions not being anticipated, lead authors will likely be limited to one oral presentation each. Participants with additional suggestions for the program are encouraged to contact one of the program co-chairmen.
Please submit an abstract of your proposed presentation electronically via the AMS website by 16 April 2010; see the website for instructions. An abstract fee of $95 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted). The $95 abstract fee includes the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the recording and uploading of your presentation to the AMS conference website. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts. Authors of accepted presentations will be notified via e-mail by late May 2010. Instructions for formatting and posting extended abstracts will be given on the AMS website. Extended abstracts (file size up to 3 MB) are highly encouraged to be uploaded before the conference. Late extended abstracts or changes to posted extended abstracts can be made up until 4 October 2010.
For further program information please contact one of the program co-chairmen, Dave Whiteman (dave.whiteman@utah.edu, 801-585-1414) or John Horel (john.horel@utah.edu, 801-581-7091), Atmospheric Sciences Department, University of Utah, 135 S 1460 E, Rm 819, Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0110. (8/09; r10/09)
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17th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, 27 September–1 October 2010, Annapolis, Maryland
The 17th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee on Air-Sea Interaction, will be held 27 September–1 October 2010 in Annapolis, MD. The conference is jointly coordinated with the Ninth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes and with the 17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/AMS) in early June 2010.
This joint conference is motivated by the need for interdisciplinary research that addresses current challenges in meteorology and oceanography. For example, coastal communities, ecosystems, and economies are sensitive to air-sea interaction processes, and the development of new techniques for analyzing remotely sensed observations has expanded the impact of satellite-based air-sea research on monitoring and predicting weather and climate. Therefore, this conference intends to foster exchange among practitioners in these three interdisciplinary areas of air-sea interaction, coastal processes, and satellite remote sensing.
Papers for this conference are solicited on all aspects of air-sea interaction across a wide spectrum of time and spatial scales. Sessions for the conference will be based on the number and topics of abstracts received. Although not an exhaustive list, we welcome abstracts covering the following topics:
• Air-sea interaction in climate models
• Structure of the marine boundary layer
• The role of air-sea interaction on climate change
• Development and use of global air-sea data sets
• Developments in air-sea interaction instrumentation and platforms
• Air-sea interaction over the Great Lakes (and other large lakes)
• Sea surface physics, including waves, whitecaps, and aerosol generation
• The role of air-sea interaction in intraseasonal to multidecadal variability
• Air-sea flux estimation and parameterization
• High latitude air-sea interaction, including air-sea-ice interaction
In addition to these general sessions, we are considering special or joint sessions that address critical research issues and cross-disciplinary topics of interest to the air-sea, coastal, and satellite communities. Potential sessions could address some of the following:
• Air-sea interaction in the coastal zone (joint with Coastal)
• Results from the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS)
• Satellite-derived air-sea heat and gas fluxes (joint with Satellite)
• Atmospheric Model Intercomparison Project (AMIP) and other fully coupled modeling studies
• The role of air-sea exchange in oceanic water mass formation and overturning circulations
• Landfalling tropical cyclones (joint with Coastal)
• Air-sea interaction in paleoclimate
• Air-sea interaction in western and eastern boundary currents
• Coastal processes and surface features from synthetic aperture radar (SAR; joint with Coastal and Satellite)
• Air-sea interaction over ocean eddies and fronts (joint with Satellite)
• Air-sea carbon dynamics in coastal oceans (joint with Coastal)
Participants with additional suggestions for general, special, or joint sessions are encouraged to contact the program chairpersons. To encourage interdisciplinary interaction among attendees, an invited talk as an introductory overview is planned for selected sessions.
As usual, the Air-Sea Interaction Committee places a priority on student participation in the conference, and the Committee will sponsor a student presentation competition. Awards will be provided for exemplary student poster and oral presentations.
Please submit your abstract electronically to the AMS website by 3 May 2010 (see http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html). A $90 abstract fee (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if the abstract is not accepted). The abstract fee will cover the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation, which will all be archived on the AMS web site.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) around 8 June 2010 and will be asked to submit an extended abstract (up to 3 MB) by 22 September 2010. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically via the web; instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS web site. All abstracts, extended abstracts, and presentations will be available on the AMS web site at no cost to members or non-members. There is also no cost for color graphics in the abstract or the extended abstract.
For additional information, please contact the program chairperson or the co-chairs: Jeff Hare (Chair); Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES); University of Colorado and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL); Boulder CO (tel: 303-497-5864; email: jeffrey.hare@colorado.edu); Yuko Okumura (Co-chair); Climate and Global Dynamics Division; National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Boulder CO (tel: 303-497-1770; e mail: yukoo@ucar.edu) or Ernesto Munoz (Co-chair, for student participation); Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS); Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Studies (RSMAS); University of Miami and NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML); Miami FL (tel: 305-361-4507; e-mail: ernesto.munoz@noaa.gov). (9/09)
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17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, 27 September–1 October 2010, Annapolis, Maryland
The 17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Committee on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, will be held 27 September–1 October 2010. We are excited to join with the 17th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction and the Ninth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes in offering a stimulating triple program highlighting the synergisms between these three areas of research. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/meetinfo.html) in early June 2010.
Papers for this conference are solicited on all aspects of satellite meteorology and oceanography. Session topics will depend on abstracts received and may include:
• Satellite retrievals of atmospheric and ocean/land-surface environmental parameters and the synergy of multi-sensor, multi-platform satellite observations (e.g., A-Train)
• Long-term satellite data records in the study of climate, climate processes, and coupled earth system interactions
• Role of satellite observations in the assessment of multi-scale impacts of global climate change
• Operationally-relevant environmental applications, decision support systems, and the feedback and transition/development between research and operations
• Satellite data assimilation: Tools and techniques for model initialization, forecast/analysis uncertainty assessment, and information content assessment
• Tools and methods for satellite-based model evaluation and model parameterization improvements
• New and future satellite observing systems (e.g., NPP/NPOESS, GPM, ESA GMES/Sentinels, CloudSat/ CALIPSO/ EarthCARE, GOES-R, MTG, Decadal Survey Missions, etc.) technology, applications, community readiness, and the expanding role of internationally-coordinated satellite constellations
• Radio frequency interference analysis and mitigation strategies
Joint sessions with the 17th Conference on Air-Sea Interaction and the Ninth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes will be highlighted, and interdisciplinary topics are highly encouraged, these may include: Regional examples of wind and SST interaction; Satellite analysis of coastal and global ocean current dynamics; Integration of coastal and global ocean in situ observations with satellite data; Assessing the quality of satellite retrievals of coastal parameters; Ocean bio-optical observations and requirements for coastal and global oceans; Use of satellite data in weather and climate predictions over the oceans (including data assimilation and model skill assessment); Applications of active microwave systems (e.g., altimeter, scatterometer, synthetic aperture radar, etc.); and Satellite derived air-sea heat and gas fluxes.
Please submit your short abstract electronically to the AMS web site (http://ams.confex.com/ams/) by 3 May 2010. The $90 abstract fee (payable by credit card or purchase order at the time of submission) will include the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation that will be archived on the AMS Web site.
Authors of accepted abstracts will be notified (via email) around 8 June 2010. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically by 22 September 2010 and will be available on-line via the AMS web site mentioned above. Instructions for formatting will be posted on the AMS web site. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS web site at no cost to members or non-members.
For additional information please contact the program co-chairpersons:
Steven Miller, Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO (Tel: 970-491-8037; e-mail: miller@cira.colostate.edu) or Deborah Smith, Remote Sensing Systems, 438 First St, Suite 200, Santa Rosa, CA; (9/09)
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Ninth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, 27 September–1 October 2010, Annapolis, Maryland
The Ninth Conference on Coastal Atmospheric and Oceanic Prediction and Processes, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society, and organized by the AMS Committee on Coastal Environment, will be held in Annapolis, MD, from 27 September–1 October 2010. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (http://www.ametsoc.org/MEET/meetinfo.html) in early June 2010.
Papers for this conference are solicited for both basic and applied research issues involving the understanding, analysis, and prediction of the coastal atmosphere and ocean, with a special emphasis on coupling of atmospheric, oceanic, and hydrological processes and their effects on biological response, coastal urban effects, ocean and air quality, river discharges, floods, storm surges, coastal inundation, climate analysis and predictions, tsunamis, interdisciplinary field programs, advances in remote sensing and in-situ observational networks, and advances in modeling and forecasting.
In particular, with the development and growth of the coastal ocean component of the Integrated (and Sustained) Ocean Observing System (IOOS), and with its emphasis on fostering Operational Oceanography, this will be an excellent conference for presentations from the eleven IOOS Regional Associations and their federal and private sector counterparts.
Joint sessions with the 17th Conference on Interaction of the Sea and Atmosphere and the 17th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography will be highlighted, and interdisciplinary topics are highly encouraged, including: Regional Examples of Wind and SST Interaction; Satellite Analysis of Coastal and Global Ocean Current Dynamics; Integration of Coastal and Global Ocean In Situ Observations with Satellite Data; Ocean Bio-Optical Observations and Requirements for Coastal and Global Oceans; Use of Satellite Data in Weather and Climate Predictions over the Oceans including Data Assimilation and Model Skill Assessment; and Applications of Active Microwave Systems (Altimeter, Scatterometer, Synthetic Aperture Radar, etc.) .
Please submit your abstract electronically via the Web by 3 May 2010 (refer to the AMS Web page at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html.) An abstract fee of $90 (payable by credit card or purchase order) is charged at the time of submission (refundable only if abstract is not accepted). The $90 abstract fee will now include the submission of your abstract, the posting of your extended abstract, and the uploading and recording of your presentation which will be archived on the AMS Web site. We will no longer be producing a CD-ROM, allowing us to extend the deadline date for extended abstracts.
Authors of accepted presentations will be notified (via e-mail) around 8 June 2010. All extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically and will be available on-line via the Web, Instructions for formatting extended abstracts will be posted on the AMS Web site. Manuscripts (up to 3MB) must be submitted electronically by 22 September 2010. All abstracts, extended abstracts and presentations will be available on the AMS Web site at no cost.
For additional information please contact the program chairpersons, Darko Koracin (Darko.Koracin@dri.edu) or Christopher Mooers (cmooers@cecs.pddx.edu). (9/09)
2010 Meetings of Interest
Announcement
Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC), 18–20 February 2010, Boulder, CO
The Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference (NSRC) will be held 18–20 February 2010 at The Millennium Harvest House, in Boulder, CO.
A new generation of space vehicles capable of economically delivering payloads and researchers is coming on line beginning in 2010. These vehicles will revolutionize space access by providing frequent, low-cost access to space and the capability to carry research and education crew members. They will also carry experiments for technology demonstrations, for scientist in-the-loop research, and for educational/public outreach demonstrations.
Fields including atmospheric science, solar physics, microgravity science, planetary science, space life science, space physics, and education and public outreach (EPO) stand to benefit from these vehicles.
NSRC2010 will provide a forum to learn about the research and EPO capabilities of these new systems, their experiments, and EPO integration processes. NSRC2010 will also provide input on vehicle design requirements for science and education.
The conference aims to bring together researchers from government, industry, and academia. The objectives of the NSRC2010, therefore, are: to educate a broad array of research communities to the opportunities that the new wave of human suborbital vehicles offer for research and education missions (REM); to hear from this broad array of researchers what their questions, feedback, and ideas are for REM applications and REM user requirements; and to demonstrate strong interest by working researchers and education/public outreach representatives to NASA, the National Institute of Health (NIH), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), industry, and other potential funding entities for REM applications.
The 2.5-day conference will include invited and contributed talks scheduled into three parallel sessions for different fields. The meeting will also include keynote addresses, a press conference, and public talks to the local community in Boulder.
Please visit our Web site (http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/nsrc2010/documents/nsrcagenda.pdf ) for a preliminary agenda.
Researchers in the fields appropriate to the purpose and scope of this conference are invited to submit abstracts for oral presentation only. Poster and print-only presentations are not options.
To appear in the program, all invited or contributed abstracts must be submitted electronically to the Lunar and Planetary Institute via the electronic submission form http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/abstract_submission/?mtg=286 by 5:00 P.M. U.S. Central Time on Thursday, 12 November 2009. Abstracts should be limited to one page, including graphics, tables, and references, and MUST be submitted in PDF format. Please submit early to allow for possible technical problems or delays in transmission.
The program and abstracts will be available in electronic format and accessible via the meeting website by 28 December 2009. These files will be in PDF format. Authors should check the online program to find out when their abstract has been scheduled.
For additional information, please contact: Michael E. Summers, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA (E-mail: msummers@gmu.edu; Tel: (703) 993-3971; Fax: (703) 993-1269). (12/09)
Call for Papers
Great Lakes Atmospheric Science Symposium (GLASS), 17–18 April 2010, Oswego, NY
The Oswego State Student Chapter of the American Meteorological Society is hosting their first annual Great Lakes Atmospheric Science Symposium to be held the weekend of the 17–18 April 2010. In the past, the conference, formally the Lake Effect Conference (LEC), was designed to bring together researchers to discuss weather centered around the Great Lakes region. This year the Great Lakes Atmospheric Science Symposium (GLASS) is expanding the scope of interest to include various unique weather phenomena, in particular localized mesoscale weather influenced by local topography and climatology. We would also like to include research on other land-water interactions. The hope for this conference is to encourage more students and professionals to become interested in the field of research by hearing students and professionals share their discoveries. We also hope that research will spark new interest in various localized weather phenomena and that meteorological research will flourish through the ideas shared here.
This conference is intended for all those interested in the field of meteorology and is not limited to simply localized mesoscale weather. Registration and all other information are available at http://www.oswego.edu/newsweather/weather/conference/. Registration will open 28 January 2010 and will close 3 April 2010. Anyone interested in presenting their research orally or with a poster should submit an abstract to OSSCAMS@oswego.edu no later than 3 April 2010. Please feel free to forward this to anyone interested. Also, please contact club president Stephanie Magin at magin@oswego.edu with any questions. (2/10)
Announcement
Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE2010), 23–27 May 2010, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The Fifth International Symposium on Computational Wind Engineering (CWE2010) will be held 23–27 May 2010 in Chapel Hill North Carolina. The International Association for Wind Engineering co-convenes this Computational Wind Engineering (CWE) symposium every four years in rotation with one of its three global regional organizations. The American Association for Wind Engineering will co-convene the 2010 event. The American Meteorological Society Committees on Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution and Boundary Layers and Turbulence are collaborating on meteorological aspects of the symposium. Announcements, submission instructions, program, registration, hotel accommodations, and general related information are posted on the symposium website (www.cwe2010.org).
Posters as well as oral presentations on all computational wind engineering topics are invited. "Wind engineering is best defined as the rational treatment of interactions between wind in the atmospheric boundary layer and man and his works on the surface of Earth." - Dr. Jack Cermak. CWE2010 will provide a platform for discussing and exchanging the latest information associated with the application of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations to wind engineering problems and the tremendous advances in CFD technology in the past several years. Each international symposium on CWE reflects the significant scientific advances in the rapidly developing computational wind engineering sciences linked to advances in high performance computing hardware and software. CWE does not necessarily mean CFD, but can include various techniques using computers. Presentations with critical full-scale data and wind tunnel data needed to support advancing CWE are also invited. Please submit your abstract electronically via the symposium website (www.cwe2010.org) by 1 October 2009. Full papers (including supporting electronic applications) must be submitted electronically by 1 March 2010 in order to be included on the symposium USB flash drive.
The theme and a special topic session for CWE2010 are entitled “CWE applications for homeland/societal security including natural and human-caused hazards and disasters.” Additional special topic sessions entitled “Development, validation, and application of atmospheric boundary layer models and turbulence models for CWE” and “Coupling Computational Wind Engineering and Mesoscale Meteorological Models” are being planned in collaboration with the AMS Committees on Meteorological Aspects of Air Pollution and Boundary Layers and Turbulence. There are many emerging issues for computational wind engineering, not only in wind hazard mitigation, but also in natural/cross ventilation and wind energy phenomena to preserve natural resources and to realize a sustainable society. Presentations on detailed simulations of wind, pollutant dispersion, and extreme meteorological phenomena should be of sufficiently fine scale to resolve complex terrain, roadways, and/or built objects. Presentations on hurricanes, tornadoes, downdrafts and other meteorological phenomena should include their interaction with resolved built environments.
For further information please contact the symposium chairperson Alan Huber, Institute for the Environment, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 27599-6116 (email: chairman@cwe2010.org or alan.huber@unc.edu ). (6/09)
Announcement
10th National Severe Weather Workshop, 4–6 March 2010, Norman, OK
A gathering of emergency managers, weather enthusiasts, teachers, students, meteorologists, and broadcasters will present and discuss "A Decade of Sharing Information about Weather Emergencies, Communications, and Response ". Topic areas that will be covered during the next National Severe Weather Workshop in Norman include: Hazardous weather mitigation strategies; Continuity of operations (business and government sectors); Forecast verification measures and meanings; Event alerting technologies and issues; National Weather Service products, services, and outreach; Latest in severe storm research and modeling; Weather radar updates and technology; Relating uncertainty and confidence information to decision makers; EF-Scale tornado rating updates and new tools for damage surveys; and Vendor - Weather Technology Expo.
Information, registration, and vendor details will be available at the National Severe Weather Workshop Website: http://www.norman.noaa.gov/nsww/ (12/09)
Call for Papers
2010 Light and Color Conference, 16–20 June 2010, St. Mary’s City, MD
The 10th International Conference on Light and Color in Nature will be held 16–20 June 2010 at the St. Mary's College of Maryland campus in St. Mary's City, Maryland.
The organizing committee for the conference is soliciting abstracts for talks at the conference. The topics addressed at the meeting include, but are not limited to, the following: rainbows; ice crystal halos; glories; coronas; iridescence; sky color; atmospheric visibility; refraction effects; contrast phenomena; noctilucent clouds; optics of lightning; auroras; colors created by absorption and scattering in water and air; color and light in water and on water surfaces; iridescence and colors in biology and geology; atmospheric optics in history and archaeology; and computational techniques for calculating and rendering optical effects in the atmosphere and landscape.
Please submit a title and an abstract for your talk via email to Charles Adler (Chair, organizing committee), cladler@smcm.edu, by Friday, 19 March 2010 for inclusion in the conference. The committee will review all abstracts and notify authors of their acceptance. The size limit for the abstract is two pages (double spaced) including figures and images. File formats accepted are plain text, pdf, doc, and docx.
In conjunction with the conference, the St. Mary's College Boyden Art Gallery will be having a show of atmospheric optics photographs (broadly interpreted); photographs or other images of any of the optical phenomena listed above can be submitted to the conference. The art show will run from June–September, 2010; all atmospheric optics artwork submitted will be included in the show in one of two forms: 1) A jury panel will select the best or most interesting pieces for printing and display in the Gallery; 2) All other submissions will be displayed via a projector cycling images on a wall in the Gallery. Up to 10 submissions can be made via 72 DPI JPEG images with an 800 pixel width attached to an email to cladler@smcm.edu or via a CD disk mailed to the Boyden Gallery (address below). Please identify each work with a title, date, location, photographer, and a brief description of the image. The date for digital submissions is 30 November 2009. Information concerning the printing of images selected by the jury will be sent out at a later date.
Submit CD's to: Boyden Art Gallery, St. Mary's College, 18952 E. Fisher Rd., St. Mary's City, MD 20686 (USA) (12/09)
Call for Papers
Urban Environmental Pollution, Overcoming Obstacles to Sustainability and Quality of Life, 20–23 June 2010, Boston, MA
UEP 2010 is organized and sponsored by Elsevier and the journal Environmental Pollution and will provide a forum for knowledge exchange and discussion regarding the latest information about the unique nature of urban environments, assessment of urban environmental pollutants and their effects, and measures that can be taken to overcome obstacles to sustainability, ecological integrity and life quality.
Abstracts for oral and poster presentation are invited by 1 February 2010 on the following topics: Nature of urban environments; Air pollutants, heat islands, climate change; Soil and water pollution, storm water retention; and Ecology, biodiversity, invasive species.
For additional information, please reference the meeting Web site at: www.uep2010.com. (11/09)
Call for Papers
18th International Conference on the Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, 21–23 June 2010, Kos, Greece
The 18th International Conference on the Modelling, Monitoring and Management of Air Pollution, sponsored by the Wessex Institute of Technology, will be held 21–23 June 2010 at the Kipriotis Panorama Hotel in Kos, Greece.
Air Pollution is one of the most challenging problems facing the international community: it is widespread and growing in importance and has clear and known impacts on health and the environment. The human need for transport, manufactured goods and services brings with it impacts on the atmospheric environment at scales from the local to the global. The rate of development of the global economy brings new pressures and the willingness of governments to regulate air pollution is often balanced by concerns over the economic impact of such regulation. Science is the key to identifying the nature and scale of air pollution impacts and is essential in the formulation of policies for regulatory decision making. Continuous improvements in our knowledge of the fundamental science of air pollution and its application are necessary if we are to predict, assess and mitigate the air pollution implications to local, regional, national and international economic systems.
The goal of this conference is to bring together researchers who are active in the study of air contaminants and to exchange information through the presentation and discussion of papers dealing with the wide variety of topics listed opposite. Case study papers are encouraged as well as papers of a more theoretical nature, dealing with advanced mathematical and computational methods.
Papers are invited on the following topics and others falling within the scope of the meeting: air pollution modeling, air quality management, emission studies, monitoring and measuring, aerosols and particles, atmospheric chemistry, indoor air pollution, policy studies, climate change and air pollution, regional and global studies, exposure and health effects, rural pollution studies, air pollution effects on ecosystems, air pollution mitigation, and case studies.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted as soon as possible. We strongly encourage the submission of abstracts online via the conference Web site: www.wessex.ac.uk/air2010.
Abstracts should clearly state the purpose, results and conclusions of the work to be described in the final paper. Final acceptance will be based on the full-length paper, which if accepted for publication, must be presented at the conference. To be fair to all participants, each registered delegate will only be able to submit one paper.
Delegates attending Air Pollution 2010 will be invited to submit an expanded version of their paper for publication in the International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning, associated with the Wessex Institute of Technology.
For more information please visit the conference Web site or contact Conference Secretariat Claire Shiell, Wessex Institute of Technology, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, SO40 7AA, United Kingdom (tel: + 44 (0) 238 029 3223; fax: + 44 (0) 238 029 2853; e-mail: cshiell@wessex.ac.uk). (11/09)
Call for Papers
10th International Precipitation Conference, 23–25 June 2010, Coimbra, Portugal
Over the years, the International Precipitation Conference has stimulated interdisciplinary exchange of ideas and expertise towards improving our understanding of precipitation processes, their observations, estimation, modelling and prediction. Beginning with the first conference held in 1986 in Caracas, Venezuela, the series has been an important forum that brings together meteorologists, hydrologists, statisticians, and engineers whose research includes interest in precipitation. Results presented and discussed at the nine previous meetings have been published in numerous refereed journal articles and often widely cited. The series has promoted the importance of such fundamental aspects of precipitation processes as variability across scales in space and time, strong nonlinearity of the involved dynamical process, and the inherent uncertainty involved in precipitation observations and forecasts.
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 a special theme: "Space time precipitation from urban scale to global change". Also, being an anniversary event, we hope the conference will provide an opportunity for the precipitation research community to reflect on the past accomplishments and the future needs.
The conference will be organized in the following topical sessions: Precipitation; ediction on scales ranging from real-time to climate; Extreme precipitation events: physics and statistics based description; Trends in precipitation time-series; Instrumentation and novel precipitation observing systems; Variability of precipitation over wide range of space-time scales; Hydrologic and water resources needs: research and engineering applications; and Research needs and challenges.
Participants who wish to contribute to the conference (oral and posters) are invited to submit an abstract in English (max. 500 words) before 1 March 2010. Abstract forms will be available at the conference website: http://www.ci.uc.pt/imar/ipc10/.
For additional information, you may e-mail ipc10@dec.uc.pt or reference the Conference homepage: http://www.ci.uc.pt/imar/ipc10/ (01/10)
Call for Papers
11th International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, 12–16 July 2010, Edinburgh, Scotland
11IMSC will be the latest in a series of meetings that have been held at roughly three year intervals and are designed to promote good statistical practice in the atmospheric and climate sciences and in maintaining and enhancing the lines of communication between the atmospheric and statistical science communities. The key themes for this IMSC will include analysis techniques for multi-model ensembles of climate simulations, understanding recent climate change and predicting the near-term future, extreme events, predictions of climate change relevant for impacts, reconstructing and understanding climate change over the Holocene, and broadly statistical methods for the analysis of climate data. Contributions are solicited for all of these areas, and in statistical climatology more generally, with a deadline for early abstract submission of 31 January 2010.
For additional information, please contact the program chairperson, Prof. Gabriele Hegerl (e-mail: Gabi.Hegerl@ed.ac.uk) or consult the meeting web page at http://cccma.seos.uvic.ca/imsc/11imsc.shtml. (2/10)
Call for Papers
Fifth International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, 25–30 July 2010, Münster, Germany
The scope of this conference is to bring together people who are interested in any aspect of fog and dew. Both advanced scientific findings and fog collection projects will find a broad audience. Participants will include representatives from universities, the private sector, government and international agencies, and educational organizations.
This conference series was started in 1998 in Vancouver, Canada, then visited St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada (2001), Cape Town, South Africa (2004), La Serena, Chile (2007) and will be a guest in Europe for the first time in 2010. The conference is a unique melting pot for scientists and applied users of fog and dew collection techniques from all continents. Many personal contacts arose from past conferences, and several issues of scientific publications as well.
The city of Münster (approx. 275,000 inhabitants) in NW Germany received the LivCom Award 2004 of the most livable city in its size class, and the European Energy Award in Gold. It hosts a large university, and is neighbor of "Essen (on behalf of the Ruhr Area)", the European Capital of Culture 2010.
Deadline for early bird abstracts is 1 December 2009, and for regular abstracts, 31 March 2010.
If you would like to know more about this International event, please visit the web site http://www.fogconference.org/. (12/09)
Call for Papers
Sixth European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology (ERAD2010), 6–10 September 2010, Sibiu, Romania
The Sixth European Conference on Radar in meteorology and Hydrology will be held 6–10 September, in Sibiu, Romania. Preliminary programes, registration and general information will be posted on the conference site (www.ERAD2010.org). The general purpose of this conference is to promote exchanges between research and operational experts in the field of the meteorological and hydrological applications of weather radar in Europe. This edition continues the tradition of ERAD to encourage young researchers participation through rewards and prizes.
Papers are invited on the following or similar topics: advances in meteorological radar technology and signal processing, radar polarimetry, X-band radars, satellite radar measurements and hydro-meteorological applications, airborne radar measurements and studies, radar networks and synergy with other observational systems; international data exchange, BALTRAD, OPERA, quality of radar data and products, microphysics of clouds and precipitation, quantitative precipitation estimation, hydrological studies employing radar, operational end-to-end processing systems and forecast demonstration activities, mesoscale meteorology and severe weather, nowcasting and assimilation in forecasting the next 6 hours, history of (European) radar, radar training projects.
Short abstracts submission deadline is 1 March 2010 and extended abstracts deadline is 1 July 2010.
For additional information please contact the program chairperson, Aurora Bell (e-mail: aurora.bell@meteoromania.ro) (12/09)
Call for Papers
35th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop, 4–7 October 2010, Raleigh, North Carolina
NOAA's 35th Climate Diagnostics and Prediction Workshop will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, on 4–7 October 2010. The workshop will be hosted by the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites (CICS) and North Carolina State University; and co-sponsored by the Climate Prediction Center (CPC) of the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and National Climatic Data Center (NCDC). The American Meteorological Society is a cooperating sponsor.
The workshop will address the status and prospects for advancing climate monitoring, assessment, and prediction, with emphasis in three major themes:
1) Use of climate data record including satellite data, climatologies for improving climate predictions/predictability, and understanding and attribution of climate variability and its impacts;
2) Improving climate services through development and delivery of climate models, applications, and products in support of adaptation strategies;
3) Improving coastal monitoring and prediction in support of assessing climate impacts in the coastal zone.
The workshop will feature daytime oral presentations, invited speakers, and panel discussions with a poster session event on one evening.
A Web site for the workshop information and abstract submission will be linked through:
http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/outreach/CDPW35.shtml. To submit an abstract, please go to the abstract submission panel and select a session to fill an abstract form. If you have a problem to do so, please send the required information on the web form as an attachment via email to Jon.Gottschalck@noaa.gov or Fiona.Horsfall@noaa.gov. The abstract deadline is 2 JULY 2010. (2/10)
Call for Papers
Hydrology Conference 2010—The Changing Physical and Social Environment: Hydrologic Impacts and Feedbacks, 11–13 October 2010, San Diego, CA
This major international conference will target the developing interdisciplinary science themes in the interface between hydrology and other scientific disciplines, including climate change, biology, chemistry and social sciences. These subjects are of particular relevance as population increases and a changing climate bring new pressures on hydrological systems around the world.
The Conference Program includes a Keynote Lecture and presentations from acclaimed invited speakers from around the world. The program will feature the following five interdisciplinary themes: Hydrology and climate change; Hydrology, bio-geochemistry and environmental management; Hydrology, health and improved socio-economic conditions; Hydrology, history and conflicts; and Hydrology: past, present and future developments
Contributions are solicited in all aspects of these themes with emphasis on interdisciplinary studies that support the development of new science hypotheses and innovative management applications. Abstracts for oral and poster presentation should be submitted online by 15 March 2010, at www.hydrologyconference.com.
The Hydrology Conference 2010 (The Changing Physical and Social Environment: Hydrologic Impacts and Feedbacks) is organized by Elsevier and is supported by UNESCO and Elsevier’s Journal of Hydrology.
For additional information, please send an e-mail to: hydrologyconference@elsevier.com or reference the conference Web site at: www.hydrologyconference.com. (01/10)
Call for Papers
National Flood Workshop, 24–26 October 2010, Houston, Texas
The National Flood Workshop is organized by Weather Research Center (a private, non-profit educational and research center based in Houston, Texas) and its partners. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together various agencies, emergency managers, academia, and professionals from across the nation to encourage dialogue on the various aspects of flooding. This includes the meteorological and hydrological conditions before, during, and after flood events, technological advancements being made in remote data acquisition, flood modeling, and regulations and requirements in flood mitigation and floodplain management. The goal is to establish an annual national workshop to discuss flooding topics, provide education and training, and most importantly to help reduce loss of life and property damage from floods.
Track 1: Meteorology and Hydrology: Flood Event Case Studies, Flood Forecasting, Flood Monitoring Systems (ALERT, USGS), Flooding Basics, Media, Public Warning, Awareness, & Education, and Storm Surge Events. Track 2: Modeling and Inundation, Data Assessment, Digital Elevation Models, GIS, Rainfall Predictive Models, and Hydrology and Hydraulic Models. Track 3: Floodplain Management, Flood Impacts, Infrastructure, Insurance and Loss Mitigation, Mitigation: Legal Issues - Post Disaster, Response and Recovery, and Watershed Management. Track 4: Environmental Impacts, Hazards, Land Use and Development Impacts, and Water Quality. OTHER TOPICS: Preparing for Future Floods and Global Events.
Abstracts are being sought for oral presentations and posters covering a wide range of topics. To be considered for placement in the program, please submit your abstract to wrc@wxresearch.org or upload at http://www.wxresearch.com/nfw/call.html on or before 28 April 2010. All conference presenters are required to pay the appropriate conference registration fee. For abstract submission details or other information, please reference the conference Website at: http://www.nationalfloodworkshop.net. (2/10)
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