December 12 / 13, 1996
CIG Meeting
April 18, 1997
Working Group Numerical Experimentation
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
June 9 / 10, 1997
Committee Meetings (CIG, SSC, IGP)
Italy
June 11-13, 1997
MAP Meeting `97
Italy
April 14-17, 1997
INM-WMO International Symposium on Cyclones and Hazardous Weather
in the Mediterranian
Palma de Mallorca, Spain
The Spanish Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia and the World Meteorological Organisation have convoqued an International Symposium on the Cyclones and Hazardous Weather in the Mediterranean, to be celebrated in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, from the 14 to the 17 of April 1997.
Some of the most significant MAP objectives are inluded within the topics of the Symposium. The influence of the Alps within the Mediterranean weather is crucial and also the influence of the Mediterranean sea on the Alpine region is extremely important, specially when refering to heavy rain in the Alps and its vicinity.
A session on MAP-related numerical experimentation has been foreseen within the Symposium, as well as a meeting of the MAP Numerical Experimentation Working Group.
Therefore, the MAP community is strongly invited to participate in the INM/WMO International Symposium. The regular deadline for abstract submission is 30 September 1996, but an extension until 30 November is foreseen. Nevertheless, the experts are strongly requested to communicate their intention to participate as soon as possible to the Symposium Local Commitee:
Symposium Palma 97
Centro Meteorologico de Baleares
Muelle de Poniente s/n (Portopi)
E-0707 Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Fax: 34-71-404626
E-mail: jansa@inm.es
Note: Information about the Symposium is included in the MAP WEB
pages.
The Symposium invites papers about how to quantify convective processes from the earths surface up into the free atmosphere. This includes boundary layer convection and deep convection alike and concerns the problem of scale interaction in the vertical, icluding the problem to what extent convective processes are forced or modified by orography. Is there an optimum measure of the potential for, and the actual intensity of, convection (e.g. thunder frequency, thermodynamic stability indices, OLR, eddy flux)? Reports on observational strategies (radar, satellite, sferics location systems, enhanced automatic networks), diagnostic techniques (particularly those which make use of routine meteorological observations) and numerical methods (e.g. cloud resolving models) to identify convective activity might be considered. Emphasis should be less on parameterization/forecast but more on observational/diagnostic aspects, in order to improve our understanding of physics of atmospheric convection.
Contributions within the frame of the forthcoming MAP (Mesoscale Alpine Programme) are especially welcome.
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is december 15.
This Symposium aims at providing a forum for the discussion of
the structure and development of weather systems on a broad range
of scales. Papers on observational, theoretical and numerical
modelling aspects are invited. Sessions with special interest
for MAP:
B. Mesoscale and convective dynamics
D. Mesoscale weather analysis and forecasting
Deadline for submission of abstracts is December 2.
July 28- August 1, 1997
AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology
Vancouver, Canada
