Ongoing Activities and Future Events

Activities within MAP

February 27 / 28, 1997,
Working Group of Forecasters
Innsbruck, Austria

April 18, 1997
Working Group Numerical Experimentation
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

May 6 / 7, 1997
CIG Meeting
Offenbach / Main, Germany

June 9 / 10, 1997
Committee Meetings (CIG, SSC, IGP)
Belgirate, Italy

June 11-13, 1997
MAP Meeting '97
Belgirate (Lago Maggiore), Italy

The MAP meeting 1997 will be held in Belgirate, a nice village located on the western coast of Lago Maggiore, on June 11-13, 1997. Considering the enthusiastic participation in the last meetings, the duration has been extended to three days. This will provide more time for presentation and discussion of MAP activities and research results on orographically influenced precipitation, numerical weather prediction in mountainous terrain, foehn, gravity waves, mesoscale Alpine climatology, boundary layer over complex terrain and other MAP related topics.

The strict deadline for receipt of Abstract is April 7, 1997. Abstracts (max. one page) of short presentations or poster displays should be sent to:

MAP MEETING 1997, ISAO CNR, Via Gobetti, 101, I-40129 Bologna (Italy)
e-mail: map@atmosphere.isao.bo.cnr.it
fax: +39 51 6399658

The second announcement, containing accomodation and registration details, will soon be distributed and made available on the MAP WEB home page.

Future events related to MAP

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.

The deadline for abstract submission has passed. If you intend to participate, please contact:

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.

April 21-25, 1997
EGS-22nd General Assembly
Symposium OA13
on Atmospheric Convection
(Conveners: M.Hantel, J.L. Redelsperger,
E. Schaller, R. Steinacker)
Vienna, Austria

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.

The deadline for submission of abstracts has passed.

May 12-16, 1997
COST-76 Profiler Workshop
Engelberg, Switzerland

Within the framework of the COST-76 Action îDevelopment of VHF/UHF windprofilers and vertical sounders for use in European observing systems”, a workshop will be held in Engelberg in Central Switzerland. The topics to be treated at the workshop are:

1. Experience with European Wind Profiles

2. Operational Experience with Wind Profiles Worldwide

3. Development in Wind Profiler Technology

4. Complementary Remote-Sensing and in-situ Sounding Systems

5. Quality Evaluation and Intercomparisons

6. Case Studies of Application in Operations and Research

7. Future Trends and Requirements in Upper-Air Observation Systems

All interested colleagues are invited to attend the workshop. Deadline for registration is March 10, 1997. Further information can be obtained from:

Profiler Workshop, Atmospheric Science
ETH Hoenggerberg, CH-8093 Zurich
Fax: +41 1 633 1058
e-mail: pws@iac.umnw.ethz.ch

July 1-9, 1997
IAMAS 1997 Assembly
Symposium IM2 Structure and evolution of weather systems
(Convener: Roger Smith)
Melbourne, Australia

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
The deadline for submission of abstracts has passed.

1998
AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology

The AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology which was listed in the previous MAP Newsletter has been postponed to 1998 without specific dates. It will be organized by Teddie Keller (tkeller@ncar.ucar.edu).