October 16/17, 1997
HERA meeting
Freising, Germany
October 20-22, 1997
National US MAP planning meeting
Boulder, Colorado
November 21, 1997
IGP Meeting
Zurich, Switzerland
November 24/25, 1997
CIG Meeting
Innsbruck, Austria
January 26/27, 1998
Workshop on data quality control
and monitoring for MAP
Vienna, Austria
The Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) provides the unique opportunity of using probably the worlds most dense meteororological observation system for the analysis of mesoscale phenomena and the testing of model predictions. A recent inventory shows that more than 10000 stations are being operated in an area extending from 2 to 19 deg east and 42 to 50 deg north. Collecting the data from these stations is a challenging and tedious work since the stations are operated by several dozens of institutions. Because of the big variety of station operators also some variation in measuring, processing and data quality controlling procedures is expected. People doing analyses and model testing with atmosperic data rely on their colleagues from the observational branch to manipulate mesurements into a ready-for-use form. Questions like unifing different data formats are treated by the MAP data center. But what about data quality control? The MAP design proposal addresses this issue under the chapter Observational Strategy: Operationally available networks and stations form the backbone of the observing system. These networks will be improved somewhat, for instance by increasing the quality of operational observations.... This workshop shall provide plenty of wide-ranging discussions of quality control (QC) issues. The prime goal is to share and probably create QC solutions that we can combine into a state-of-the-art QC and quality monitoring system for dense mesoscale networks in complex topography. During this workshop we intend to build the foundation for a cooperation that will likely involve participation well past this initial event.
The workshop will be held at the University of Vienna, Institute for Meteorology and Geophysics. It is organized by Prof. Reinhold Steinacker and Christian HŠberli. The workshop is sponsored by the project MAP-NWS. A small conference fee of ATS 200.- will be collected at registration. If you need assistance for hotel reservation, please contact the workshop office. The workshop programme will be sent to the participants in December 1997.
Registration not later than November 21, 1997.
Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik
Workshop QCMAP
Silbergasse 45/7
A-1190 Wien fax: +43 1 369 81 271
Prof. R. Steinacker
(reinhold.steinacker@univie.ac.at)
Christian Häberli
(christian.haeberli@univie.ac.at)
February, 1998
International US planning meeting for MAP
Boulder, Colorado
June 15-19, 1998
MAP Meeting '98
French Alps, France
October 25-30, 1998
MAP SOP planning meeting
Ascona, Switzerland
1998
AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology
The AMS Conference on Mountain Meteorology which had been listed in the previous MAP Newsletter was postponed to 1998 without specific dates. It will be organized by Teddie Keller (tkeller@ncar.ucar.edu).