This site documents the status of MAP and MAP D-PHASE as of 28.4.2009, the publication date of the report on the WWRP Forecast Demonstration Project D-PHASE entitled "MAP D-PHASE: Demonstrating forecast capabilities for flood events in the Alpine region". Updated information on D-PHASE can be obtained from www.meteoschweiz.admin.ch/web/en/research/current_projects/forecast/dphase.html


News

* 2nd MAP D-PHASE Meeting, Bologna, Italy 19-22 May 2008 / December, 2007.
* The Visualisation Platform is online at http://www.d-phase.info
* New Implementation Plan available (version 3.1) / June, 2007.
* User Guide for atmospheric modellers (22.03.2007) / April, 2007.
* User Guide for hydrological modellers (07.06.2007) / June, 2007.
* General information for Data Archive (22.05.2007) / June, 2007.
* Proceedings of the MAP D-PHASE Meeting, 6-8 November 2006, Vienna / November, 2006.
* Minutes of Working Group chair meetings available / October, 2006.
* MAP D-PHASE Meeting, Programme, 6-8 November 2006, Vienna / October, 2006.
* Second announcement for MAP D-PHASE Meeting, 6-8 November 2006, Vienna / June, 2006.
* First announcement for MAP D-PHASE Meeting, 6-8 November 2006, Vienna / May, 2006.
* ICAM2005 website migrated from meteo.hr/ICAM2005/ to the MAP homepage / March, 2006.
* Minimal redesign of MAP web-pages to include MAP D-PHASE specific information / February, 2006.
* Newsletter #20 / December, 2005.
* The MDC moved from IACETH to MeteoSwiss. / July, 2005.
* The DAQUAMAP procedure has been repeated. / May, 2005.
* The humidity corrections of the radiosounding data are now available / February, 2005.
* Obituary Tomaz Vrhovec PDF-Document / January, 2005.
* Newsletter #19 / September, 2004.
* To all data providers / July, 2004.
* Best of video clips from the three main Foehn events during SOP / April, 2004.
* Newsletter #18 / December, 2003.
* High resolution SOP radiosounding data from Barcelona / November, 2003.
* Correction of SOP temperature data from Veneto / July, 2003.
* The DAQUAMAP-Quality Interface has now been completed / June, 2003.
* ICAM/MAP 2003 The PowerPoint presentations are now online / June, 2003.
* MAP Meeting 2003 and International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM), May 19-23, 2003 in Brig. For more information / March, 2003.
* NCAR-Electra flights video tapes are now available at the MDC. For more information / January, 2003.
* New version of high resolution radiosounding data from France, with quality check level 1 (7145,7180,7481,7645,7761) / December, 2002.
* Revised hourly surface data from Piedmont (Settore Meteoidrografico CSI-Regione Piemonte) replaced: DB or FTP server / December, 2002.
* Release 3 of M‰t‰o-France SOP surface data / December, 2002.
* Revised surface data from Afu GR (Environmental Office of Canton Graubuenden) replaced: DB or FTP server / December, 2002.
* Newsletter 17 / November, 2002.
* PowerPoint presentations from MAP Societal Impact Workshop / November, 2002.
* Data (water vapour and backscatter ratio) from DIAL of DLR (Deutsches Zentrum f’r Luft- und Raumfahrt) / October, 2002.
* Daily precipitation data 06-06 UTC from HZB (Hydrologisches Zentralbuero, Vienna) / October, 2002.
* GOP Interface / October, 2002.
* Version 2 of Radiosonde Data from Rhine Valley (6831, 6833) / August, 2002.
* Correction of the readme file of Sodar Luzisteig / August, 2002.
* ITAMAP 2.0 surface data: errors in the wind speed unit, knots or km/h instead of m/s / July, 2002.
* Correction of surface data of 75023 Malans2 / July, 2002.
* Update of names of stations from CHMI (Czech Hydrometeorological Service) and M‰t‰o-France / July, 2002.
* Missing NCAR dropsonde data arrived / July, 2002.
* SOP Alpine Precipitation Analysis V2.0 / July, 2002.
* MAP Mailing list. Subscribe now! / July, 2002.
* Disdrometer data from DLR and University of Washington available / July, 2002.
* Images of UNBC Sodar Data in Sachsenklemme / May, 2002.
* Update of Riviera Data (from permanent sites) / May, 2002.
* Newsletter #16 / April, 2002.
* New version of VERA data (Vienna Enhanced Analysis, from IMGW) / March, 2002.
* FACT-Homepage / March, 2002.
* Submission to the QJ Special Issue on MAP-SOP results now closed
The submission of papers to the Special Issue of the Quarterly Journal on MAP results is now closed.
We have received 36 papers representing all aspects of MAP activities. Many thanks to all contributors.
Peer review is now under progress.
Publication of the Special Issue is targeted at the very beginning of 2003.
The Editors, Philippe Bougeault, Bob Houze, Rich Rotunno, Hans Volkert.
* Workshop on quality control of meteorological data in MAP, February 21-22, 2002 / January, 2002
* DAQUAMAP: results based on GTS stations (chapter 6; password required) / January, 2002.
* SITEMAP / December, 2001.
* Toce Valley: DICBS Precipitation Data in Database / December 2001.
* ITAMAP2.0: Italian non-GTS Surface Data Set, hourly data of version 2.0 in DB / December, 2001.
* Monte Lema radar products: data set completed / November, 2001.
* Precipitation data of the Toce Valley, from DICBS / November, 2001.
* Revised Version of SOP SCIDAR Data (MAP-FORM) / October, 2001.
* SOP Surface data Graub’nden AFUGR in Database / October, 2001.
* SOP Surface data Thurgau in Database / October, 2001.
* Seasons 1992-1998 Precipitation and Temperature Data / Austria, approx. 800 Stations / September, 2001.
* Workshop on quality control of meteorological data in MAP / August, 2001.
* More NOAA P-3 Flight Data / August, 2001.
* MAP-Riviera Project Data / July, 2001.
* Data from Eisack Valley (Group Jackson, UNBC) / July, 2001.
* Newsletter NL#15 / July, 2001.
* Radiosounding data 1999 from the outer domain / July, 2001.
* Brenner SOP Surface Data (50 Stations) in Database / June, 2001.
* Newsletter #15 / May, 2001.
* DLR Dornier Flight Data / May, 2001.
* Daily Precipitation from the German Weather Service (DWD) in DB / May, 2001.
* Newsletter #14 / April, 2001.
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