TECO-2010 Programme
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       TECO-2010
      - WMO Technical Conference on  Observing Technologies and Systems in Support of  | 
  
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| List of registered participants | 
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       Monday - 30 August 2010  | 
  
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       OPENING  | 
    
       
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       Introductory Presentation  | 
    
       CALPINI Bertrand  | 
  
 Introduction to WMO Priority activities   | 
    ZHANG Wenjian (WMO) | 
  
| Lectures1 | 
| SESSION
      1 - 
          SURFACE OBSERVING TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS Co-chairs: Jitze Van der Meulen and Mike Molineux  | 
  
Keynote 1  | 
    How do we maintain sustainable high quality climate observation networks that can answer the question: How has the climate changed over the past 50 years? [pdf] |  BAKER Bruce (U.S.A.)  | 
  
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     1(1)  | 
    REPRESENTATIVENESS EVALUATION OF NATIONAL CLIMATE REFERENCE OBSERVING NETWORK OF CHINA [pdf] | GUO Jianxia (CHINA) | 
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     1(2)  | 
    RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND PLANS IN FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE OBSERVATION SERVICES BY 2015 [doc]  | 
    LEMINEN Keijo (FINLAND)  | 
  
1(3)  | 
    TOTAL OZONE MONITORING BY GROUND BASED INSTRUMENTS AS PART OF GAW [pdf]  | 
    STAEHELIN Johannes (SWITZERLAND)  | 
  
Future challenges for CIMO, illustrated with examples of upper-air systems intercomparisons and testbeds  | 
    NASH John (CIMO)  | 
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 Keynote 2         | 
    NITU Rodica (CANADA)  | 
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1(4)  | 
    INMET EXPERIENCE IN DEPLOYING ITS NETWORK OF AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS SURFACE [pdf]  | 
    RODRIGUES Jorge Emilio (BRAZIL)  | 
  
1(5)  | 
    DEVELOPMENT AND CHALLENGES IN SWISSMETNET, THE NEW SWISS METEOROLOGICAL NETWORK [doc]  | 
    ROULET Yves-Alain (SWITZERLAND)  | 
  
1(6)  | 
    NOUNI Nabil (MOROCCO)  | 
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1(7)  | 
    WAUBEN Wiel (NETHERLANDS)  | 
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WMO VOLUNTARY COOPERATION PROGRAMME AND TECHNICAL COOPERATION PRORAMME  | 
    POWER Mary (WMO)  | 
  
| Lectures2 | 
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       Tuesday - 31 August 2010  | 
  
| Lectures3 | 
| SESSION
      3 - 
      INSTRUMENTS COMPARISONS AND TESTBEDS EXPERIMENTS  Co-chairs: Michel Leroy and Li Wei  | 
  
Keynote 1  | 
    The WMO field intercomparison of rainfall intensity in Vigna di Valle [pdf]  | 
    VUERICH Emanuele (ITALY)  | 
  
3(1)  | 
    THE NOAA/FAA/NCAR WINTER PRECIPITATION TEST BED:  | 
    RASMUSSEN Roy (U.S.A.)  | 
  
3(2)  | 
    INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE IMPROVEMENT OF AUTOMATED PRECIPITATION TYPE OBSERVATIONS AT KNMI [doc] [pdf]  | 
    DE HAIJ Marijn (THE NETHERLANDS)  | 
  
3(3)  | 
    IMPROVING RELIABILITY AND SENSITIVITY OF A LASER SNOW DEPTH GAUGE [doc]  | 
    LANZINGER Eckhard (GERMANY)  | 
  
3(4)  | 
    LACOMBE Muriel (FRANCE)  | 
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    METEOREX / COFFEE / TEA BREAK  | 
    
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Keynote 2  | 
    ILLINGWORTH Anthony (United Kingdom)  | 
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3(5)  | 
    THE PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF CHINESE GTS1 RADIOSONDE MEASUREMENTS [doc]  | 
    LI Wei (CHINA)  | 
  
3(6)  | 
    INITIAL RESULTS FROM THE WMO RADIOSONDE INTERCOMPARISON, YANGJIANG, CHINA JULY 2010 [doc]  | 
    NASH John (United Kingdom)  | 
  
3(7)  | 
    RESULTS FROM THE LINDENBERG UPPER-AIR METHOD INTERCOMPARISON (LUAMI) [doc]  | 
    IMMLER Franz (GERMANY)  | 
  
| Lectures4 | 
| Wednesday - 1 September 2010 | 
| SESSION
      4 - TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, CAPACITY BUILDING  IN SUPPORT OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES  Chair: Mario Jorge Garcia  | 
  
Keynote  | 
    MAGEZI Stephan A.K (UGANDA)  | 
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4(1)  | 
    WIGOS DEMONSTRATION PROJECT OF MOROCCO: GOALS, METHODOLOY AND PROGRESS STATEMENT [pdf]  | 
    MERROUCHI Rabia (MOROCCO)  | 
  
4(2)  | 
    CAPACITY BUILDING AT THE NATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE: TRAINING PERSONNEL TO APPLY QUALITY CONTROL TOOLS [doc] [pdf]  | 
    ARAYA LOPEZ Jose Luis (COSTA-RICA)  | 
  
4(3)  | 
    OKULAJA Olatokunbo (NIGERIA)  | 
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4(4)  | 
    CALIBRATION CAPABILITIES OF NMHSs IN THE SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE [pdf]  | 
    GROSELJ Drago (SLOVENIA)  | 
  
| Lectures5 | 
| SESSION
      5 - STANDARDS AND QUALITY OF OBSERVING SYSTEMS Chair: Eckhard Lanzinger  | 
  
Keynote  | 
    Real-time performance monitoring of observing networks [doc]  | 
    CHONG Pei (CHINA)  | 
  
5(1)  | 
    SITES CLASSIFICATION [doc]  | 
    LEROY Michel (FRANCE)  | 
  
5(2)  | 
    METSERVICE NEW ZEALAND NETWORK ADVANCES TO MEET EVOLVING DEMANDS ON WEATHER DATA [pdf]  | 
    HARTLEY Bruce  | 
  
5(3)  | 
    JOFFRE Sylvain (FINLAND)  | 
  
| RoundTable | 
SESSION 6 - ROUND TABLE Chair: Dr Bertrand Calpini, TECO president  | 
  
| ROUND TABLE | 
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       6(1)  | 
    Summary -
      Session 1 by Session co-chairs: Jitze Van der Meulen and Mike Molineux  | 
  
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       6(2)  | 
    Summary -
      Session 2 by Session co-chairs: Heng Zhou and Arkadi Koldaev  | 
  
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       6(3)  | 
    Summary -
      Session 3 by Session co-chairs: Michel Leroy and Li Wei  | 
  
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       6(4)  | 
    Summary -
      Session 4 by Session chair: Mario Jorge Garcia  | 
  
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       6(5)  | 
    Summary -
      Session 5 by Session chair: Eckhard Lanzinger  | 
  
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             CLOSURE OF THE TECHNICAL CONFERENCE  | 
  
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       POSTERS  | 
    
| POSTERS | 
| POSTERS | SESSION 1 - SURFACE OBSERVING TECHNOLOGIES AND SYSTEMS | 
P1(1)  | 
    OPERATION OF LIVE, LOCAL WEATHER INFORMATION IN DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS FOR AGRICULTURE [pdf]  | 
    Mr. ANDERSON Jim (U.S.A.) | 
P1(2)  | 
    Mr ANJAN ANJIT (INDIA) et al. | |
P1(3)  | 
    PERFORMANCE OF AGRO AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS IN THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT  [pdf]  | 
    Mr ANJAN ANJIT (INDIA) et al. | 
P1(4)  | 
    Mr ANJAN ANJIT (INDIA) et al. | |
P1(5)  | 
    OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS OF WIND MEASUREMENTS WITH MODERN OBSERVING SYSTEMS AND AN INDIGENOUS HIGH WIND SPEED RECORDER DURING INDIAN NORTHEAST MONSOON 2009  [doc] [pdf]  | 
    Ms B. Amudha (INDIA) et al. | 
P1(6)  | 
    Mr BATAZE James (UGANDA) | |
P1(7)  | 
    WINTER ROAD THERMAL MEASUREMENTS FOR ROUTE BASED FORECASTING VALIDATION [doc]  | 
    Dr BINGHAM Suzy (United Kingdom) | 
P1(8)  | 
    IMPROVING SOIL MEASUREMENTS FOR BOUNDARY LAYER RESEARCH [pdf]  | 
    Dr BLOEMINK (NETHERLANDS) et al. | 
P1(9)  | 
    Mr CA Luis (G. BISSAU) et al. | |
P1(10)  | 
    WINDS AND WAVES CHARACTERIZATION TO EVALUATE HAZARDS IN EL SALVADOR COAST  | 
    Ing. CANJURA Saúl (EL SALVADOR) | 
P1(11)  | 
    Mr CHAN Kai-wing (HONK KONG, CHINA) et al. | |
P1(12)  | 
    TWO METHODS FOR ESTIMATING CLASS A-PAN EVAPORATION OVER EGYPT [doc]  | 
    Dr DAWOD Mohamed (EGYPT) et al. | 
P1(13)  | 
    Mr EILTS Micheal (U.S.A.) et al. | |
P1(14)  | 
    Dr GE Jinming (U.S.A.) et al. | |
P1(15)  | 
    MAINTENANCE SYSTEM  AND TECHNOLOGY USED IN FMI´S OBSERVATION NETWORK [ppt]  | 
    Mr GUSTAFSSON Jani (FINLAND) | 
P1(16)  | 
    Mr GUSTAFSSON Jani (FINLAND) et al. | |
P1(17)  | 
    Mr HEILIG Russell (U.S.A.) | |
P1(18)  | 
    R/V ARANDA -A MOVING PLATFORM FOR INTEGRATED MULTIDISCIPLINARY OBSERVATION SYSTEMS AND RESEARCH    [doc]  | 
    Ms HIETALA Riikka (FINLAND) et al. | 
P1(19)  | 
    Dr HIETANEN Jarmo (FINLAND) | |
P1(20)  | 
    Ms HIPPI Marjo (FINLAND) | |
P1(21)  | 
    INTENSIFICATION AND AUTOMATION OF MOROCCAN METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION NETWORK  | 
    Mr ISSARA SAMIR (MOROCCO) et al. | 
P1(22)  | 
    Mr. KITUUSA Mohammed (UGANDA) | |
P1(23)  | 
    Mr KUMARASINGHE NUWAN (SRI LANKA)  | 
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P1(24)  | 
    NEW ELECTRONIC THERMOMETERS FOR THE COOPERATIVE STATION NETWORK [pdf]  | 
    Mr LEROY Michel (FRANCE) et al. | 
P1(25)  | 
    PROSPECTS OF SOLAR RADIOMETRY ON ROSHYDROMET OBSERVATION NETWORK (RUSSIA) [doc]  | 
    Dr LUTSKO Lyudmila (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) et al.  | 
  
P1(26)  | 
    PROTOTYPE OF AUTOMATIC RAIN WATER SAMPLER ARWS_GSM SYS [doc]  | 
    Dr MASTURYONO (INDONESIA) et al. | 
P1(27)  | 
    Mr MERKUSHKIN Aleksandr (UZBEKISTAN) | |
P1(28)  | 
    Mr MKONNEN Yibrah (ETHIOPIA) | |
P1(29)  | 
    Mr MULINDWA Muminu Matovu (UGANDA) | |
P1(30)  | 
    AWS TECHNOLOGY AND ITS EFFECT ON SURFACE WEATHER OBSERVATION IN KENYA [ppt]  | 
    Mr MUNGAI Peter Nganga (KENYA) | 
P1(31)  | 
    Mr NOUNI NABIL (MOROCCO) et al. | |
P1(32)  | 
    THE OBSERVER (SOFT WARE) [docx]  | 
    Mr NYAMBE Silume (ZAMBIA) et al. | 
P1(33)  | 
    MODERNISATION OF SURFACE OBSERVATIONS NETWORK IN KENYA [pdf]  | 
    Mr OBONGO KENNEDY (KENYA) | 
P1(34)  | 
    MOBILE PHONES FOR THE VOLUNTEERS TO COLLECT (NEAR-REAL TIME) RAIN DATA [pdf]  | 
    Mr ODAN Yaseen (SUDAN) et al. | 
P1(35)  | 
    Mr PALISHCHUK ANATOLI (BELARUS) | |
P1(36)  | 
    ESTABLISHING A NETWORK OF 550 AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS AND 1350 AUTOMATIC RAIN GAUGE STATIONS ACROSS INDIA: SCHEME, SCOPE AND PRELIMINARY PERFORMANCE [doc] [pdf]  | 
    Mr RANALKAR Manish (INDIA)  | 
  
P1(37)  | 
    INMET EXPERIENCE IN DEPLOYING ITS NETWORK OF AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS SURFACE [pdf]  | 
    Mr RODRIGUES Jorge Emilio (BRAZIL) et al.  | 
  
P1(38)  | 
    STANDARD QUALITY OBSERVING SYSTEM ON OUR HYDROLOGICAL NETWORK [ppt] | 
    Mr TAPSALA ABAH (TCHAD) | 
P1(39)  | 
    Mr. USHER Jeremy (ITALY) | |
P1(40)  | 
    AN INTEGRATED METEOROLOGICAL SURFACE OBSERVATION SYSTEM [ppt]  | 
    MR WAN DAUD WAN MOHD NAZRI (MALAYSIA) et al. | 
P1(41)  | 
    METEO-FRANCE STATE OF THE GROUND SENSOR NETWORK: FIRST RESULTS IN SNOW HEIGHT MEASUREMENTS WITH SOLIA  | 
    Mr ZANGHI Fabrice (FRANCE) | 
| POSTERS | 
| POSTERS | SESSION 2 - UPPER-AIR AND REMOTE SENSING OBSERVING TECHNOLOGIES ANS SYSTEMS | 
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| POSTERS | SESSION 3 - INSTRUMENTS COMPARISONS AND TESTBEDS EXPERIMENTS | 
P3(1)  | 
    RIC-TSUKUBA (JAPAN) INTERCOMPARISON OF THERMOMETER SCREENS/SHIELDS IN 2009 - 2010 [pdf]  | 
    Mr AOSHIMA Tadayoshi (JAPAN) et al. | 
P3(2)  | 
    AUTOMATIC AND TRADITIONAL LEVEL WATER GAUGE INTERCOMPARISON IN CHAD [doc]  | 
    Mr BETOLOUM Beinde (CHAD) | 
P3(3)  | 
    Ms BOUSRI DJAZIA (ALGERIA) | |
P3(4)  | 
    CONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENT AND AUTOMATIC SENSOR COMPARISONS (ECUADOR) [doc]  | 
    Mr CARJAVAL Manuel (ECUADOR) | 
P3(5)  | 
    TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCY OF CAPACITIVE POLYMER HUMIDITY PROBES [doc]  | 
    Ms GRIESEL Simone (GERMANY) et al. | 
P3(6)  | 
    INDIRECT RADIOSONDE INTERCOMPARISON USING FIRST GUESS FIELDS [doc]  | 
    Mr HUANG Bingxun (CHINA) et al. | 
P3(7)  | 
    Dr. IVANOV Boris (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) et al.  | 
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P3(8)  | 
    Mr. KARKI Ramchandra (NEPAL) | |
P3(9)  | 
    Mr KATS Alexander (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) et al.  | 
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P3(10)  | 
    METROLOGICAL ASSURENCE OF O3, CO2, CH4 AND CO CONTROL IN ATMOSPHERE [pdf]  | 
    Dr KONOPELKO Leonid (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) et al.  | 
  
P3(11)  | 
    DEVELOPMENT OF A METROLOGICAL MODEL FOR MEASURING OF THE WATER SURFACE EVAPORATION  [pdf]  | 
    Mr  KOSHKIN  Sergey (RUSSIAN FEDERATION ) et al.  | 
  
P3(12)  | 
    OPTIMIZED SNOW PLATES AND SNOW GRIDS FOR AUTOMATC AND MANUAL SNOW DEPTH MEASUREMENTS [doc]  | 
    Dr. LANZINGER Eckhard (GERMANY) et al.  | 
  
P3(13)  | 
    Mr LUCAS Edmundo Wallace (BRAZIL) et al.  | 
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P3(14)  | 
    OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE WITH AUTOMATIC SNOW DEPTH SENSORS - 
    ULTRASONIC AND LASER PRINCIPLE [pdf]  | 
    Mr MAIR Martin (AUSTRIA) et al. | 
P3(15)  | 
    GHARDAIA INTERCOMPARISON: PRESENTATION AND DATA ANALYSIS USING MySql SERVER [ppt]  | 
    Mr MEZRED Mohamed (ALGERIA) | 
P3(16)  | 
    LIGHT PRECIPITATION VALIDATION EXPERIMENT AT HELSINKI TESTBED [pdf]  | 
    Dr MOISSEEV Dimitri (FINLAND) et al. | 
P3(17)  | 
    Dr NASH John (United Kingdom) et al. | |
P3(18)  | 
    UK UPPER AIR TESTBED[FUND],  TESTING OPTIONS FOR THE OPERATIONAL NETWORK 2011 -2021 [abstract doc]  | 
    Dr NASH John (United Kingdom) et al. | 
P3(19)  | 
    PROPOSAL FOR STANDARDIZATION & LABORATORY INTERCOMPARISON ACTIVITIES BETWEEN RICS  [doc]  | 
    Mr NESSEM ESSA (EGYPT) | 
P3(20)  | 
    Dr NOVITSKY Michail (RUSSIAN FEDERATION) et al.  | 
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P3(21)  | 
    Ms NYGAARD Hildegunn (NORWAY)  et al.  | 
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P3(22)  | 
    MR OKUKU CONSTANCE COLNEX (KENYA) et al. | |
P3(23)  | 
    Mr POUTIAINEN Jani (FINLAND) et al. | |
P3(24)  | 
    DEVELOPMENT OF A METROLOGICAL MODEL FOR MEASURING OF THE WATER SURFACE EVAPORATION [doc]  | 
    Ms  TOVMACH  Ludmila (RUSSIAN FEDERATION ) et al.  | 
  
P3(25)  | 
    Dr VUERICH Emanuele (ITALY) et al. | |
P3(26)  | 
    Dr WOLFF Mareile (NORWAY) et al. | 
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| POSTERS | SESSION 4 - TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER, CAPACITY BUILDING IN SUPPORT OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES | 
P4(1)  | 
    NEW APPROACH TO TEACHING METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS IN AFRICA [doc]  | 
    Mr ABDERRAHIM HAMZA (ALGERIA)  | 
  
P4(2)  | 
    TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN SUPPORTING DEVELOPING COUNTRY [doc] [pdf]  | 
    Mr DUFERA DEBELA LEMESSA (ETHIOPIA) | 
P4(3)  | 
    THE HYDROMET DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM: TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER FROM RESEACH TO OPERATIONS [pdf]  | 
    Mr EILTS Micheal (U.S.A.) et al. | 
P4(4)  | 
    TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERE AND CAPACITY BUILDING IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRIES [doc]  | 
    Mr. ELSAYED MOHAMED (EGYPT) | 
P4(5)  | 
    THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE MOROCCAM METEOROLOGICAL SERVICE TO THE VOS AND ARGO PROGRAMS [pptx]  | 
    Mr ISSARA SAMIR (MOROCCO) et al. | 
P4(6)  | 
    Mr KOUASSI GBOKA ALEXANDRE (CÔTE D'IVOIRE) | |
P4(7)  | 
    THE IMPACT OF CHANGING FROM CONVENTIONAL INSTRUMENTS TO AUTOMATIC OBSERVING PLATEFORMS [doc]  | 
    Mr SSALI Andrew (UGANDA) et al. | 
P4(8)  | 
    Mr THIGPEN Richard (U.S.A.) | 
| POSTERS | SESSION 5 - STANDARDS AND QUALITY OF OBSERVING SYSTEMS | 
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