Announcement: Joint AWS-AMRC-AMPS Annual Meeting/Workshop
AWS-AMRC 2004 Joint Annual Meeting
June 8-10, 2004 Charleston, South Carolina, USA
The Antarctic Automatic Weather Stations Project (AWS) and the Antarctic
Meteorological Research Center (AMRC) at the Space Science and
Engineering Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, welcomes your
participation in the annual AWS-AMRC meeting, held in conjunction with
the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) Users' Workshop in
Charleston, South Carolina. The joint annual meeting will be held on
June 8-10, 2004.
The AWS and AMRC projects are both sponsored by the National Science
Foundation Office of Polar Programs. The AWS project, which has been in
operation since 1980, deploys and maintains unmanned weather stations in
the Antarctic. These weather stations collect basic meteorological data
in some of the harshest places on the continent, providing a real-time
and climatological look at the meteorology of Antarctica. The AMRC has
been in operation since 1992, with its primary purpose being the
collection and distribution of Antarctic meteorological data, and
observational meteorological research using this data. This data
collection includes (but is not limited to) AWS data, satellite images,
climatology data, and surface observations. This data is made available
to the public free of charge.
The AWS meeting will review the AWS work over the past field season,
including stations that were newly deployed or repaired, from Antarctic
AWS projects around the world. Scientific studies using AWS data, as
well as information related to Antarctic icebergs will be presented.
Plans for future work will also be discussed. The AMRC meeting will
include information of its operations over the past year, as well as
scientific applications to its data uses. As well, future scientific
work will be discussed.
We encourage participation from anyone interested in giving a
presentation. Oral presentations as well as posters for the poster
session are welcome. Extended abstracts will be due May 18, 2004.
Please register online at http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu/amrcform.html. There
is a place to send extended abstracts online during registration. Oral
presentations will be allowed approximately 15 minutes. Extended
abstracts should be kept to 6 pages and be held according to the AMS
format for conference papers.
Details on the AWS-AMRC-AMPS joint annual meeting can be found at
http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu/amrcmeeting.html. For any questions about the
AWS and AMRC meetings, please contact amrc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx.
AMPS Users' Workshop 2004
June 8-10, 2004
Charleston, South Carolina, USA
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the
Byrd Polar Research Center (BPRC) of The Ohio State University
cordially invite you to participate in the AMPS Users' Workshop
to be held in Charleston, South Carolina, USA.
The workshop is being held jointly with the Antarctic
Automatic Weather Station (AWS) and Antarctic Meteorological
Research Center (AMRC) annual meetings, and the joint meetings
and the workshop will take place June 8-10, 2004.
Supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation,
the Antarctic Mesoscale Prediction System (AMPS) is a real-time,
high-resolution mesoscale forecast system that has been
providing guidance to operations, science, and emergency
missions over Antarctica since 2000. The purposes of the AMPS
workshop are: (i) to review the status of, and developments
in, the system, (ii) to serve as a forum for current results and
concerns in Antarctic meteorology, NWP, and forecasting,
(iii) to exchange feedback and results from the AMPS user
community, and (iv) to discuss topics of mutual interest
to the AMRC and to the AWS program.
We are soliciting participation from all who are interested.
Talks and extended abstracts are encouraged from those who
would like to make an oral presentation. We plan on producing a
preprint volume, and extended abstracts are due May 18, 2004.
The AMPS workshop sessions will cover the following: (a) AMPS
developments and performance, (d) Antarctic NWP research and Antarctic
forecasting efforts (including investigations of forecast events,
polar atmospheric modeling, international programs, etc.), and (c) user
feedback. In addition, there will be general discussions on the
interrelationships between AMPS, the AWS system, and AMRC.
Oral presentations will be afforded 15-20 min, depending on the
number to be accommodated. Extended abstracts may be up to 6 pages
and should follow the standard AMS format for conference papers.
These may be sent to Dr. Jordan Powers at powers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx .
Registrations and extended abstracts are due by May 18, 2004.
Details on the workshop and the joint meetings, including
information on the venue (Hampton Inn, 345 Meeting St.,
Charleston, SC) and on-line registration may be found at:
http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu/amrcmeeting.html .
On-line registration for the AMPS Users' Workshop and the joint
meetings may be found at:
http://ice.ssec.wisc.edu/amrcform.html .
Please feel free to pass this on to colleagues to whom
you think it may be of interest. Questions on the AMPS
Users' Workshop may be directed to Dr. Jordan Powers
at powers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx .
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Matthew Lazzara -Meteorologist- Antarctic Meteorological Research Center
947 Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu
Space Science and Engineering Center E-mail: mattl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
University of Wisconsin-Madison Phone: (608) 262-0436
1225 West Dayton Street, Madison, WI 53706 Fax: (608) 263-6738
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