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Announcement: Joint AWS-AMRC-AMPS Annual Meeting/Workshop AWS-AMRC 2004 Joint Annual Meeting June 8-10, 2004 Charleston, South Carolina, USAThe 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 . -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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