ICM-3 in Queenstown (NZ), 2011
3rd Implementation and Coordination Meeting in Queenstown (NZ),
28 February to 04 March 2011
Information about ICM-3
Location
Queenstown, New Zealand; Copthorne Hotel, Conference Room 1&2
Date
28th February – 04th March 2011
Hosts
- NIWA
- GRUAN Lead Centre
- U.S. GCOS Program Office at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) [financial support]
- NOAA Office Global Programs [financial support]
Organizers
- Peter Thorne (Co-Chair, GCOS AOPC Working Group of Atmospheric Reference Observations)
- Holger Vömel, Franz Immler (Head, GRUAN Lead Centre)
- Stephan Bojinski, Anna Kuhn (GCOS Secretariat)
- Bill Murray, Howard Diamond, Christopher Miller (NOAA)
- Graeme Strang, Paul Johnston (local organizers, NIWA)
Theme
Update on GRUAN progress and discuss new developments, with a focus on:
- quality assurance, science, site issues, and collaboration with WMO
- discussing and improving the GRUAN manual
- Progress of the GRUAN task teams and GATNDOR
- Visiting the Lauder site
Documentation
- Report of the Third GCOS Reference Upper Air Network Implementation and Coordination Meeting (GRUAN ICM-3) (GCOS-149)
- GRUAN Implementation Plan 2009-2013 (GCOS-134)
- Report of the GRUAN ICM-2 (GCOS-140) (basic documents which all participants are requested to read in advance of the meeting)
- Local Logistics
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