Dear AMON readers:

A new issue of AMON (VOL. 2, NO. 2) is now released to the public.
Please go to the homepage of AMON at:

	http://rossby.ou.edu/~spark/AMON/

and click the issue number or directly go to

	http://rossby.ou.edu/~spark/AMON/v2_n2/.

In the following, please find the contents of the current issue.
The FORUM topic in this issue is:

	Data Assimilation and Retrieval (I).

Some other papers under the same topic are pending and will appear in the
next issue. If you want to contribute any article on the same topic, please
contact AMON editors.

Also, if you want to introduce any recent Ph.D's and their dissertation
research, please send information to the editor.
We wish you enjoy reading the AMON.
Thank you.

Editors, AMON

P.S. If any of you do not want to receive this information in the future,
please reply with "DROP ME" in the subject.

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seon Ki Park, Ph.D.
Editor, Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter (AMON)
http://rossby.ou.edu/~spark/AMON/
spark@rossby.ou.edu, skpark@bluesky.ecas.ou.edu


############################################################################
  
                    Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter

                         VOL. 2, NO. 2 (June 1998)

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

[*] News

  1. Volunteer Storm Spotters Help Weather Service
  2. Asian States Take `First Step' on Acid Rain
  3. Chasing the Wind - ROTATE and DOW
  4. El Niño Finally Wanes
  5. Korea Estimates El Nino Costs
  6. India Heat Wave Claims Lives
  7. Floods .....
        o India:
             + India Cyclone Claims More than 1,000 Lives
        o China:
             + 273 Dead in Floods across Country in China - May 30
             + Death Toll Hit 40 in Hunan Province, China - June 16
             + Rising Fujian Floods Reach Six Meters - June 24

[*] Picture of the Quarter

     NOAA Satellite Shows Tropical Cyclone 03A Heading for Northwest India

[*] Forum

     [*] Data Assimilation and Retrieval (I)

       1. The Impact of Satellite Scatterometer Data on a Global NWP Model
          by Atsushi Nomura and Yoshihiko Tahara
       2. Single-Doppler Velocity Retrieval and Radar Data Assimilation at
          the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS) 
	  by Alan Shapiro

[*] Articles/Reports

  1. FSU-GSM Forecast Error Sensitivity to Initial Conditions: Application
     to Indian Summer Monsoon by Yanqiu Zhu and I. M. Navon

[*] Conference/Workshop Fair

  1. International Conference on Satellites, Oceanography and Society, 17 -
     21 August 1998, Lisbon, Portugal
  2. AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, 17-21 August 1998, Everett,
     Washington, USA
  3. 14th Conference on Planned and Inadvertent Weather Modification, 20-22
     August 1998, Everett, Washington, USA
  4. AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, August 17-21, 1998, Everett,
     Washington
  5. 19th Conference on Severe Local Storms, 14-18 September 1998,
     Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
  6. 4th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and
     Technologies, September 20-25, 1998, Snowmass, Colorado
  7. International Conference on Remote Sensing for Marine and Coastal
     Environments, 5-7 October 1998, San Diego, California, USA
  8. European Conference on Applied Climatology, 19-23 October 1998, Vienna,
     Austria
  9. The IX Pacific Science Inter-Congress: Sustainable Development in the
     Pacific, 15-19 November 1998, Taipei, Taiwan
 10. 79th AMS Annual Meeting, 10-15 January 1999, Dallas, Texas, USA
        o 23rd Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology
        o 15th International Conference on Interactive Information and
          Processing Systems (IIPS) for Meteorology, Oceanography, and
          Hydrology
        o 14th Conference on Hydrology
        o 13th Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence
        o 11th Conference on Applied Climatology
        o 10th Symposium on Global Change Studies
        o 8th Conference on Aviation, Range, and Aerospace Meteorology
        o 5th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography
        o 3rd Symposium on Integrated Observing Systems
        o 2nd Hayes Symposium on Seasonal to Interannual Climate
          Variability—The 1997/1998 ENSO Cycle
        o Symposium on Interdisciplinary Issues in Atmospheric Chemistry

----------------------------------------------------------------------------