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                     Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter

                         VOL. 2, NO. 1 (March 1998)

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[News]

  1. The Challenges Facing ASEAN Science (Editorial from Science)
  2. ACE-Asia, An Asian Aerosol Characterization Experiment
  3. Rare Snowstorms Blankets Jeruslaem, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon
  4. Scientists Set Sail to Study Stormy Seas
  5. Asia Needs Regional Disaster Forum to Deal With El Niņo
  6. South Pacific Air as Smoggy as Los Angeles
  7. Tornadoes .....
        o Tornadoes Hit Central Florida
        o Tornado Kills 114 in India
  8. More Fires and Smoke in Indonesia
        o New Indonesian Forest Fires Raise Smog Concerns
        o Smoke Shrouds Indonesia's Eastern Borneo
  9. More El Nino .....
        o 1997 World's Warmest Year on Record
        o 1998 off to Warmest, Wettest Start Ever
        o El Niņo Provides Valuable Lab
        o El Niņo-Spawned Havoc Continuing Into May in Many Regions
        o El Niņo Winds Could Stir up Wave of Tropical Diseases

[Conference/Workshop Report]

  1. ACE-Asia Nagoya Planning Meeting Report: 14-16 November, 1997, Nagoya,
     Japan, by Barry Huebert

[Forum]

     El Niņo and Its Impact in Asia (I)

       1. Development of the 1997-98 El Niņo by Lisan Yu
       2. ENSO Monitoring/Prediction Activities at JMA by Naoyuki Hasegawa
          et al.
       3. El Niņo Impact on Thailand by Dusadee Sukawat

[Articles/Reports]

  1. Kelvin and Rossby wave contributions to the SST oscillation of ENSO by
     In-Sik Kang and Soon-Il An

[Conference/Workshop Fair]

  1. Programme of the International Conference on Monsoon and Hydrologic
     Cycle, 22-24 April 1998, Kyongju, Korea
  2. The ROSSBY-100 Symposium, 8-12 June 1998 Stockholm, Sweden
  3. 32nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly, 12-19, July, 1998, Nagoya, Japan
  4. AMS Conference on Cloud Physics, August 17-21, 1998, Everett,
     Washington
  5. 4th International Symposium on Tropospheric Profiling: Needs and
     Technologies, September 20-25, 1998, Snowmass, Colorado
  6. European Conference on Applied Climatology, 19-23 October 1998, Vienna,
     Austria

[Job Fair]

  1. Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  2. Faculty Position at National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan
  3. Postdoc Opportunity at Kyungpook National University, Korea
  4. Research Scientist at NASA/Ames Research Center, USA
  5. Postdoctoral Program at NOAA/EPA, USA