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                    Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter

                       VOL. 2, NO. 3 (September 1998)

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[*] Letters to the Editor

  1. A Modeler's View - NWP at the NCEP and Severe Weather Forecast in Korea
  2. A Forecaster's View - Communication, Local Office Team, Duty Priorities

[*] News

  1. Two Asian Universities Run Real-Time NWP Models
  2. Earth Science Week '98 - Meassage from Bill Clinton
  3. When a Hurricane Nears, the DOW Rises
  4. Floods... Floods...
        o Asian Floods Claim 1,300 Lives in 3 Countries - July 26
        o Asia's Long, Wet Summer Leaves Much of Region Under Water
        o China:
             + Yangtze Death Toll Hits 2,500 with Losses at HK$37b - July 30
             + 240 Million Affected from China Floods - Aug. 5
             + China Floods Exacerbated By Man's Impact on Land, Climate -
               Aug. 19
        o Korea:
             + Heavy Rainfall in Southern Region, Mt. Chiri - Aug. 3
             + Floods in Central Region, Seoul - Aug. 7
             + Typhoon Yanni Hit Southeastern Region, Pohang - Oct. 1
        o Bangladeshi:
             + Bangladesh Drowning Under a Sea of Flood Waters, Sewage
        o Japan:
             + Typhoon Stella lashes Japanese coast

[*] Forum

     [*] Data Assimilation and Retrieval (II)

       1. Adjoint Data Assimilation in Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Models by
          William W. Hsieh and Jingxi Lu
       2. Retrieval of Low-Level Wind and Temperature From Single WSR-88D
          Doppler Radars by Juanzhen Sun

[*] Articles/Reports

  1. Rocket Sounding of Ozone Concentration Profile by KSR-II by Jhoon Kim
     and Gwang Rae Cho
  2. The Flooding in the Yangtze River valley during the Summer of 1998:
     Some Weather and Climate Aspects by Yong Luo and Ning Zeng

[*] Conference/Workshop Fair

  1. 2nd International Symposium on CO2 in the Oceans, 18-22 January 1999,
     Tsukuba, Japan
  2. 9th SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing,
     22-24 March 1999, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  3. 5th SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the
     Geosciences, 24-27 March 1999, San Antonio, Texas, USA
  4. 6th SIAM Conference on Optimization, 12-15 May 1999, Atlanta, Georgia,
     USA
  5. 5th SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems, 23-27 May
     1999, Snowbird, Utah, USA
  6. 1999 Open Meeting of the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental
     Change Research Community, 24-26 June 1999, Kanagawa, Japan
  7. 5th International Conference on School and Popular Meteorological and
     Oceanographic Education, 5-9 July 1999, Ballarat & Melbourne, Australia
  8. IAMAS Symposia and Workshops at IUGG99 Assembly, 18-30 July 1999,
     Birmingham, UK

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