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                    Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter

                       VOL. 3, NO. 1 (February 1999)

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[*] News

  1. On the Recent Meteorological Disasters in Korea, Editorial by KASA
  2. 1998 Ranks as the Warmest Year on Record
  3. Are Weather Extremes Now the Norm?, Review (I) by DisasterRelief
  4. Examining the Ecology of Disasters, Review (II) by DisasterRelief
  5. Future Hurricanes Could Be Worse
  6. Thailand Drought Report
  7. Floods... Floods...
        o Record Floods Deluge Northeast Australian State
        o Fiji Floods Report
        o Floods Force Mass Evacuations in Malaysia
        o Philippine Floods Kill 20
        o Sri Lanka Flodds Report

[*] Conference/Workshop Report

  1. Summary of a Workshop on Targeted Observations for Extratropical and
     Tropical Forecasting, November 4-5, 1998, Monterey, CA, USA, by Rolf
     Langland

[*] Forum

     [*] Data Assimilation and Retrieval (III)

       1. Retrieval of Sea Surface Air Temperature from Satellite Data over
          Indian Ocean: An Empirical Approach by P. V. Sathe and P. M.
          Muraleedharan
       2. Application of the Quasi-Invese Method in Data Assimilation by
          Seon Ki Park and Eugenia Kalnay

[*] Conference/Workshop Fair

  1. EGS XXIV General Assembly, 19-23 April 1999, The Hague, The Netherlands
  2. 3rd WMO International Symposium on Assimilation of Observations in
     Meteorology and Oceanography, 7 - 11 June 1999, Quebec City, Canada
  3. 12th Conference on Atmospheric and Oceanic Fluid Dynamics, 7-11 June
     1999, New York City, New York, USA
  4. 11th International Conference on Atmospheric Electricity, 7 - 11 June
     1999, Guntersville, Alabama, USA
  5. 3rd International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water
     Cycle, 16-19 June 1999, Beijing, China
  6. 8th Conference on Mesoscale Processe, 28 June-2 July 1999, Boulder,
     Colorado, USA
  7. 10th Conference on Atmospheric Radiation: A Symposium with Tributes to
     the Works of Verner E. Suomi, 28 June-2 July 1999, Madison, Wisconsin
  8. 29th International Conference on Radar Meteorology, 12-16 July 1999,
     Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  9. 4th International Conference on Modelling of Global Climate Change and
     Variability, 13-17 September 1999, Hamburg, Germany
 10. EGS Vening Meinesz Conference on Global and Regional Sea-Level Changes
     and the Hydrological Cycle, 4-7 October 1999, Sardinia, Italy

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