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Seon Ki Park, Ph.D.
Editor, Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter (AMON)
URL: http://gateway.to/AMON/
E-mail: wwwamon@yahoo.com

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                    Asian Meteorology Online Newsletter

                       VOL. 3, NO. 3 (December 1999)

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* News

  1. Sri Lanka Meteorology and Oceanography Network (SLMON)
  2. Upcoming Meetings in Asia
  3. European Meteorological Society Established
  4. China Pours Huge Funds into Anti-Flood Projects
  5. Report Predicts Decade of Super-Disasters
  6. SeaWinds Radar Aids Weather Forecasters
  7. Storms and Floods .....
        o India:
             + 367 Killed in Indian Monsoon Rains, Normal Life Disrupted -
               July
             + Death Toll in Bihar Floods Reaches 250 - September
             + Thousands Feared Dead in India Cyclone (Storm of the Century)
               - October
        o Vietnam:
             + Worst Hit Province Will Need Decade to Rebound from Vietnam
               Flooding
        o China:
             + Wendy Death Toll Hits 133

* Picture of the Quarter

     NOAA Satellite Shows Evolution of Tropical Cyclone 05B Near
     Northeastern India

* Forum

     Air Quality in Asia (I)

       1. A Consideration on Air Quality Models for Environmental Assessment
          by Shin'ichi Okamoto

* Articles/Reports

  1. The European Meteorological Society (EMS) by Arne Spekat

* Conference/Workshop Fair

  1. Symposium: 50th Anniversary of Numerical Weather Prediction, 9-10 March
     2000, Potsdam, Germany
  2. Second International Symposium on Asian Monsoon System, 27-31 March
     2000, Cheju, Korea
  3. 150th Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Meteorological Society, 3-4
     April 2000, London, United Kingdom
  4. SRNWP Workshop on Mesoscale Variational Assimilation, 8-10 May 2000,
     Reading, United Kingdom
  5. Climate Change Communication: An International Conference, 22-24 June
     2000, Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  6. 4th Workshop on Adjoint Model Applications in Dynamic Meteorology,
     26-30 June 2000, Moliets, France
  7. IUTAM Symposium on Advances in Mathematical Modelling of Atmosphere and
     Ocean Dynamics, 2-7 July 2000, Limerick, Ireland
  8. Second International Ocean-Atmosphere Conference, 10-12 July 2000,
     Taipei, Taiwan
  9. Conference on Meteorology at the Millennium, 10-14 July 2000,
     Cambridge, United Kingdom
 10. Fourth International Conference on Hydroinformatics, 23-27 July 2000,
     Iowa City, Iowa, USA
 11. 15th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols,
     6-11 August 2000, Rolla, Missouri, USA
 12. 13th International Conference on Clouds and Precipitation, 14-18 August
     2000, Reno, Nevada, USA
 13. 1st European Conference on Radar Meteorology, 4-8 September 2000,
     Bologna, Italy

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