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CONFERENCE NEWS: Speakers tackle complex problems in ensuring sustainable measurements
CIMO TECO-2018
CIMO TECO-2018, hosted by the world’s biggest and most significant meteorological show – Meteorological Technology World Expo – is taking place in Amsterdam, Netherlands, on October 8-11.
This year’s CIMO TECO speakers were asked to address four key topics: the Characterization and standardization of environmental measurements – traceability assurance; Emerging measurement technologies: from development to operation; Ensuring sustainability of measurements; and Measurement and integration challenges in the next 20 years.
The WMO received an outstanding response to its call for papers, with more than 220 high-quality abstracts submitted from all WMO regions.
Day Three’s topic ‘Ensuring sustainability of measurements’ kicked off with a presentation from Andrew Harper, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, New Zealand, on the sustainability of measurements following donor funded programs, particularly how organizations can work with donor program technical specialists to secure ongoing support and training.
This was followed by a presentation from Tim Oakley from the UK’s Met Office, who provided an update on the current status and plans of the Global Climate Observing System’s (GCOS) Upper Air Network (GUAN).
For the last presentation of the day, Lisa Hannak, Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), National Climate Monitoring, looked at the effects of different shelter types on temperature measurements. To study the effects of a changing environment, DWD performed parallel measurements of previous and current operational instruments at German climate reference stations. The comparison of automatic and manual parallel temperature measurements revealed that the shelter type that is used to protect the temperature sensor from radiation had an impact on the measurements. To quantify that effect, the standard configuration was compared with a second automatic sensor installed in a Stevenson screen. The differences between the measurements showed a diurnal cycle and seasonal variation. The presentation then looked to simulate the differences between the shelter types in a regression model to adapt the temperature measurements accordingly.
The day finished with the Prof. Dr Vilho Väisälä Awards ceremony, with a presentation from Asko J Huuskonen from the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) on the ‘Improved analysis of solar signals for differential reflectivity monitoring’ (Asko Huuskonen, Mikko Kurri, and Iwan Holleman), which won the award for Outstanding Research Paper on Instruments and Methods of Observation.
This was followed by a presentation by Fan Yang, China Meteorological Administration (CMA), representing the winners of the Prof. Dr. Vilho Väisälä Award for the Development and Implementation of Instruments and Methods of Observation in Developing Countries. The presentation was titled ‘A continuously weighing, high frequency sand trap: Wind tunnel and field Evaluations’ (Fan Yang, XingHua Yang, Wen Huo, Mamtimin Ali, XinQian Zheng, ChengLong Zhou, Qing He).
Day Four of CIMO TECO-2018 will take place in Hall 8, Entrance F, at the RAI Exhibition Center, from 9:00am-06:00pm on October 11. To find out more about the event, click here.