- Email: [email protected]
Meetings of Interest to COSPAR
15-19 September 2014 Porto, Portugal Towards Other Earths II, the Star-Planet Connection www.astro.up.pt/investigacao/conferencias/toe 2014/
Meetings Meetings of Interest to COSPAR [Meetings organized or sponsored COSPAR are shown in bold face.]
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22-24 September 2014 Graz, Austria UN/Austria Expert Meeting on “The Future Role of Space Science in the UN Programme on space Applications” www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SAP/act2014/graz/i ndex.html
1-5 September 2014 Kiel, Germany 24th European Cosmic Ray Symp. (ECRS) http://ulysses.physik.uni-kiel.de/ECRS-2014/ 7-12 September 2014 Caiscais, Portugal European Planetary Science Conference http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2 014/session/16801
22-25 September 2014 Amsterdam, The Netherlands SPIE Remote Sensing 2014 http://spie.org/remote-sensing-europe.xml 22-26 September 2014 Natal, Brazil 13th Int. Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conf. www.igacproject.org/igac-conferences
7-12 September 2014 St. Petersburg, Russia 29th Congress of Int. Council of Aeronautical Sciences http://icas2014.com/
25-27 September 2014 Toronto, Canada 13th Annual Space Generation Congress www.spacegenerationcongress.org/index.php/e n/eventstopics/sgc
8-10 September 2014 Islamabad, Pakistan International Conf. on Space 2014 http://suparco.gov.pk/pages/ICS-2014.asp
29 September-3 October 2014 Narrabri, NSW, Australia CSIRO 2014 Radio Astronomy School www.atnf.csiro.au/research/radioschool/2014/index.html
8-12 September 2014 Dublin, Ireland 14th European Solar Physics Meeting www.espm14.ie/home
29 September-3 October 2014 Toronto, Canada 65th Int. Astronautical Congress www.casi.ca/iac-2014
8-12 September 2014 Litomysl, Czech Republic Int. Conf. “Living Together: Planets, Stellar Binaries, and Stars with Planets” http://astro.physics.muni.cz/kopal2014/
12-17 October 2014 Xi’an, China SCOSTEP’s 13th Quadrennial Symposium on Solar-Terrestrial Physics http://stp13.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1
8-12 September 2014 Marseille, France From Galactic to Extragalactic Star Formation (GESF 2014) http://cnes.cborg.fr/gesf2014/
13-16 October 2014 Edinburgh, UK EANA 2014: 14th Europ. Astrobiology Conf. www.astrobiology.ac.uk/eana2014/
10-12 September 2014 Kiel, Germany Planet Formation and Evolution 2014 www1.astrophysik.uni-kiel.de/~kiel2014/main/ 26
13-17 October 2014 Darmstadt, Germany The Climate Symposium 2014: Climate Research and Earth Observations from Space www.the climatesymposium2014.com
12-14 November 2014 Guayaquil, Ecuador 3rd Int. ENSO Conf. www.ciifen.org/index.php?option=com_conten t&view=category&layout=blog&id=117&Item id=172&lang=en
15-17 October 2014 Leuven, Belgium Space Weather for Engineers www.stce.be/sw4e/venue.php
17-21 November 2014 Barcelona, Spain 2nd International Ocean Research Conf. www.fnob.org/en/international-ocean-researchconference
20-21 October 2014 Paris, France 16th European Inter-parliamentary Space Conf. Contact: [email protected]
26-28 November 2014 Exeter, UK Ocean Salinity Science and Salinity Remote Sensing Workshop www.ghrsst.org/notice-board/news/q/ date/2014/01/20/ocean-salinity-workshop/
20-24 October 2014 Nagoya, Japan 5th Fermi Symposium http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/mtgs/sympo sia/2014/
30 Nov.- 5 December 2014 Punta Leona, Costa Rica IAU Symp. 305: Polarimetry-From the Sun to Stars and Stellar Environments www2.hao.ucar.edu/events/IAUS305
22-26 October 2014 Pasadena, CA, USA 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research www.asgsr.org
15-19 December 2014 San Francisco, CA, USA 2014 AGU Fall Meeting www.agu.org/meetings.shtml
27-31 October 2014 Lake Constance, Germany New Frontiers of Altimetry http://www.ostst-altimetry-2014.com/
10-14 February 2015 Lahore, Pakistan Int. Conf. on Relativistic Astrophysics: Celebrating 100 Years of General Relativity http://icra.pu.edu.pk/
30-31 October 2014 Noordwijk, The Netherlands IEEE Int. Conf. on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/
12-17 April 2015 Vienna, Austria EGU General Assembly 2015 www.egu.eu/meetings/calendar/
4-7 November 2014 Bali, Indonesia Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC 2014) http://porsec2014.unud.ac.id/
18-22 May 2015 York, UK Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VII http://npa7.iopconfs.org/home
12-14 November 2014 Frascati, Italy 2014 Conf. on Big Data from Space http://congrexprojects.com/2014events/BigDatafromSpace/introduction
18-25 May 2015 Gran Canaria, Spain URSI Mid-Atlantic Meeting 2015 www.ursi.org/en/event_item.asp?id=311
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22 June-2 July 2015 Prague, Czech Republic 26th Int. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly 2015 www.iugg2015prague.com/
relatively small number of oral presentations and maximum emphasis on the posters In total there were six sessions covering the entire spectrum of science carried out under the umbrella of SPARC. The three thematic SPARC lectures were synthesised in a way to cover a full gamut of the atmospheric science. Invited lecturers also endeavoured to review provide a full description of the state of the science. Contributed oral presentations and poster sessions (distributed in four sessions A, B, C, and D) were focused on specific topical research issues. The Assembly Sessions were organised in oral and poster presentation format and were under the following broad scientific themes:
November 2015 Paranà, Brazil COSPAR Brazil Symposium https://cosparhq.cnes.fr 30 July-7 August 2016 Istanbul, Turkey 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly Contact: [email protected]
Meeting Reports
A Report on the 5th SPARC (Stratospheretroposphere Processes and Their Role in Climate) General Assembly, Queenstown, New Zealand, 12-17 January 2014
The 5th General Assembly of SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate), a core project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), was held in scenic Queenstown, New Zealand, from 12-17 January 2014. The SPARC General Assembly 2014 (SPARC GA 2014) brought together a large community of international scientists from around the globe, and provided an ideal opportunity to interact, discuss, and exchange scientific ideas as well as to initiate collaborative work. It would not have been possible without the kind support of all our sponsors, including COSPAR. The major focus of the meeting was to discuss what has already been achieved, where gaps lie that require immediate attention, and the future direction of SPARC science. The SPARC GA 2014 also provided a venue for people to interact, one-on-one and in small groups to discuss issues of mutual interest, not only during the plenary and poster sessions but also in a more informal atmosphere during coffee and lunch breaks and of course at the conference dinner party. One of the most appreciated aspects was the plenary format of SPARC 2014; with no parallel sessions, a
Atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and climate Stratosphere-troposphere-ocean dynamics and predictability of regional climate Coupling to the mesosphere and upper atmosphere Observational datasets, reanalyses and attribution studies Tropical processes Emerging and outstanding research of relevance to SPARC
The entire scientific programme was held at the Millennium Hotel. Registration started on 12 January, efficiently handled by Emma Scarlet, a core member of the local organising committee. The official opening by Prof. Jim Metson, Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment was followed by a welcome and overview by SPARC Co-Chairs, Greg Bodeker and Joan Alexander. Scientific sessions started with Theme 6 (Emerging and outstanding research of relevance to SPARC), with six invited lectures, including an opening talk by Gerald Meehl on ‘IPCC AR5: Projections, Predictions, and Progress since AR4’. Clouds play a very important role in the climate system and in many models the cloud feedback is the strongest positive feedback. Steven Sherwood described dynamical cloud feedback mechanisms focusing on the key 28
Meetings Meetings of Interest to COSPAR [Meetings organized or sponsored COSPAR are shown in bold face.]
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22-24 September 2014 Graz, Austria UN/Austria Expert Meeting on “The Future Role of Space Science in the UN Programme on space Applications” www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/SAP/act2014/graz/i ndex.html
1-5 September 2014 Kiel, Germany 24th European Cosmic Ray Symp. (ECRS) http://ulysses.physik.uni-kiel.de/ECRS-2014/ 7-12 September 2014 Caiscais, Portugal European Planetary Science Conference http://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EPSC2 014/session/16801
22-25 September 2014 Amsterdam, The Netherlands SPIE Remote Sensing 2014 http://spie.org/remote-sensing-europe.xml 22-26 September 2014 Natal, Brazil 13th Int. Global Atmospheric Chemistry Conf. www.igacproject.org/igac-conferences
7-12 September 2014 St. Petersburg, Russia 29th Congress of Int. Council of Aeronautical Sciences http://icas2014.com/
25-27 September 2014 Toronto, Canada 13th Annual Space Generation Congress www.spacegenerationcongress.org/index.php/e n/eventstopics/sgc
8-10 September 2014 Islamabad, Pakistan International Conf. on Space 2014 http://suparco.gov.pk/pages/ICS-2014.asp
29 September-3 October 2014 Narrabri, NSW, Australia CSIRO 2014 Radio Astronomy School www.atnf.csiro.au/research/radioschool/2014/index.html
8-12 September 2014 Dublin, Ireland 14th European Solar Physics Meeting www.espm14.ie/home
29 September-3 October 2014 Toronto, Canada 65th Int. Astronautical Congress www.casi.ca/iac-2014
8-12 September 2014 Litomysl, Czech Republic Int. Conf. “Living Together: Planets, Stellar Binaries, and Stars with Planets” http://astro.physics.muni.cz/kopal2014/
12-17 October 2014 Xi’an, China SCOSTEP’s 13th Quadrennial Symposium on Solar-Terrestrial Physics http://stp13.csp.escience.cn/dct/page/1
8-12 September 2014 Marseille, France From Galactic to Extragalactic Star Formation (GESF 2014) http://cnes.cborg.fr/gesf2014/
13-16 October 2014 Edinburgh, UK EANA 2014: 14th Europ. Astrobiology Conf. www.astrobiology.ac.uk/eana2014/
10-12 September 2014 Kiel, Germany Planet Formation and Evolution 2014 www1.astrophysik.uni-kiel.de/~kiel2014/main/ 26
13-17 October 2014 Darmstadt, Germany The Climate Symposium 2014: Climate Research and Earth Observations from Space www.the climatesymposium2014.com
12-14 November 2014 Guayaquil, Ecuador 3rd Int. ENSO Conf. www.ciifen.org/index.php?option=com_conten t&view=category&layout=blog&id=117&Item id=172&lang=en
15-17 October 2014 Leuven, Belgium Space Weather for Engineers www.stce.be/sw4e/venue.php
17-21 November 2014 Barcelona, Spain 2nd International Ocean Research Conf. www.fnob.org/en/international-ocean-researchconference
20-21 October 2014 Paris, France 16th European Inter-parliamentary Space Conf. Contact: [email protected]
26-28 November 2014 Exeter, UK Ocean Salinity Science and Salinity Remote Sensing Workshop www.ghrsst.org/notice-board/news/q/ date/2014/01/20/ocean-salinity-workshop/
20-24 October 2014 Nagoya, Japan 5th Fermi Symposium http://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/mtgs/sympo sia/2014/
30 Nov.- 5 December 2014 Punta Leona, Costa Rica IAU Symp. 305: Polarimetry-From the Sun to Stars and Stellar Environments www2.hao.ucar.edu/events/IAUS305
22-26 October 2014 Pasadena, CA, USA 30th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research www.asgsr.org
15-19 December 2014 San Francisco, CA, USA 2014 AGU Fall Meeting www.agu.org/meetings.shtml
27-31 October 2014 Lake Constance, Germany New Frontiers of Altimetry http://www.ostst-altimetry-2014.com/
10-14 February 2015 Lahore, Pakistan Int. Conf. on Relativistic Astrophysics: Celebrating 100 Years of General Relativity http://icra.pu.edu.pk/
30-31 October 2014 Noordwijk, The Netherlands IEEE Int. Conf. on Wireless for Space and Extreme Environments http://sites.ieee.org/wisee/
12-17 April 2015 Vienna, Austria EGU General Assembly 2015 www.egu.eu/meetings/calendar/
4-7 November 2014 Bali, Indonesia Pan Ocean Remote Sensing Conference (PORSEC 2014) http://porsec2014.unud.ac.id/
18-22 May 2015 York, UK Nuclear Physics in Astrophysics VII http://npa7.iopconfs.org/home
12-14 November 2014 Frascati, Italy 2014 Conf. on Big Data from Space http://congrexprojects.com/2014events/BigDatafromSpace/introduction
18-25 May 2015 Gran Canaria, Spain URSI Mid-Atlantic Meeting 2015 www.ursi.org/en/event_item.asp?id=311
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22 June-2 July 2015 Prague, Czech Republic 26th Int. Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) General Assembly 2015 www.iugg2015prague.com/
relatively small number of oral presentations and maximum emphasis on the posters In total there were six sessions covering the entire spectrum of science carried out under the umbrella of SPARC. The three thematic SPARC lectures were synthesised in a way to cover a full gamut of the atmospheric science. Invited lecturers also endeavoured to review provide a full description of the state of the science. Contributed oral presentations and poster sessions (distributed in four sessions A, B, C, and D) were focused on specific topical research issues. The Assembly Sessions were organised in oral and poster presentation format and were under the following broad scientific themes:
November 2015 Paranà, Brazil COSPAR Brazil Symposium https://cosparhq.cnes.fr 30 July-7 August 2016 Istanbul, Turkey 41st COSPAR Scientific Assembly Contact: [email protected]
Meeting Reports
A Report on the 5th SPARC (Stratospheretroposphere Processes and Their Role in Climate) General Assembly, Queenstown, New Zealand, 12-17 January 2014
The 5th General Assembly of SPARC (Stratosphere-troposphere Processes And their Role in Climate), a core project of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), was held in scenic Queenstown, New Zealand, from 12-17 January 2014. The SPARC General Assembly 2014 (SPARC GA 2014) brought together a large community of international scientists from around the globe, and provided an ideal opportunity to interact, discuss, and exchange scientific ideas as well as to initiate collaborative work. It would not have been possible without the kind support of all our sponsors, including COSPAR. The major focus of the meeting was to discuss what has already been achieved, where gaps lie that require immediate attention, and the future direction of SPARC science. The SPARC GA 2014 also provided a venue for people to interact, one-on-one and in small groups to discuss issues of mutual interest, not only during the plenary and poster sessions but also in a more informal atmosphere during coffee and lunch breaks and of course at the conference dinner party. One of the most appreciated aspects was the plenary format of SPARC 2014; with no parallel sessions, a
Atmospheric chemistry, aerosols, and climate Stratosphere-troposphere-ocean dynamics and predictability of regional climate Coupling to the mesosphere and upper atmosphere Observational datasets, reanalyses and attribution studies Tropical processes Emerging and outstanding research of relevance to SPARC
The entire scientific programme was held at the Millennium Hotel. Registration started on 12 January, efficiently handled by Emma Scarlet, a core member of the local organising committee. The official opening by Prof. Jim Metson, Chief Science Advisor to the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation, and Employment was followed by a welcome and overview by SPARC Co-Chairs, Greg Bodeker and Joan Alexander. Scientific sessions started with Theme 6 (Emerging and outstanding research of relevance to SPARC), with six invited lectures, including an opening talk by Gerald Meehl on ‘IPCC AR5: Projections, Predictions, and Progress since AR4’. Clouds play a very important role in the climate system and in many models the cloud feedback is the strongest positive feedback. Steven Sherwood described dynamical cloud feedback mechanisms focusing on the key 28