NOAA, AMS to host nationwide climate satellite tv for pc convention

NOAA, AMS to host nationwide climate satellite tv for pc convention June 2, 2022 A picture of the smoke plumes, burn scars and hotspots from wildfires throughout Northern California as seen from the NOAA-20 satellite tv for pc on August 24, 2021. (NOAA) Obtain Picture

Media are invited to attend the 2022 Collective Madison Assembly offsite hyperlink hosted by NOAA and the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the place high leaders and knowledge customers of the world’s most superior climate satellite tv for pc methods will convene in Madison, Wisconsin, from August 8-12, 2022.  

The theme for the assembly is “Turning the Web page.” The worldwide pandemic has brought about a serious disruption to society, and the climate, water and local weather enterprise is continuing with a renewed concentrate on exploring the altering local weather and Earth system, and proposing new observational capabilities to grasp climate, the atmosphere and its hazards. This system will incorporate this theme and parts to current a shared imaginative and prescient for the way forward for distant sensing, consumer functions and associated science, with a concentrate on 2030 and past.

The Collective Madison Assembly is being held concurrently with the Joint 2022 NOAA Satellite tv for pc Convention and the twenty fifth Convention on Satellite tv for pc Meteorology and Oceanography, the seventeenth Convention on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography and the sixteenth Convention on Cloud Physics/sixteenth Convention on Atmospheric Radiation. The assembly will cowl a spread of matters on satellite tv for pc science, know-how and innovation, together with:

• Climate satellite tv for pc and instrument plans.
• Historical past of satellite tv for pc meteorology, and Madison’s significance to the event of climate satellites.
• Monitoring Earth’s local weather with satellites.
• Impacts of climate extremes in a altering local weather.
• Satellite tv for pc observations of the oceans and polar areas.
• Satellite tv for pc consumer preparation and coaching.
• Utilizing satellites to detect river flooding and understanding land use.

WHAT

 2022 Collective Madison Assembly on climate satellites, hosted by NOAA and AMS.  offsite hyperlink

WHEN

Mon., August 8 to Fri., August 12, 2022

The convention is open to the media however reporters should register prematurely by contacting Rachel Thomas-Medwid at AMS. 

WHERE

Monona Terrace Neighborhood and Conference Heart offsite hyperlink
1 John Nolen Drive
Madison, Wisconsin 53703

Featured audio system and invited visitors embrace:

Confirmed: 

• Steve Volz, Ph. D., Appearing Assistant Secretary for Environmental Commentary and Prediction; Director, NOAA Satellite tv for pc and Data Service (NESDIS)
• Mr. Hugo Saavedra, Representing the President of the World Meteorological Group (WMO), Regional Affiliation III (South America)

Invited:

• Prof. Gerhard Adrian, President, World Meteorological Group (WMO)
• Evan G. Thompson, President, World Meteorological Group (WMO) Regional Affiliation IV (North and Central America and the Caribbean)
• Dr. Phil Evans, Director-Basic, The European Group for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT)
• Naoyuki HASEGAWA, Director Basic, Japan Meteorological Company (JMA)
• Dr. PARK Kwang Suk, Administrator, Korean Meteorological Company (KMA)
• Dr. Clezio Marcos De Nardin, Director, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), Brazil
• Diane Campbell, Assistant Deputy Minister, Meteorological Companies Canada (MSC)

Media contacts

John Bateman, NOAA, [email protected], (202) 424-0929

Rachel Thomas-Medwid, AMS, [email protected], (617) 226-3955

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