COST1207 | ASIA/PACIFIC BREWER COURSE

16^th WMO-GAW BREWER OPERATOR COURSE – ASIA/PACIFIC

WMO-GAW ASIA/PACIFIC BREWER COURSELocation of the CourseAccommodationParticipantsTraining Sessions

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

This is the announcement for the WMO-GAW Brewer Ozone Spectrophotometer training school.

The event will be hosted by the Bureau of Meteorology in Sydney, Australia, from the 4^th to the 9^th of September 2017. The training school will focus on operational, scientific and technical issues of the Brewer instrument. The Brewer Ozone Spectrophotometer is widely used throughout the world for ground based total ozone column measurements and can also provide solar spectral UV, Aerosol Optical Depth, NO2 and SO2 data, plus ozone vertical profiles from Umkehr measurements. The training course, which is mainly practical, will cover the topics of basic operation of the Brewer instrument and data reduction. As with previous Brewer workshops, you are strongly encouraged to bring your Brewer observations and history and submit oral or poster presentations about your work.

For those wishing to attend the training school, please complete the school registration form by 30^th June 2017 being sure to indicate if you wish to apply for a support grant.

Financial support for attendees from developing countries may be available from the Vienna Convention Trust Fund and the Canadian Brewer Trust Fund via WMO. To apply please contact Geir Braathen GBraathen@wmo.int before 20th of March,

Registration, accommodation and travel information will also be available at the web page. We would appreciate it if you could distribute this notice to any of your colleagues who may be interested and who may not have received the notice via email.

Best Regards

Organising committee:

J S Rimmer University of Manchester john.s.rimmer@manchester.ac.uk

A Redondas AEMET aredondasm@aemet.es

M Tully Bureau of Meteorology matt.tully@bom.gov.au

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Bureau of Meteorology, NSW Regional Office

STREET ADDRESS:
Centennial Plaza Towers – Tower C, 300 Elizabeth Street, Surry Hills, NSW 2010 Located corner: Foveaux and Elizabeth St

ACCESS (During office hours): Level 15

no security required to enter the building
no security pass required to get to Level 15

RECEPTION:
Reception desk on Level 15 is unmanned

x1592, Marilynne Law, a/RCBM

x1505, Cheryl Burns, Exec Assistant

INSTRUCTIONS

Enter main entrance and proceed to lift well
Go to Level 15
Call x1592 or x1505

FROM CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION: Closest station – Central Railway

Best exit – Chalmers St and Elizabeth St (North East)

http://www.cityrail.info/stations/maps/Central-StationMap.pdf

FROM SYDNEY AIRPORT:

Airport Link (http://www.airportlink.com.au/)

Direct to Central Railway Station Exit northern end of platform

57 Hotel

Address: 57 Foveaux St, Surry Hills NSW 2010

Phone:(02) 9011 5757

The Hotel is 5 min walk to the Curse, there is a group booking at the “57 Hotel” ,Brewer workshop participants wanting to receive a booking discount can go to:

https://www.57hotel.com.au

and then you just click “Book Now!” in the top right hand corner.

They can then enter any dates between 31 August and 11 September that they wish, and enter the promotional code BRWR, as shown below:

Total Rate: $175 per night

Do not forget your group is entitled to our complimentary offering:

complimentary unlimited Wi-Fi
·complimentary express breakfast
·         complimentary Nespresso coffee, tea and hot chocolate
·         complimentary local calls
·         complimentary bottled water
·         complimentary 24/7 gym access
·         complimentary in room iPads
·         complimentary lollies

Extra Charges: A surcharge of 2.5% applies when making any payments with Visa and Mastercard, and 3% for all American express credit cards. The rates quoted are based on your period of stay. Rates are subject to change daily as a result of changes in your arrival and/ or your departure dates. Rates quoted are in Australian Dollars (AUD) and are inclusive of 10% goods and services tax (GST).

We can set up a direct deposit to avoid this.

Cancellation Policy: This will operate on a 14 day payment and cancellation policy.

Arrival/Departure: Check-in time is from 2pm. We allow guests to arrive earlier and can store any luggage until the room is ready. Check-out time is prior to 10am – later departure times can be arranged, subject to availability, however applicable day-use charges or an additional night’s fee may also apply. Please let us know if you would like to arrange alternate check-in or out times below.

57 Hotel pre-authorises all credit cards on check-in to check for validity and sufficiency of funds. Pre-authorised amounts are held as security for your reservation and may be utilised by the hotel for any applicable charges, including cancellation and no show fees. In addition to the cost of the room, a $100AUD security deposit is required upon check-in. This is set aside by the credit card company and may affect the available funds balance or spending limit. In the instance where a valid credit card cannot be provided, we will require the deposit to be in cash for $500AUD per night. A valid credit card must be presented upon check-in and will be authorised to cover additional room and tax, plus $100 per room for incidentals.

No show policy: Failure to arrive on the date specified will result in the cancellation of your booking and will incur the full charge.

Rydges Sydney Central –

28 Albion Street Surry Hills 02 92890000

The Pod Sydney –

Level 6, 396 Pitt Street Haymarket NSW 2000

Central Station Hotel Sydney

75 Wentworth Avenue Sydney 02 8488 9699

Rendezvous Hotel Sydney Central

Cntr George and Quay Sts Sydney

Name	Surname	Institution	Country

Mian	Wang	Meteorological Observation Centre of CMA (MOC)	China
Siddhartha	Singh	India Meteorological Department, New Delhi	India
Emmanuel	Adetya	Lembaga Penerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional (LAPAN)	Indonesia
Soni Aulia	Rahayu	Lembaga penerbangan dan Antariksa Nasional (LAPAN)	Indonesia
MOHAN KUMAR	SAMMATHURIA	MALAYSIAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT	MALAYSIA
MOHD FAIRUL AZWAN	JAMIL	MALAYSIAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT	MALAYSIA
Xiaochun	Zhang	Centre for Atmosphere Watch and Services of MOC,CMA Meteorological Observation Center of CMA	P. R. China
Mr. Jessada	Koo-ngammak	Thai Meteorological Department 4353 Sukhumvit Road Bangna Bangkok 10260	Thailand
Truc	Do Trung	National Hydro-Meteorological Service	Vietnam
Venkat Ratnam	Madineni	National Atmospheric Research Laboratory (NARL)	India
MOHD FIRDAUS	JAHAYA	MALAYSIAN METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT	MALAYSIA
Hana	Lee	Yonsei University	Korea
Manuel	Nunez	The University of Tasmania	Australia
Vagn	Jensen	Geography Dept. University of Tasmania	Australia
Lance	Passamani	Australian Bureau of Meteorology	Australia
Steve	Rhodes	Bureau of Meteorology	Australia
Paul	Waller	University of Tasmania-Central Science Laboratory	Australia
Pavel	Babal	Kipp & Zonen	Netherlands
Hiroaki	Fujiwara	Japan Meteorological Agency	Japan

John	Rimmer		United Kindom
Alberto	Redondas		Spain
Volodya	Savastiouk		Canada
Henri	Diemoz		Italy

The students are requested to bring his own data and computer, the practical sessions are based on his own data.

Brewer Training		Teacher	Theory	Practice (all teachers are involved on the practise, 4 groups of 5 students)
S 1	Brewer operation	Volodya	Instrument setup, Control Software setup, Basic maintenance	Leveling, Sitting internal lamps check and replacement
S 2	Ozone measurements	John	Measurement principle, Basic data evaluation, WOUDC	O3brewer software setup and operation / EUBREWNET configuration
S 3	UV Measurements	Henri	Measurement principle, calibration, basic evaluation	UVbrewer software setup and operation for each station /EUBREWNET
S 4	Station measurement	Alberto	Instrument schedule guidelines: Ozone, UV,Umkehr,	Build a schedule for every participant station
S 5	Ozone Measurements II	Volodya	Advanced data processing, calibration and corrections. ZS sky chart, special measurements (Focused Sun/Moon)	O3Brewer/BFilePro software setup and operation WOUDC data submission
S 6	UV measurement II	Alberto	Advanced data UV processing. (Sattelite, spectral/broadband comparison)	UV software setup: UV WOUDC data submission
S 7	Ozone Measurements III	Jonn	Ground Base /Satellite comparison. WOUDC. EUBREWNET database.	WOUDC/EUBREWNET data sent.
S 8	Brewer operation	Henri	"Brewer air quality products (AOD/NO2)"	EUBREWNET QA/QC

Schedule

Link to the presentations

Training SessionsMondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturday

Training Sessions:

Link to the presentations

Brewer Training		Teacher	Theory	Practice (all teachers are involved on the practise, 4 groups of 5 students)
S 1	Brewer operation	Volodya	Instrument setup, Control Software setup, Basic maintenance	Leveling, Sitting internal lamps check and replacement
S 2	Ozone measurements	John	Measurement principle, Basic data evaluation, WOUDC	O3brewer software setup and operation / EUBREWNET configuration
S 3	UV Measurements	Henri	Measurement principle, calibration, basic evaluation	UVbrewer software setup and operation for each station /EUBREWNET
S 4	Station measurement	Alberto	Instrument schedule guidelines: Ozone, UV,Umkehr,	Build a schedule for every participant station
S 5	Ozone Measurements II	Volodya	Advanced data processing, calibration and corrections. ZS sky chart, special measurements (Focused Sun/Moon)	O3Brewer/BFilePro software setup and operation WOUDC data submission
S 6	UV measurement II	Alberto	Advanced data UV processing. (Sattelite, spectral/broadband comparison)	UV software setup: UV WOUDC data submission
S 7	Ozone Measurements III	Jonn	Ground Base /Satellite comparison. WOUDC. EUBREWNET database.	WOUDC/EUBREWNET data sent.
S 8	Brewer operation	Henri	"Brewer air quality products (AOD/NO2)"	EUBREWNET QA/QC

The students are requested to bring his own data and computer, the practical sessions are based in his own data.

The students can be divided into 4 groups tutored by one of the teachers The tutor will guide the group during the practical sessions (TX) , so during the practical sessions all the teachers are involved.

Every group will develop a project to be developed during the course, and presented during Friday Session. A possible project will be:

1: Considerations to Setup a new station, maintenance protocols

2: Evaluation of the ozone

3: Evaluation of the UV of a particular series

4: Data processing and database sent

start	08:00	08:45	09:30	10:15	10:45	11:30	12:15	13:00	14:00	15:00
end	08:45	09:30	10:15	10:45	11:30	12:15	13:30	14:00	15:00	16:00
Duration	00:45	00:45	00:45	00:30	00:45	00:45	01:15	01:00	01:00	01:00
Monday	Registration	S1	S2	break	S3	S1	Lunch	T1	T1	Poster
Tuesday	S2	S2	S4	break	T1	T1	Lunch	T2	T2	Poster
Wednesday	S3	S3	S4	break	T3	T3	Lunch	T4	T4	Poster
Thursday	S5	S5	T5	break	T5	S6	Lunch	T6	T6	Poster
Friday	S8	T8	T8	break	Group	Groups worktime	Lunch	Groups worktime	Groups worktime	Groups worktime
Saturday	G1 Presentation	G2 Presentaton	G3 Presentation	break	G4 Presentation	Good bye	Lunch


The students are requested to bring his own data and computer, the practical sessions are based in his own data.
The Schedule are tentative can be easilly reduced if for example there is a excursion scheduled for one afternoon.
The students can be divided in 4 groups tutored by one of the teachers.
The tutor will guide the group during the practical sesions (TX) , so during the practical sessions all the teachers are involved


Every group will develop a proyect to be developed during the course for example:
			Volodya	1: Considerations to Setup a new station, maintenance protocols
			Jonh	2: Evaluation of the ozone
			Henri	3: Evaluation of the UV of a particular serie
			Alberto	4: Data processing and databse sent
The works will be develped during Friday and presented during Saturday Sesion

Start	Stop	Duration
08:00	08:45	00:45	Registration
08:45	09:30	00:45	S 1	Brewer operation
09:30	10:15	00:45	S 2	Ozone measurements
10:15	10:45	00:30	break
10:45	11:30	00:45	S 3	UV Measurements
11:30	12:15	00:45	S1	Brewer operation
12:15	13:30	01:15	Lunch
13:00	14:00	01:00	T1	Leveling, Sitting internal lamps check and replacement
14:00	15:00	01:00	T1	Leveling, Sitting internal lamps check and replacement
15:00	16:00	01:00	Poster