From: AMOS Storms Conference 2004 Committee <stormsconf@...>

Second Announcement and Call for Papers
The International Conference on Storms, Brisbane, July 2004.

The International Conference on Storms will be held in Brisbane, Australia,
during 5-9 July 2004, in conjunction with the Annual National Conferences
of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) and the
Meteorological Society of New Zealand.

Co-sponsors are the World Meteorological Organization, the Commonwealth
Bureau of Meteorology - Australia, Emergency Management Australia,
Queensland Emergency Services - Counter Disaster and Rescue Services, the
American Meteorological Society and the Meteorological Society of New
Zealand.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) will be conducting its Second
Regional Technical Conference on Tropical Cyclones, Storm Surges and Floods
just prior to and in association with the International Conference on
Storms. Delegates and experts from a number of countries, mainly from
around the Bay of Bengal, Arabian Sea and the Typhoon Area, will attend
both meetings.

The conference will consider storms on all scales of the global atmosphere
and hydrosphere. As vulnerable populations and assets increase, the
life-threatening and damaging power of storms places increased pressure on
programs to ameliorate their impacts. This multidisciplinary conference
adopts an end-to-end approach, featuring the science of storms,
observations, dynamics, prediction on all time scales, impacts / risk
assessment and mitigation.

The conference will include a number of invited presentations on focus
topics, and will solicit papers on all aspects of storms. Poster
presentations will feature prominently. It is also planned to include short
workshops or tutorials on selected topics.

Leading experts have been invited as keynote speakers in plenary sessions
of the Conference:

Prof Michael Banner, Centre for Environmental Modelling and Prediction,
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dr Harold Brooks, Head, Mesoscale Applications Group, National Severe
Storms Laboratory, Norman OK, USA
Prof Shishir K. Dube, Director, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,
India
Dr Frank Marks, Director NOAA Hurricane Research Division, Miami FL, USA
Dr Konstantine Georgakakos, Director, Hydrological Research Centre, San
Diego CA, USA
Mr Barry Hanstrum, - Supervising Meteorologist, Bureau of Meteorology,
Perth, WA, Australia
Dr Greg Holland, President, Aerosonde North America, USA
Prof Lance Leslie, Director, Centre for Environmental Modelling and
Prediction, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Dr David Stensrud, Team Leader, Models and Assimilation Team, NOAA National
Severe Storms Laboratory, Norman OK, USA

Other speakers are to be announced - please watch our web site at
http://www.stormsconf.org.au/general/speakers.asp

Authors wishing to present a paper for oral or poster presentation at this
meeting must forward their Extended Abstract of up to two A4 pages to
stormsconfpaper@... before 1 March 2004. For additional information
on how to lodge an abstract for oral or poster presentation, see
http://www.stormsconf.org.au/papers/call.asp

For the full text of the Second Announcement and Call for Papers, and more
information about the conference, please refer to
http://www.stormsconf.org.au/ . A printer-friendly, pdf version of the
second announcement and call for papers is also available at
http://www.stormsconf.org.au/general/second_announce.pdf .

Contacts:

For enquiries, please email stormsconf@... .
To submit a paper, please email stormsconfpaper@...

regards,

Ann Farrell
Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society
Queensland Branch
http://www.amos.org.au