NIWA Seminar:

10:30am Friday 3 August 2007
Main conference room, NIWA Greta Point, Wellington

Global Earth Observations for Climate: "Taking the Earth’s Pulse for the
New Century:

Howard J. Diamond, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA)/National Climatic Data Center

The Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) is the climate component of
the international Global Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS)
effort, in which environmental ministers from over 60 nations have
agreed to a 10-year implementation plan. This seminar will provide
information on GEOSS and GCOS, with a focus on climate observing in the
Pacific. In addition there will be a discussion of some climate data
management efforts and a research effort dealing with a climatological
study of tropical cyclones in the Southwest Pacific basin.


Brief Bio:
Howard Diamond serves as both the U.S. GCOS Program Manager, as well as
the Director of the World Data Center for Meteorology. He is based at
NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Silver Spring, Maryland USA, and
has worked for NOAA since 1981. In addition to being a member of the
American Meteorological Society since 1994, of which he is currently the
Chair of the Committee on Meteorology and Oceanography for the Southern
Hemisphere, he has also been a member of the NZ Meteorological Society
since 2003, and is currently a PhD Candidate in the School of Geography,
Geology, and Environmental Science at Auckland University. His primary
area of work concerning climate, both from a professional as well as
academic perspective, is the Pacific Region. He can be reached via
e-mail at howard.diamond@....



For further information, please contact Jim Renwick.


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Dr James Renwick, Science Leader, climate variability & change
National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research
Private Bag 14901, Wellington, NEW ZEALAND
J.Renwick@... Ph: +64-4-3860343 Mob: +64-21-1785550
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