12-03-07 Ev-K²-CNR in the Planning Meeting CEOP/IGWCO

WASHINGTON, Usa --  The Planning  Meeting joint session CEOP/IGWCO, which will involve a large number of  worldwide climate and atmosphere experts this week at the National Academy of Sciences of Washingtonis underway. Dr. Gianni Tartari, Ev-K²-CNR Committee, and Alessandro Perotto, CEM (Epson Meteo Centre), will attend a meeting.
      
The Planning Meeting joint session between CEOP and the international program of  monitoring and conservation of the environment IGOS ( Integrated Global Observing Strategy ) Water Cycle Observations ( IGWCO )  started today.

The Coordinated Enhanced Observing Period ( CEOP ) is the research program on climate coordinated by the WMO (World Meteorological Organization) : it studies water and energy flux at global level, monsoon influences and atmosphere circulation.
During the CEOP summit held last year in Paris, the Ev-K²-CNR Committee was identified as an indispensable organization given their skills and resources for the atmospheric and geophysical monitoring at high altitude.

For this reason, the Ev-K²-CNR climatic and environmental monitoring stations situated in Pakistan will be included within the CEOP stage II, beginning this year, in addition to their stations already running in Nepal.

A large number of worldwide experts will attend the Washington meeting. Among them, Dr. Gianni Tartari and Dr. Alessandro Perotto will conduct the  High Altitude  session , which will take place tomorrow afternoon.

Dr. Tartari , in particular , will thoroughly analyse the theme of climatic and environmental monitoring at high altitude, taking as example the ABC Pyramid station, situated at 5079 m near the Pyramid Laboratory-Observatory located near Mount Everest.

“The goal, �Dr. Gianni Tartari says, “is to starta Working Group which will coordinate CEOP activities concerning  the high altitude reference stations.�  There will be a total of around 180 reference stations in phase II, an increase of 6 times more than phase I.

Dr. Alessandro Perotto’s will make a presentation on monsoons modelling. At high altitude the monitoring objects tend to move on parallel levels.  We therefore decided to make a joint presentation, together with CEM, underlying  the complementarity of the proposals