EMS Annual Meetings 2004 & earlier

EMS Annual Meeting and ECAC 2004

The Fourth EMS Annual Meeting took place  26 – 30 September 2004 in Nice, France. It was organised together with the Fifth European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC), initiated by the European Climate Support Network (ECSN).

The Fourth EMS Annual Meeting was the first which inluded calling for contributions to the conference from the entire meteorology and related community and having an offset of scientific sessions running over an entire week.

Conference web site: http://www.copernicus.org/ems/2004

The theme of the Opening Session was "Meteorology and its social impact in Europe".

Invited Speakers

Michel Jarraud, Secretary General, World Meteorological Organization
Joze Rakovec, Chair of the COST Technical Committee
Kevin Stenson, Rheinisch-Westfälische Energie-Agentur (RWE, Germany)
Berthold R. Metzger, Partner & Head of Climate Change Services Germany,
PricewaterhouseCoopers, Berlin
Jean-Louis Fellous, IFREMER (France)

The meeting featured a Round Table on the Future of Publications:

Publish or perish, this paradigm is of utmost importance for all scientists. With technological progress, not only the printing process itself has undergone major changes; there are also complete new avenues for the publication process. This Round Table discussed the crucial elements: technology, business and quality assurance.

The Conference Programme consisted of five programme groups:

  • Instruments and methods of observations
  • Atmosphere and the water cycle - a real-time look
  • Applied Climatology: 5th European Conference on Applied Climatology
  • Computing in Earth Sciences
  • Information Provision

Third EMS Annual Meeting

The Third EMS Annual Meeting was held together with the Sixth European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM) in Rome 2003. A conference on the Strategic Planning of major players in European Meteorology  and a special session on The Future of Satellites in Meteorology were part of the EMS Annual Meeting.

Second EMS Annual Meeting

The Second EMS Annual Meeting was held together with the Fourth European Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC) in Brussels 2002. The thematic focus was Climate Variability and the European Economy.
Sessions themes were:

  • Regional scenarios
  • Negative and beneficial effects of climate change
  • Economic protection against risk
  • Climate Policy

First EMS Annual Meeting

The First EMS Annual Meeting was held together with the Fifth European Conference on Applications of Meteorology (ECAM) in Budapest 2001. The thematic focus was the Future of Meteorology in Europe.
Sessions themes were:

  • The tools of Meteorology
  • The structures of Meteorology

Conference web site: http://www.diamond-congress.hu/ecam/