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BAMOS
Sept 2017
News
AMOS-Q matters
Michael Hewson
AMOS-Q, [email protected] (send me a line)
AMOS-Q held a get-together at the Bureau of Meteorology’s
Brisbane office on 12 June. Dr Joshua Soderholm of The
University of Queensland’s Atmospheric Observations Research
Group discussed his radar-derived thunderstorm climatology,
the national radar data archive and now-casting applications
for industry and single Doppler 2D winds (see below). It was
a great chance for AMOS members and professionals to meet.
Many thanks to Tamika Tihema, Katie Rosemond and Joshua for
pulling it together.
We will have another forum and get-together soon – details to
be advertised. I’m hoping we can use technology to hook-up
AMOS-Q members and interested affiliates across the state. We
want to put the “Q” into AMOS-Q.
Funded by Central Queensland University, I attended the AMOS
30th Anniversary Symposium in Melbourne last month. It was a
very interesting forum—and a great opportunity to understand
where the World Meteorological Organisation, The Royal
Meteorological Society, the UK Met Office, Australia’s Bureau of
Meteorology and CSIRO are heading in terms of strategy, plans,
systems, communication, data and challenges. The “big picture”
writ large.
And ... there were stories too…
You will remember that your AMOS-Q committee sought
expressions of interest from students to fund symposium
attendance. Kathryn Turner went with your support—and
I know Kathryn enjoyed the networking and the amazing
speakers – more from Kathryn later …
What amazed me about the forum, and other communication
since, was to learn that there are Queensland resident members
of AMOS who have, and are, making a great contribution to
AMOS at large. I would like to leverage that regional knowledge
as a collegiate body—and I would like to encourage our co-
workers and wider colleagues and connections to join us as
well.
I want to acknowledge the leadership of Andrew Wiebe, our
immediate past AMOS-Q Chair and co-convenor of the 2015
AMOS annual conference held in Brisbane. Andrew moves on
from Katestone Pty Ltd to move his family back to Canada. Not
only was Andrew a driving force behind weather model based
products for agriculture, but Andrew held AMOS-Q together
in recent years and I for one have enjoyed Andrew’s weather
knowledge and entertaining store of skiing stories! We in
AMOS-Q wish Andrew and his young family very well in colder
climes.