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Hong Kong Meteorological Society Bulletin By K.S. Lam 3/11/ IFMS GM2

HK Meteorological Society 3/11/ IFMS GM2 Non-Government Non-profit making organization Funding Solely comes from Membership fee and Ex-Chairmans’ donations.

Office Bearers for the session /11/ IFMS GM2 Chair - C.M. Shun (HKO director) Vice Chair – P.W. Li Secretary – W.H. Kung Treasurer - David H.Y. Lam Committee Members: Clarence C.K. Fong (HK Weather Underground) Alexis K.H. Lau (HKUST) C.N. Ng (HKU) Edward Y.Y. Ng (CUHK) K.S. Lam (PolyU) Francis C.Y. Tam (CityU)

Society Membership As of August 25, 2011 Honorary Fellow1 Fellow 93 Full member 51 Student member 37 Corresponding member 11 Total192

First Volumn Published in /11/ IFMS GM2

Two Volumes per Year 3/11/ IFMS GM2

Last Half Year Volume in 1997 Last Half Year Volume in /11/ IFMS GM2

1998 – One Volume per Year 3/11/ IFMS GM2

Society Bulletin Content 3/11/ IFMS GM2 Meteorological, Climate Change and Related Papers from Meteorologists and Local and Overseas Academics. International Conference Special Issues, Society’s Outreach Project – Acid Rain 2003 Painting Competitions. Report on Society’s Functions – Technical Visits. Summary of Popular Science Lectures.

2002 Meteorological and Related Papers 3/11/ IFMS GM2

1992 Volume 2.1 Special Issue on Climate Change 3/11/ IFMS GM2

2003 Special Issue for 2003 Special Issue for Society’s Outreach Project – Acid Rain 3/11/ IFMS GM2

2009 Art Work from Painting Competitions and Society Events 3/11/ IFMS GM2

Society Bulletin Editorial Board 3/11/ IFMS GM2 Editor-in-Chief C.Y. Lam (Ex-HKO director, Ex-HK Met Soc. Chairman) David H.Y. Lam Clarence Fong Olivia S.M. Lee

Society Bulletin Sharing & preservation of Knowledge 3/11/ IFMS GM – Open access of bulletins through Society's Webpage Vol 1 up to Vol 18 (2008) Objective – Open Knowledge. Attract more readers and Papers We have Institutional and Individual subscribers Should we give up the revenue after open access?

Pros and Cons of Modernization 3/11/ IFMS GM2 Printing of the Society’s Bulletin cost about 90% of our Society’s overall annual expense. Publishing e-books can avoid this considerable expenditure item. It is understandable that quite a number of readers still prefer hardcopy. Printing a small number of hardcopies is economically not feasible.

Challenges 3/11/ IFMS GM2 About 3 to 4 academic papers per year. Need to attract more academic paper submission. Indeed China and Hong Kong are not short of academic papers. Most of them in Chinese. New Effort: Trying to translate 5 Chinese academic papers to English for the Volume 20, 2010 issue. Now we discover the manpower for language translation is enormous.

Challenges 3/11/ IFMS GM2 How to attract high quality papers? Indeed China and Hong Kong are publishing many academic papers in meteorology. Possibility of SCI list journal? What are the requirements? What are the procedures? What are the cost?

Publication Policies and Consensus 3/11/ IFMS GM2 Should Society news and events report be excluded? Solely meteorology, weather and climate content? Cross discipline but meteorology related Disaster Air pollution Satellite Computer Energy Health Transport

Exchange with other Meteorological Societies 3/11/ IFMS GM2 The Executive Board will consider possibilities of more interactions with other meteorological societies and engaging more with other partner organizations. Shenzhen Meteorological and Disaster Mitigation Society is visiting our Society this coming Saturday November 5, 2011.

3/11/ IFMS GM2 Thank You Your comments and ideas are most valuable