AMMA-UK News January 2006
MIT radar C-band doppler radar to be deployed at Niamey Funded for around 75 days by NASA Planned to start 1 June 2006 … and finish on ~ 12 August!
SOP0 First flight of DABEX / SOP0 was last Friday – generally successful
SOP1 – SOP2 forecasting Limited forecasting provision at ACMAD agreed 4 forecasters on rotation – 2 per shift and 1 working closely with IOP Planning Group.
Partnership 5 Africans invited to be associated – all with WP3 Gaye (LPA, U. Dakar, Senegal) Diop and Diongue (DMN, Senegal) Afiesimama (NIMET, Lagos, Nigeria) Omotosho (Nigeria) Colleagues from the University of Niamey should also be involved in sodar/tethersonde deployment.
Meetings EU Governing Board: 25 Jan 2006 SOP1 / SOP2 (Leeds?) 4-6 April 2006 SOP1-3 review ~ 9 Nov 2006 in France
Challenges for 2006 Funding for Africans (Funding for) forecasting programme Radiosondes High frequency Data collection BADC details Tessalit
Week29/55/612/619/626/ 6 3/73/7 10/717/724/731/77/814/821/828/84/911/9 SOP # SOP1SOP2 Dates 1 June – 30 June1 July – 15 Sept Aircraft SOP 1-aSOP 2-a1SOP 2-a2SOP 2-a3 Dates 1 – 15 June1 – 15 July17 July – 25 August1 – 15 Sept BAe July – 21 August22 – 28/8 ATR 1 – 15 June1 – 15 July25 July – 25 August F-F20 1 – 15 June1 – 15 July25 July – 25 August1 – 15 Sept D-F20 1 – 15 July1 – 20 August Geoph. 1 – 20 August Sodars June 1 – 21 August Tether- sonde 17 July – 21 August Deployment periods in SOP1 and SOP2