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AMMA-UK News January 2006
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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!
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SOP0 First flight of DABEX / SOP0 was last Friday – generally successful
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SOP1 – SOP2 forecasting Limited forecasting provision at ACMAD agreed 4 forecasters on rotation – 2 per shift and 1 working closely with IOP Planning Group.
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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.
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Meetings EU Governing Board: 25 Jan 2006 SOP1 / SOP2 (Leeds?) 4-6 April 2006 SOP1-3 review ~ 9 Nov 2006 in France
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Challenges for 2006 Funding for Africans (Funding for) forecasting programme Radiosondes High frequency Data collection BADC details Tessalit
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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 BAe146 17 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
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