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Notable Weather in Nz - Winter 2013 Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter #134 Sep 2013 - Page 1 ISSN 0111-1736 Meteorological Society Of New Zealand (Inc.) NEWSLETTER 134 SEPTEMBER 2013 Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter #134 Sep 2013 - Page 2 Meteorological Society Of New Zealand (Inc.) NEWSLETTER 134 SEPTEMBER 2013 PO Box 6523, Marion Square, Wellington 6141, New Zealand Please forward contributions to Bob McDavitt, [email protected] CONTENTS Page President’s foreword 3 Conferences 4-5 Meetings around the Regions 5-6 UV Conference 6-7 Winter 2013 (NIWA + Ben Tichborne) 8-19 Winter 2013 pick of the clips 20-55 Your Committee—until AGM President Sam Dean Immediate Past President Andrew Tait Auckland VP Jennifer Salmond Wellington VP James Renwick Christchurch VP Simon Parsons Dunedin VP Daniel Kingston Secretary Katrina Richards Treasurer Alan Porteous Circulation Manager Sylvia Nichol Journal Editor Brian Giles/Jennifer Salmond Newsletter Editor Bob McDavitt [email protected] Wed Editor James Sturman Hydro.Soc Liaison: Charles Pearson General Committee Mike Revell Gareth Renowden Duncan Ackerley Kim Dirks Views and endorsements expressed in this newsletter are those of the contributors and advertisers, and not necessarily those of the Meteorological Society of New Zealand. The mention of specific companies or products does not imply that they Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter #134 Sep 2013 - Page 3 Foreword from our President Dear Members, We will soon be hosting our annual conference in November, this year in Palmer- ston North and held in partnership with the Hydrological Society. This confer- ence represents a great opportunity to get to hear about the work of the coun- tries meteorological and climate scientists. In particular I am looking forward to the talks by those scientists who led and made signi%icant contributions to the recently released report "Climate Change 2013, The Physical cience -asis" the contribution of Working .roup 1 to the Fifth Assessment 0eport of the Intergov- ernmental Panel on Climate Change. This report concluded that is " e1tremely likely that more than half of the observed increase in global average surface tempera- ture from 1231 to 2010 was caused by the anthropogenic in- crease in greenhouse gas concen- trations and other anthropogenic forcings together. The best esti- mate of the human-induced con- tribution to warming is similar to the observed warming over this period." The New 4ealand con- tributors to this report all play a signi%icant role in our own Mete- orological ociety. I also know that the hard work of the scien- tists involved has helped to cre- ate a document that will for many years to come inform us all about the conse5uences of our actions in emitting greenhouse gases into our shared global atmosphere. Here in New 4ealand the weather this year has been as interesting as ever, with some of the biggest storms, the warmest winter, and one of the driest summers. Hopeful- ly there will also be some active discussion of these events at the conference. I look forward to catching up with many of you at the meeting and sharing the committee6s e1periences with you at the A.M. -est wishes am Dean President of the Meteorological ociety of New 4ealand 2013. Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter #134 Sep 2013 - Page 4 7f%icial notice to members for A.M 2013 8ou are invited to attend our 34th Annual .eneral Meeting This is planned for around 3,30pm at the end of the second day of our Annual Conference at eminar 0oom, Convention Centre, The 5uare, Palmerston North. on Wednesday20 Nov 2013. All %inancial members are allowed to attend and vote. Apologies may be emailed to [email protected] Items of business may be emailed to [email protected] Agenda 1. Attendance 2. Apologies 3. Con%irmation of minutes of previous A.M 4. Matters Arising, 3. President:s 0eport 6. Treasurer:s 0eport 7. Appointment of Auditor 8. ubscription 0ate 9. Election of 7f%icers 10. 7ther Matters Around the 0egions, Members were invited to the following seminars movies and talks -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Wellington, 29 May "Observations of Supercooled Liquid Water over the Southern Ocean" by Dr Steve Siems of Monash University 13 June: Bill McKibben, well-known environmental author and activist and founder of 350.org , spoke in Wellington as part of a nationwide tour. 1 August: ‘The market for electric vehicles in New Zealand: using stated choice methods to evaluate the implications for electricity demand and carbon emissions to 2030’ by Doug Clo- ver, Environmental Studies, VUW SGEES 15 August : Climatological Research on Tropical Cyclones in the Southwest Paci%ic 7cean -asin by Howard Diamond, N7AA and Auckland Aniversity 3 eptember , DClimate confusion, why the international climate change negotiations have un- ravelled, and what, if anything, can be done about itF: by Professor tephen Howes, Australian Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter #134 Sep 2013 - Page 6 National Aniversity 13th ep , DThe glaciation of the Antarctic Peninsula, a Gourney through time: by Prof Nancy -ertler, Antarctic 0esearch Centre, EAW -?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?- Dunedin 12 June: Bill McKibben, “Do the Maths” well-known environmental author and activist and founder of 350.org , spoke in Dunedin as part of a nationwide tour. 24 July: Conversations on Climate Change ‘Climate chabge, seromobility… and addiction? Be- havioural (non-) responses to the ‘%lyers: deliemma: by Professor Bames Higham. A discussion on climatic concerns of tourism, looking at discretionary air travel. Are we too addicted to %lyingF 31st Buly , Lost in the Clouds, Atmospheric controls on -rewster .lacier mass balance 21 Aug , Conversations on Climate Change HWhy hould We Think About Climate Change in DunedinFI by Bono Conway, PhD Candidate, Department of .eography, Aniversity of 7tago, and hosted by the 7tago Climate Change Network MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM UV Radiation: Effects on Human Health and the Environment (2014) This is the third announcement regarding the upcoming AE Workshop, to be held at the Herit- age Hotel in Auckland, New 4ealand 13-17 April 2014. ee https,NNwww.niwa.co.nONatmosphereNuv-oOoneNuv-science-workshopsN2014-uv- workshop for further details. 7n behalf of the organising committee, I invite you to now visit the above site to 0E.I TE0. If you plan to A-MIT A PAPE0 for presentation, please submit the title and, if possible, a short abstract on your registration form, to help us decide whether it should be an oral or poster presentation. The will be a ma1imum of one oral paper per registrant, and only papers that have relevance to AustraliaNNew 4ealand and the outh Paci%ic region, including Antarcti- ca, will be accepted for oral presentation. The CL7 IN. DATE for submission of papers is 13 December. Please note that there will be time for a ma1imum of about 36 oral presentations, and that early contributions will have a greater chance of acceptance. Authors of all papers that are accepted for presentation at the Workshop (oral or posterL will be e1pected to submit a 2-page e1tended abstract of their presentation (including %igures and referencesL. These should be made available to the organising committee on arrival at the Workshop. Following the Workshop, pdfs of these e1tended abstracts will be collated and posted on the NIWA website in a similar fashion to those from previous workshops (see https,NNwww.niwa.co.nONour-servicesNonline-servicesNuv-and-oOoneNworkshopsNpapersN papersinde1 L. The formatting style will be the same as in previous workshops, as shown in the attached e1ample. We look forward to receiving your registration soon, and seeing you in Auckland ne1t April. 0ichard McCenOie, Convenor (and co-convenors -arbara Hegan, 0obert cragg, Peter .ies, 0obyn Lucas, and Michael Cim- linL Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter #134 Sep 2013 - Page 7 Meteorological Society of New Zealand Newsletter #134 Sep 2013 - Page 8 Met ociety Photo Competition 2013 There are 16 entries this year and E7TIN. is allowed during the month of 7ctober (this involves Dliking: our Facebook pageL. 8ou only get 7NE vote each, but you may share your voting amongst your Face- book friends and anyone is allowed to vote. E7TE N7W AT http://bit.ly/12AC9q8 THE P0I4E FI0 T "Home in the Howling Wilderness" (reviewed in our ne1t Bour- nalL EC7ND "The N4 Weather -ook" THI0D "Met ervice Weather Calendar 2014" WINNE0 are to be announced at the Met ociety Conference and on our web sites in Nov 2013 and also in our newsletter in Dec 2013. -?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?- Winter 2013 Warmest winter on record for New 4ealand. Temperature A very warm winter for most of the country, with record-high mean temperatures for winter occurring throughout the outh Island. Mean temperatures well above average (more than 1.2PC above the winter averageL throughout outhland, 7tago (e1cept outh 7tagoL, inland Canterbury, coastal Canterbury north of Ashburton, and isolated parts of the lower half of the North Island. The nation-wide mean temperature was 1.2PC above the winter average, based on NIWA:s seven-station temperature series, making this the warmest winter on record since 1202. 0ainfall A wet winter overall for parts of Central 7tago, the east coast of the outh Island from Dune- din to Christchurch, and southeastern parts of Marlborough and Hawke:s -ay. 0ainfall was well above normal (more than 130 percent of normal winter rainfallL for areas of eastern and Central 7tago. In contrast, below normal rainfall (less than 80 percent of normal winter rain- fallL occurred in parts of Manawatu, Taranaki, -ay of Plenty and Waikato. oil Moisture As at 1 eptember 2013, most soils throughout New 4ealand were at normal soil moisture lev- els for the time of year. In isolated parts of Central 7tago, coastal North 7tago and about Cai- koura, soils were wetter than normal for the time of year.
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