SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT
FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL WINDS WORKSHOP
23 April – 27 April 2018
Jeju City, South Korea
Introduction One of the key meteorological parameters for weather forecasting, meteorological studies and climate applications is wind. It has therefore been a major task for the science and operational community to exploit the imagery data from satellites in order to derive Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) by tracking observed cloud and moisture features. The globally derived AMV fields are an established and essential product, especially for numerical weather prediction, and are complemented by other satellite-based observations of the atmospheric flow. The biennial International Winds Workshops are the forums used by the International Winds Working Group (IWWG) for co-operation in the operational and research community, and have strongly contributed to the improvement in quality of the derived wind fields.
The Workshop is an opportunity to present advances and new ideas in this specialised field. We therefore encourage participation from all organisations operating meteorological satellites, as well as from data users and the science community. Presentations on operational and experimental wind retrievals from satellite imagery data and their use for Numerical Weather Prediction, nowcasting, or in climatological applications are welcome. In addition, research work on wind retrievals from active and passive microwave instruments and active optical systems (lidar) is encouraged.
The workshop is being co-organised by the NMSC/KMA, EUMETSAT, and the University of Wisconsin, (UW)/Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and is co-sponsored by EUMETSAT, NOAA/NESDIS, and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
IWW14 web page An IWW14 meeting web page has been established at http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/iwwg/iww14/ that contains details about the meeting including abstract submission, accommodations, important information for international visitors (visa requirements), and general information about the local area. Some preliminary programme information is also provided.
Workshop Points of Contact For general workshop questions, please contact the co-chairs: Dr Régis Borde, [email protected] Mr Steve Wanzong, [email protected]
For questions about Jeju City or the local area, please contact: Mr Sung-Rae Chung, [email protected]
The meeting is being organised by a joint Scientific Program Committee: Dr Régis Borde (EUMETSAT), Co-chair Mr Steve Wanzong (CIMSS), Co-chair Mr Sung-Rae Chung (NMSC/KMA) Dr Mary Forsythe (Met Office) Mr Jaime Daniels (NOAA)
Venue This workshop will take place in Jeju City, South Korea, at the Maison Glad Jeju. For more information about the venue please visit: Maison Glad Jeju.
Programme It is anticipated the workshop will run from Monday morning until Friday lunchtime, with an afternoon off mid-week to explore the surrounding area. More information on these optional activities will be provided closer to the time.
As with previous workshops it is expected we will have time for break-out working group discussions as well as some special topic plenary discussions within the main programme.
Poster presentations will be provided as an option to enable sharing of work through a different format. We plan to keep all posters on display throughout the workshop and provide some dedicated time within the agenda for viewing.
A draft programme will be made available closer to the time of the workshop.
Registration We expect to provide options to register on the Sunday evening and first thing on Monday morning.
Visa application Participants are encouraged to check visa requirements as early as possible. Information is available from the South Korean Visa website at: http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/TRV/TV_ENG_2_1.jsp.
For those workshop attendees who will need a visa to enter South Korea please contact Sung-Rae Chung. The visa process can take a while, so we recommend starting now if you have not done so already.
Reservation at Maison Glad Jeju A block booking has been made at the Maison Glad Jeju conference venue. Costs per day are shown below.
Standard: W140,000/Sunday – Thursday, W180,000/Friday – Saturday. Deluxe: W150,000/Sunday – Thursday Premium: W160,000/Sunday-Thursday
This includes taxes and wireless internet access. Breakfast is not included, but available for W22,000. Check-in is at 14:00 with check out by 12:00.
Getting there
1) Transportation from Seoul Incheon Airport to Jeju Airport
The flights to Jeju are available mainly the from Gimpo Domestic Airport located about 40 km from the Seoul Incheon International Airport. From Gimpo Domestic airport to Jeju International Airport you can travel with Korean Air or Asiana Airline. There are flights every 30 minutes and the flight takes an hour.
To get to Gimpo Airport from Incheon Airport you can use the Seoul Metro (AREX Express) or Airport limousine buses (bus stop 3B). The bus runs every 20 minutes and it takes about 40 minutes (up to 60 minutes, depending on the traffic) to get to Gimpo Airport. For more details about new airport, please visit the web-site at: http://www.airport.kr/pa/en/d/index.jsp
2) There are direct flights to Jeju international Airport from Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenyang and so on.
LOCAL TRANSFER The Maison Glad hotel can be reached from the Jeju International Airport as follows:
By taxi Fee: ~5,000 KRW, Travel Time: ~10 minutes
By Hotel Shuttle Bus Hotel shuttle buses are operated when required by customers and may stop at parking lot number C 10, 11 of airport for boarding.
Currency The currency of South Korea is the South Korean Won (KRW) [W1000 = USD $0.89/EUR 0.75 (as of 17 October 2017, OANDA]. Major credit cards are accepted almost everywhere.
Climate
April is usually classified as spring season in Korea. Temperatures in April: Mean 13.8C, Max 17.5C, Min 10.2C.
Access to internet and email Free WiFi Service. The meeting rooms as well as the individual hotel rooms have wireless internet access.
Meals and Social Events Ice breaker: will take place on the evening of Monday 23 April 2018.
Workshop dinner: (sponsored by EUMETSAT): date to be confirmed (possibly Thursday 26 April 2017).
Optional Tours: We plan to continue the IWW tradition of leaving Wednesday afternoon open for delegate free time. Suggested tours with details and costs will be made available at a later date.
Workshop presentations and proceedings Workshop presentations will be collected and placed online shortly after the meeting. We also strongly encourage paper submission for the workshop proceedings, which are made available online after the meeting and provide a very valuable mechanism for recording developments in the area of satellite-derived winds, much of which is not available in the peer-reviewed literature. Instruction for submission of final papers will be provided closer to the time.
Useful websites: IWW14 website http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/iwwg/iww14/ IWWG website http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/iwwg/iwwg.html Jeju Island tourism site https://www.ijto.or.kr/english/