7-9 June 2004, De Bilt, The Netherlands.
 

1st announcement:

Dear colleagues,

Following earlier meetings in Kiel and Miami, a Tropical Atlantic Workshop will be held from 7-10 June 2004 at KNMI in de Bilt (the Netherlands).

The workshop will bring together modellers and observationalists with expertise in the Tropical Atlantic. The objectives of the workshop are to review recent progress in measuring and modelling Tropical Atlantic circulation and variability, to coordinate exisisting plans and to define future needs for observational and modelling experiments.

The subjects which will be discussed include insights on Tropical Atlantic circulation and variability as derived from hydrographic and satellite data, ocean model results and coupled ocean/atmosphere model results. The scope will be broader than Tropical Atlantic oceanography and include relationships between oceanic variability and atmospheric variability, such as ITCZ and monsoon variability. In addition, coordination of plans which are currently developed within for instance the Clivar framework will be discussed.

Please, send me an email if you are interested to attend this meeting. More details on the program and requests for contributions will be send on a later stage.

Participants (confirmed):

Bill Johns (RSMAS), Gustavo Goni (NOAA/AOML), Bob Molinari (NOAA/AOML), Markus Jochum (MIT), Chidong Zhang (RSMAS), Mojib Latif (IFM Kiel), Raghu Murtugudde (UMD), Yves Tourre (CNES), Monika Rhein (Bremen), Christian Mertens (Bremen), Kerstin Kirchner (Bremen), Fritz Schott (IFM Kiel + 2 people), Sabine Arnault (LODYC), Christine Provost (LODYC), Lucia Bunge (LODYC), Claus Boening (IFM Kiel), Sabine Huettl (IFM Kiel), Eric Chassignet (RSMAS), Rana Fine (RSMAS), Ping Chang (Texas AM), Alban Lazar (LODYC), Lixin Wu (Univ Wisc), Bernard Bourles (IRD), Frederic Marin (CNES),Marc D'Orgeville (IFREMER), Paulo Nobre (CPTEC), Rein Haarsma (KNMI), Wilco Hazeleger (KNMI), Roberto De Almeida (USP/KNMI)

See www.knmi.nl/samenw/tameet/program.html

Report:
reporttameet.doc/reporttameet.pdf

Links:

Workshop website: http://www.knmi.nl/samenw/tameet/tameet.html
Ocean model output for the Tropical Atlantic: http://www.knmi.nl/~hazelege/tameet/tameetmod.html
Hydrographic data for the Tropical Atlantic: http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/TAWorkshop/
KNMI: http://www.knmi.nl/indexeng.html

How to reach KNMI:
KNMI is located in the village "de Bilt" which is very close to the city of "Utrecht".
A description on how to reach Utrecht or KNMI can be found at: route to KNMI

Hotels:
Basically, there are two options:
1) Stay in de Bilt, which is walking distance to KNMI, but the neighbourhood is not very lively. However, there are regular busses to the centre of Utrecht.
2) Stay in the city of Utrecht which is very close to de Bilt (busses take about 15 mins to get from busstops in the centre to the busstop at KNMI or rent a bike). Utrecht has a nice old city centre with many hotels, restaurants, bars, shops etc.

Here are links to different hotels:

- near KNMI in de Bilt (20 minutes walk): Hotel De Biltsche Hoek
- a map with an overall view of hotels in Utrecht refers with numbers to several hotels. The Malie Hotel (No. 3 on the map), Tulip Inn Utrecht Hotel (No. 5) and Best Western Amrath Hotel (No. 8), shown here, are near public transport (approx. 20 minutes from KNMI).
- a list with tariffs of hotels (click on 'English' and 'Tarifs'; for cheaper hotels see the Tourist information below)
- B&B Utrecht City Center is a low budget hotel in Utrecht, near a bus stop.

Tourist information:
Destination Holland
Destination Utrecht (click on "eating, drinking and sleeping" for cheaper hotels!)
Destination Amsterdam

Local organization:

Wilco Hazeleger
PO Box 201
3730 AE De Bilt
The Netherlands
fax. +31 30 2202570/tel +31 30 2206718
Email: hazelege@knmi.nl

Brigitta Kamphuis
Phone: +31 30 2206394
Fax: +31 30 2202570
E-mail: kamphuis@knmi.nl