World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Connell, Molenar

A meeting of an International Satellite Data Utilization and Training Focus Group was held at the European Meteorological Satellite (EUMETSAT) Agency in Darmstadt, Germany, 16-18 May 2001. This meeting was organized by the World Meteorological Organization, and included representatives from NOAA/NESDIS and the international satellite community (including NOAA/NESDIS sponsored participants Vilma Castro and Selvin Burton from the RMTCs in Costa Rica and Barbados).  A decision was made at this meeting to establish a Virtual Laboratory (VL) to foster the international exchange of satellite data and training material. For this purpose, web servers will be established at EUMETSAT, the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) in Melbourne, Australia and at CIRA in Fort Collins, CO.  The proposal “Development of an International Workstation Network to Foster Collaborative Satellite Research, Data Utilization and Training" was submitted to  NOAA/NESDIS to purchase and configure the necessary hardware and software, coordinate the initial VL development with EUMETSAT and BOM, and to provide software support for the first year of the project.

B. Motta participated in a test of internet-delivered audio in combination with interactive RAMSDIS Online and VISITview presentations for the Computer-Aided-Learning in Meteorology Conference being held in Brazil.  Other participants were from Boulder, CO,  Germany, Switzerland, and Barbados.  F. Holt and J. Purdom also observed parts of this conference presentation/demonstration.