Fwd: UK Royal Met Soc meeting on seasonal forecasts

[Iannitti Lisa]

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> From: Alberto Troccoli <alberto.troccoli at ecmwf.int>
> Date: 12 April 2006 17:46:52 GMT+02:00
> To: l.iannitti at ictp.trieste.it
> Subject: UK Royal Met Soc meeting on seasonal forecasts
>
>
> Dear Colleague,
>
>   On Wednesday 19 April at 2pm, the UK Royal Meteorological Society
>   will convene an open meeting:
>
>          **********************************************
>                "Forecasting UK and European Winters"
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>
>   The meeting will be held at the Zoological Society of London Meeting 
> Room,
>   London Zoo.  Recent progress of numerical models will be discussed,
>   and a forward look at the next crucial developments will be 
> presented.
>
>   For more info, visit: http://www.rmets.org/event/detail.php?ID=144
>
>   The speakers and their talk titles are:
>
>     Rowan Sutton (CGAM, Univ Reading)
>        "Introduction"
>
>     Adam Scaife (Hadley Centre, UK Met Office)
>        "Some sources of European winter predictability"
>
>     Fiona Parton, University College London
>        "Monthly and seasonal predictability of the winter Arctic 
> Oscillation"
>
>     Warwick Norton (CGAM, Univ Reading)
>        "Mechanisms and modelling for European winter prediction"
>
>     Mark Rodwell (ECMWF)
>        "End to end forecasting for Europe"
>
>     Chris Gordon (Hadley Centre, UK Met Office)
>        "The winter forecast for 2005/06"
>
>     Paul Hardaker (UK Met Office)
>        "Communicating the winter forecast"
>
>     Isla Gilmour (Merrill Lynch)
>       "A financial market perspective: the role of probabilistic 
> forecasts in
>        winter trading decisions"
>
>   Lively discussion is expected during the panel session after the 
> presentations.
>
>   The panelists will be:
>          Paul Hardaker (UK Met Office, chair)
>          Chris Gordon  (UK Met Office)
>          Jo Witters    (OFGEM)
>          Isla Gilmour  (Merrill Lynch)
>
>  The meeting will end at 6.00pm.
>
>
>  So, if you're within London reach, why don't you come along to this 
> event
>  which promises to be very exciting?
>
>  Please help us publicise this event as widely as possible.
>
> Best regards
>     Alberto Troccoli
>
>  for the meeting organisers:
>    Alberto Troccoli, ECMWF
>    Matt Huddleston, UK Met Office
>
>
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>    Dr Alberto Troccoli      E-mail: a.troccoli at ecmwf.int
>         ECMWF               Tel: +44 118 949 9853
>     Shinfield Park          Fax: +44 118 986 9450
>    Reading RG2 9AX - UK
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