Invitation to Authors

Subject:Acceptance of papers for the Technical Conference (TECO-2006)

Action required:To submit the camera-ready paper(s) of accepted abstracts for presentation by 30 September 2006 and the completed Registration Form by 31 August 2006 at the latest to the WMO Secretariat

Dear Sir/Madam,

I wish to refer to WMO circular letter ref. WWW/IMOP/TECO-2006 dated 15 March 2006 announcing the WMO Technical Conference on Meteorological and Environmental Instruments and Methods of Observation (TECO-2006), which will be held in Geneva from 4 to 6 December 2006 and will precede the fourteenth session of the Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observations (Geneva, 7-14 December 2006).

I now have the pleasure to inform you on behalf of Dr R. Canterford (Australia), Acting president of CIMO and the chairman of the International Programme Committee of TECO-2006 (IPC), of the decisions of the IPC as regards the papers accepted for presentation. The papers accepted for oral or poster presentation are listed in the Provisional Programme as contained in Annex I. Authors whose papers or posters have not been accepted will not be notified separately.

The oral presentations shall not exceed 15 minutes and can only be given when the corresponding paper is included in the WMO Conference publication and presented either by the author or one of the co-authors. It is currently planned to conduct the conference in English only.

To:Authors of abstracts submitted for TECO-2006)

cc:Acting president and Vice-president of CIMO) for information

Permanent Representatives of the Members concerned)

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The authors of the accepted papers and posters are urged to submit an electronic version of the camera-ready original by 30 September 2006 to:

Dr Miroslav Ondráš
World Meteorological Organization
World Weather Watch Department
P.O. Box 2300
CH 1211 Geneva 2
Switzerland
Tel: (+41 22) 730 8409
Fax: (+41 22) 730 8021
E-mail:

Submitted papers and posters will be published in the WMO Conference publication, which will be prepared in CD ROM format. It is essential that the camera-ready manuscripts comply with the following requirements:

- Documents should be preferable in PDF, but MS WORD is also accepted;

- Care must be taken that all fonts are embedded in the converted PDF file;

- Figures and graphs should be of high resolution, a low quality JPG format should be avoided;

- Page size should be A4;

- Format is given in Annex IV;

- Posters are accepted also in PowerPoint.

The poster presentations have to be brought to TECO-2006 by the authors themselves. They should not exceed 4 pages with a maximum size of A3 (double size of A4, see Annex IV) each.

In Annex II, information is provided on local arrangements regarding TECO 2006. Participants are invited to send the Registration Form (Annex III) to the WMO Secretariat not later than 31 August 2006.

I should like to inform you that only very limited financial resources are available to WMO to support participants. A committee will be established to consider the requests for financial assistance and give priority to authors from developing countries whose papers have been selected for oral presentation. You may note that a request for financial support has to be submitted by the Permanent Representative of your country with WMO and will be considered within available resources.

I look forward to seeing you at TECO-2006.

Yours sincerely,

(J.L. Hayes)

Director

World Weather Watch Department