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After a six year cycle through all Alpine countries the Annual Conference and Committee Meetings of the Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) did return to Bavaria in May 2001. As before a balanced blend of selected oral presentations and well exposed poster presentations provided an up-to-date overview of the latest achievements within this truely international research activity.
Schliersee is the name of a small lake, situated at the northern edge of the Bavarian Alps, and of the picturesque village at its northern shore. Kurzentrum Schliersee is a modest, though spacious conference centre directly at the lake shore, including a large lecture room, foyers for poster sessions, a restaurant (with a grand terrasse overlooking the lake), and a public swimming pool in an adjacent building. During the 1990ies this facility hosted four international 'Stratospheric Ozon Conferences', each with more than 300 participants ("Prost!" think two of them in 1997).
Schliersee is situated about 25 km east of Bad Tölz (the venue of the first MAP-meeting in 1995) and some 60 km to the south of Munich, from where it can be easily reached by frequent trains services (about one hour journey). During the intermediate season of May accommodation was available in all categories from four-star-hotels to private guesthouses or holiday appartements.
Three impressions: As in the years before the conference atmosphere was pittoresque, tranquil and flowerful; the chairmen of the IGP (Gutermann, left) and the newly formed MSC (Bougeault, right) overlooked the scene with sympathy; finally the programme chair (Hoinka, right) relaxed with a beer and listened to comments from Italy and Spain. Fotos courtesy of Agusti JANSA.
Conference programme:
Timetable, list of talks:
HTML-version
(for quick viewing; weaknesses in automatic layout)
PDF-file or Postscript-file
(for download and print)
List of
posters:
HTML-version
(for quick viewing; weaknesses in automatic layout)
PDF-file or Postscript-file
(for download and print)
The book of
abstracts can be downloaded
(700 kB) as it was distributed
in print at the MAP-meeting.
List of participants:
Updated list (Html-Format) of the 145 participants
(to download the respective doc-file click
here)
Local organisation: DLR,
Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre and
Meteorologisches Institut, Universität München
Programme committee: Robert BENOIT (CAN),
Peter BINDER (CH), Adrian BROAD (UK), Andrea BUZZI
(I),
Links for further information:
Maps: overview
(blue route from Munich airport south of Freising), mesoscale
(train line in grey), and local
surroundings
Plans: Schliersee
centre (perspective view from north; involves some 360 kB download
of subfiles),
Views: from NOAA satellite:
Alpine croissant powered with snow (S: Schliersee; MUC:
Munich airport; I: Innsbruck)
For further information please contact Hans.Volkert@dlr.de
(very final update: 13 July 2001)
A compilation of extended abstracts was
prepared and distributed by MeteoSwiss as MAP-newsletter
no. 15 by the end of June 2001.
Group photograph:
Download pdf-file (2 pages)
with faces, numbered outlines and a name list of the 126 person crowd
(hints concerning the 9 as yet unidentified persons are most welcome to
Hans.Volkert@dlr.de ).
Thomas BIRNER, Klaus-Peter HOINKA, Christian KEIL, Hans VOLKERT
(chair) and Günther ZÄNGL
Klaus-Peter HOINKA (D; chair), Robert A. HOUZE (USA),
Evelyne RICHARD (F), Ronald B. SMITH (USA),
Reinhold STEINACKER (A), Tomaz VRHOVEC (SI)
entire Schliersee area
(self steerable system; in German; click box 'Übersicht' to start;
then click a location on the map)
from Schliersbergalm lift station: in
sunshine - with lowering clouds
- with silver lake
- with spring snow
- most
recent
