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[ FRAM Workshop | Introduction | Program | Participants | Travel | Hotel ] Fog Remote Sensing and Modeling (FRAM) Workshop
Overview · Subjects: fog, visibility, low clouds, and ceiling · Goals: 1) promote scientific advancement, and 2) develop interactions among groups and create more collaborations · Emphasis: observations, field projects, remote sensing methods, statistical methods, climatology, nowcasting and forecasting issues, modeling applications, and operational applications (current and user needs), model verification and forecast verification · This is a workshop; therefore, participants are encouraged to shine a light on challenging issues as well as on promising results, to open up discussions on common problems, and to exchange ideas and information on effective strategies and techniques. · Day-1 and the morning of day-2 will consist of a series of 20-minute presentations (15 minutes for talks followed by 5 minutes for discussion). The afternoon of day-2 of the workshop will consist of in-depth discussion of common issues. For more details, see the program. Organizing
Committee Chairperson: Dr. Ismail Gultepe Organizers: Bjarne Hansen, Garry Pearson, Dr. Harold Ritchie Contact
Information The FRAM Workshop
Organizing Committee can be reached at framworkshop@gmail.com. Any questions and suggestions you have can be addressed to the FRAM Workshop Organizing Committee and /or to: Dr. Ismail Gultepe, Research Scientist Cloud Physics and Severe Weather Research Section Science and
Technology Branch, Environment Canada Tel: 1-416-739-4607; email: ismail.gultepe@ec.gc.ca Adjunct Professeur, Département des Sciences de la
Terre et de l'Atmosphère Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Québec Editor of Atmospheric Sciences, J. of Pure and Applied Geophysics Last updated 7 May 2008 |