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Future SPARC and SPARC-related meetings

2004

01-08 June: Quadrennial Ozone Symposium "Kos 2004", Kos, Greece (http://lap.physics.auth.gr/ozone2004/). Chair: C. S. Zerefos

09-14 June: 3rd Workshop on Long-term trends in the atmosphere, Sozopol, Bulgaria (http://www.stil.acad.bg:80/STIL/ws2004/). Chair of LOC: K. Georgieva

16-18 June: 8^th Biennial HITRAN Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts - USA

6-8 July: 6^th UTLS Ozone Science Meeting, Lancaster University, UK (http://utls.nerc.ac.uk/).

18-25 July: 35^th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Paris, France. (http://www.cospar2004.org/gb_welcome.htm) Chair: M.-L. Chanin (chanin@aerov.jussieu.fr)

• Interdisciplinary lectures (relevant of SPARC): 21^st July: P. Crutzen “First ENVISAT Results”; 23 July: C. Fröhlich “Solar Radiation and Climate”
• SPARC co-sponsored sessions:
  - A 1.1: Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Earth's Surface, Troposphere, Stratosphere and Mesosphere. Chair: J. Burrows
  - C.2.3: Long-term Changes of Greenhouse Gases and Ozone and their Influence on the Middle Atmosphere. Chair: D. Chakrabarty
  - C.2.5: Structure and Dynamics of the Arctic and Antarctic of the Middle Atmosphere. Chair: M. Rapp
  - D 2.1/C2.2/E 3/I: Influence of the Sun's Radiation and Particles on the Earth's Atmosphere and Climate. Chair: J. Pap

01-06 August: 3rd SPARC General Assembly 2004, Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria (BC), Canada (http://sparc.seos.uvic.ca/). Chairs: A. Ravishankara and T. Sheperd
- Chemistry-climate coupling
- Extratropical UT/LS
- Stratosphere-troposphere dynamical coupling
- Tropical tropopause layer
- Detection, attribution and prediction
- Other
A particular emphasis for this General Assembly will be chemistry-climate coupling.

16-20 August: 2004 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (AGU WPGM), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA (http://www.agu.org/meetings/wp04/).

16-26 August: ESA summer school on "Earth System Monitoring & Modelling, ESRIN, Frascati, Italy (http://envisat.esa.int/envschool/).

04-09 September: 8^th International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand (http://www.IGAConference2004.co.nz/).

12-25 September: 14th National Summer School on Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamics, Cambridge, UK (http://www.gefd.damtp.cam.ac.uk).

19 September - 01 October: 1^st French-German Summer School on "Aerosols, Heterogeneous Chemistry and Climate, La Vieille Perrotine", l'île d'Oléron, France
(http://www.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/summerschool/Summerschool_website/).

26-30 September: 4^th Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society - Part and Partner: 5th Conference on Applied Climatology (ECAC), Nice, France (http://www.copernicus.org/ems/2004/index.htm).