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Past SPARC and SPARC-related meetings

2004

• AGU Chapman Conference on Gravity Waves Processes and Parameterization, Kohala Coast, Hawaii - USA.
  Chair: K. Hamilton, 10-14 January, 2004
• International Workshop on Critical Evaluation of mm-/submm-wave Spectroscopic Data for Atmospheric Observations, Mito, Ibaraki - Japan, 29-30 January, 2004
• 34th Saas-Fee Advanced Course : "The Sun, Solar Analogs and the Climate",
  Davos - Switzerland, 15-20 March, 2004
• GRIPS workshop, Chair: S.Pawson
  Bologna, Italy , 24-26 March, 2004

2003

• 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society
  Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California - USA, 9-13 February 2003
  Chair: D. Siedel
• Workshop about Lidar Measurement in Latin America
  Camagüey - Cuba, 24-28 February, 2003
  Chair: J.C. Antuña
• GRIPS Workshop, Headquarters of the American Geophysical Union, Washington DC - USA, 04-07 March 2003
  Chairs: S.Pawson and K. Kodera
• 24th Session of the JSC for WCRP, University of Reading - UK, 17-21 March 2003
  Chair: P. Lemke , Vice-Chair: B.J. Hoskings
• SPARC-IGAC Joint Meeting, Giens - France, 02-06 April 2003
  Chairs: A.R. Ravishankara , S. Liu , C. Granier
• EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice Acropolis, Nice, - France, 06-11 April, 2003
  • AS1: Open session on the lower, middle, and upper atmosphere. Convenor: M. Juckes
    
  • AS6.11: Polar stratospheric clouds. Convenor: K. Carslaw (
    
  • AS6.12: Polar ozone. Convenor G. Braathen
    
  • AS8.01: Cirrus clouds near the tropopause. Convenor: B. Kärcher
    
  • AS8.02: Aerosols near the tropopause. Convenor C. Timmreck
    
  • AS8.03: Processes controlling the chemical composition of the UT/LS. Convenor: B. Bregman
    
  • AS8.04: Water vapour and its isotopic composition in UT/LS. Convenor: K. Boering
    
  • AS9.01: Odin satellite: two years of atmospheric observations. Convenor: D. Murtagh
    
  • AS9.02: Chemical data assimilation. Convernor: H. Eskes
  • AS9.03: ENVISAT atmospheric chemistry instruments: the 1st year. Convenor: G. Stiller
    
  • AS10: Network for Detection of Stratospheric Change (NSDC). Convenor G. Braathen
    
  • AS11.02: SPARC-IGAC Symposium on climate-chemistry interactions. (Co-sponsored by CL) Convenor: A. Ravishankara
    
• The Role of the Stratosphere in Tropospheric Climate, Workshop. Whistler (BC) - Canada, 29 April -02 May, 2003
  Organisers: M. Baldwin, D.W.J. Thompson, W. Norton, E. Shuckburgh (eshuck@ravel.ens.fr, N. Gillett
• Workshop on Tropical Meteorology and Chemistry, DRL, Oberpfaffenhofen - Germany. 14 - 16 May, 2003
  Chairs: U. Schumann and J.P. Pommereau
• ASSETT/SPARC Data Assimilation Workshop, Florence - Italy. 04-06 June, 2003
• Modelling and Assimilation for the Stratosphere and Tropopause ECMWF, Reading - England. 23-26 June, 2003
• XXIII IUGG General Assembly, Japan Marine Science and Technology Center, Sapporo - Japan. 30 June - 11 July, 2003.

Inter-Association Symposia and Workshops

• JSA01: Long-term trends in the mesosphere,thermosphere and ionosphere (IAGA, IAMAS)
• JSA02: External Forcing on the middle atmosphere and ionosphere (IAGA, IAMAS)
• JSA08: Effects of solar variability on climate change (IAGA, IAMAS)
• JSA09: Challenges of Global Change in from below and above (IAGA, IAMAS)
• JSM05: Solar effects in the middle atmosphere and ionosphere (IAMAS, IAGA, SCOSTEP)
• JSM13: Data assimilation for atmospheric and oceanic processes (IAMAS, IAPSO, IAG, SPARC)
International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS
• MI01: Variation of the solar energy output and its influence on climate (IRC, ICCI, ICACGP)
• MI03: Chemistry -climate interaction (covers ozone interactions) (ICACGP, IOC, ICCI)
• MC05: Middle atmosphere science (ICMA)
• Gordon Research Conference on “Solar Radiation and Climate”, Colby-Sawyer College, New London (NH), USA. 13-18 July, 2003
  Chairs: V. Ramaswamy, J. Kiehl
• One-Week Summer School on Global Chemistry and Climate of the Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere, Montreal, Canada. 07-13 August, 2003.
• 1st Envisat Data Assimilation Summer School, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy. 18-29 August 2003.
• The Split Ozone Hole of 2002: A meeting of the Atmospheric Chemistry Special interest Group of the Royal Meteorological Society in association with the Centre for Atmospheric Science, University of Cambridge, UK, Centre for Mathematical Science, University of Cambridge, UK. 29 August, 2003.
• The Royal Meteorological Society’s Biennial Scientific Meeting, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. 01-05 September, 2003
• 13th National Summer School on Geophysical and Environmental Fluid Dynamic, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge - UK. 08-19 September, 2003
• 3rd IAGA Workshop “Solar Forcing of the Middle Atmosphere”, IAP, Prague - Czechia.
  Chair: J. Lastovicka, 15-18 September, 2003
• International Conference on Earth System Modelling, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg - Germany. 15-19 September 2003.
• 11^th SPARC SSG Meeting, Franckfurt – Germany. 22-25 September 2003
• Jim Angell 80th Birthday Symposium, Silver Spring, Maryland - USA. 04 November 2003
  A one-day symposium honoring and celebrating the career of Dr. James K. Angell
• SPARC Workshop on Understanding Seasonal Temperature Trends in the Stratosphere, Silver Spring, Maryland - USA. 05 November, 2003
  A one-day workshop organized by the SPARC Stratospheric Indicators of Climate Change initiative.
  
• ACSYS Final Conference, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, St Petersburg - Russia. 11-14 November 2003
• Workshop on Process-orientated validation of coupled chemistry-climate models, Grainau / Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Germany. 17-19 November, 2003
  Organizing committee : N. Harris, V. Eyring
• Workshop on the Observation, Transport Modeling and Climatology of the Southern Hemisphere Sratosphere, Buenos Aires - Argentina. 9-11 December, 2003
• The Joint UTLS Ozone and CWVC Workshop "Aerosols in the UTLS, Oxford - UK. 18-19 December, 2003
  • Aerosol Measurement
  • Properties of Aerosols found in the UTLS
  • Aerosol Sources and Sinks, Transport and Aging
  • Aerosol Influences on Radiation and Climate
  • The Role of Aerosol in UTLS Chemistry

  Organising Committee: R. Grainger, H. Rogers, K. Bower, E. Highwood
  For further information : manager@utls.nerc.ac.uk

2002

• International Symposium on Equatorial Processes Including Coupling
  (EPIC), Kyoto University, Uj, Kyoto - Japan, 18-22 March 2002
• Arctic Ozone Loss Workshop
  Potsdam - Germany, 04-06 March 2002.
  
• 29th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE),
  Buenos Aires - Argentina, 08-12 April 2002
• EGS XXVII General Assembly, Nice - France, 22-26 April, 2002
  • OA20: Tropospheric chemistry and aerosols. Co-conveners: M. Ammann, F. Dentener, Ch. George , T. Hoffmann, T. Koop.
  • OA21: Dynamics and chemistry of the UT/LS. Convener: V. Wirth
  • OA23.02: Climate variability: The Northern oscillation: NAO and AO. Convener: U. Ulbrich
  • ST3: Open session on the middle atmosphere. Convener: M. Juckes
  • ST4: Atmospheric ozone (conveners: P. Fabian , G.O. Braathen, P. Taalas, A. Volz-Thomas.
  • ST5: New developments in stratospheric and mesospheric chemistry. Convener: J.M. Plane
  • ST7: Impact of aircraft emissions on climate and atmospheric chemistry. Convener: R. Sausen .
  • ST8: Chemistry-climate interaction. Convener: M. Dameris.
    
• 276. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on Trends in the Upper Atmosphere (by invitation only)
  IAP Külungsborn - Germany, 13-16 May, 2002
  Convenor: F.J. Lübken
• NATO Advanced Study Institute (NASI) on Data Assimilation for the Earth Sciences, Acquafredda di Maratea - Italy, May 19 - June 1, 2002
  Co-chairs: Dr. Richard Swinbank and Prof. Victor Shutyaev
• GAW Workshop for WMO Region VI (Europe) on Status and Trends of Global Atmosphere Watch with prticular emphasis on the situation and needs of WMO RA VI (Europe), Riga - Latvia, 27-30 May, 2002
  Chair : Joerg Klausen
• 7th Biennial HITRAN Database Conference, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge, Massachusetts - USA, 12-14 June, 2002
• Fifth UTLS Ozone Science Meeting, University of Bristol, Bristol - UK (manager@UTLS.nerc.ac.uk)
  08-11 July 2002
• Sixth European Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg - Sweden
  02-06 September
• VORCORE/STRATEOLE workshop, CNES Headquarters, Paris - France, 16-17 September
• Atmospheric Chemistry in the Earth System: from Regional Pollution to Global Change, Crete - Greece
  18-25 September 2002.
  
  • 10th Scientific Conference of the International Association of Meteorology of Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS)
  • Commission for Atmospheric chemistry and Global Pollution (CACGP) and
    7th Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project (IGAC)
• 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly and The 2nd World Space Congress, Houston, Tx - USA. Chair: S.S. Holt
  10-19 October 2002
  • A1.1/C2.7: Climate Change Processes in the Stratosphere and at the Tropopause.
    Convener: J. Gille (gille@ncar.ucar.edu).
  • C2.3: Long-term Trends in Stratosphere-Mesosphere-Thermosphere Coupling.
    Convener: D.K. Chakrabarty .
  • D2.3/E3.3: Solar Variability and Climate Changes. Convener: J.M.Pap (papj@marta.gsfc.nasa.gov)

Addresses and further information can be found at : http://www.copernicus.org/COSPAR/COSPAR.html

• American Meteorological Society's 12th conference on the Middle Atmosphere, Holiday Inn - Riverwalk, San Antonio, Texas - USA.
  4-8 November 2002. Sponsored by theAmerican Meteorological Society and organized by the AMS Committee
  Program Chairperson, Darryn W. Waugh, (waugh@jhu.edu)
  http://www.jhu.edu/~eps/faculty/waugh
  
• International Symposium on Stratospheric Variations and Climate , Kyushu University, Fukuoka - Japan
  12-15 November 2002
  Chair: S. Yoden
  • 1 - Variability of the Troposphere-Stratosphere Coupled Syste
  • 2 - Upper Troposphere/Lower Stratosphere and Tropical Tropopause Layer
  • 3 - Chemistry-Climate Interaction
  • 4 - Special talks (M.-L. Chanin - Marvin Geller)
• 10th Session of the SPARC Scientific Steering Group, Kyoto - Japan
  18-21 November 2002
• Colloque CNFCG-CNES: Regards croisés sur les Changements Globaux, Arles - France
  25-29 November 2002
• Workshop about DAWEX (Darwin Area Wave Experiment) results, Honolulu, Hawaii - USA (by invitation only)
  03-05 December 2002. Chair: K. Hamilton

• 81^st American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting,
  Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, 14-19 January 2001 (amsmtgs@ametsoc.org)
  A Millenium Symposium on Atmospheric Chemistry: Past, Present and Future of Atmospheric Chemistry
  Climate Variability, the Oceans and Social Impacts
  12^th Symposium on Global Change Studies
  11^th Symposium on Meteorological Observations and Instrumentation
  Etc
• GRIPS Worshop - Convener : Steve Pawson (pawson@polska.gsfc.nasa.gov)
  Hamburg, Germany, 21Feb.-01 March 2001.
• Lidar Measurements in Latin America Workshop,
  Camagüey, Cuba, 06-08 March 2001.
• SPARC - IOC, Preparation of the Next Ozone Assessment,
  University of Maryland - USA, 07-09 March 2001.
• Workshop on Nitrogen Oxides in the Lower Stratosphere and Upper Troposphere,
  Heidelberg, Germany, 19-22 March, 2001.
• EGS XXVI General Assembly,
  Nice, France, 25-30 March, 2001
• Tropopause Workshop - Conveners : P. Haynes, T. Shepherd
  Bad-Toelz , Germany, 17-21 April, 2001
• 2nd Workshop on Long-term Changes and Trends in the Atmosphere (IAGA/ICMA/SPARC) - Convener: Jan Lastovicka
  Prague, Czech Republic, 02-06 July, 2001
• WMO-GAW European Dobson Spectrophotometer Intercomparison, Meteorological Observatory,
  Hohenpeissenberg , Germany, 08-21 July, 2001
• Global Change Open Science Conference
  Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 10-13 July, 2001
• International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) General Assembly
  Innsbrück, Austria (Meteorologie@uibk.ac.at), 10-18 Jumy, 2001
  • Symposium "Middle Atmosphere Dynamics", 7 days, Lead Convener: K. Hamilton, Co-conveners: T. Hirooka, B. Lawrence, F.-J. Luebken, L. Hood (turbulence, GW, planetery waves, tides, forcing of mean circulation, long-term variability, mesospheric layered phenomena, MA aspects of climate change) 
  • Symposium "MA Chemistry, Transport and Radiation", 6 days, Lead Convener: A.R. Ravishankara, Co-convener: N. Harris, V. Fomichev, D.W. Waugh (observations, models, transport relevant to understanding chemistry, aerosol microphysics, MA climate-chemistry interactions, energy budget of the MLT-layer) 
  • Workshop "Solar Cycle Forcing of the Stratosphere and Troposphere", 1 day. Convener: L. Hood (possible mechanisms: solar UV variability, energetic particle precipitation, etc.). 
• Detecting Environmental Change: Science and Society,
  London, UK (c.stickley@ucl.ac.uk), 16-20 July 2001
• Cargese International School,
  Cargèse, Corse - France, 19 August-01 September 2001
  
• IAGA-IASPEI 2001 Joint Scientific Assembly,
  Hanoi - Vietnam, 19-31 August 2001
• Workshop on Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Interaction during the Climate Conference 2001, Conveners : H. Kelder, M. Krol, P. Van Velthoven
  Utrecht - The Netherlands, 20-24 August 2001
• 4th International GEWEX Conference, IPSL -
  Collège de France, Paris - France; 10-14 September, 2001
• School on the Physics of the Equatorial Atmosphere,
  International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste - Italy, 25 September - 05 October, 2001
• Network for the Detection fo Stratospheric Change : NDSC 2001 Symposium,
  Arcachon - France, 24-27 September 2001
• SPARC Scientific Steering Group Meeting, Ninth Session, TUPC, Convener: K. Hamilton
  Honolulu - Hawaii - USA, 04-07 December 2001
• AGU 2001 Fall Meeting,
  Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA - USA, 10-14 December 2001
• Transport and Chemistry in the UTLS Region Workshop Programme,
  Madingley Hall (outskirts of Cambridge) - UK, 17-19 December 2001

• Report on the WCRP JSC 2000 meeting,
  Tokyo, Japan, 13-17 March 2000
• EGS’2000 sessions reports,
  Nice, France, 25-29 April 2000
• 12^th Conference on Applied Meteorology,
  15^th Conference on Probability and Statistics in the Atmospheric Science,
  Asheville, North Carolina, USA, 8-11 May 2000 (amsmtgs@ametsoc.org)
• "Chemistry-Climate Interactions", Summer Colloquium on the Physics of Weather and Climate,
  Trieste, Italy 29 May-16 June 2000 (smrl1225@ictp.trieste.it)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2000 Spring Meeting,
  Washington, DC, USA, 30 May-3 June 2000 (meetinginfo@agu.org)
• 20^th EARSeL Symposium "Remote Sensing in the 21^st Century: A Decade of Trans-European Remote Sensing Cooperation",
  Dresden, Germany, 14-16 June 2000 (earsel@meteo.fr)
• International Conference on Climate Change Communication,
  Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, 22-24 June 2000 (c3confer@fes.uwaterloo.ca)
• 20^th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC),
  Vichy, France, 10-14 July (ilrc2000@ipsl.jussieu.fr)
• American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2000 Fall Meeting,
  San Francisco, California, USA, 15-19 December 2000 (meetinginfo@agu.org)
• XXIX^th Quadriennal Ozone Symposium,
  Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan 3-8 July 2000 (OzoneInfo@unep.org)
• Meteorology at the Millenium,
  Cambridge, UK, 10-14 July 2000 (execsec@royal-met-soc.org.uk)
• 33^rd Committee on Space Research (CoSpaR) Scientific Assembly,
  Warsaw, Poland, 16-23 July 2000 (cospar@cbk.waw.pl)
  A1.3/C2.8. Contribution of Remote Sensing of the UT and Stratosphere to Understanding Climate Change. 19-20 July 2000. J. Gille (gille@ncar.ucar.edu)
  C2.1. Ozone Variations of Solar Origin (J. Lastovicka)
  C2.3/A1.4. Middle Atmosphere Spatial Structures (K.U. Grossmann)
  C2.4. Spatial and Temporal Variations in Gravity Waves (G.R. Swenson)
  C2.5. Aerosols, Dust and Layers in the Middle Atmosphere (T.A. Blix)
  C4.2. CIRA Part III: Supplements: Additional Reference Atmospheres for Trace Constituents (G.M. Keating)
• 16^th International Symposium on Gas Kinetics,
  Cambridge, UK, 23-27 July 2000
• International Radiation Symposium (IRS),
  Saint Petersburg, Russia, 24-29 July 2000 (shulg@troll.phys.spbu.ru)
• Meeting of the UNEP Environmental Effects Assessment Panel,
  Abisko, Sweden, 22-29 August 2000 (OzoneInfo@unep.org)
• Euroconference on The Solar Cycle and Terrestrial Climate,
  Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, 25-29 September 2000
• Conference on Nonlinear Phenomena in Global Climate Dynamics,
  Trieste, Italy, 25-29 September 2000
• 12^th Meeting of the Parties of the Montreal Protocol,
  Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 2-6 October 2000(OzoneInfo@unep.org)
• First S-Ramp Conference,
  Sapporo, Japan. 2-6 October 2000
  S17. Middle Atmosphere Including Response to Forcing from Above and Below (M. Geller and T. Tsuda) (dynamics, chemistry, tropospheric wave forcing, response to Sun and energetic particle effects, observations, modelling, laboratory results, chemistry/radiation/dynamics coupling).
  S18. Solar Variability Effects Upon the Lower Atmosphere and Climate (L. Hood and J. Austin) (External energy flux variability, its effects on middle and lower atmosphere, models to simulate this effects and identify mechanisms, 27-day and 11-year period effects, interaction with QBO).
• North American Research Strategy for Tropospheric Ozone (NARSTO) Technical Conference on Aerosol Science: Tropospheric Aerosols,
  Queretaro, Mexico, 24-26 October 2000
• 2nd SPARC General Assembly "SPARC 2000",
  Mar del Plata, Argentina, 6-10 November 2000
  Chair of the SOC: Alan O'Neill. Chair of the LOC: Pablo Canziani.
  1. Stratospheric Processes and Their Role in Climate
  2. Stratospheric Indicators of Climate Change
  3. Modelling and Diagnosis of Stratospheric Effects on Climate
  4. UV Observations and Modelling
• ISARS2000: 10^th International Symposium on Acoustic Remote Sensing,
  Auckland, New Zealand, 27 November-1 December 2000 (v.hipkin@auckland.ac.nz)
• 12^th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol,
  Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 11-15 December 2000 (OzoneInfo@unep.org)

• International Workshop on Trends in the Atmosphere
  Pune, India, 16-19 February 1999
• WCRP JSC '99 meeting report
  Kiel, Germany, 15-20 March 1999
• GRIPS '99 Workshop report
  Reading, UK, 22-25 March 1999
• EGS '99 Session reports
  The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-23 April 1999
• NATO ASI on Chemistry and Radiation Changes in the O3 Layer
  Kolympari, Greece, 15-24 May 1999
• IUGG/Birmingham Symposia Reports
  Birmingham, UK, 18-30 July 1999
• Report on the 5th European Ozone Symposium
  St-Jean-de-Luz, France, 27 September - 1 October 1999
• The Chapman Water Vapour Conference
  Potomac, USA, 12-15 October 1999
• Brewer-Dobson Workshop,
  Oxford, UK, 13-15 December 1999

• 3rd GRIPS Workshop
  NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA, 3-6 March 1998
• SPARC QBO Workshop
  La Jolla, California, 9-12 March 1998
• WCRP/JSC
  Cape Town, South Africa, 16-20 March 1998
• EGS'98 General Assembly
  Nice, France, 20-24 April 1998
• European Conference on Atmospheric UV Radiation (ECUV)
  Helsinki, Finland, 29 June- 2 July 1998
• 32nd COSPAR Scientific Assembly
  Nagoya, Japan, 12-19 July 1998
• European Workshop on Mesoscale Processes in the Stratosphere
  Bad Tölz, Germany, 8-11 November 1998
• Seminar on Stratosphere-Troposphere Interactions
  Cochin, India, 24-26 November 1998
• Workshop on Small Organic Peroxy Radicals
  Paris, France, 7-9 December 1998

• Second GRIPS Workshop
  Berlin, Germany, 3-6 March 1997 (by S. Pawson)
• WCRP/JSC meeting
  Toronto, Canada, 17-22 March 1997 (by M. Geller)
• IGAC/SPARC/GAW Conference
  Totonto, Canada, 20-22 May 1997 (by M.-L. Chanin)
• Session 2.18 of the IAGA/ICMA Symposium
  Uppsala, Sweden, 14 August 1997
• 2nd IAGA/IAMAS Workshop on Solar Activity Forcing of the Middle Atmosphere
  Prague, Czechoslovakia, 18-21 August 1997
• WCRP Conference and the SPARC report at the WCRP Conference
  Geneva, Switzerland, 26-28 August1997
• 4th European Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone Research
  Schliersee, Germany, September 1997
• Workshop on Stratospheric Change
  Tsukuba, Japan, 20-22 October 1997

• 1st GRIPS Workshop
  Victoria, Canada, 4-7 March, 1996
• Report of the WCRP-JSC meeting
  Toulouse, France, 11-16 March 1996
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Gravity Wave Processes
  and their Parametrization in Global Climate Models
  Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 1-5 April 1996
• Reports from EGS General Assembly
  Vienna, 21-25 April 1997
  • Open Session on Middle Atmosphere (by M. Dameris)
  • Ozone Session (by A. Krivolutsky)
• Symposium on the Global Atmospheric Effects of Aviation
  Virginia Beach, USA, 14-19 April, 1996
• EGS Assembly
  The Hague, Netherlands, 6-10 May 1996
• SPARC-IOC Workshop on Trends in the Vertical Distribution of Ozone
  Observatoire de Haute Provence, France, 8-11 July 1996
• COSPAR Session A1.1 on the Middle Atmosphere
  Birmingham, UK, 19-20 July 1996
• The International Radiation Commission (IRC) Symposium
  Fairbanks, Alaska, USA, 19-24 August 1996
• Workshop on the SPARC Reference Climatology
  Port Jefferson, New York, 9-10 September 1996
• International meeting on the Impact of Aircraft Emissions upon the Atmosphere
  Paris, France, 15-18 October 1996
• International Workshop on Modelling Heterogeneous Chemistry of the Lower Stratosphere/Upper Troposphere
  Strasbourg, France, 21-23 October 1996 (by A.R. Ravishankara)
• Workshop on UT/LS Heterogeneous Chemistry
  Strasbourg, France, 21-23 October 1996

• SPARC Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Workshop
  Pointe-du-Lac, Québec, Canada, 13-15 June 1995
• The Middle Atmospheric Science Symposium at the IUGG Assembly
  Boulder, USA, 2-14 July 1995
• IUGG workshops relevant to SPARC
  Boulder, USA, 2-14 July 1995
• 3rd European Symposium on Polar Stratospheric Ozone Research,
  Schliersee, Germany, 18-22 September 1995
• NATO Advanced Study Institute on the Stratosphere and its Role in Climate
  Val Morin, Québec, Canada, 5-15 September 1995
• NATO-ASI on UV-B Radiation
  Halkidiki, Greece, 2-11 October, 1995
• STTA Meeting
  Berlin, Germany, 18-19 December 1995