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IERS Message No. 208                                      March 26, 2012
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IERS Global Geophysical Fluids Center Workshop - 2nd Announcement


Dear Colleagues

This is the second announcement of the planned GGFC workshop to be held
in Vienna, 20-April at the Marritott Courtyard Vienna Messe.
http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/viefg-courtyard-vienna-messe

The Registration Fee for the meeting will be 75 euros. Sorry, but I can
only accept cash.

I must finalize the numbers for the meeting. If you are interested in
participating and/or contributing a presentation or paper, please let me
know as soon as possible.

The meeting will focus on assessing the errors in current environmental
models and proposals for overcoming these limitations for use in
geodetic and geophysical data analysis.

The following are the confirmed Invited speakers to date:

Maik Thomas: On the challenges of developing a mass conserving system
model

Minkang Cheng: Degree 2 and geocenter variation from SLR

Xavier Collileux: Call for space geodetic solutions corrected for
non-tidal atmospheric loading at the observation level

Thomas Hobiger: How to deal with coordinate systems in numerical weather
models? - Goals of the newly formed IAG SSG12

Jim Ray: Consistency of crustal loading signals derived from models &
GPS: Inferences for GPS positioning errors
 
Wei Chen: Evaluations of global geophysical fluid models based on
broad-band geodetic excitations

Haoming Yan: Global mass balance effects on length-of-day change

Richard Gross: The GGFC Special Bureau for the Oceans: Providing Ocean
Products for Geodesy

Brian Luzum: Global Geophysical Fluids: an IERS RS/PC Perspective
 
The final program will be distributed one week before the meeting.

Tonie van Dam (Chair GGFC)
<tonie.vandam@uni.lu>


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