Articles of General Interest
 The guardian angels of Yi Tung Shan (P.W.Chan, 52nd issue of the Civil Service Newsletter) 
Technical Papers- Weather Services
RA II Pilot Project to Develop Support for Developing Countries in Aeronautical Meteorology Programme (C.M. Shun and M.Y. Jiao [China Meteorological Administration, China], 13th Session, of the Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 Nov to 1 Dec 2006)
Problems and Opportunities arising from the Migration of OPMET data to BUFR (C.M. Shun and Ken Macdonald [Meteorological Service of Canada], 13th Session, of the Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 Nov to 1 Dec 2006)
Terminal Meteorological Forecast (TerMET) (M.K. Song, 9th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG/9), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-15 July 2005)
ANNEX 3 template for aerodrome warnings (M.K. Song, 9th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG/9), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-15 July 2005)
Preparation for the QMS Seminar (S.Y. Lau, 9th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG/9), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-15 July 2005)
Trend forecast in local routine and special reports (C.M. Cheng, Aerodrome Meteorological Observing Systems Study Group (AMOSSG) 5th Meeting, Montreal, 11-14 April 2005)
Implementation of the ISO 9000 quality management system in Hong Kong, China (S.Y. Lau, 7th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG7) & 10th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Air Traffic Management Implementation Coordination Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/ATM IC SG/10), Bangkok, Thailand, 15-21 July 2003)
Verification of Weather Forecasts for the Aerodrome of the Hong Kong International Airport; (S.T. Chan & L.O. Li, Hong Kong Observatory, Technical Note No. 105, 2003)
Recent Developments in Aviation Meteorology in Hong Kong (B.Y.Lee and C.M. Cheng, presented at the 25th National Congress of the China Meteorological Society, Beijing, China, 16-18 October 2002) (in Chinese only)
Verification of Aerodrome Forecasts (C.M.Shun, presented in the Twelfth Session of the WMO Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, Montreal, Canada, 16-20 September 2002)
Progress of implementation of a quality system in Hong Kong, China (SY Lau, presented in Conjoint ICAO Meteorology Divisional Meeting / Twelfth Session of the WMO Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, Montreal, Canada, 9-27 September 2002)
Implementation of a quality system in Hong Kong, China (SY Lau, presented in ICAO Sixth Meeting of CNS/MET Sub-Group of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 15-19 July 2002)
Technical Papers- Windshear and Turbulence Alerting
Development of New Wind Shear Posters in Collaboration with IFALPA and ICAO (C.M. Shun, 13th Session, of the Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 Nov to 1 Dec 2006)
Low Altitude Wind Shear Hazards: Ground Based Detection and Commercial Aviation User Needs (Thomas H.Fahey, III*, C.M. Shun, Amy VanGerpen*, Junichiro Asano* & Tuan Nguyen*, 12th Conference on Aviation Range & Aerospace Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Atlanta, GA, USA, 29 January - 2 February 2006)
Enhancement of the Anemometer-based System for Windshear Detection at the Hong Kong International Airport (O.S.M. Lee, 8th Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/8) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-16 July 2004)
Latest Development in the Use of a Doppler Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) System for Windshear and Turbulence Detection (C.M. Shun, 8th Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/8) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-16 July 2004)
LIDAR Observations of Terrain-induced Flow and its Application in Airport Wind Shear Monitoring (C.M. Shun, C.M. Cheng & O Lee, presented at the International Conference on Alpine Meteorology (ICAM) and Mesoscale Alpine Programme (MAP) Meeting, Brig, Switzerland, 19-23 May 2003) )
Ongoing research in Hong Kong has led to improved wind shear and turbulence alerts (C.M. Shun, ICAO Journal, Volume 58, No.2, March 2003)
Some Important Things You Should Know about the Windshear and Turbulence Warning System (WTWS) (The Flyleaf Spring/2002, courtesy of Captain Brian Greeves, reproduced with the permission of Hong Kong Airline Pilots Association)
Windshear and Turbulence Alerting Service at the Hong Kong International Airport - a Review (S.Y. Lau, C.M. Shun & B.Y. Lee, Hong Kong Observatory, Technical Note No.102, 2002)
Remote-Sensing the Weather to Support the Hong Kong Airport (K.C. Tsui, C.M. Cheng & B.Y.Lee, presented at The Third International Symposium on Electronics in the Air Transport Industry, Hong Kong, China, 28-29 November 2000)
Windshear and Turbulence Detection and Warning at Hong Kong International Airport (S.Y. Lau, presented at the First WMO Working Group Meeting on Training, Environment and New Developments (TREND), Hong Kong, China, 24-27 October 2000)
Aeronautical Meteorology, WMO Regional Training Seminar for national instructors of RA II and V (C.M. Shun, presented at Manila, Philippines,10-21 November 1997)
Optimization and testing of a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok (C.M. Shun, Peter Wilson, James G. Wieler, David B. Johnson, R. Jeffrey Keeler & Cathy Kessinger, 28th American Meteorological Society Radar Conference, September 1997)
Implementation of a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for the Chek Lap Kok Airport (C.M. Shun, presented at Electronics in Air Transport Industry (SEATI '95),13-14 December 1995)
Implementation of a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for the New Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok (C.M. Shun & D.B. Johnson, presented at 6th Conference on Aviation Weather Systems, Dallas, TX, 15-20 January 1995)
Recent Developments in Aviation Meteorology (World Area Forecast System and Windshear Detection) (S.Y. Lau, presented at WMO, Regional Training Seminar for National Instructors, Seoul, 6-18 December 1993)
Technical Papers- Windshear and Turbulence Observation and Case Studies
LIDAR Observations of Wind Shear Induced by Mountain Lee Waves (C.M. Shun, S.Y. Lau, C.M. Cheng, O.S.M. Lee & H.Y. Chiu, presented at the 11th Conference on Mountain Meteorology and MAP Meeting 2004, Mount Washington Valley, NH, USA, 21-25 June 2004)
Terminal Doppler Weather Radar Observation of Atmospheric Flow over Complex Terrain during Tropical Cyclone Passages (C.M. Shun, S.Y. Lau & O.S.M. Lee, Journal of Applied Meteorology, Volume 42, p.1697-1710)
Sea-breeze Induced Windshear at Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong (C.M. Cheng, Hong Kong Observatory, Technical Note No.103, 2002)
Terminal Doppler Weather Radar (TDWR) Observation of Atmospheric Flow over Complex Terrain during Tropical Cyclone Passages (C.M. Shun & S.Y. Lau, presented at Microwave Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere and Environment II, SPIE's Second International Asia-Pacific Symposium on Remote Sensing of the Atmosphere, Environment, and Space, Sendai, Japan, 9-12 October 2000)
Observation of Terrain-induced Windshear around Hong Kong International Airport under Stably Stratified Conditions (S.Y. Lau & C.M. Shun, presented at the 9th Symposium on Mountain Meteorology, Aspen, Colorado, 7-11 August 2000)
Case Study of a Windshear Caused by Low-level Jet 14 December 1998 - Hong Kong Observatory Technical Note No.101 (S.Y. Lau & S.T.Chan, Hong Kong Observatory, Technical Note No.101, 2000)
Trapped Lee Waves over Lantau Island: Case Studies (P.W. Chan & C.M. Tam, Hong Kong Meteorological Society Bulletin Vol.6, No.2,1996)
A Microburst in Hong Kong (C.Y. Lam, Weather, Vol. 51, No. 3, p.101-104, March 1996)
Technical Papers- Observation System
Latest development of weather sensing instrumentation at the Hong Kong International Airport Airport at Chek Lap Kok (C.M. Shun, 7th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG7) & 10th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Air Traffic Management Implementation Coordination Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/ATM IC SG/10), Bangkok, Thailand, 15-21 July 2003)
Remote-Sensing the Weather to Support the Hong Kong Airport (K.C. Tsui, C.M. Cheng & B.Y.Lee, presented at The Third International Symposium on Electronics in the Air Transport Industry, Hong Kong, China, 28-29 November 2000)
Use of wind profiler in Severe weather monitoring (K.K. Yeung, Meteorol. Zeitschrift, N.F. 7, 326-331, December 1998)
Optimization and testing of a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok (C.M. Shun, Peter Wilson, James G. Wieler, David B. Johnson, R. Jeffrey Keeler & Cathy Kessinger, 28th American Meteorological Society Radar Conference, September 1997)
Identification of gust front cases in Hong Kong using data from automatic weather stationby the Royal Observatory - Royal Observatory Technical Note No. 87 (L.S. Lee, Royal Observatory, Technical Note No.87, September 1996)
Implementation of a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for the Chek Lap Kok Airport (C.M. Shun, presented at Electronics in Air Transport Industry (SEATI '95),13-14 December 1995)
Implementation of a Terminal Doppler Weather Radar for the New Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok (C.M. Shun & D.B. Johnson, presented at 6th Conference on Aviation Weather Systems, Dallas, TX, 15-20 January 1995)
Technical Papers- Severe Weather
A Microburst in Hong Kong (C.Y. Lam, Weather, Vol. 51, No. 3, p.101-104, March 1996)
A hailstorm in Hong Kong (B.Y. Lee, C.M. Cheng & S.C. Tai, Weather, Volume 51, No.3)
Technical Papers- Sea Breeze
Observation of sea breeze interactions at and near Hong Kong International Airport (O.S.M. Lee & C.M. Shun,Meteorological Applications Vol. 10, p.p. 1-9, 2003)
Sea-breeze Induced Windshear at Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong (C.M. Cheng, Hong Kong Observatory, Technical Note No.103, 2002)
Characteristics of Sea Breezes at Chek Lap Kok - Hong Kong Observatory Technical Note No.96 (C.M. Cheng, Hong Kong Observatory, Technical Note No.96, May 1999)
Application of a primitive equation model in a simulation of the sea breeze circulation of the Tolo Harbour, Hong Kong (K.K. Yeung, presented at Proceedings of the Asian Pacific Conference on Computational Mechanics, Hong Kong, 11-13 December 1991)
Technical Papers- Uplink / Downlink of Weather Information to / from Aircraft
Recent Developments in AMDAR and Trends in Meteorological Data Downlink (C.M. Shun, 13th Session, of the Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 Nov to 1 Dec 2006)
Recent Developments on Meteorological Information Datalink at the Hong Kong International Airport (M.K. Song, presented in International Symposium on Electronics in Air Transport Industry (SEATI) 2006, Hong Kong, China, 8 - 9 March 2006)
Provision of automated aircraft observations (C.M. Shun, 9th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG/9), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-15 July 2005)
Identification of a data link for uplinking graphical meteorological information (C.M. Shun, 9th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG/9), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-15 July 2005)
Current status of D-ATIS and D-VOLMET implementation (M.K. Song, 9th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG/9), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-15 July 2005)
Uplink of Windshear and Turbulence Information to Aircraft (HG Wai, presented in ICAO 8th meeting of Meteorological Information Data Link Study Group (METLINKSG), Montreal, Canada, 1-4 Feb 2005)
Specification of Graphical Tropical Cyclone SIGMET for Uplink to Aircraft (HG Wai, presented in ICAO 8th meeting of Meteorological Information Data Link Study Group (METLINKSG), Montreal, Canada, 1-4 Feb 2005)
Planning for Meteorological Information Uplink (C.M. Cheng, 8th Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/8) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-16 July 2004)
Survey on Pilot's Requirement on Uplinking of Meteorological Information (C.M. Cheng, 8th Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/8) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-16 July 2004)
Latest development of the meteorological components for the new CNS/ATM systems in Hong Kong, China (H.G. Wai, 7th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG7) & 10th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Air Traffic Management Implementation Coordination Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/ATM IC SG/10), Bangkok, Thailand, 15-21 July 2003)
D-VOLMET service of Hong Kong, China (H.G. Wai, 7th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG7) & 10th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Air Traffic Management Implementation Coordination Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/ATM IC SG/10), Bangkok, Thailand, 15-21 July 2003)
Collection and Applications of AMDAR Data in Hong Kong, China (CM Shun, presented in the Twelfth Session of the WMO Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, Montreal, Canada, 16-20 September 2002)
Development in respect of uplink/downlink of OPMET information in Hong Kong, China (HG Wai, presented in Conjoint ICAO Meteorology Divisional Meeting / Twelfth Session of the WMO Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, Montreal, Canada, 9-27 September 2002)
Development of uplink/downlink of OPMET information in Hong Kong, China (HG Wai, presented in ICAO Sixth Meeting of CNS/MET Sub-Group of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 15-19 July 2002)
Technical Papers- World Area Forecast System
Regional Progress in WAFS Implementation (2005) (C.M. Shun, 9th Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET/SG/9), Bangkok, Thailand, 11-15 July 2005)
Regional Progress in WAFS Implementation (2004) (C.M. Shun, 8th Meeting of the Communications/Navigation/Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group (CNS/MET/SG/8) of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-16 July 2004)
Technical issues with BUFR migration (World Area Forecast System Operations Group (WAFSOPSG) First Meeting, Lima, Peru, 10 to 14 November 2003, Agenda Item 6: Development of the WAFS)
Results of the WAFS BUFR/GRIB survey (C.M. Shun, 7th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG7) & 10th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Air Traffic Management Implementation Coordination Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/ATM IC SG/10), Bangkok, Thailand, 15-21 July 2003
Regional progress of WAFS transition (C.M. Shun, 7th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Meteorology Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/MET SG7) & 10th Meeting of the Communications/ Navigation/ Surveillance and Air Traffic Management Implementation Coordination Sub-Group of APANPIRG (CNS/ATM IC SG/10), Bangkok, Thailand, 15-21 July 2003)
WAFS transition issues affecting the Asia and Pacific Regions (CM Shun, presented in Conjoint ICAO Meteorology Divisional Meeting / Twelfth Session of the WMO Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, Montreal, Canada, 9-27 September 2002)
Progress of WAFS transition and related issues in the Asia and Pacific Regions (CM Shun, presented in ICAO Sixth Meeting of CNS/MET Sub-Group of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 15-19 July 2002)
Planning for WAFS Transition in Hong Kong, China (C.M. Shun, presentedat ICAO's Fourth Meeting of COM/MET/NAV/SUR Sub-Group of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 17-21 July 2000)
Dissemination and Use of WAFS Data in Hong Kong, China (C.M. Shun,presented at ICAO's Third Meeting of COM/MET/NAV/SUR Sub-Group of APANPIRG, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-16 July 1999)
Aeronautical Meteorology, WMO Regional Training Seminar for national instructors of RA II and V (C.M. Shun, presented at Manila, Philippines, 10-21 November 1997)
Recent Developments in Aviation Meteorology (World Area Forecast System and Windshear Detection) (S.Y. Lau, presented at WMO, Regional Training Seminar for National Instructors, Seoul, 6-18 December 1993)
Technical Papers- Aviation Weather at Kai Tak
Performance of wind shear detection systems installed at the Hong Kong International Airport (K.H.Yeung & H.C.Leong, presented at Wind Shear Committee Meeting, Hong Kong, November 1985)
A low-level wind shear detection system (G.J.Bell & K.S.Tsui, Weather Vol.36, No.2, p.42-46, February 1981)
Low-level wind shear detection system at Hong Kong International Airport (K.S. Tsui, presented at WMO Technical Conference on Aviation Meteorology (TECAM), Geneva, November 1979)
Tropical cyclones and aircraft operations in Hong Kong (Cathay Pacific Airways, Kai Talk, Vol.3, p.2-4, April-June 1976)
* non-HKO author
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