Meeting of Working Group on Aviation Meteorology in Pearl River Delta

4 April 2011

The third meeting of the Working Group on Aviation Meteorology in Pearl River Delta was held in Guangzhou , China on 28 and 29 March 2011 . Meteorological personnel from the five major airports in Pearl River Delta had participated in the meeting. This was also the first time for Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau to join the Working Group.

Following the previous meeting, the data link between the Observatory and Air Traffic Management Bureau of Middle-South China was established in late 2010. The present meeting discussed further strengthening of the collaboration, including weather briefing during inclement weather condition, as well as co-operation in such areas as numerical weather prediction, low-level windshear and the nowcasting of intense convective weather.

Ms. Sharon S.Y. LAU (3th left, front row), Assistant Director of the Observatory, and Mr. XU Jianliang (3th right, first row), Deputy Head, Meteorology Division, Air Traffic Management Bureau of Civil Aviation Administration of China, Mr. C.M. KU (2nd right, first row), Chief of Aeronautical Meteorological Centre, Macao Meteorological and Geophysical Bureau, with participants at the third meeting of the Working Group on Aviation Meteorology in Pearl River Delta.