Due to the fact that many flights would not arrive in time for 12:00 hrs on Tuesday, it was decided to postpone the beginning of the meeting to 14:00 hrs on the 20th of May. 2008. Please ignore the starting time in the current agenda (see below), which is under heavy construction and will be updated before the weekend.

Also: Please see our news section for latest updates!

New Draft Agenda available:

The draft Agenda can be found here. It is, as you see, by no means final, and contains intentionally so some gaps which can be filled with your contributions. So please do not hesitate to contact Reinhard Budich or any of the board members if you would like to see your contribution in the COSMOS 5th Annual Meetings Agenda.

Hotel Information:

A block reservation is made to Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, next to the Helsinki main railway station for 120 eur/night; reservation code “COSMOS”, The block reservation will close 6 May 2008.

FMI visitors have used, for instance, the following hotels:

Cumulus Hotel Kaisaniemi, Helsinki
Hotel Arthur, Helsinki
Radisson SAS hotels, Helsinki
Park Hotel Käpylä (outside city center; 1.5 km from FMI)

You can make Your booking also through www.booking.com

If you have difficulties finding a hotel room, or quations, You can contact Mrs Tiina Tamminen.

Here is the approach to FMI.

New Draft Agenda available:

The draft Agenda can be found here. It is, as you see, by no means final, and contains intentionally so some gaps which can be filled with your contributions. So please do not hesitate to contact Reinhard Budich or any of the board members if you would like to see your contribution in the COSMOS 6th Annual Meetings Agenda.

Hotel Information:

A block reservation is made to Sokos Hotel Vaakuna, next to the Helsinki main railway station for 120 eur/night; reservation code “COSMOS”, The block reservation will close 6 May 2008.

FMI visitors have used, for instance, the following hotels:

Cumulus Hotel Kaisaniemi, Helsinki
Hotel Arthur, Helsinki
Radisson SAS hotels, Helsinki
Park Hotel Käpylä (outside city center; 1.5 km from FMI)

You can make Your booking also through www.booking.com

If You have difficulties finding a hotel room, or quations, You can contact Mrs Tiina Tamminen.

COSMOS General Assembly 2008 in May hosted by FMI

The next General Assembly ot the COSMOS Network will be held in Helsinki, Finland, hosted by the long time COSMOS partner Finnish Meteorological Institute.

The date will be

May 20 to 22 2008, noon to noon.

The location will be at

The Finnish Meteorological Institute

A provisional draft program is as follows:

Tue 20.5.2007 noon 14 pm

• Welcome and Overview of the COSMOS network
• Overview of the COSMOS ESM
• Overviews of invited ESM systems
• Invited scientific presentation I

Wed 21.5.2007 9 am

COSMOS status and plans

• Atmosphere
• Aerosols/chemistry/clouds
• Ocean and biogeochemistry
• Biosphere and soil

Invited scientific presentation II

Social event at 18 pm:

Sailing tour with the s/v Valborg. She is a 30 meter long 2 mast galeas with a capacity to take some 70 passengers.

Thu 22.5.2007 9 am

Invited scientific presentation III

COSMOS experiment: Millennium

Super-volcano

AR5 activities of COSMOS

Discussions of COSMOS network issues (your suggestions, please!)

Meeting end at 13 pm

Please feel free to send suggestions w.r.t. the agenda to reinhard.budich [ at ] zmaw.de! Thanks!  

The registration for the meeting will be announced here soon.

May 23 - 25 2007: 5th COSMOS Annual Meeting, MPI for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany

Feb 23 2007: Board Meeting, MPI for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany; on invitation

May 29 - 31 2006: 4th COSMOS Annual Meeting, Seminaris Hotel Lüneburg

Jan 10 2006: Hamburg Meeting of Subgroup at MPI-M,

Minutes   118 kb

31 May - 1 June 2005: 3rd COSMOS Annual Meeting, Seminaris Hotel Lüneburg (shifted from originally 2-4 March due to collision with IPCC, SCOUT, GEMS, ...)

9-10 March 2004: Data and Validation Workshop, Seminaris Hotel Lüneburg

8-9 March 2004: Second COSMOS Annual Meeting, Seminaris Hotel Lüneburg

31 October 2003: Meeting of the Co-Chairs of the COSMOS Working Groups

30 October 2003: Meeting of the Steering Committee and Scientific Advisory Group

15-16 May 2003: First COSMOS Workshop