Venue:
The headquarters of the Hungarian Meteorological Service (1 Kitaibel Pál street, Budapest)

Monday, 25 September

Opening Addresses by
Ferenc Ligetvári, Minister of Environment
Iván Mersich, President of the Hungarian Meteorological Service
Yadowsun Boodhoo, Chair of Commission for Climatology, WMO
Sneyers, R. (BE): Testing homogeneity of time series: a rank problem. The example of the NH sea surface and air temperatures
Schöner, W., Auer, I., Böhm, R. (AT), Brunetti, M., Maugeri, M. (IT), Mestre O. (FR): Homogenisation of a Central-European temperature data set

Lunch break

Boodhoo, Y. (WMO): Rationale and practicality in observing systems - Data needs for WMO programmes
Mekis, É. and Vincent, L. (CA): Homogenization of Canadian temperature and precipitation time series
Boroneant C. and Tomozeiu R. (RO): On the homogenization of long series of annual and seasonal temperature means in Romania
Szentimrey, T. (HU): Multiple analysis of series for homogenization (MASH). Seasonal application of MASH. Automatic using of meta data

Welcome party

Niedzwiedz, T., Ustrnul, Z. (PL): Proposal of the metadata base by using of the MS-Access database
Wijngaard, J. (NL): Inhomogeneities in the ECA data set
Brandsma, T. (NL): Weather dependent homogenization of the Zwanenburg/De Bilt temperature series
Ustrnul, Z., Niedzwiedz, T. (PL), Bärring, L. (SE): Experience with the homogenization of pressure data in Poland
Boissonnade, A.C. and Heitkemper, L. (US): Lessons taught from the homogenization of 200 US first order stations

Lunch break

Collins, D., Della-Marta, P., Plummer, N., and Trewin, B. (AU): The development and applications of Australia's high quality climate datasets
Stepanek, P., Brazdil, R., Kveton, V. (CZ): Air temperature fluctuations in the Czech Republic in the period 1961-1999
Kveton, V. and Nemec, L. (CZ): Homogenization of 50 precipitation series in the Czech Republic by MASH method
Auer, I., Schöner, W. (AT): The reliability of precipitation measurements at high mountains - amounts in dependence on instruments and sites

Vizi, Zs., Marciniak, K., Przybylak, R., Wójcik, G. (PL): Homogeneity analysis of long-time air temperature and precipitation series in Central Poland
Steinacker, R., Häberli, Ch., Pöttschacher, W. (AT): A transparent method for the analysis and quality evaluation of irregularly distributed and noisy observational data
Häberli, Ch., Steinacker, R. (AT): A revised system for complex quality control and its application to the comprehensive Alpine radiosonde dataset
Petrovic, P. (YU): Some results of exploration and development of the Real Precision method

Lunch break

PC experience
Presentation of softwares
Optional visits to the different departments of the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Seminar banquet

Discussion
Formulation of recommendations to WMO
Closing