Early September, Senior Scientific Officer Ms Sharon Lau attended an international symposium on value addition in aviation weather service organised by the Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology of the World Meteorological Organisation in France. At the symposium, Ms Lau presented the recent progress of the Observatory in the alerting windshear in the Hong Kong International Airport. Members of the aviation community at the seminar were much impressed and regarded the Observatory's work as a significant achievement in windshear alerting.

(The paper presented)

In late November this year, the World Meteorological Organisation will jointly organize another international seminar on quality management in the provision of aviation weather service, in Hong Kong. For details, please see the press release issued on 20 September 2005.