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Cheboksary-2003. June 17-20
The first day - opening the meeting. Welcome from the President of the Republic. Introductory speech of the WMO President and Director of ROSGIDROMET service, Dr. A.I. Bedritsky. At evening we get an excursion to the industrial enterprise which, in particular, produces the special missiles for hail-preventing service. The day has finalized with a reception dinner.
There we continued with discussion, mainly about the agricultural meteorology and climate studies as applied to service and decision support. Many of reports were particularly interesting, for instance: "Global warming and its influence on the agriculture" by M.O. Frenkel from the Kirov Center for Hydro-meteorology. Reporters from the local Agencies claimed to the scientific institutions about renewal of the manuals for special observations, e.g. for evapotranspiration measurements and computation (that I should note in my notebook). Many of us were pleased and inspired to see the profitable as well as "nature-friendly" agriculture with forest shelter belts, oak groves at the formerly existed ravines, and even reserves for those insect species which help to destroy pests without any chemicals. And, the system of economy is quite original: a combination of collective farming of crops (especially cereals and hop plantations) and individually breeding cattle. Thus, farming is true co-operative that enriches both farm and farmers. Third day - continuing reports (slightly troubled by a failure of the presentation equipment), a bus trip to a farm, visiting the Museum of Space and, finally, a ship cruise over the So, it was a comprehensive corporate meeting artificially convened by the Upper Volga Agency for Hydro-meteorology (see at http://meteo.nnov.ru) and its Cheboksary Center. Why did the author get an acceptance to the event? Mainly due to experimental hydrology studies can affect the better support for the crop agriculture when it needs the data on soil moisture, crop water demand and surface flow (e.g. see Agro Hydrology). I have delivered two reports:
The first of these reports is based on the recently published paper (Meteorology and Hydrology, 2003, No. 4, pp. 102-112), the second is briefly expounded here as SPCA The reports seem to be of special interest just for the area where the meeting took place, if to remember the past year drought and locally enlarged soil water erosion. |
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The national-wide meeting of ROSGIDROMET service held at Cheboksary (the Chuvash Republic) gathered about 120 participants from the Sakhalin island at the Far East to Bryansk at Ukrainian border. The conference and additional events (field trips and "round table" discussions) were dedicated to the special service for agriculture. The venue place was at the Government House of the Republic, a large edifice with fully equipped conference room.
General information and reports from scientific institutions, including the special Institute for Agricultural Meteorology (Obninsk, Kaluga region) and (among others) the Valday Branch of the SHI (see below). Several works appear innovative, for instance, the "Use of satellite-based information in support of agriculture" developed by I.S. Trenina from the Research Center "Planeta" (see 
The second day - "round table" on the agriculture risk insurance with leading insurance operators. Then, a 60-km bus "expedition" to the famous collective farm where its director A.P. Aidak develops the contour agriculture, a system preventing soil erosion and improving fertility.
Volga river. Why the Space Museum here? The matter is, one of the firstly employed "cosmonauts" Andrian Nikolaev was born here, in the Shorshely village. His mother-home is carefully conserved, and the Museum exhibits a lot of the authentic things such as space capsule "Vostok", its parachute, the clothes, food and other belongings which had been aboard the space ship.