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ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

NEWS AND OPINIONS

INTRODUCTION This section of the Journal reports on past and notices about forthcoming meetings, titles of recent papers of interest appearing in other publications, information on new monitoring and control equipment and on new monitoring and data reduction services. It also includes articles giving views or opinions on subjects of current interest to those concerned about or with the atmosphere.

1990 CALENDAR

Chapman Conference on Global Biomass Burning: Atmos- pheric, Climate, and Biospheric Implications. Williamsburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 19 - 23 March 1990. Information: Joel S. Levine (scientific program questions),

Atmospheric Sciences Division, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Vir- ginia 23665-5225, U.S.A. Mailing List: AGU, Meetings Department, 2000 Florida Avenue N.W., Washington, DC 20009, U.S.A. Tel: 202-462-6900.

Tenth International Clean Air Conference: Organized by the Clean Air Society of Australia and New Zealand. Uni- versity of Auckland, New Zealand. 25 - 30 March 1990. Information: The Conference Director, CASANZ, c/o

NECAL, 2 Edenvale Road, Auckland 3, New Zealand.

British Wind Energy Association 12th Annual Conference. Norwich, U.K. (See 23, 2870.) 28 - 30 March 1990. Information: Dr J.P. Darch (BWEA), Climatic Research

Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, U.K.

Short Course: Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerody- namics. University of Nottingham, U.K. 3 - 6 April 1990. Information: Ms R.J. Ramsden, Short Course Secretary,

Department of Civil Engineering, Univer- sity Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K.

European Association for the Science of Air Pollution (EURASAP): International Workshop on Cloud Chemis- try and Wet Deposition. Utrecht, The Netherlands. 10 - 12 April 1990. Information: Prof. Dr. Peter J.H. Builtjes, University of

Utrecht, Institute for Meteorology and Oceanography, Atmospheric Chemistry Group, Princetonplein 5, 3584 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands.

European Association for the Science of Air Pollution (EURASAP): Monitoring Requirements in and around Human Settlements towards the Year 2000. Budapest, Hungary. 18 - 20 April 1990.

Information: Mrs J. Trizna, National Institute for Hy- giene, H-1097 Budapest, Gyali ut 2--6, Hun- gary.

9th Symposium on Turbulence and Diffusion. Roskilde, Denmark. 30 April - 4 May 1990. Information: Prof. Chr. W. Fairall, Department of Mete-

orology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, U.S.A.

18th International Technical Meeting of NATO-CCMS on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application. Vancouver, B.C., Canada. (See 23, 2870-2871.) 13 - 17 May 1990. Information: Dr H. van Dop, World Meteorological Or-

ganization, Case Postale No. 2300, 1211 Geneve 2, Switzerland. Tel: 41 22 730 8240 (direct).

41 22 730 8454 (secretary). 41 22 734 2326.

7th Cooling Tower and Spraying Pond Symposium. Lenin- grad, U.S.S.R. 29 May - 2 June 1990. Information: Dr B. Kartelev, Director, The B.E. Vedeneev

VNl lG , 21 Gzhatskaya Street, 195220 Len- ingrad, U.S.S.R.

American Chemical Society 64th Colloid and Surface Sci- ence Symposium and Nucleation Symposium. Bethlehem, PA, U.S.A. (See 23, 2871.) 18 - 20 June 1990. Information: M.S. EI-Aasser, Emulsion Polymers Insti-

tute, Lehigh University, 111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015, U.S.A.

83rd Annual Meeting & Exhibition of Air & Waste Man- agement Association. Pittsburgh~ U.S.A. 24 - 29 June 1990. Information: Jon Fedorka, Membership Development and

Promotion Coordinator, Air & Waste Man- agement Association, P.O. Box 2861, Pitts- burgh, PA 15230, U.S.A.

9th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment (European Chapter): Impact Assess- ments in their Institutional Framework. Lausanne, Switzer- land (replacing Beijing). (See 24, 238.) 27 - 30 June 1990.

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