General

The aim of these annual meetings is to provide a common platform for the exchange of ideas, scientific results and instrumental techniques, with the only requirement that there exists a relation to atmospheric studies by optical methods. Even if the meetings are announced as European meetings, and European countries take turns in organising them, people from anywhere in the world are welcome to attend. The Annual Optical Meetings were started in Stockholm in Autumn 1973, with the intention of bringing together scientists, engineers and students who use optical methods to study the upper atmosphere. In 2003 the meeting will be organised at the University Courses on Svalbard (UNIS).

Sessions

Programme

-          aurora, ionosphere, and magnetosphere (invited: H. Carlson, S. Okano, R.W. Smith)

-          mesosphere, NLC, PMSE, and related (invited: M.J. Taylor, G. Witt)

-          stratosphere, ozone, and UV (invited: H. Oelhaf)

-          satellite measurements (invited: D. Murtagh)

-          new instrumentation

-          low-light-level sources calibration workshop

-          25 Years Nordlysstasjonen and 30^th Annual Optical Meeting (invited: C.S. Deehr, A.A. Sivjee, A. Egeland, D. Lorentzen, A. Orheim)

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Local Organising Committee (LOC)

The Local Organising Committee members are Dag Lorentzen (UNIS), Fred Sigernes (UNIS), and Jon Børre Ørbæk (Norwegian Polar Institute).

To send e-mail to the LOC, please use this address: Dag.Lorentzen(at)unis.no (replace (at) with @)

Programme Committee

The Programme Committee is chaired by Ulf-Peter Hoppe (Norwegian Defence Research Establishment; FFI). The members of this committee are Alv Egeland (University of Oslo), Michael Gausa (Andøya Rocket Range), Georg Hansen (Norwegian Institute for Air Research), Berit Kjeldstad (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim), Jøran Moen (University of Oslo), Finn Søraas (University of Bergen).

Proceedings

There will be proceedings of this meeting. They will be online on the internet and a paper copy will be sent to each participant a reasonable time after the meeting. Please, only black-and-white (grey) figures! A template for the camera-ready proceedings is available on request. The deadline for submission of camera-ready papers is 30 September 2003.

Last updated: 25 August 2003.