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*** 1972-2012 - CGMS 40 years! ***

 

 The next CGMS plenary meetings will take place on 5-9 November 2012 (CGMS-40) in Lugano, Switzerland, and on 8-12 July 2013, in Japan (CGMS-41).

Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites

The Coordination Group for Meteorological Satellites (CGMS) came into being on 19 September 1972, when representatives of the European Space Research Organisation (since 1975 called the European Space Agency, ESA), Japan, the United States of America, Observers from the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the Joint Planning Staff for the Global Atmosphere Research Programme met in Washington to discuss questions of compatibility among geostationary meteorological satellites.


CGMS-39

Report of the 39th Meeting of the CGMS 2011
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