On the results of the scientific and practical conference «Storm Warnings about Hydrometeorological Hazards, Hydrological Conditions, Weather Forecasts: Current State, Existing Problems, and Ways to Solve Them» and the school-seminar for young scientists dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Hydrometeorological Center of Russia (November 25-28, 2020)

Author(s):  
N.A. Shestakova ◽  

On November 25-27, 2020, the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia held the scientific- practical conference "Storm Warnings about Hydrometeorological Hazards, Hydrological Conditions, Weather Forecasts: Current State, Existing Problems, and Ways to Solve Them" in videoconference mode. The conference also included the school-seminar for young scientists dedicated to the 90th anniversary since the foundation of Hydrometcentre of Russia, that is the leading research, methodological, and operational forecasting center in Russia in the field of hydrometeorological forecasting. The leading scientists of Hydrometcentre of Russia, the specialists from Administrations for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring and regional centers took part in the videoconference. The participants were able to dive into the main historical milestones of Hydrometcentre of the USSR and to get first-hand knowledge of modern problems and their solutions using numerical prediction technologies (from nowcasting to long-term forecasting), the state of methods and technologies for predicting hydrological processes, agrometeorological forecasting technologies, and air monitoring and forecasting. Special attention was paid to the system of forecasting and warning about hydrometeorological hazards. An active exchange of views took place between the participants. More than 200 participants were registered for the videoconference. Keywords: videoconference, the system for forecasting and warning about hydrometeorological hazards, weather forecasts, hydrological conditions, school-seminar for young scientists dedicated to the 90th anniversary of Hydrometeorological Center of Russia

Author(s):  
Ivan Kovalchuk ◽  
Lydia Dubis

Representatives of the specialty, science or scientific field periodically discuss their condition, problems, prospects for development. This applies to a large extent to geomorphology as geological and geographical science. The analysis of its status, problematic issues, state and prospects of development was highlighted during the 70th anniversary of the Department of Geomorphology and Paleogeography of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, which was celebrated by the geomorphological community of Ukraine and neighboring countries in 2020. The All-Ukrainian scientific-practical conference "Current state and prospects of development of geomorphology and paleogeography in Ukraine" was dedicated to this matter. It featured reports by Lydia Dubis, Jaroslav Kravchuk, Ivan Kovalchuk, Volodymyr Stetsiuk, Andriy Bogutsky, Roman Spitsa, Natalia Gerasimenko, Galyna Bayrak, Petro Voloshin, Oleksandr Mkrtchyan, Andriy Yatsyshyn and other researchers, which reflected modern trends in geomorphological and paleogeographical research. Given this fact, we will try to answer a range of questions that are raised by both the geomorphologists themselves and in specialists in related fields of geographical and geological science. These include, in particular: can we consider the attention, paid to the analysis of the current state of the science of relief and the processes of relief formation in Ukraine sufficient? What are the achievements of geomorphology of the 20s of the XXI century? How does Ukrainian geomorphology relate to foreign geomorphology in research methods, results obtained, and public recognition? What problems does geomorphological and paleogeographic science have to solve in order to remain modern and socially important? What obstacles does it have to overcome? What prospects await her? The highlighted research results are based on the analysis of publications, reports at conferences of various ranks, creative work of the founders of Ukrainian geomorphology, its protagonists who worked in the XIX - XXI centuries or continue to work today, summarizing the results of own research on geomorphological science. Key words: modern Ukrainian geomorphology, problems of geomorphology, prospects of geomorphological researches.


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