*************************************************************************** Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette IERS Gazette ______________________________________ No 36, 07 August, 1998 / _________________________________/ Contact: iers@obspm.fr ftp: hpiers.obspm.fr (145.238.100.28) WWW: http://hpiers.obspm.fr *************************************************************************** Subject: Invitation to submit contributions to IERS Technical Note 26 on El Nino Authors: David A. Salstein Barbara Kolaczek Daniel Gambis -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The past year's climate events have shown the influence of the El Nino phenomenon on many global signals including those related to atmospheric angular momentum, geodynamics, and Earth rotation/polar motion. The International Earth Rotation Service indicated the importance of this effect in the September 1997 issue of its Gazette #21. In addition there have been a number of scientific meetings since at which this issue has been discussed, including a special session at the AGU Spring Meeting held in Boston in May of this year. Now that indications that the 1997-98 El Nino appears to be over, the IERS invites participation in a Technical Note, tentatively titled: "El Nino, Earth rotation, and related phenomena" to describe such results in a brief manner. We feel that collection of these results in a single volume will be important for the understanding of the subject. Individual contributions to the Technical Note should be no more than 8 pages, and may contain technical details that are not always included in other publications; thus participation in the IERS Technical Note series does not preclude submitting related publications elsewhere. Even very short contributions are welcome, such as abstracts of work presented. Please let us know by 15 September 1998 if you intend to submit a contribution to this IERS Technical Note, and send a tentative title to salstein@aer.com. We ask that contributions be submitted to 15 November 1998. Thank you very much for your interest. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Instructions for authors _________________________ Following are instructions for preparing camera-ready copy. (See IERS Technical Note No 22 for reference) * Character font: Century Schoolbook 10 (if not available, use Times 12) * Text dimensions: 16 cm W x 24.7 cm H (except Title page, see below) - for A4 paper (21 cm W x 29.7 cm H), use 2.5 cm margins on all sides - for US letter paper (21.59 cm W x 27.94 cm H), use 2.8 cm for L/R margins 1.62 cm for top/bottom margins * Begin each contribution with a Title page with - add 1 cm to the top margin (total top margin is 3.5 cm for A4, 2.62 cm for US letter) - center title and use all upper case characters - after 1 blank line, authors & affiliations, left-justified - after 2 blank lines, begin text or 1st section heading - on last line of Title page (within text margin), separated by 1 blank line from text, put 'IERS(1998) Technical Note No 26.' using bold italics * Section headings - for 1st level headings, use all upper case characters - for 2nd level headings, use bold italics and lower case characters (except upper case for 1st letter and other usual upper case) - space 1 blank line above and below all section headings * Indentations - indent 1st line of 1st paragraph of each section and sub-section by 1.25 cm - start remaining paragraphs of each section left-justified * Figures in black & white, placed appropriately * Page numbers will be added later * Send the camera-ready text to: David A. Salstein Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc. 840 Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02139 to be received no later than 15 November 1998 ____________________________________________________________________________