Publications

Book of abstracts from the final meeting of COST Action D32.

The COST Action 716 “Exploitation of Ground-based GPS for Operational Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Applications” was prepared during 1997 and 1998 when a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was written and approved. The necessary signatures, from different countries, were obtained during the autumn of 1998 and its kick-off meeting was held in January 1999. Around that time many European countries had installed, or had plans for, continuously operating ground-based GPS networks to be used as geodetic references, support surveying and navigation, and deliver data for basic research studying the dynamics of the earth. It has by then also been realized that information about the atmospheric water vapour content above each receiving antenna was obtained from the accurate geodetic GPS data analysis.
Water vapour is difficult to measure, but is of great importance for accurate modelling of the dynamics of the atmosphere, both for weather prediction and for climate applications. The possibility to have continuous time series of the water vapour content was therefore identified as a potential new important data source. It was time for a collaboration, and coordination at the European level, and geodesists and meteorologists were invited to work together within the COST Action 716.

This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and supports individual and collective memories. It encourages a view of heritage as a process that contributes through cultural sustainability to human well-being and socially- and culturally-sensitive policy.

The video, produced by the students at the University of Salford in 2012-13, contains five selected projects that turned two academic journal papers on participatory media and digital publishing.