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WMO Commission of Basic Systems’ Expert Team on Emergency Response Activities Meeting: Glenn Rolph participated as an invited guest at the WMO Commission of Basic Systems’ (CBS) Expert Team on Emergency Response Activities (ET-ERA) meeting in Vienna, Austria from October 1 to 5. The meeting is held every 2 or 3 years to coordinate the activities of the nuclear and non-nuclear RSMCs (Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres) under WMO/CBS. The RSMCs provide dispersion modeling products to WMO member countries and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for real-time major events with releases from nuclear facilities (for example, Fukushima nuclear power plant), smoke from large grasslands, forest fires and industrial fires, as well as large chemical releases. Glenn made a presentation on the Transfer Coefficient Matrix (TCM) work being done under this program and the meeting was very interested in seeing this capability used by the RSMCs in the future.