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The AMMA Operation Center in Niger
SOP config
Ground Measurement EOP/LOP Radiosoundings,
AERONET, IDAF,GPS, Flux stations
ACMAD Center

• AMMA Forecasting Center

AOC Coordination Center (IRD)
SOP Coordination Center (Met.Office DMN)
ECMWF, NWP, MSG, models (Meteo-France,Toulouse) PU
MA and RETIM

• Daily briefings
• AMMA-Niger room
• Office for the scientific secretary, IST.
• Room with computers (quick look..)
• Visiting scientists room

• General coordination of the AOC
• Visiting scientists room

Civil Airport
SOP Secondary AOCs (Burkina, Benin, Dakar)

• UK aircraft team
• ARM (AMMA-US)
• GPS
• Radio soundings

Niamey Airport ASECNA/DMN/DAC Niger Air Force
Military Airport

• French aircraft team
• German aircraft team
• Balloons (CNES, FR)
• MIT C-band Radar (US)

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AOC-Niamey installations
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2 briefing rooms (15-20 persons) for aircraft
balloons team
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• Renovation work at the military airport
• electricity in the hangar and on the parking
  (network redone lights). Taxiway lights.
• renovation of the AC ? DC GPS (362A 115/200V 400
  Hz)
• renovation of the hangar roof
• new tarmac on the taxiway
• reparation of 4 aircraft stepladders
• building of 8 rooms under the hangar for French
  and German aircraft scientists and operators (270
  m2)
• renovation of 3 rooms under the hangar
• internet connections (scientific and military
  part as capacity building)
• building of a launching area for stratospheric
  balloons
• new building for balloons operations

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PLAN DES CONNECTIONS INFORMATIQUES AEROPORT
MILITAIRE
HANGAR
SALLE DE FORMATION
SCOUT
ETAT MAJOR
Vers ASECNA
antenne WIFI réseau filaire switch
SATOM
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DMN
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HOTELS

• Teams who have booked
• British - Grand Hôtel
• SAFIRE Terminus (except F-F20 crew)
• LISA (ground measurements) - Terminus
• scientists on ATR and F-F20 - Terminus
• film team -Terminus
• SCOUT balloons Sahel Terminus
• nothing booked for coordinators, forecasting
  team, G-F20. Its time to hurry up! Full in
  Terminus between 8-11 August. 8 pers without room!

Please join Nathalie DAmato (damato_at_ird.ne)

• Grand Hôtel (10 discount included)
• 45 500 CFA/night
• Sahel (10 discount, not included)
• 10 bungalows 37 000 CFA/night (full between
  18/07 and 29/08.
• rooms 25 500 CFA/night

• Terminus (15 discount included)
• 34 rooms 32 000 CFA/night
• 16 rooms 38 000 CFA/night
• Breakfast 2 200 or 4 000 CFA

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TRANSPORT TO NIAMEY
Nathalie DAmato found 180 travels. Some are not
nominative. Some probably lack! You must book
from your own since it was decided it would be
done from Europe. Think to do it and to inform
Nathalie DAmato since it could reveal to be a
problem during SOP2a2.
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TRANSPORT IN NIAMEY
We have an agreement with a company of car
renting with the following prices (with a driver
but without the fuel)
taxi (2 000CFA/h, gas-oil included and 12
000CFA/day, without gas-oil)
Tell Cheikh Kane (citizenkane_at_ird.ne) as soon as
possible your needs and he'll try to book the
cars for you
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HEALTH

• Recommended Gamkalley clinique
• 3 doctors included the director. The latter will
  be in Niamey until mid-August. Will be replaced
  afterwards by a specialist from the Hospital.
• between 12h30 and 15h30, one of the 3 doctors
  can be called (at home) ½ h to come. During
  nights and WE, specialists from hospital are
  called.
• give your insurance name, number and contact to
  Nathalie DAmato passport number and keep your
  card on yourself during your mission. In any
  case, it is better to call your insurance as
  soon as possible. Keep Gamkalley phone number on
  yourself 73 20 33 or 73 46 39.

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Aircraft fares

• They have to be paid in cash. They DO NOT WANT
  us to pay to Dakar. There was a possibility to
  sign a contract (open a customer count) but it is
  3 months long, and you have to give them a 2
  months deposit. Its never done for one month.
  Possibility to open a count in a local bank and
  pay in euros or CFA.
• 2nd demand to the Ministry of Transport for a
  discount on fares (last month). The Ministry has
  not responded yet (out of Niamey).

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Money
Money Cash is not easy to get, even if some
banks can provide with limited amount of money.
Traveler's checks can be exchanged up to 10 000
with 3 fees and a lump sum of around 15 .
Another possibility is to open an institutional
account at a local Bank and to make transfers for
local use. This account could be a foreign
currency account. Details can be asked to Cheikh
Kane (do it as soon as possible).
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CUSTOMS
To send your material try to choose a forwarding
agent which is present in both countries If that
is not possible, you can get in touch with your
AOC contact (Cheikh KANE ,e-mail
citizenkane_at_ird.ne) to give you advice on the
local companies available for such operations he
could even collect for you quotations upon
request For that, we need information like the
number, the weight, the bulk mass, the way
followed (air, sea), if any, the countries of
transit (for us to contact our colleagues in
those countries to follow-up the shipment) the
final destination of your packs in the country.
To benefit of  the customs clearances, you will
need to pass through IRD by sending your
shipment to the following address
IRDReprésentation NigerAOC-AMMAB.P 11
416276, Avenue de MaradiNiamey / NigerTél
(227) 35 02 21Fax [phone]Contact
Cheikh KANE (cell. 227 95 69 04)
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CUSTOMS (continued)
When your choice is made concerning the
forwarding agents in both countries, and as soon
as your shipment is gone, please send us the
following documents the waybill (air or sea),
the manifest, the value of the shipment and all
what your agent could give you. This will allow
us to begin the customs clearances procedure in
time It happens that AOC-AMMA faces unexpected
charges to pay on behalf of other AMMA partners.
It's neither a mission nor a commitment of the
operational center to pay for such expenses. One
way to avoid such troubles, is to use, for your
shipment, in accordance with your forwarding
agent, the formula DDP (which stands for
Delivered Duty Paid) the named point of
destination. That will make you responsible for
most of the expenses, i.e. the cargo insurance,
payment of customs duties and taxes, and the
delivery of goods to the final point at
destination. We will just take care, on our side,
of import customs clearances. In addition, youve
got to tell C. Kane whether your importation is
temporary or definitive. You still have the
possibility to pay cash by bringing hard currency
and change it into CFA currency. That implies to
be here when the shipment reaches Niamey.
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Aircraft clearances
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Please add to your own correspondance
As a response to your fax from 2006 March 21st
(for Mali for instance) (ref 028/DNAC/BV/DTA/OPS
0282), following a fax from Thierry Lebel about
a request for overflight permission,
landing/take-off and dropsonde launches for
research aircraft from June to September 2006
(REF/NA/TL/06-12), you will find in the following
some additional information you require
.. En réponse à votre fax du 21 mars 2006
(pour Mali) référencé 028/DNAC/BV/DTA/OPS 0282
qui fait suite au courrier de Thierry Lebel sur
la demande dautorisations de survol,
datterrissage et de largage de dropsondes pour
des avions de recherche de juin à septembre 2006
(REF/NA/TL/06-12), vous voudrez bien trouver
ci-dessous les renseignements supplémentaires que
vous sollicitez  ..
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BADGES
Military airport very easy to obtain (we only
need photos and copy of the passport). Visitors
badges available (ask Frédérique). Civil airport
a very long story. It took 5 months to obtain
the AOCs badges. Weve just got them with an
expiration date in 2005 (2006 are not ready
yet) . The easy way to access we had in SOP0 can
be redriven (list of people provided by
Frédérique and given to the airport commandant
who signed it, and to the Chef Gendarme) BUT the
commission must be informed before (provide 2
photos and passport copy). Anyway, badges cannot
be done unless the criminal record is
provided. For French (and German?) people,
Cyrille will make a restricted list of people
(pilots, coordinators) who will provide their
criminal record in addition. Badges will be done
after another photo taken at the ASECNA and
against 30 000CFA.
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TELEPHONE

• A TELECEL network connected to AOC and to our
  main parteners (civil aitport, ACMAD, Ministry of
  Research, military airport) is available.
• To be able to use this network, you must
• bring your own mobile phone, make it deblocked
  (some do not need)
• make a demand to Nat DAmato for a SIM card
  (6000 CFA for the SIM card 11 900 CFA /month,
  charge is taken from THE BEGINNING OF THE MONTH).
  Please, group your demand. You must pay at the
  end of the month to be able to use the SIM card
  the following month.
• Note this SIM card is paid by the API for the
  French aircraft scientists but the number of SIM
  cards is limited by the budget (ask Cyrille).
• You can use this same phone for other numbers
  than those of the network, provided you buy a
  recherge card (anywhere in the street). Remember
  it is TELECEL.
• Be careful TELECEL cannot be used for
  Banizoumbou (CELTEL network)

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Site de laéroport civil (locaux de
lASECNA)  - rénovation et aménagement de 6
bureaux dans les locaux de la météorologie (14
k) - contribution au nivellement et à la
réfection du parking, devant le bâtiment des
radiosondages. (13 k) Site de laéroport
militaire (base aérienne 101)  - alimentation
électrique du hangar et du parking, balisage,
éclairage, réparation du toit du hangar (24 k) -
réfection du tarmac du taxiway (10 k) -
construction et aménagement de bureaux sous le
hangar (300m2) (46 k) - connexions internet
sur toute la base (10 k) - construction dune
aire de lancement et dun nouveau bâtiment pour
les opérations aériennes (62 k) Site de la
Direction de la Météorologie Nationale  -
terrassement de la cour et aménagement de la
villa pour laccueil du quartier général des
opérations et des laboratoires danalyse (15
k) Site de lACMAD  - rénovation de la salle
de prévision, achat et installation dune antenne
satellite pour laccès internet (9 k) Par
ailleurs, 107 k sont investis pour construire et
mettre en œuvre une boucle radio et WIFI
permettant de distribuer internet aux différents
sites. Cette enveloppe comprend un abonnement
dédié sur la période des opérations.