Deported developments during the third quarter of 1998

During this quarter, 56 persons have worked on ALADIN "at home" (i.e. in their NMS : not in Toulouse) and their global effort represents more 85 people.month during this "holiday" period.

1. In Austria

• Implementation of ALADIN/VIENNA (T. Haiden, Y. Wang),
• ALADIN-LACE verification (T. Haiden, H. Seidl, K. Stadbacher).

2. In Belgium

• Validation of ALADIN-Belgium : statistical verification of forecasts depending on synoptic situation, area and range (B. Schenk),
• Verification of precipitation forecasts (J. Neméghaire, J. Vanderborght),
• CANARI assimilation (O. Latinne),
• Operational work (L. Gérard) : VPP and AL09, 31 levels, tests of compilation of AL09 on J90,
• Informatic aspects (J. Vanderborght),
• Administrative tasks (A. Quinet).

3. In Bulgaria

• The conservation properties of the new 2TL2SL scheme have been studied on the base of a 1D "Shallow Water" spectral model as well as "on paper" development of the corresponding scheme for the 3D model ALADIN (I. Gospodinov, V. Spiridonov).

4. In Croatia

• Work at direct ALADIN model output implying further development of the HRID diagnostic package for additional dynamic adaptation, objective interpretation and local post-processing based on ALADIN pseudo-TEMPs (D. Glasnovic, J. Smitlehner),
• Support to the operational activities (D. Klaric, Z. Vakula),
• Ojective and subjective pseudo-TEMPs verification (M. Mokoric, Z. Vakula),
• Case studies (N. Brzovic) : cyclonic activity and severe jugo in the Adriatic ; factors affecting the Adriatic cyclone and associated windstorms.

5. In Czech Republic

• Objective verifications of ALADIN forecasts (Z. Huthova),
• Porting of ALADIN to NEC SX4 (R. Bubnova),
• Tuning, maintenance and monitoring of the operational suite of ALADIN/LACE (R. Bubnova, M. Janousek),
• Set-up of the environment for ALADIN-LACE development (F. Vana),
• Case study on the extremal precipitation event (R. Mladek).

6. In Hungary

• Non-Hydrostatic version, preparations for Kalman filtering (A. Horanyi)
• CANARI in ALADIN (A. Horanyi, G. Radnoti)
• Theorical and practical training on ALADIN before a Toulouse stay (T. Szabo).

7. In Moldavia

• nothing reported this quarter.

8. In Morocco

• Verification of ALADIN-MAROC forecasts (W. Sadiki),
• Tuning of analysis parameters in order to obtain better forecasts in convective situations (S. Issara),
• Chagal improvements (R. Ajjaji),
• Operational tasks (R. Ajjaji) : 31 levels, maintenance of the operational suites, ...
• Preliminary study of the caracterisation of the meteorological situations in Morroco using ALADIN analysed fields (M. Elabed),
• Study of the pseudo-satellite images from ALADIN-Maroc forecasts (M. Elabed),
• Tests for ALADIN-MAROC with 10 km resolution (J. Boutahar),
• New domain ALADIN-MAROC (J. Boutahar).

9. In Poland

• Administration and organisation (M. Jerczynski),
• Operational system optimization (M. Jerczynski, W. Owcarz),
• Meteorological data base organization (A. Dziedzic, M. Szczech),
• New NWP products visualisation (J. Woyciechowska).

10. Portugal

• Administration (M. Almeida)
• Evaluation of ALADIN model (AL08T3), including dynamical adaption and the non-hydrostatique version (C. Madeira, M. Monteiro, F. Prates).

11. In Romania

• Data assimilation (L. Dragulanescu),
• Mesoscale studies (E. Cordoneanu)
• Preparation of new ALADIN-Romania domain and validation (E. Cordoneanu, V. Ivanovici),
• Assimilation, code maintenance, validation and post-processing (C. Bogdan, C. Soci),
• Physical parametrizations (D. Banciu),
• Tests with the non-Hydrostatic version (D. Iorgulescu),
• Snow cover data, predictability studies and high resolution tests (M. Caian),
• Statistical adaptation and subjective verification (D. Otilia).

12. In Slovakia

• Visualization of fields (M. Kanokovska),
• Verification of the ALADIN model (J. Vivoda),
• Verification of pseudo-TEMPs (M. Gera),
• Development of supplementary software (O. Spaniel),
• Implementation and modification of CHAGAL on WS (M. Siroka).

13. In Slovenia

• MAP (N. Pristov),
• Model 1D, dynamical adaptation (M. Zagar),
• Code maitenance (J. Jerman, N. Pristov).

14. Deported work by Météo-France

• Nothing this quarter.

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