Deported developments during the forth quarter of 1998

During this quarter, 55 persons have worked on ALADIN "at home" (i.e. in their NMS : not in Toulouse) and their global effort represents about 70 people.month during this period. It is the first time for months that Météo-France people contribute to Deported work.

1. In Austria

• ALADIN/VIENNA : completing the operational environment, post-processing of fields, generating NETCDF-files, ... (Y. Wang),
• ALADIN-LACE verification of areal precipitation :verification of archived data with regard to precipitation amount, flow direction, season, region, etc; operational production of areal precipitation forecasts including error margins; preparation of verification reports (T. Haiden, 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 on September 1998 floods in Belgium (J. Neméghaire, J. Vanderborght),
• CANARI assimilation (O. Latinne),
• Study of the bad scores of surface temperature forecasts in November and December : tuning of GCGEL parameter in ISBA (O. Latinne),
• Operational work (L. Gérard) : installation of AL09_CY19T1 operational on November 2,1998, completion of the work initited during a Toulouse stay on optimisation of convection routines for cycle 20,
• Study on Non-Hydrostatic physic parametrisations with presentation at EWGLAM meeting (L. Gerard),
• Analysis of the performance of simple limited area models : statistics and previsibility with an article in press in Int. Journal of Bif. and Chaos, Chomé F. and Nicolis C. "Regional limited-area models viewed as dynamical systems,
• Informatic aspects (J. Vanderborght),

3. In Bulgaria

• implementation of ALADIN on SUN workstation : pre-operational runs of AL09 and creation for scientific tasks of three integration domains (A. Bogatchev, V. Spiridonov).

4. In Croatia

• no significant quantifiable activity this quarter in Zagreb.

5. In Czech Republic

• Maintenance of the development environment for CHMI and RC LACE ALADIN teams (F. Vana),
• Training for the upcoming Toulouse work (D. Dufkova),
• Development of postprocessing tool for ALADIN (D. Dvorak),
• Evaluation of ALADIN performance in the event of floods (M. Salek).

6. In Hungary

• Preparations for ALADIN/HU domain and resolutions changes; non-hydrostatic test runs; preparations of Mandalay and Canari; data assimilation project plans for LACE; relaunching of some past cases for case studies (A. Horanyi),
• preparation of AL09; tests with the distributed memory version of ALADIN; tests with Mandalay and Canari (G. Radnoti),
• Preparation of ASCII input files for Mandalay (T. Szabo).

7. In Moldavia

• nothing reported this quarter.

8. In Morocco

• Verification of ALADIN-MAROC forecasts (W. Sadiki),
• Compilation and test of AL09 (S. Issara),
• Chagal improvements (R. Ajjaji),
• Modification of ALADIN domain, utilisation of a 12 hour assimilation cycle for the backup suite (R. Ajjaji),
• Using fine orography in the model (M. Elabed),
• Updating OULAN-BATOR version (H. Haddouch),
• Project of regional forecasts (J. Boutahar).

9. In Poland

• Administration and organisation, (M. Jerczynski),
• Operational system (M. Jerczynski, W. Owcarz),
• New products for hydrological service (A. Dziedzic),
• Organisation of auxiliary databases (M. Szczech),
• Enhancement of operational visualisation (J. Woyciechowska).

10. Portugal

• Operational ALADIN (C. Madeira),
• Verifications and developments (F. Prates).

11. In Romania

• Mesoscale studies (L. Dragulanescu, E. Cordoneanu)
• Code maintenance (C. Soci),
• Urban effects studies and input files for CROCUS model (M. Caian),
• Model output verification (S. Adriana, D. Otilia).

12. In Slovakia

• Visualization of ALADIN/LACE products (M. Kanokovska),
• Verification of ALADIN outputs, Kalman filter (J. Vivoda),
• Verification of ALADIN outputs and visualization (M. Bellus),
• Verification of pseudo-TEMPs (M. Gera),
• Implementation of ALADIN on DEC workstation (O. Spaniel),
• Development of operational suite for ALADIN/Slovakia (M. Siroka).

13. In Slovenia

• AL09 testing, phasing of utility programs, ee923, MAP (N. Pristov),
• Dynamical adaptation (M. Zagar),
• LACE visualization for MAP (M. Kozelj, J. Vehovar),
• ALADIN/cluster of workstations (J. Jerman).

14. Deported work by Météo-France people

• in Prague : preparation of the Assembly of Partners (J.-F. Geleyn),
• in Lisbonne : lectures on physics, perspectives of commun work, installation of 1D model (E. Bazile, J.-M. Piriou),
• in Ljubljana : definition of the subjects for deported work in Slovenia, definition of the field "ALADIN/Slovenia verifications" (C. Fischer, D. Giard, J.-M. Moisselin).

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