Deported developments during the second quarter of 1999
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.
1. In Austria 
- LACE Project Scientific Officer duties (T. Haiden),
- Verification tool for WS version (K. Stadlbacher),
- FA to NETCDF conversion and application of Fullpos to generate input
fields for a trajectory model (Y. Wang).
2. In Belgium
- Objective validation of ALADIN-Belgium (B. Schenk),
- ALADIN validation during exceptional meteorological situations (J.
Neméghaire, J. Vanderborght),
- CANARI assimilation (O. Latinne),
- Performance analysis (F. Chomé),
- Various adaptations of the convective scheme, Preparation of a detailed
documentation in english under LaTex for Aladin's Physics (the documentation
will be very soon available on the public ftp or through the ALADIN web),
Enhancements of local post-processing tools, Arpege Files and archives and
Operational work (L. Gerard).
3. In Bulgaria 
- Preparing and starting the operational scripts of AL09, control of
operational runs (A. Bogatchev, V. Spiridonov).
4. In Croatia
- no report from Zagreb this quarter again.
5. In Czech Republic 
- Study of the tropical cyclone simulation by ALADIN (D. Dufkova),
- Development of postprocessing tools for ALADIN and operational monitoring
of ALADIN/LACE (D. Dvorak),
- Development of Kalman filtering of ALADIN forecasts (Z. Huthova),
- Verification of ALADIN/LACE (R. Mladek),
- Study of diffusion properties of semi-Lagrangian scheme (F. Vana).
6. In Hungary
- Migration from DEC to SGI platform, new operational domain and resolution,
(A. Horanyi, G. Radnoti, T. Szabo),
- diag-pack (G. Radnoti),
- Subjective evaluation of ALADIN (S. Jenki, M. Sallai).
7. In Moldavia
- nothing reported this quarter.
8. In Morocco
- 3D-Var in ALADIN/Maroc, preparation of the quartely publication on
objective evaluation of ALADIN/Maroc (W. Sadiki),
- Operational work, 2000 tests, modification of operational CHAGAL for 2000,
comparison of CANARI and 3D-VAR (R. Ajjaji),
- Characterization of meteorological situations from analyzed fields (M. El Abed),
- Porting on workstation Sun Ultra 5 (H. Haddouch),
- Cyclogenesis study (J. Boutahar).
9. In Poland 
- Administration and organisation, (M. Jerczynski),
- Administration of operational system (M. Jerczynski, W. Owcarz),
- Development of post-processing-on-demand system (W. Owcarz),
- Development of verification software (A. Dziedzic, M. Szczech),
- Enhancement of visualisation system (J. Woyciechowska).
10. Portugal
- nothing reported this quarter.
11. In Romania 
- Code maintenance and tests (D. Banciu, C. Soci),
- Dead convection parametrization (D. Banciu),
- Preparation of a coupling interface ARPEGE/ALADIN-REGCM2 for climatic
integration experiments (C. Boroneant, M. Caian),
- Intercomparison of the models used in the operational forecast by
semi-objective and objective validation (D. Otilia).
12. In Slovakia
- Database for ALADIN/LACE productss and observations (J. Vivoda),
- Vizualisation of ALADIN/LACE products (M. Konakovska),
- Verification of surface parameters for ALADIN/LACE and ALADIN/Slovakia,
visualization of verification results (M. Bellus),
- Maintenace of ALADIN/Slovakia (M. Siroka),
- Workstation version ALADIN/Slovakia (O. Spaniel).
13. In Slovenia 
- CANARI (N. Pristov),
- Diagnostics of precipitations from dynamically adapted wind fields (M. Zagar),
- Research work on cluster installation, study of suitable methods for
meteorological support of longer sailing competitions with optimal path
method, ... (J. Jerman).
14. Deported work by Météo-France people
- in Prague : Further CYCORA tuning work (J.-F. Geleyn),
- in Prague : Installation of NMC statistics on NEC (C. Fischer)
- in Budapest : work on DIAG-PACK (V. Cassé, see article
in this Newsletter).
