Only one main event but it is really a main main main ... event from its future impact on ALADIN in case of definite acceptation (with the new boost ALATNET could give to ALADIN) and ... its current impact on the work of the teams involved in the preparation of the contract with the European Union.
- ALATNET is an acronym for ALAdin Training NET work. Since the 4th of June 1999, it was only a promising application for one of the horizontal programmes of the European Community.
- Last October, it has been favorably evaluated by the Commission services.
- Then, paperworks have going on, with exchanges between Brussels and Toulouse.
- At the beginning of January 2000, we received the final contract prepared by the E.U.
- This contract was signed by Météo-France's "Contrôleur Financier" on the 1st of February, 2000 and sent back to the E.U. for ultimate signature.
- After this signature, ALATNET shall enter into force for 48 months from the first day of the month after the last signature of the contracting parties (Météo-France and the E.U.), probably 1st of March 2000.
- But the payment of the initial advance may be suspended, after the allotted time, until the date of receipt by the E.U. of the Membership Agreement duly signed and dated by all ALATNET Participants (CHMI, IRMB, HIMS, HMS).
- A Membership Agreement was sent to the ALATNET participants on February 7th, 2000.
- Once receiving the four membership agreements signed, they will be sent to the E.U. : it will be the last step ...
Mark Zagar is the 6th ALADIN doctor (see "PhD Studies").
ALADIN organizes a training course on High Resolution Modelling from the 15th to the 26th of May 2000 in Radostovice (Czech Republic).
This seminar was proposed during the last Assembly of ALADIN Partners; the decision of its organization was suspended to both commitments of the ALADIN NMSs about their participation to the Seminar and the signature of ALATNET contract. Both conditions are realized (or will be realized undoubtedly very soon).
As an ALATNET Seminar, it has to be open to countries not members to ALADIN. The European SRNWP-Programme Coordinator announced the ALATNET Seminar to the members of SRNWP Network.
The programme will cover the dynamical as well as the physical aspects of modelling and also their relevance to data assimilation. Participants should be somehow knowledgeable in NWP, but not necessarily in the ALADIN model.
Informations (very few from the time being) are available on our ALADIN Web server ("meetings" or directly : http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/aladin/meetings/rado.html ).
Extract from a guessing game in the Newsletter 16 : "My first name is a famous cyclone; I share my name with a famous method and its inventor; who am I ? ... (indication : I am an ALADINer). "
Well, good ALADIN Newsletter readers are not so many ... or the guessing game was not so good. Anyway, solution is : David DVORAK.
