Contents of the ALADIN Newsletter 18 & ALATNET Newsletter 1

ALADIN Main events

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1. Draft the new Memorandum of Understanding

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2. New ALADIN libraries

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a) The operational cycle AL12

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b) The new cycle AL13

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c) The future cycle AL14

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3. 3DVAR workshops in Budapest and in Toulouse

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4. SRNWP Workshop on Mesoscale variational data assimilation

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5. 8th ALADIN workshop "Toward high resolution modelling"

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Sad news for the ALADIN community

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ALATNET Main events

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1. ALATNET story

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2. 1st meeting of the Steering Committee of ALATNET, Toulouse (F), 17 April 2000

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3. ALATNET Seminar on High Resolution Modelling, Radostovice (CZ), 15-26 May, 2000

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4. ALATNET Selection of the first candidates, 30 May, 2000

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5. Kick-off meeting for Research Training Networks, Brussels, 9 June, 2000

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ALADIN/ALATNET : New rules of the game

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1. New calendar for Newsletters and administrative documents :

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2. ALADIN/ALATNET work accounting :

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Announcements

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1. Next ALATNET events

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a) ALATNET young researchers

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b) ALATNET Training Course

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2. Next ALADIN workshops/meetings

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a) The 9th ALADIN Workshop

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b) The 5th Assembly of ALADIN Partners

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c) The 10th ALADIN Workshop

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3. Other next events

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a) The EWGLAM/SRNWP workshops 2000

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b) SRNWP workshop on statistical adaptation

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c) A.M.A. 2000 (Atelier de Modélisation de l'Atmosphère)

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d) Annual COSMO meeting

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Contacts & Informations

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1. ALADIN and ALATNET on the Web

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2. Public ftp

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3. Mailing lists

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4. Remote access to Météo-France machines

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Money Funding asked for some cooperations based on the ALADIN project

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1. French "Ministère des Affaires Etrangères" support (MAE)

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2. Bilateral supporting grants

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3. Météo-France support for maintenance, ...

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4. ALATNET funding

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Recent and future changes in the operational implementation of ARPEGE

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1. Recent operational changes in ARPEGE

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2. Forthcoming operational changes in ARPEGE

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3. Planned operational changes in ARPEGE

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ALADIN and ARPEGE : major code changes and stategy for code porting for the next months

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1. The ARPEGE CY23 (June 2000 )

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2. CY24 (end 2000)

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3. Tests performed so far

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4. Strategy and further tests for 2000

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5. Coordination aspects

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6. Appendix: Figures of performances (provided by Mats Hamrud, ECMWF)

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The operational ALADIN models

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1. Status report of the operational ALADIN versions

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2. Operational version at Austrian Meteorological Service

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3. Operational implementation of ALADIN-Belgium

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4. Operaional version at Bulgarian Meteorological Service

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5. Operational ALADIN-FRANCE in Météo-France

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6. Workstation version at French Meteorological Service

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7. Operational version at Hungarian Meteorological Service

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8. Operational ALADIN-LACE in CHMI

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9. Operational ALADIN-MAROC in MAROC-Météo

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10. Operational version at Polish Meteorological Service

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11. Operational version at the Portuguese Meteorological Service

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12. Operational version at the Romanian Meteorological Service)

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13. Operationa version at Slovak Meteorological Service

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14. Operational version at Slovenian Meteorological Service

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ALADIN PhD Studies

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1. Doina BANCIU : "Specific small scale diabatic forcing in ALADIN at the limit of the hydrostatic assumption"

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2. Ilian GOSPODINOV : "Conservation Properties of 2 Time Level semi-Lagrangian"

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3. Filip VANA : "The dynamical and physical control of kinetic energy spectra in a NWP spectral semi-Lagrangian model"

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ALATNET PhD and Post-Doc Studies

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1. Gianpaolo BALSAMO : "Coupling a variational assimilation of gridpoint surface fields with a 4d variational assimilation of upperair spectral fields"

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2. Christopher SMITH : "Stability analysis and precision aspects of the boundary condition formulation in the non-hydrostatic dynamics and exploration of the alternatives for discrete formulation of the vertical acceleration equation both in Eulerian and Semi-Lagrangian timemarching schemes"

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3. Cornel SOCI : "Sensitivity studies using a limited-area model and its adjoint for the mesoscale range"

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4. Klaus STADLBACHER : "Systematic qualitative evaluation of high-resolution non-hydrostatic model"

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5. Jozef VIVODA : "Application of the predictor-corrector method to non-hydrostatic dynamics"

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3DVAR WORKSHOP IN BUDAPEST

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1. Preliminary work

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2. Scripts, Namelists

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3. Installations from the general point of vue

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4. Debugging and validation of 3DVar

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5. Final discussions

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Influence of the coupling on the 1999 Christmas storm prediction by ALADIN/LACE

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1. Using wider coupling zone

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2. Using shorter coupling interval evergreen of LAM modelling

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3. Using different method of interpolation of LBC : ``never-green'' of LAM modelling…

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4. The conclusions

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Parametrization of Lakes

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1. Introduction

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2. Investigation the effect of changing the Ts on lakes in ALADIN

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3. Lake parametrization

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4. References

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Ozone profile fitted to Bucharest measured data

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1. Abstract

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2. Climatic profile at Bucharest

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3. Daily adjustment.

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4. Numerical experiments.

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5. Results.

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6. Conclusion

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7. Bibliography

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Scores of ALADIN-FRANCE during the first semester of 2000

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1. Comments of contingency table - first semester 2000

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2. Comments of scores against SYNOP - first semester 2000

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3. Comments of precipitations maps - first semester 2000

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Successive forecasts consistency as a measure of skill

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New diagnostics in Full-Pos !

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1. Already in cycle 13 :

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2. Soon in the next bugfix of cycle 13 :

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3. Later in cycle 14 :

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The coordinated exchange of applications : outcome of the questionnaire

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A new definition of the geometry of ALADIN domains

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Participations in the ALADIN project

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ALATNET developments during the first six months of 2000

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1. The ALATNET Research Program

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2. The ALATNET Work Plan

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3. First reports from ALATNET centres

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Deported developments from October 1999 to ... mid-2000

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1. In Austria

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2. In Belgium

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3. In Bulgaria

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4. In Croatia

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5. In Czech Republic

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6. In Hungary

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7. In Moldavia

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8. In Morocco

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9. In Poland

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10. Portugal

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11. In Romania

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12. In Slovakia

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13. In Slovenia

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14. Deported work by Météo-France people

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ALADIN developments in Prague during the first quarter of 2000

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1. Data assimilation related developments.

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2. Developments in the physics.

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3. Developments in the dynamics.

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4. Developments in the diagnostics.

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5. Developments in the verification.

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6. Technical developments.

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7. Work on documentation.

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ALADIN developments in Prague during the second quarter of 2000

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1. Data assimilation related developments.

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2. Developments in the physics.

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3. Developments in the dynamics.

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4. Developments in the diagnostics.

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5. Developments in the verification.

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6. Technical developments.

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ALADIN developments in Toulouse during the first six months of 2000

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1. Main events

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2. Dynamics

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3. Physics

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4. Data assimilation

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5. Support (Full-Pos, workstation version, external tools)

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6. Case studies

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Annexes :

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1. List of documents available on public ftp : cnrm-ftp.meteo.fr, under the directory /pub-aladin on the user anonymous

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2. Statistics of the ALADIN/ALATNET participation

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