MAE support for 2000 roughly corresponds to demands, with two more partners concerned this year (Croatia and Slovenia). However fundings won't be available before mid-October, in the most optimistic case. As a consequence many stays will have to be delayed to 2001.
As a justification for 2001 demands, the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères asks for a report on the 10 last years of cooperation (progress, benefits for each part), for the partners benefiting from this support. The Toulouse support team will write down his part (and assume translation in French whenever required), but the concerned NMS must complete it with their own contributions. Reports must be ready before the autumn. Demands for 2001 will be prepared only for those partners who send a sensible report in time. Only Hungary, Portugal and Romania answered up to now.
More details can be asked to Sylvie Rivals (Météo-France/D2I/INT, sylvie.rivals++at++meteo.fr ).
AMADEUS, BALATON, BARRANDE, PROTEUS are bilateral programs who can support short visits in both sides. The countries involved in these programs can easily be guessed considering the programs names. The French fundings are used to pay the per-diem (in France) of the visitors and to pay the travel of French people to other NMS, and vice-versa.
The 2000 exchanges (BALATON, BARRANDE) will be completed this autumn.
The renewal for 2001 has been asked for BALATON (Hungary benefits from ALATNET support but not for the same topics as those supported by BALATON) but not for BARRANDE and PROTEUS (Czech Republic and Slovenia are ALATNET centers). The BALATON topic is "development of very short range prediction using the ALADIN model".
A new demand has been sent for 2001 : its name is AMADEUS and exchanges will be, of course, with Austria. This program will focus on the improvement of the description of the precipitation on mountain areas (parametrization, analysis, verification).
More details can be asked to Dominique Giard (dominique.giard++at++meteo.fr ).
The Météo-France support to the maintenance of ALADIN will be distributed among 21 stays (6 from February to June, 15 from September to December). They focus on:
The demand for the next years is less and will support only 2 phasing exercises with 8 persons invited each time, and some additional stays. However we may hope that part of maintenance will effectively be deported at that time.
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