ALATNET Main events
For each item, a more detailed report is available on other
pages of this ALATNET website.
1. 2nd
meeting of the ALATNET steering group
ALATNET representatives met in Bruxelles, on March 19th, to
discuss the following topics :
- scientific progress along the last
year, update of the scientific plan,
- guidelines for the first annual
report (scientific papers and cost statements),
- next call for candidacies,
conversion of Post-Doc into PhD grants,
- training courses,
- next meetings.
2. First
annual ALATNET progress report
Though some of the authors were quite pessimistic at first,
the report was sent to the E.U. in time. It describes the various facets of
the ALATNET (and to some extent ALADIN) effort along one year : research,
publications, training, networking, finance, meetings ... It may be retrieved
from the ALATNET web site.
3. 3rd
meeting of the ALATNET steering group
Participation to the 10th ALADIN anniversary in Paris, on May
31st, gave the opportunity to discuss two more points. First the candidacies
to the last ALATNET grants were examined and a preliminary vote issued. Only
one person applied afterwards, for one position, so that most choices kept
valid. Then it was decided to send four ALATNET scientists to an advanced
training course "on the interactions between aerosols, clouds and
radiation", organized in France mid-September 2001. It was felt quite
useful, if not necessary, to get some more experience on this topic within the
ALATNET teams and students. This should benefit to research on physics and observations.
4. New
ALATNET students
Welcome to the new ALATNET students :
- Ilian Gospodinov, from the second
call (February 2nd),
- Steluta Alexandru, Margarida Belo
Pereira, Martin Gera, Raluca Radu, André Simon and Malgorzata Szczech,
from the third call (June 7th),
and good continuation to Christopher SMITH for another year
in Prague !
Here is now the complete list of ALATNET students and a provisional
time-table of their stays in research & training centers :
- Steluta Alexandru
(Pre-Doc, Budapest) : Scientific strategy for the implementation of
a 3d-Var assimilation scheme for a double-nested limited area model
- Gianpaolo Balsamo
(Pre-Doc, Toulouse) : Coupling a variational assimilation of
gridpoint surface fields with a 4d variational assimilation of upperair
spectral fields modified in : Mesoscale variational analysis for land
surface variables
- Margarida Belo Pereira
(Pre-Doc, Toulouse) : Improving the assimilation of water in a NWP model
- Martin Gera
(Post-Doc, Bruxelles) : Improved representation of boundary layer
- Ilian Gospodinov
(Post-Doc, Bruxelles) : Reformulation of the physics-dynamics
interface for a non-hydrostatic high resolution model
- Raluca Radu
(Pre-Doc, Ljubljana & Budapest) : Extensive study of the
coupling problem for a high resolution limited area model
- André Simon
(Pre-Doc, Toulouse) : Study of the relationship between
turbulent fluxes in deeply stable PBL situations and cyclogenetic activity
- Christopher Smith
(Post-Doc, Prague) : 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 time marching schemes
- Cornel Soci
(Pre-Doc, Toulouse & Budapest) : Sensitivity studies using
a limited-area model and its adjoint for the meso-scale range
- Klaus Stadlbacher
(Pre-Doc, Ljubljana) : Systematic qualitative evaluation of
high-resolution non-hydrostatic model
- Malgorzata Szczech
(Pre-Doc, Toulouse) : Use of IASI/AIRS data over land
- Jozef Vivoda
(Pre-Doc, Prague) : Application of the predictor-corrector method
to non-hydrostatic dynamics
5. ALATNET
training course on data assimilation
All informations on the web pages of the seminar : lectures,
summaries, teachers, participants,
debriefing,
and the WWWW
of the Seminar (When, Where, Who, What) in a few numbers and graphics !...
