¨ Forth meeting of the ALATNET steering group
To prepare the Mid-Term Review with the E.U., a meeting of coordinators is scheduled in Budapest, on March 8th. It will be completed by a last minute meeting involving also ALATNET students, in Brussels just before the review.
¨ ALATNET mid-term review
After agreement of the EC, the mid-term review will be organised in Brussels (IRM) on Monday April 22, 2001 afternoon and Thuesday April 23 morning. An ALATNET Steering Committee will take place on Monday morning and an all ALATNET staff meeting on Sunday 21.
¨ Third ALATNET training course, on numerical methods
The next (and last ?) training course will be organized in Slovenia, on May 2002, and will focus on numerical methods (in modelling and assimilation).
This workshop follows the traditional annual ALADIN meetings program to allow the presentation of the most recent advances, the exchange of experiences and the discussion of future activities among our community of technicians and developers.
The reason for the choice of this topic has won some consistency after the 7th and 9th ALADIN workshops where several applications and "exotic" ideas for the creation of new products at the end of the forecast production chain were presented. Now that a wide range of operational versions of the model are set, the usage of their products, in an attractive way and to solve problems in different areas of the Meteorology, has become a reality.
The workshop will encompass a series of short presentations by the participants, group discussions on selected topics and a plenary discussion on future developments. Workshop proceedings, including presentations and conclusions by the working groups will be produced.
The application of ALADIN products to different areas of Meteorology, its verification, visualisation, interesting case studies and general problems, are welcome to appear as topics of participant presentations. However, other subjects that can be addressed by the authors will be submitted to discussion.
The next meeting will take place in Casablanca (14 January 2002). The next ALADIN research plan (or at least a draft version) should be ready by that time. Any contribution is welcome !
for more details, contact : Pierre.Benard++at++meteo.fr
for more details, contact : Juergen.Steppeler++at++dwd.de
Apart from the usual group and national EWGLAM presentations
and the SRNWP Lead Centers reports, this meeting will include :
- a BALTEX session (invited presentations),
- an AMDAR session (in the framework of EUCOS),
- a scientific session on "High
resolution, Mountains and Numerical Weather Prediction".
This workshop on surface processes, turbulence and mountain effects is at the same time a HIRLAM workshop, with the usual format of such venues, and the 3rd SRNWP, the Eumetnet Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction programme, workshop organized by the tandem lead centre on surface processes and assimilation of surface variables (INM and SHMI). The part devoted to surface processes and assimilation will be object of separate sessions.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
The workshop will encompass a series of short presentations by the participants, group discussions on selected topics and a plenary discussion on future developments. Workshop proceedings, including presentations and conclusions by the working groups, will appear as a HIRLAM Publication.
The following preliminary list of topics may be considered
for discussion:
for more details, contact : e.rodriguez++at++inm.es
The COSMO group will hold its annual general meeting in Athens (3-5 October 2001). The ALADIN group was kindly invited to send one representative. However, due to the proximity of many other European workshops, it was not possible to answer favourably.
The next HIRLAM workshop on "Variational Data Assimilation and Remote Sensing" will be organized in Helsinki on 21-23 January 2002.
A mini-workshop will be held in Norrköping on 19-20 November. Claude Fischer and Jean Nicolau, from the Toulouse team, will attend it. for more details contact : magnus.lindskog++at++smhi.se
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