A short introduction

These Newsletters correspond to the start of a new medium-term research plan for ALADIN, the third one, and to the mid-term of the ALATNET project. But, most important, this semester was devoted to the setup or the reinforcement of networking, in research and operations. Since work will be more and more decentralized, everyone must feel concerned by activities around ALADIN and ALATNET in other centres.

Several coordination meetings were organized along these six months. The corresponding reports are or will be available on the ALADIN web site. However, to improve their diffusion, it was decided to publish them also in the present Newsletters.

To end with, the "News" page of the ALADIN site is NOT updated, since Patricia Pottier left for several months. But informations ARE, and the corresponding changes announced by e-mail, via the aladin++at++meteo.fr list.