ANNEX D

ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS

ALADIN : Aire Limitée Adaptation dynamique Développement INternational,
name of the mesoscale limited area model used by the network
name of the consortium contributing to the development of the model (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Hungary, Moldova, Morocco, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tunisia)

ALANET : ALAdin training NETwork
name of the research training network

EC : European Commission

EU : European Union

EWGLAM : European Working Group on Limited Area Modelling,
an informal network involving the NWP teams of most European NMSs

FGAT : First Guess at Appropriate Time,
an improved 3D-Var assimilation scheme when the departure between forecast and observations is computed at the observation time, rather than considering that all observations are valid at the analysis time (i.e. at the middle of the assimilation window).

FP: Framework Program

HIRLAM : HIgh Resolution Limited Area Model,
name of another mesoscale limited area model
name of the consortium contributing to the development of the model (Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Island, Norway, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands)

IM : Instituto de Meteorologia
(Portugal)

IMGW : Instytut Meteorologii i Gospodarki Wodnej
(Institute of Meteorology and Water Management of Poland)

INMH : Institutul National de Meteorologie Hidrologie
(Romanian National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology)

IRM(B) : Institut Royal Météorologique (de Belgique)
(ALATNET partner 2)

CHMI : Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute

(ALATNET partner 3)

HMS : Hungarian Meteorological Service
(ALATNET partner 4)

HMIS / EAS : Hydro-Meteorological Institute of Slovenia / Environmental Agency of Slovenia
(ALATNET partner 5 : old / new name)

LACE : Limited Area Central Europe,
a subgroup of the ALADIN consortium (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia)

LAM : Limited Area Model

LBC : Lateral Boundary Condition

NH : Non-Hydrostatic (dynamics)

NIMH : National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology
(Bulgaria)

NMC : National Meteorological Center
(USA)

NMS : National (hydro-)Meteorological Service

NWP : Numerical Weather Prediction

SREPS : Short-Range Ensemble Prediction System

SHMÚ : Slovenský HydroMeteorologický Ústav
(Slovak Hydro-Meteorological Institute)

SRNWP : Short Range Numerical Weather Prediction
an official European working group on NWP issues

TMR : Training Mobility Research program

UK : United Kingdom

WMO : World Meteorological Organisation

YR : ALATNET Young Researchers

ZAMG : ZentralAnstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik
(Austria)