Assessment of the 1999-2001 research plan

A presentation of ALADIN scientific activities according to the 1999-2001 research plan, was given by Dominique Giard. It concerned all the items that had been planed during the last two years and the proportion of success of each item among : "Maintenance and improvement of the operational versions", "High resolution modelling", "Data assimilation" and "Means". A summary of this presentation (Second medium-term 1999-2001 research plan for ALADIN : Objectives versus progress) is annexed to this report. During the discussions about this presentation, M. Jean-François Geleyn stressed the poor interest given by almost all partners to the observation part (data in general) of the project. He juged unsuccessful the so called transversal efforts related to maintenance and project management. M. Beysson considered that more efforts had to be deployed to improve some scientific components of ALADIN, especially physics and data assimilation.