1. 1999 EWGLAM/SRNWP joined meetings hold in Bratislava on October 11-15th, 1999
Organized by the Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute, the 1999 combined EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings took place in Bratislava.
As usual, during the EWGLAM meeting (11-13rd October), the participants could attend international projects presentations with ALADIN, HIRLAM, UKMO, ECMWF and LACE and, this year, a new group : "Cosmo-Consortium" with Germany, Greece, Italy and Switzerland as partners (see map on the next page). Then, some 18 national posters were introduced. The scientific presentations dealt with different themes (complete agenda available on http://www.shmu.sk/ewglam or in the next EWGLAM Newsletter).
Then, during the SRNWP meeting (14-15th October), reports from Lead Centers were presented :
A summary of the 1999-2001 decided or envisaged activities was presented and the discussions dealt mainly around the exchange of software, common works, invitations to workshops, contact persons, ...
The next EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings will take place in Toulouse on October 9-14th, 2000 (special topic will be numerical convergence) and, as proposed by its representative, Poland will organize the 2001 EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings.
2. ALADIN evening meeting
The EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings are not only the opportunity to attend good scientific presentations and informal reception or to visit forecast center, castle, downtown and restaurants ... an evening is usually dedicated to an ALADIN meeting. This time is was on Wednesday evening, just after the end of the EWGLAM session (and before another ALADIN meeting ... at the restaurant).
20 people from 9 ALADIN countries were present (nobody from Bulgaria,
Morocco, Portugal, Romania and Moldavia could attend). Main discussions were
about :
A scientific program for next year will be presented to the next Assembly of Partners (the preliminary document is available on our server, see annexe).
Among the subjects for 2000, the orphan ones were identified and some of
them were attributed to volunteers during this meeting. Others are still free.
This school will be mostly theoretical and will not be organized for the
formation of newcomers. Of course, people attending to this school should have
then the opportunity to go on working on ALADIN after the school (some of the
people trained during the last general purpose training exercise did not work
on ALADIN after the school for many many months or years...). Commitments on
this subject will be asked to the Directors for the Assembly.
Météo-France have funding for initiating this work on
verification with a 2 month stay in Toulouse in 2000. A call for volunteer is
hereby announced.
The situation is critical with a participation less and less important from some countries, whereas Météo-France's effort is increasing every year. Some promises of some participations were made; hopefully they will be kept ...
The next phasing (March 2000) will be rather a small one with mainly ODB
and some cleaning of the code. A more important phasing will begin in October
after the EWGLAM meeting.
A first draft of the agenda of the Assembly was prepared. Since then, it
has been completed and proposed (and approved) to/by the participants (see
above).
They 2000 meeting will be in Toulouse and an effort will be made to have at least one participant of each ALADIN countries. The dates of the stays in Toulouse will be chosen in order to offer the opportunity of attending this meeting to the maximum of people (some stays could end just before the meeting and others, such as phasing stays, could begin just after the meeting). This will be a huge organization effort at the same time when the EWGLAM meeting should be prepared ...
The important question of which excursion will be organized during the next meeting was touched during a contradictory debate ... The subject is still open and suggestions are welcome.
3. Seventh ALADIN Workshop in Ljubljana on November 17-19th, 1999
The subject of this workshop is "Recent and planned operational exploitation of ALADIN model". Report in the next Newsletter (For additional information please consult http://www.rzs-hm.si/OpTiM/lace/workshop99.html ).
4. Assembly of ALADIN Partners in Lisbonn on December 6th, 1999
The next Assembly of the ALADIN Partners will take place in Lisbonn on Monday 6th of December 1999. An invitation has be sent to the Directors of the 14 NMSs involved in the ALADIN project. The agenda was designed during the last ALADIN evening meeting in Bratislava and proposed to the members. Main topics will be :
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Report in the next Newsletter.
For additional information please contact: mario.almeida++at++meteo.pt
5. "Atelier de Modélisation de l'Atmosphère" (A.M.A.) to be held in Toulouse on November 30th - December 2nd, 1999
This year, the main topics of the A.M.A. will be "Modèles". A "call for contributions" has been sent in June within the French speakers community (communications and posters will be in French).
For additional information please
contact : ama99++at++meteo.fr or
consult http://www.cnrm.meteo.fr/ama/
6. ALADIN events in 2000 
An ALADIN school on high resolution modelling will be organized during the spring 2000 probably in the Czech Republic.
During last ALADIN workshop in Bucarest, 8th ALADIN workshop (modeler meeting) was proposed to be held in Poland by M. Jerczynski. Dates could be 14-16 June, 2000 (to be confirmed after checking this proposal has not colliding with other important events in meteorological and Aladin communities; please contact us in that case).
Belgium has also candidated and could organize then the 9th ALADIN workshop (forecaster meeting) presumably in fall 2000.
5th Assembly of ALADIN partners, probably Ocotber/November 2000 with the crucial question of hte MoU renewal on the table.
7. Other events in 2000
See the new map "The ALADIN Project within the European collaborations in Numerical Forecast "
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