Most efforts focused on ALATNET related research or operations, and consequently are described in other parts of these Newsletters.
The operational use of the newly proposed transport index for predicting extreme peaks of pollution from the ALADIN model output has been validated in a systematic way during the first six months of 2003, taking into account the data for 3 winters (DJF) 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2002-2003. A paper describing this application is ready.