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• Events on DA related topics, from 2020

  30 October 2019, by Patricia
  The DA coordinator has collected a list of events on DA related topics, besides the internal events already listed on the ALADIN-HIRLAM WW webpage. 2020 DA related topics events 12†15 May 2020: 7th WMO Workshop on the Impact of Various Observing Systems on Numerical Weather Prediction, hosted by the Korea Meteorological Administration in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Please find the First Announcement 08-12 June 2020: 8th International Symposium on Data Assimilation, Canvas Stadium, (…)

• A tribute to Jean-François Geleyn, 6 February 2020

  14 October 2019, by Patricia
  A TRIBUTE TO JEAN-FRANÇOIS GELEYN 6 February 2020, Météo-France Conference Centre, Toulouse [**On 6 February 2020, a tribute to the scientific career of Jean-François Geleyn, who sadly passed away on 8 January 2015, was paid at the Toulouse International Conference Centre of Météo-France. Many colleagues joined this tribute either in the Conference Center or remotely : see for instance "ECMWF joins Jean-François Geleyn’s tribute"*] Jean-François’s impact on the current (…)

• 2019 Joint LACE Data Assimilation & DAsKIT Working Days, Prague, 18-20 September 2019

  20 August 2019, by Patricia
  Following the success of last years organization, the DAsKIT WD this year was also partly joint with the LACE Data Assimilation Working Days (DAWD): the program started with a joint session were each country presented its local status/progress report; then the working days were separated and just joint again for a final joint discussion on conclusions and plans. Agenda and list of participants Common block of status/progress presentations Algeria Belgium Bulgaria Morocco Poland Portugal (…)

• Technical memoranda ("FLUBs")

  20 August 2019, by Patricia
  memorandum of ARPEGE cycle 47T1, January 2020 memorandum of ARPEGE cycle 47T0, September 2019 memorandum of Common cycle 47, August 2019 memorandum of IFS cycle 46R1, March 2019 memorandum of ARPEGE cycle 46T1, February 2019 memorandum of Common cycle 46, April 2018 memorandum of ARPEGE cycle 45T1, January 2018 memorandum of Common cycle 45, June 2017 memorandum of Common cycle 44, March 2017 memorandum of IFS cycle 43R3, December 2016 memorandum of ARPEGE cycle 43T2, November 2016 (…)

• Code Training WW, 9-12 Sept 2019, Toulouse

  27 June 2019, by Patricia
  A WW on "Training on code developments and validation (testing)" was organised in Toulouse on September 9-12 2019 Outline & incentive The Fortran NWP codes have undergone a fair deep re-factoring since IFS/Arpège CY42. From CY43 until CY46 (and CY47), code rearrangements in order to comply with the needs of the OOPS project, as well as code optimization and specific pruning actions, have changed the “visual outlook†of the common codes. A consequence is that developers, albeit (…)

• EWGLAM and SRNWP meetings, Sofia, 30 Sept - 3 Oct 2019

  18 June 2019, by Patricia
  The 41st European Working Group on Limited-Area Modelling (EWGLAM) and 26th Short Range NWP (SRNWP) EUMETNET meetings will be organized in Sofia / Bulgaria (30 September - 3 October 2019) by the National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology of Bulgaria (NIMH). Please consult and register on the local organisers webpage : https://storm.cfd.meteo.bg/ewglam/

• ALADIN GA invited to joint HIRLAM Council meeting in Lisbon on June 28

  18 June 2019, by Patricia
  A first draft of the MoU for the single consortium was produced by the convergence Working Group as it was tasked during the latest joint ALADIN General Assembly/HIRLAM Council in Zagreb. This document has been scrutinized by the ALADIN PAC and the HIRLAM HAC during their joint meeting on 14 May 2019 in Norrköping. Additionally, Météo-France made a proposal for a new type of membership for Associate Members. Both the draft MoU and the proposal for Associate Members were discussed (…)

• 2nd ALADIN-HIRLAM Dynamics Day (D-day), Toulouse, 28 May 2019

  28 May 2019, by Patricia
  After the success of the 1st D-Day (Toulouse, 2016), the ALADIN and HIRLAM dynamics people met in Toulouse on 28 May 2019. Agenda and presentations Ludovic Auger : Day’s objective and agenda Fabrice Voitus : Equations : new formulations and stabilities Pierre Bénard : a Future for the global model ? Petra Smolikova & Jozef Vivoda: On going activities around dynamics in LACE Daan Degrauwe : A non-spectral solver for the ALADIN-NH dynamics Thomas Burgot : What can we expect from grid (…)

• CSSI (+ST) and HMG/CSSI meetings

  15 April 2019, by Patricia
  The ALADIN Committee for Scientific and System/maintenance Issues (CSSI) and Support Team (ST) members meet at least once a year. A coordination meeting with HIRLAM Management Group (MG) takes place in spring besides the annual joined ALADIN workshop & HIRLAM All Staff Meeting; another meeting may take place besides EWGLAM/SRNWP meetings in autumn. Informal management meetings took place before 2005. MeetingDatePlaceMinutes Coordination meeting between ALADIN CSSI and HIRLAM MG (…)

• Export version of Cycle 43T2, v1 on 19/07/2018, rebuilt on 10/09/2018, incremental update on 27/02/2019 and on 25/06/2020

  27 February 2019, by Patricia
  25 June 2020: incremental update In close coordination with the team at SHMU and LACE ASCS, we have been defining an incremental update of the ALADIN export version based on CY43T2. The GIT label of this update is CY43T2_bf.11. The export consists of the changed source code files complemented by a technical description of the code changes. Please read the tech doc carefully. The file "FINAL LIST BF11_v02" contains the technical description of the update branch. The file (…)