ALADIN

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• The ALADIN System

  11 September 2002, by Patricia
  ALADIN was entirely built on the notion of compatibility with its « mother » system, IFS/ARPEGE. The latter, a joint development between the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and Météo-France , was only meant to consider global Numerical Weather Prediction applications ; hence the idea, for ALADIN, to complement the IFS/ARPEGE project with a limited area model (LAM) version, while keeping the differences between the two softwares as small as possible. It was, (…)

• Configurations

  11 September 2002, by Patricia
  The ALADIN configurations Nine are currently fully validated (the number is likely to increase in the near future, given the momentum of the project) : e923 : the creation of the « geographical » conditions for any given geometry of the LAM, anywhere on the globe ; e927/ee927 : the creation of initial and/or lateral boundary conditions starting from an ARPEGE or an ALADIN file ; e701 : the optimal interpolation analysis module nick-named CANARI ; e001 : the model integration itself (…)

• Short history of the project

  21 August 2002, by Patricia
  Only the main events are mentioned here, relative to the political, financial and technical aspects. November 1990 : Météo-France offers the NMSs of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia to jointly develop and maintain a LAM version of the ARPEGE system, with a view to a mutually beneficial collaboration in NWP and mesoscale modelling. January 1991 : The so-called MICECO support (from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the visits to Toulouse of the (…)

• Visitors in Toulouse in 2001

  31 December 2001, by Patricia
  The above table presents the list of Toulouse visitors in 2001 with the subject of their work, their mentor(s), the dates of their visit. See also the reports of 2001 stays. SURNAMENAMECOUNTRYSTARTENDTOPICMENTOR AJJAJI RADI MOROCCO 2001/11/01 2001/12/15 Incremental approach and simplified physics BOUYSSEL ALEXANDRU STELUTA ROMANIA 2001/01/16 2001/03/15 Optimization of spectral orography considering land-sea mask GIARD BAJIC ALICA CROATIA 2001/12/08 2001/12/14 Working Group for the (…)

• 22nd EWGLAM meeting (with MAP session) & 7th SRNWP meeting & 2nd EUCOS meeting, Toulouse, 2000

  22 November 2001, by Patricia
  The 22nd EWGLAM meeting (with MAP session), the 7th SRNWP meeting and the 2nd EUCOS meeting were held jointly in Toulouse, on October 9-13, 2000. – the announcement – the schedule – the list of participants EWGLAM official photo EWGLAM dinner photos ALADIN dinner photos

• nformal Assembly, anniversary and MoU signature, Paris, 31st of May, 2001

  27 September 2001, by Patricia
  The 10-years ALADIN anniversary was celebrated in Paris on May 31st, 2001 and a booklet was printed. The second ALADIN Memorandum of Understanding was signed on May 31st 2001 with mainly: an enlarged definition of the ALADIN partnership, with three levels of "rights versus duties" : Full Member, Associated Member, User; more precise guidelines for the commercial use of ALADIN products; stricter rules for the registration of the manpower dedicated to ALADIN; creation of a Technical (…)

• The 5th Assembly of ALADIN Partners, Vienna, 24th of November 2000

  27 September 2001, by Patricia
  The 5th Assembly of ALADIN Partners took place in Vienna (Austria) on November 24, 2000. Main conclusions are : The MoU is extended for another 6 months : the working group (France, Romania, Slovenia) who received in 1999 the mission to draft the new Memorandum of Understanding will continue its work following the recommendations of the Assembly. The signature of the new MoU is expected for the end of May during an intermediate Assembly of Partners, that will be organised jointly with the (…)

• The 4th Assembly of ALADIN Partners, Lisbon, 6th of December 1999

  26 September 2001, by Patricia
  Approval of the revised 2nd Medium-Term (1999-2001) research plan for ALADIN : Three main topics were focussed: maintenance and improvement of the operational versions, high resolution modelling and data assimilation. For each of these 3 generic targets, the relative importance of themes was established and these were distributed, by priorities, in very/high, medium and long term. At the same time, it was stressed what work was completed on those themes during 1999 and the expected work to (…)

• The 3rd Assembly of the ALADIN Partners, Prague, 6th of November 1998

  24 September 2001, by Patricia
  The participants to this Assembly attended some lectures on : the history, the current status and the prospect for ALADIN-LACE application, presentation of the status of the new telecommunication network RMDCN, and on scientific topics : high-resolution dynamics, how to trigger and harmonize ALADIN-based applications, data assimilation. Discussions were mainly about : assessment of the 1998 scientific program, draft ECMWF/Météo-France agreement for the IFS/ARPEGE/ALADIN software (…)

• The 2nd Assembly of ALADIN Partners, Brussels, 5th of December 1997

  23 September 2001, by Patricia
  Thirteen countries were represented. Two amendments to the Memorandum of Understanding were unanimously accepted by all Partners. They deal with the conditions of use of the ALADIN software. The main steps of implementation or development of ALADIN-BELGIUM, ALADIN-FRANCE, ALADIN-LACE and ALADIN-MAROC models were presented. ALADIN-BELGIUM is at the present the operational mesoscale model with the finest resolution in the world. ALADIN-FRANCE whose domain has been extended in order to (…)