The ALADIN DA basic kit Working Days took place in Lisbon at the IPMA premises, on 22-23 March 2017.

 Agenda and presentations

• General session I
  • Background and scope of the meeting : Core program on Data Assimilation : Piet Termonia
  • General introduction to DA : DA vocabulary
  • Overview of LACE Data Assimilation systems : Mate Mile
  • Overview of Data Assimilation at Météo-France : Claude Fischer
• Data Assimilation experiences and plans by Partners
  • DA at NIMH - experience, plans : Andrey Bogatchev
  • Data assimilation in Morocco : Zahra Sahlaoui
  • Towards a DA system for AROME-PT2 : Maria Monteiro
  • Scatterometer Assimilation Experiments with HARMONIE : Isabel Monteiro
  • DA experiences and plans in Tunisia : Anis Satouri
  • Data Assimilation Experiences and Plans in Turkey : Tayfun Dalkilic
• General session II
  • HARMONIE-AROME scripting system and DA : Daniel Santos, Eoin Whelan
  • COPE: Continuous Observation Processing Environment : Eoin Whelan
  • OPLace : Observation processing in ALADIN/LACE : Alena Trojakova
  • Blending by digital filter - an alternative tool for DA : Maria Derkova, Martin Bellus
  • Tutorial : How things can go well/wrong with DA : Maria Derkova, Mate Mile
• Core group meeting to discuss and prepare a (realistic and tractable) Aladin work plan

 Report of the ALADIN data assimilation starters kit meeting

 Participants

• BOGATCHEV, Andrey : NIMH/Bulgaria
• COSTA, Vanda : IPMA/Portugal
• DALKILIC, Tayfun : MGM/Turkey
• DECKMYN, Alex : RMI/Belgium
• DEHMOUS, Idir : ONM/Algeria
• DERKOVA, Maria : SHMU/Slovakia
• FISCHER, Claude : M-F/France
• KOLONKO, Marcin : IMGW/Pologne
• Mà TÉ, Milé : OMSZ/Hungary
• MONTEIRO, Isabel : IPMA/Portugal
• MONTEIRO, Maria : IPMA/Portugal
• MOREIRA, Nuno : IPMA/Portugal
• MUÑOZ, Daniel : AEMET/Spain
• SATOURI, Anis : INM/Tunisia
• TERMONIA, Piet : RMI/Belgium
• TROJAKOVA, Alena : CHMI/Czech Republic
• VITERBO, Pedro : IPMA/Portugal
• ZAHRA, Sahlaoui : DMN/Marroco
• WHELAN, Eoin : MET.IE/Irland