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Toward coordinated exchange of applications in the ALADIN's world

According the conclusions of discussion at 6th and 7th ALADIN workshops and according to the action requested at 1998 Assembly of ALADIN Partners, a new attempt has been initiated to improve the collaboration within the ALADIN community in the exchange of applications in the ALADIN's world. Please find above results of this inquiry.

In 2007, similar enquiry was launched : see NWP utility inventory at HIRLAM and ALADIN communities for the results.


Toward coordinated exchange of applications in the ALADIN's world - Questionnaire 1998

The draft of questionnaire " Towards coordinated exchange of applications in the ALADIN's world had been prepared by Jure Jerman and sent to ALADIN correspondants.

The intention of this questionnaire was to collect the information about existing, developing or planned applications related to ALADIN model. The goal of the questionnaire was to minimize the unnecessary duplication of efforts and to build the database of applications within ALADIN community.

Please consult the outcome of this questionnaire with a short report from Cracow ALADIN meeting round table discussion about this topic.

On mid-2001, these applications are proposed. Please send patricia.pottier++at++meteo.fr all new informations to update this table.

Title

Application

Contact

automatic forecast from ALADIN/LACE

Short text forecast for 22 towns in Slovakia based on ALADIN/LACE grib products + graphic forecast + verification

Martin.Bellus++at++mail.shmu.sk

new diagnostic parameters from ALADIN model

Temperature gradient, Q vector, KO Index, K index, ADEDOKUN index, Faust index

olda.spaniel++at++mail.shmu.sk

Safran application in Bucegi mountains

Interface Aladin/Safran providing input files for snow analyses model Safran for the Bucegi mountains

caian++at++meteo.inmh.ro

Estimation of the forecast error growth

Using Kreisberg-Proccacia algorithm, the forecasters could estimate the initial error growth for the Aladin forecasted fields at a given point

caian++at++meteo.inmh.ro

Tix Lib

? Mega Widgets for Tix (extension of tk) : Viewer of CGM (Ncar format) . Needs ictrans (Ncar) PBM package. This widget can load many CGM frames to animate , make (ictrans) zoom, print in postscript format.

? Vue meter, status bar, load/save/saveas and mini editor with search widgets are usable too.

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

PSEUDO

Maker of ``pseudo'' TEMP messages. Needs a list of points (Lat Lon) to make a vertical profile.

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

MAKDO(MAKe DOmain) and TTT (Test Troncatures et Tableaux)

? Design of an aladin domain using new eggx convention : Center and reference points, resolution, number of points on both direction.

? Tests the values of NDLON, NDGL and NMSMAX, NSMAX

? Both programs may be used in interactive or for the first one with namelist.

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

Library of usefull F90 modules

Many modules : FA header reader, FA field reader (grid point and spectral), New EGGX Package, Angle conversion, String conversion, Namelist and array tools, New operators, New types …

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

FRODO

Extracting FA files header informations

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

EDF(EditField)

Puts FA file fields in Latitude, Longitude, Values ascii format. C,I,E, Zoomed (by indexes or cordinates) zones of extractions and infrmations on minimal, maximal velues given.

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

ECTO (Ectoplasme)

Creates ascii file with spectral energy by ellipses for aladin fields. Computes Kinetic Energy and Vorticity too.

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

CHAGAL

Aladin fields visualization based on NCAR software. Fortran 77/90 program with use of Namelist

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

ALMA

? Human-Machine Interface Tools for Aladdin (Needs JDG Tix Lib),

? Usable for CHAGAL (not finished),

? Makdo (finished)

Jean-Daniel.GRIL++at++meteo.fr

GVAGP

Prints out value of choosen field at given grid point, horizontal interpolation is optional

david.dvorak++at++chmi.cz

GVALAG

Get value of level above the ground. Prints out value of given choozen field at given level about the ground (for example: 162.5 m above the ground), performs vertical interpolation and recalculation with respect to real orography (based on apache)

david.dvorak++at++chmi.cz

AFT_DELE

Deletes chosen fields from FA files (ICMSH*)

david.dvorak++at++chmi.cz

AFT_TIME

Prints out date from FA file in format (2000011600+0027 for example)

david.dvorak++at++chmi.cz

AFT_MERG

Merges data from 2 FA files to one new FA file

david.dvorak++at++chmi.cz

VERAL

Verification package for operational verification and NWP oriented experiments. Calculates and visualises RMSE and scores of forecasts against observations (historic files x CMAFOC files)

martin.janousek++at++chmi.cz

CMA

Creates CMAFOC1 from Chech SYNOPs and other observations taken from French CMAFOC's

huthova++at++chmi.cz

Harpe (pseudo satellite movie creation)

The software creates pseudo-satellite images and possibly movies from special ALADIN output (outgoing infrared radiation arriving to the top of the atmosphere)

radnoti++at++met.hu

HAWK

The HAWK (Hungaraian advanced workstation) system is a basic tool for the forecasters for the interpretation of all available information from the atmosphere.

kertesz++at++met.hu

Nowcasting procedures

There are several procedures based on the model outputs which are targetted for nowcasting, such applications e.g. visibility, cloud type and height from the satellite images, phase and type of precipitation, maximum wind gusts related to thunderstorms, etc.

horvath++at++met.hu

Media model

Eulerian dispersion model using the outputs of NWP model

ihasz++at++met.hu

Trajectory calculations

Coomputation of forward and backward trajectories on isobaic levels

ihasz++at++met.hu

Objective verification

Computation of standard statistical scores for the relative comparision of different models or model versions

radnoti++at++met.hu

Automatic forecast generation

The outputs of NWP models are used to create coded forecasts for the forecasters

szabo++at++met.hu

Meteogram creation

Preparation of meteograms at any model point in graphical and table format

kertesz++at++met.hu

Fa2netcdf

Converts the contents of a FA file to the NetCDF format

szabo++at++met.hu

Canari(diag.pack)

Optimal interpolation of the surface observations for nowcasting purposes

radnoti++at++met.hu

Kalman filter

Statistical adaptation of near-surface model outputs to the local characteristics

horanyi++at++met.hu

Verification scheme for surface (temperature, wind speed, dew point, mslp) and upper level (geopotential, temperature, specific humidity, wind speed) parameters using observations data and as optional, analyses from ECMWF model in GRIB format.

pratesf++at++meteo.pt

faucon

FA files confection: Allows to extract specific fields and combine them in new files. May also rename the fields, as well as tune its tolerance to date information (usefull with fields that do not change over time). Can work with command line or a namelist. Allows also a fortran binary file output (usefull for direct use by IDL graphics program).

luc.gerard++at++oma.be

gfaim

FA to Grib converter using namelist to set GRIB section 1 parameters and possibly perform simple operations as cliping, scaling, accumulation, gradient, advection, vector grid to geographic components conversions

luc.gerard++at++oma.be

fasho

view/compare FA files contents. Command line and namelist both possible. Field names selection by patteren on command line. View field values or localise extreme values. Can compare fields in 2 different fa files and give extreme values of differences. Cadre parameters comparision also possible.

luc.gerard++at++oma.be

also

Local and Region-Averaged profiles extraction from FA files. Output on ascii files or LFA. Namelist defines the behaviour:Local profiles: geographic localisation,Regional profiles: list of grid coordinates participating to the average+ pseudo-station names, number of levels, names of theparameters to extract, output formats, operations to perform: scaling, offset, grid derivatives, conversion of grid to geographic vectors components, of (u,v) to wind speed and direction, of (T, Td) to Relative Humidity... Output ascii files contain also descriptive information, and additonal scripts allow to gather different outputs to produce user-friendly listings for specific uses.

luc.gerard++at++oma.be

bascs

Vertical cross sections generation. Belgian-adapted version of ASCS application. Output on binary files (ieee compatible), including localisation info. A namelist file defines the sections characteristics. It is possible to define a section thickness" (for i or j direction sections, expressed in grid points), over which an average may be performed.

luc.gerard++at++oma.be

fal

Aladin file contents identification, slightly enhanced version of good old frodo

luc.gerard++at++oma.be

fa2ndf

Converting FA files to netCDF format

wang++at++zamg.ac.at

MetGram

Graphic software for Meteogram

wang++at++zamg.ac.at

veristat

Statistical verification of ALADIN forecast

stadlbacher++at++zamg.ac.at

AlaWave

Visualisation of ALADIN forecast

wang++at++zamg.ac.at

fa2vis5d

Converter from FA to vis5d type files

neva.pristov++at++rzs-hm.si

aft_cape

Computes various type of CAPE and CIN indexes from FA files

jure.jerman++at++rzs-hm.si

fa2asci

Converter from FA to ASCI files

neva.pristov++at++rzs-hm.si

grom

Sophisticated visualisation package for FA,GRIB files and observations visualisation

jasna.vehovar++at++rzs-hm.si

HRID diagnostic package

The HRID (High Resolution Isentropic Diagnosis) diagnostic package presents the group of numerical routines and objective diagnostic methods in isentropic coordinates. Current version of this application consists of a number of composite high resolution vertical time cross-sections. Combination of superimposed elementary and derived thermodynamic and stability parameters calculated in certain arbitrarily chosen interval gives very detailed insight into the vertical atmospheric structure and its time changes at some particular locality. It works: - either at direct NWP model output on further dynamical adaptation, local post-processing and objective interpretation having quite prognostic meaning; or by using radiosonde measurements as input data to make special diagnostic studies. Combined approach by applying both the PSEUDOTEMP messages and TEMP reports enables forecast verification against observation.

glasnovic++at++cirus.dhz.hr, bajic++at++cirus.dhz.hr

For any questions, please contact Jure Jerman.