Following a suggestion coming from RC-LACE, a training session was organised last September in Toulouse by GMAP. Most of the trainees were newcommers in the ALADIN project and could benefit from a complete training covering many aspects of the ALADIN project such different as : historical account of the project, management of the project, operational aspects at Météo-France, operational ALADIN-LACE, problems of maintenance and validation, physics, dynamics, structure of the code, coding rules, clearcase and librairies, namelists, climatological files, digital filter initialisation, data assimilation, e923 configuration, FULL-POS post processing, SYNERGIE, ...

Around 50 hours of lectures were given by 12 persons from CNRM/GMAP, PREVI/COMPAS and RC-LACE/TT. The participants could practice their new knowledge by working on small studies including bibliography work and final presentation of their results (about 100 hours including personal work and discussions with mentors).

During the debriefing, the quality of the realized work was underlined : level reached by the traineers in such a short time, quality of the studies, .... The general feeling at the end was rather positive, but some suggestions were made for a possible repetition of this kind of training. Although it is useful to maintain lectures and practise, it would be more efficient to give more emphasis to lectures at the beginning (no practical work during the first week). The other important remark concerned the organisation of small studies : working in twos instead of individually would habe been appreciated

A full set of documents have been prepared for this training course and represents a very appreciable documentation source.

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