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ALADIN Committee for Scientific and System/maintenance Issues (CSSI) and Support Team (ST) membership

After the last GA and PAC here are the organisational ALADIN arrangements for CSII and Support Team (updated on June 11, 2008).


The partition between CSSI (with the extra coordination of a Chairperson) and Support Team is sometimes rather arbitrary. The idea used below for "border cases" is that the chain of responsibility cannot loop twice and that hence structural (already existing for most of them) coordination responsibilities should not be formally subject to one more level of coordination. The Programme Manager is mentioned there, not to ask him to help himself, but for better showing the complementarity of tasks within the Support Team.
Concerning its further evolution, the CSSI+ST composition is meant to be discussed at each ALADIN Workshop.

Chosen 2008 CSSI Membership :

  • Chairperson* : Piet Termonia
  • Interfacing issues and Scientific coordination with HIRLAM : Piet Termonia
  • Coordination for networking and interoperability : Tomas Kral
  • Data assimilation : Claude Fischer
  • Dynamics and LBC coupling : Pierre Benard
  • Maintenance : Ryad El Khatib
  • Numerical efficiency issues : Martina Tudor
  • Observations and Monitoring : Alena Trojakova
  • Physics : Bart Catry
  • Predictability and LAM EPS : Edit Hagel
  • Surface : Jean-Francois Mahfouf
  • Verification : Marek Jerczynski
  • Responsible members for two parallel emerging activities (Nowcasting and LAM-Climate -or, more exactly in the second case, long integrations' problematic-) have been included in the above structure :
  • LAM-Climate : Ales Farda
  • Nowcasting : Yong Wang


  • (*) the role of the Chairperson will not be hierarchical but of coordination, information exchange and representation, in agreement with the PM.

    Chosen 2008 Support Team Membership:

  • Consortium level coordination: Jean-Francois Geleyn (ALADIN PM, for the record)
  • Consortium level cooperation support (LACE): Dijana Klaric (LACE Project Leader)
  • Consortium level cooperation support (MF): Claude Fischer (Toulouse LTM)
  • Documentation officer: ????
  • Information officer: Maria Derkova
  • Administration and PM assistance: Patricia Pottier
  • Secretarial support: Jean Maziejewski

  • NB2: One untold rule in filling the full CSSI Members and Support Team position was to avoid potential ambiguities or conflicting responsibilities. Hence no PAC Members nor LACE Working Group Leaders (or equivalent) came in line for the above positions.