Coordinators for the main scientific and technical issues within ALADIN

status on 20 March 2002 (postscript version)

Maintenance : ? (someone from the French GMAP (research) team, to be nominated by Jean-François Geleyn)

Operations : ? (someone from the French COMPAS (operations) team, to be nominated by Bruno Lacroix)

Applications :

Ryad El Khatib (France) for developments in post processing

? for other topics (to be discussed during the ALADIN workshop - June 2002)

Verification : ? (to be discussed during the ALADIN workshop)

Coupling : Gabor Radnoti (Hungary)

Dynamics : Pierre Bénard (France) and Radmila Brozkova (Czech Rep.)

Physics

Precipitations : Luc Gérard (Belgium) for convective processes,
                   Eric Bazile (France) for microphysics

Turbulent processes, PBL : Martin Gera (Belgium/Slovakia)

Radiation : Yves Bouteloup (France)

Orography : Jean-François Geleyn (France)

Surface : Eric Bazile (France)

Simplified physics : Cécile Loo (France)

Validation / methods : Jean-Marcel Piriou (France)

Validation / experiments : Jean-François Geleyn (France)

Data Assimilation

Variational methods : Claude Fischer (France)

Observations : Elisabeth Gérard (France)

Surface and Diagpack : François Bouyssel (France)

Predictability : Andras Horanyi (Hungary)

The main duties of coordinators are :

• keeping in touch with persons working on the topic, within the ALADIN group of course but also within EWGLAM / SRNWP networking;

• keeping informed on progress, especially for ALADIN, and trying to avoid duplication of work;

• sending an annual report to the CSSI group before the Assembly of Partners;

• organizing or asking for the organization of a mini-workshop whenever required.