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Report from the first meeting of the Coordinators for Scientificand Strategic Issues
8, 9, 11 March 2002, Budapest (postscript version)
- Participants
- official representatives :
- Belgium : Josette Vanderborght (8,9), replacing
Luc Gérard
- Czech Rep. : Radmila Brozkova (8,9)
- France : Dominique Giard (8,9,11)
- Hungary : Andras Horanyi (8,9,11)
- Morocco : no representative
- Romania : Doina Banciu (8,9,11)
- additional participation :
- Croatia : Dijana Klaric (9,11)
- France : Patricia Pottier (8,9,11) and Jean-François
Geleyn (8)
- Hungary : Gabor Radnoti (8,9)
- Slovenia : Jure Jerman (8,9) and Neva Pristov
(8,9)
- Schedule
- Friday, 8 March 2002 afternoon
- Introduction by Jean-François Geleyn :
- conclusions from the last (6th) Assembly of
Partners, role of the "CSSI" group, perspectives for IFS,
presentation of the AROME project
- Discussion and adoption of the preliminary decisions
- Saturday, 9 March 2002 morning
- Discussions around each topic of the research plan :
- who will work on the topic in 2002 and where, who is likely to
be coordinator, what is the present status, which are the priorities for 2002,
where is manpower missing and how to solve this, when and where to organize a
coordination meeting, which external collaborations are involved, ...
- Topics covered : Maintenance, Operations,
Coupling, Dynamics, Physics
- Topics not covered : Verification (left to the
meeting on verification organized on Monday), Predictability
- Topics partly covered : Applications (to be
further discussed during the dedicated session of the next ALADIN workshop),
Data Assimilation
- Monday, 11 March 2002 afternoon
- Discussions (end : Data Assimilation, Predictability, Validation)
- Reminder
- The duties of the CSSI group, as precised during the 6th
Assembly of Partners are :
- 1. define priorities of the scientific plan
- 2. precise cooperation with HIRLAM, UKMO and COSMO
- 3. select coordinators, organise more efficient networking
- 4. follow the progress of the AROME project
- 5. report to the Assembly
- Preliminary decisions
- The next
meetings will take place during the ALADIN workshop (Medulin, Croatia, 3-6
June 2002) and the EWGLAM one (De Bilt, The Netherlands, 7-9 October 2002), as
far as possible, or else in Bucharest just before the next Assembly of
Partners (to prepare the report to Directors).
- Claude
Fischer will be in charge of informing the ALADIN partners of the progress of
the AROME project (via the coordala mailing list).
- The third
medium-term research plan is approved with slight modifications. Dominique
Giard will introduce them and they will be available on the ALADIN web site.
- The next
ALADIN libraries will be named as the ARPEGE libraries, in order to simplify
code handling for everyone. So we will jump directly from AL15 to AL25T1.
- Dominique
Giard has to write a summary of the plan for directors, underlying the main
problems, objectives and target dates.
- The CSSI
group will focus, for this first meeting, on a more precise definition of
priorities and collaborations for 2002.
- Choice of coordinators for the main scientific and
technical issues
- After discussion with the concerned persons, the
proposals lead to the appended list. Wherever coordination was already working
well, the previous persons were kept.
- Working plan for 2002 (objectives, teams and collaborations)
- The conclusions are summarized in the appended
document. The unknown availability of fundings for stays in Toulouse makes it
difficult to schedule some actions. Some items should be refined by coordinators.
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