ALADIN Workshop 10th, Toulouse, France, 6-7 June 2001

The 10th ALADIN workshop, dedicated to scientific progress and the evaluation of the second medium-term research plan , was organized in Toulouse on June 7-8. It was a real success, with 44 participants from 15 countries. Let us just quote the chairman of the last session, Andras Horanyi, : " Congratulations to Météo France for organizing the workshop: especially for the world record in the number of presentations per day (22, yesterday) " and mention the friendly informal celebration of the 10th ALADIN anniversary, prepared by visitors on the Thursday evening.

Thursday 7 of June 2001 : scientific presentations

 9.00 Opening of the workshop and introduction by Jean Quiby and Jean-François Geleyn
 9.15-10.00 Recent progress in NH dynamics : Pierre Bénard (and Jan Masek)
 10.00-10.15 Some results for the non-hydrostatic version of ALADIN : Klaus Stadlabacher
 10.15-10.30 Relaxation of the thin layer hypothesis : Karim Yessad
 10.30-11.45 Investigation of the behaviour of the adjoint of the ALADIN model : LBCs and mesoscale applications : Cornel Soci
 10.45-11.00 A study of some temporal interpolation schemes for the coupling problem : Piet Termonia
 11.00-11.30: Coffee break
 11.30-11.45 Orophically triggered convection in ALADIN and in the real atmosphere : a case study : Thomas Haiden
 11.45-12.00 Simulation of the meso-scale convective systems at different resolutions : Doina Banciu
 12.00-12.30 Some results using a prognostic convection scheme : Luc Gérard
 12.30-13.00 "Functional Boxes" approach for moist processes : Eric Bazile
 13.00-14.00: Lunch break
 14.00-14.20 Latest improvements in PBL parameterization : Jean-François Geleyn
 14.20-14.40 Links between cloudiness and vertical stability : some more questions : Janko Merse
 14.40-15.05 Ways to address compensating errors in physical parameterizations : Jean-Marcel Piriou
 15.05-15.20 Tuning the orography representation in the E923 configuration : Doina Banciu
 15.20-15.40 Some applications of the ALADIN model in Romania : Mihaela Caian
 15.40-15.50 Improved description of emissivity over land : Malgorzata Szczech
 15.50-16.00 Snow cover parameterization : Mohammed El Haiti
 16.00-16.30: Tea break
 16.30-16.50 Blending technique as implemented in ALADIN/LACE : Radmila Brozkova
 16.50-17.10 Lagged constant coupling background error statistics : preliminary results for the ALADIN/HU model : Andras Horanyi
 17.10-17.25 Initialization and 3d-Var assimilation : Adam Dziedzic
 17.25-17.40 Singular vectors in ALADIN : Claude Fischer
 17.40-18.00 Tuning of observation and background statistics in 3d-Var : Wafaa Sadiki
 18.00-18.15 Snow cover analysis : Lora Gaytandjieva
 18.15-18.30 Use of new observations : progress and perspectives : Florence Rabier
 18.30-19.00: Definition of working groups
 19.00: Informal celebration of the 10 years ALADIN anniversary : "Megabuffet" at Météopole

Friday 8 of June 2001: working groups discussions and presentations

 9.00-11.00: Working groups discussions
 11.00-11.30: Coffee break
 11.30-11.50: Implementation of CAPE and CIN in ALADIN : Neva Pristov
 11.50-12.10 Recent progress in Full-Pos : Ryad El Khatib
 12.10-12.20 ALADIN/CROATIA : One year experience on PC-Cluster : Dijana Klaric
 12.20-13:00: Around the diffusion of information in ALADIN : Dominique Giard
 13.00-14.00: Lunch break
 14.00-15.00: Presentations of the Working Groups conclusions

• • Data Assimilation
  • Dynamics
  • Physics
  • Verification

 15.00-17.00: Eventual additional presentations, Open discussion
 Closure of the meeting