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News 38 : 1st semester 2010

Taking into account the continuous decrease of contributions over the last years, a reshaping of the format of the newsletter is proposed. The core idea is to move towards an e-zine format, allowing much more freedom about the content of individual articles (targeting either operations, or R&D activities, nationally or transversally to the Programme). The "operations" and "R&D" sections, which proved to be fairly difficult to fill in, in recent past, would be replaced by a single section of "operational and R&D activities in the Programme".

This Section would contain any of the above-mentioned contributions, based on a more "on-offer" logic (as opposed to an "on-demand" approach as in the past). Teams willing to promote their work will therefore be able to continue to contribute with status notes about the evolution of their applications and/or short scientific notes - which sometimes could be understood as preparatory notes to a peer-reviewed paper.

The status about cycles and Arpège operations, as well as the Foreword text, would remain, when relevant.

The Sections about "papers" and "PHD studies" will remain; the "papers" section will specifically focus on advertising accepted papers; the "PHD" section will remain focused on ongoing PHD work at any partner institute.

The Support Team will continue to regularly advertise partners to contribute to the ALADIN e-zine. However, each release will be closed at a given date, and its content at that date will constitute the corresponding version

C. Fischer & The Support Team

National operational and R&D activities	Status about cycles and ARPEGE operations
Operational in Slovakia	About cycles
Operational in Slovenia	Scores in Meteo-France
R&D in Slovakia

Scientific and technical notes	PhD studies
Use of heterogeneous background error covariance matrices at mesoscale by Thibaut Montmerle and Loïk Berre	Contributions to the study of the coupling problem between limited area models and large scale models, PhD Raluca Radu
Application of Chapeau/Aladin in operational classroom by N. Žagar, R. Žabkar1, M. Horvat and N. Pristov2

Publications	Events and announcements
Papers in NWP specialised international journals with a reviewing commitee	7th PAC meeting, Budapest, 30 Nov
2010 stay reports	15th General Assembly, Prague, 14-15 Dec
Documentation	21st ALADIN Workshop & HIRLAM All Staff Meeting 2011, 5-8 April 2011, Norrkoping