ALADIN

25th Anniversary

Patricia — 2016-05-09T08:55:55Z

During the icebreaker at the joint 26th ALADIN Wk & HIRLAM ASM 2016 in Lisbon (4-7 April 2016), the ALADIN 25th Anniversary was celebrated. Piet recalled some main steps and achievements of the ALADIN consortium throughout all these years and insisted of the ALADIN spirit that lead so many people to embark on the epic and magic ALADIN adventure. This anniversary was also the opportunity to gather some "souvenirs" photos from many teams. Please follow the below links (and send to (…) - History

20th anniversary of the kick-off of the ALADIN project and tribute to Jean-FranÃ§ois Geleyn

Patricia — 2011-04-17T17:01:00Z

On December 14 in Prague, during the official ALADIN 15th GA dinner, we had two special events : the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the kick-off of the ALADIN project and the tribute to Jean-FranÃ§ois Geleyn, retiring from ALADIN after 20 years. Jean-FranÃ§ois Geleyn : 20 years of ALADIN history (VIDEO) Jean-FranÃ§ois' book : 20 years ALADINers words and photos On behalf of the whole ALADIN staff: VIDEO 1 (Address by Piet) and VIDEO 2 (Jean-FranÃ§ois answer) - History

Starting dates of cooperation

Patricia — 2008-02-02T16:17:00Z

COUNTRYSTARTING DATE FRANCE MARCH, 1st 1991 CZECH REPUBLIC MARCH, 1st 1991 HUNGARY MARCH, 1st 1991 ROMANIA MARCH, 1st 1991 AUSTRIA OCTOBER, 16th 1991 POLAND OCTOBER, 16th 1991 BULGARIA MARCH, 1st 1992 SLOVAKIA NOVEMBER, 1st 1993 SLOVENIA NOVEMBER, 16th 1993 MOROCCO NOVEMBER, 16th 1993 CROATIA APRIL, 1st 1995 BELGIUM OCTOBER, 15th 1996 PORTUGAL APRIL, 1st 1997 TUNISIA MAY, 31st 2001 ALGERIA OCTOBER, 21st 2005 TURKEY JANUARY, 1st 2008 - History

Dates of (pre-) operational status of the ALADIN models

Patricia — 2006-11-21T16:06:00Z

ModelPre-operationalOperational ALADIN-ALGERIA October 2006 (in Toulouse) ALADIN-AUSTRIA October 1998 April 1999 ALADIN-BELGIUM June 1997 February 1998 ALADIN-BULGARIA November 1998 May 1999 ALADIN-CROATIA October 2000 March 2002 ALADIN-FRANCE (and overseas) [1] March 1996 June 1998 ALADIN-HUNGARY February 1998 July 1998 ALADIN-PECO (Toulouse) May 1994 no ALADIN-LACE (Toulouse then Prague) [2] July 1996 July 1998 ALADIN-MOROCCO March 1996 August 1996 ALADIN-POLAND March 1998 (…) - History

Short history of the project

Patricia — 2002-08-21T16:04:00Z

Only the main events are mentioned here, relative to the political, financial and technical aspects. November 1990 : MÃ©tÃ©o-France offers the NMSs of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia to jointly develop and maintain a LAM version of the ARPEGE system, with a view to a mutually beneficial collaboration in NWP and mesoscale modelling. January 1991 : The so-called MICECO support (from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the visits to Toulouse of the (…) - History

Birth of the ALADIN project

Patricia — 1996-11-16T10:40:00Z

On 16/11/1990, A. Lebeau, Director of MÃ©tÃ©o-France, made an offer of collaboration in the field of NWP to his five Central and Eastern European Colleagues at the occasion of their visit in Paris and Toulouse. On 27/11/1990, the formal letter of invitation (French version , informal English translation) was sent. Within January 1991, a positive response was given by all five Central and Eastern European Meteorological Services - History