2nd Steering Committee of ALATNET

Brussels, March 19, 2001

Participants

• Partner 1 (Fr) : Patricia Pottier, Dominique Giard
• Partner 2 (Be) : Afred Quinet, Josette Vanderborght
• Partner 3 (Cz) : Martin Janousek
• Partner 4 (Hu) : Andras Horanyi
• Partner 5 (Si) : Jure Jerman

Preparing the first report for the EC

• Period concerned : March 1st, 2000 till February 28th, 2001 (first year).
•  Scientific reports have to be prepared by the 5 ALATNET young researchers.
•  Scientific reports from the 5 research centres : each centre must prepare a scientific report for the main items of the work program it is responsible for.
•  Training courses : a complete report is already available; a summary will be prepared.
•  Financial report to be sent by each center to the Co-ordinator.
• Statistics of the participation in the project : will be updated at the end of February (correspondants, please register for January and February 2001).
• All the difficulties encountered for the appointment of ALATNET students or the use of fundings must be reported to Jean-François Geleyn who will write a summary for the EC.

Evolution of the project:

• The effort devoted to the ALATNET scientific program is higher than expected for Météo-France and CHMI, but lower for the other 3 partners. This is mainly due to a misunderstanding of rules. The work must be reported by centre, including the work of the main team, but also students and visitors, and for the whole ALATNET program (not only for a team and the topics it is responsible for).
• Anyway there remains a problem for the Slovenian team, since Mark Zagar left and with difficulties encountered for post-doc positions (see "preparing the next call for candidacies).

Scientific program :

The scientific program has been updated, taking into account missing or misplaced items. The new version will be sent to the EC (with some explanations of course) with the first report.

Please consult the new version here.

Preparing the next call for candidacies

The 2 post-doc positions in HMS and HMIS will be converted to longer pre-doc ones (with a ratio of 1.2). This leads to a 20 months stay in Budapest from one side, and a 16 months stay in Ljubljana with 4 additional months in Budapest on the other side. CHMI will ask for a prolongation of the present Post-doc grant.

The schedule is the following :

•  end of March : topics (re)defined and call published
•  end of May : deadline for candidacies
•  first week of June : choice of candidates

AOB :

• ALATNET website : ALATNET students must fill their personal pages on the web site themselves.
• A third ALATNET training course, on numerical methods, is likely to be organized in Slovenia in 2002. HMIS will be in charge of practical problems, the ALADIN steering group of the scientific program.
• A more close collaboration between the research centres is required. A first meeting around non-hydrostatism will take place during the next SRNWP workshop on numerical methods (Bratislava, July 2001). A visit of Jean-Marcel Piriou (Météo-France) to Ljubljana would be welcome (and both parties agree).
• The next ALATNET meeting, to prepare the second (mid-term) report, will be hosted by HMS.