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Assessment of the 2001 committments and presentation of 2002 committments including maintenance efforts.

Jean-François Geleyn introduced this assessment and commented that thanks to ALATNET efforts, the shape of total participation curve is kept ascendant (about 600 man.year for 2001).

About advanced training courses, he considered that the Radostovice school was more successful than the Gourdon one. During the later the participants had already a significant knowledge about data assimilation. He advised that some maintenance tasks must be done more and more localy, at least the documentation part. He noticed that due to a lack of communication, some operational implementations present some wrong or uncoherent namelist initializations.

About 2002 committments, the partners decided to keep an amount of manpower at least of the same magnitude of the average 600 man.year. The new 2002 committments per partner are then :

France

118

Morocco

54

Czech Republic

64

Slovakia

49

Hungary

42

Belgium

36

Poland

30

Croatia

34

Portugal

35

Romania

40

Austria

31

Tunisia

25

Bulgaria

Slovenia

Total

620