ownership, availability and commercialisation of ALADIN products
Please consult the complete
MoU document for details.
History of the organisation
1991 - 1995
From September 1991 until end of 1995, work on ALADIN
centered around visits to Toulouse of scientists of all partners,
their ALADIN-related work at home being mostly conditioned by the
tasks they had been performing in Toulouse.
The number of hours
of work shared in Toulouse with colleagues of all origins allowed a
homogeneous and united team to be formed.
The main difficulty of
the set-up was the financing of the travel and visits. Generally
speaking, travel was provided by the partners and the grants for the
stays were funded by Météo-France or by French
ministries or raised in competitive applications by either all
partners or by Météo-France and one partner for
bilateral support or directly financed by partners. The number of
different sources gives an idea of the
complexity of this financing scheme.
1996 - 2001
With the transition to multiple operational status thanks to
a "standard open" code, the situation changed.
The
manpower involved in the development of ALADIN has kept
increasing and covers now not only centralized actions of research and
source code maintenance in Toulouse but also deported work in NMS,
related to the implementation of local versions of ALADIN, the
exploitation of the model outputs, the verification of forecasts and
local research developments.
The necessary formalization of the project before its
decentalization was completed by the signing of a firt Memorandum
of Understanding by all partners.
It layed down he principles
observed by ALADIN since the beginning, the choice of software,
conditions of its use by the partners and of membership of,
admission to, and withdrawal from the ALADIN "club".
The 10-years ALADIN anniversary was
celebrated in Paris on May 31st, 2001 and a booklet
was printed.
2001 - 2005
A second ALADIN Memorandum of
Understanding was signed on May 31st 2001 with mainly:
- an
enlarged definition of the ALADIN partnership, with three levels of
"rights versus duties" : Full Member, Associated Member,
User;
- more precise guidelines for the commercial use of ALADIN
products;
- stricter rules for the registration of the manpower
dedicated to ALADIN;
- creation of a Technical Cooperation
Standing Committee (TCSC) of for members (Météo-France,
a LACE representative, a SELAM representative, a representative of
the other partners), in charge of the routine project coordination.
This TCSC was replaced by a 6 permanent members working group "Science and Strategy Committee"
during the Assembly in Casablanca (2002) : the purpose of this old SSI was to
supervise priorities and co-operation with other SRNWP groups,
to follow AROME project and to report to the Assembly
on progress of the scientific plan.
Statistics
Statistics about the manpower
involved in ALADIN are regurlarly produced thanks to the ALADIN
work accounting realized by the ALADIN correspondants
following the rules defined in the MoU.
Different sorts of publications
and a documentation
have been developped around ALADIN.