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A TRIBUTE TO JEAN-FRANÇOIS GELEYN 6 February 2020, Météo-France Conference Centre, Toulouse [**On 6 February 2020, a tribute to the scientific career of Jean-François Geleyn, who sadly passed away on 8 January 2015, was paid at the Toulouse International Conference Centre of Météo-France. Many colleagues joined this tribute either in the Conference Center or remotely : see for instance "ECMWF joins Jean-François Geleyn’s tribute"*] Jean-François’s impact on the current (…)

Jean-François Geleyn passed away on 8 January 2015. Jean-François was suffering with his health recently, but the brutal course of events leaves the ALADIN community suddenly orphaned. Jean-François’s impact on the current generation of NWP specialists is unparalleled, both scientifically and on a human level. Jean-François first developed the physics of the ECMWF model in the 1970s. Back in Météo-France Paris, he became head of the NWP team. He proposed the concept of variable (…)

Jean-François Geleyn received on Wednesday 14 September 2011 the EMS Silver Medal for his outstanding contributions to the fostering of cooperation among scientists in European countries. This led to the development of the ALADIN consortium, the start of the merger between the ALADIN and the HIRLAM consortium and a productive scientific interaction within the SRNWP program with the other European consortia. Please consult Jean-François’s presentation or the EMS dedicated page

Professor Geleyn On Thursday 17 March, our former Programme Manager, Jean-François Geleyn became visiting professor at the department of Physics and Astronomy of Ghent university, Belgium. Jean-François is teaching in the postgraduate programme Weather and Climate Modeling. This programme started in 2007, initiated by Prof. H. Dejonghe (now the Dean of the Faculty of Sciences) after the PhD defense of Bart Catry in May 2006, and it was, at that time, meant to fill a certain lack of (…)