About this site

This site has been developped with SPIP , a publishing system for the Internet.
SPIP consists of a bundle of files allowing to take advantage of a number of automated tasks: multi-user management, laying out articles without the need to use HTML, easily modifying the structure of the site. SPIP is a free software distributed under the General Public License (GPL). SPIP manages a magazine type site, i.e. made up mainly of articles and news items inserted in an arborescence of sections (...)

The purpose of this site is to give an easy access to the numerous and various documentations available around ARPEGE/ALADIN/AROME

• specific documentation (grouped by topics)
• specific presentations and full lectures given during training courses
• other presentations (grouped by topics)
• Newsletters
• Some targered articles for Newcomers to ALADIN or New Phasers.

The home page of this site presents the last articles and news item published (in reverse chronological order). Many tools (on top and bottom menus) should made your reading easier :

"Site Map" : overview of all articles	"Summary" : calendar of articles publication	"Contact" : send a message to the administrator
the possibility of syndication for each section, sub-section, article
the "Search" engine based on a word indexing system : it is available in the header of all pages and it searches in sections or sub-sections, articles and also in the contents of the joined documents (.pdf, .ps, ...)

As decided during the Joint 19th ALADIN Workshop & HIRLAM ASM in Utrech in May 2009, the GMAPDOC website offers enhanced links with HIRLAM, LACE and ALADIN websites. These websites are based on different CMS (Content Management System) but enhanced links are possible. Up-to-now, the exchanges between ALADIN-GMAPDOC-HIRLAM are wider than those with RC-LACE, due to the RC-LACE website CMS.
Search engine : GMAPDOC website offers now the possibility to widen the "search results" to the (...)

The home page of this site presents an editorial the last articles published (center part). the last news item (left part) : to complete the articles, SPIP includes a system of news items for the publication of short stories such as a press revue (or a web revue).
On the home page as well as in all others, one may find : a menu (right part) to navigate through the sections/sub-sections a top and a bottom menus with access to : the site map presents all (sub-)sections by alphabetical (...)

The purpose of this site is to give an easy access to the numerous and various documentations available around ARPEGE/ALADIN/AROME : specific documentation presentations during training courses full lectures, mainly prepared after training courses ...
Documentation but not publications
The following publications can be found from aladin publications pages : PhD thesis (1): PhD thesis supported by RFR action (2) PhD thesis supported ALATNET action (3): other PhD thesis Publications (...)