A. Friday 26 April 2002 09:30-18:30
1. Opening of Meeting with Progress/Status Report by AEDUE Secretary General
2. Reports by AEDUE members, including:
2.1 Pirkko Saarikivi, Foreca Ltd, Helsinki, Finland
2.2 Inge Johannessen, Storm Weather Center, Bergen, Norway
2.3 John Thomson, Oceanroutes (UK) Limited, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
2.4 Dennis Schulze, MC-Wetter GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2.5 Harry Otten, Meteo Consult B.V., Wageningen, Netherlands
2.6 Nebojsa Subanovic, Zagreb, Croatia
3. Overview by Peter Weiss, NOAA, Washington, USA
4. Enhanced AEDUE Website: status and further efforts needed
5. Administrative issues, including:
5.1 Communications with Hans Sandebring, President of the ECOMET Council
5.2 EC/DG-IV Comfort Letter on ECOMET: consequences for European meteorology
5.3 ECMWF Convention: meaning of “meteorological offices of the Member States”
5.4 Letter to EC Competition Commissioner Mario Monti
6. Data and pricing issues
19:30 AEDUE Dinner
B. Saturday 27 April 2002 09:30-13:00
09:30 Presentation by Francesco Meneguzzo of the LaMMA Regional Forecasting Centre:
"Very high resolution meteorological forecasts and related data assimilation issues".
7. General Discussion
8. Elaboration of Action Programme
9. Closure of Meeting
13:00 Visit guided by Francesco Meneguzzo to the LaMMA Regional Forecasting Centre (optional)