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The HIRLAM Newsletter No. 58 is now digitally available. You can download a copy by clicking clicking here.

A hardcopy is being printed at this moment and will be shipped next week. If you like to receive a copy and you do not usually get the newsletter please send an email to me.

Tilly Driesenaar

Dear HIRLAM colleagues,

Some time ago, our project leader for probabilistic forecasting (PL EPS), Trond Iversen, informed me that he wished to resign from his position by the end of 2011.This meant that  a new project leader had to be attracted for this position, starting from 1 January 2012 until the end of 2015, and the HIRLAM Council decided to open an application procedure for this position. Interviews have been held with the applicants by a selection committee. The HIRLAM Council has decided this week to accept the candidate proposed in the recommendation of the selection committee: Inger-Lise Frogner from met.no.

Hereby I wish Inger-Lise the best of luck in her new role, and hope that it will be a rewarding and interesting experience for her. Certainly there will be plenty of interesting scientific challenges to meet for her and her team! I hereby also take the opportunity to thank Trond again for all the hard work he has put in as PL: he has done a great job in the past years in leading the effort to develop the GLAMEPS system and make it operational, and in this year to create a HarmonEPS experimental system. Both of these milestones are now very close to being achieved, and I would like to give Trond (and his team of course) full credits for them.

Jeanette Onvlee

Dear HIRLAM colleagues,

Hereby I let you know that the joint HIRLAM All Staff Meeting (ASM)/22^th ALADIN Workshop 2012 is planned to take place on 7-10 May in Marrakesh, Morocco. So please reserve these dates in your agenda’s! The meeting will start on Monday morning 7 May around 9h, and end on Thursday 10 May (presumably late) afternoon. As was the case in previous years, there will be a largely common program, based on joint thematic sessions. In addition, a meeting of the HIRLAM Management Group and the ALADIN CSSI will take place to discuss common plans and activities, on Friday 11 May.

For your information I have added our first rough sketch of the programme setup, which may be useful in case you will be able to attend only part of the meeting. Later on, you will be sent more practical information on registration, the venue of the meeting, local accommodation and possible visa requirements.

Best regards,

Jeanette

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