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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS





The development of this new version of OASIS, OASIS3-MCT_5.0 has been possible thanks the folllowing fundings:



We would like to thank the main past or present developers of OASIS (in alphabetical order, with the name of their institution at the time of their contribution to OASIS):

Arnaud Caubel (LSCE/IPSL & FECIT/Fujitsu), Laure Coquart (CNRS/CERFACS) Anthony Craig (CERFACS - consultant), Damien Declat (CERFACS), Italo Epicoco (CMCC), Rupert Ford (STFC), Philippe Gambron (STFC), Veronika Gayler (MPI-M&D), Josefine Ghattas (CERFACS), Christopher Goodyer (NAG) Jean Latour (CERFACS & Fujitsu-Fecit), Eric Maisonnave (CERFACS), Silvia Mocavero (CMCC), Andrea Piacentini (CERFACS - consultant) Elodie Rapaport (CERFACS), Sami Saarinen (ECMWF), Eric Sevault (Météo-France), Laurent Terray (CERFACS), Olivier Thual (CERFACS), Sophie Valcke (CERFACS), Reiner Vogelsang (SGI Germany), Li Yan (CERFACS).



We also would like to thank the following people for their help and suggestions in the design of the OASIS software (in alphabetical order, with the name of their institution at the time of their contribution to OASIS):

Dominique Astruc (IMFT), Chandan Basu (NSC, Sweden), Sophie Belamari (Météo-France), Dominique Bielli (Météo-France), Yamina Boumediene (CERFACS), Gilles Bourhis (IDRIS), Pascale Braconnot (IPSL/LSCE), Sandro Calmanti (Météo-France), Christophe Cassou (CERFACS), Yves Chartier (RPN), Jalel Chergui (IDRIS), Philippe Courtier (Météo-France), Philippe Dandin (Météo-France), Michel Déqué (Météo-France), Ralph Doescher (SMHI), Jean-Louis Dufresne (LMD), Jean-Marie Epitalon (CERFACS), Laurent Fairhead (LMD), Uwe Fladrich (SMHI), Marie-Alice Foujols (IPSL), Gilles Garric (CERFACS), Christopher Goodyer (NAG), Eric Guilyardi (CERFACS), Charles Henriet (CRAY France), Pierre Herchuelz (ACCRI), Maurice Imbard (Météo-France), Luis Kornblueh (MPI-M), Stephanie Legutke (MPI-M&D), Claire Lévy (LODYC), Yann Meurdesoif (IPSL/LSCE) Olivier Marti (IPSL/LSCE), Sébastien Masson (IPSL/LOCEAN) Claude Mercier (IDRIS), Pascale Noyret (EDF), Marc Pontaud (Météo-France), Adam Ralph (ICHEC), René Redler (MPI-M), Hubert Ritzdorf (CCRLE-NEC), Tim Stockdale (ECMWF), Rowan Sutton (UGAMP), Véronique Taverne (CERFACS), Jean-Christophe Thil (UKMO), Nils Wedi (ECMWF).