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

Arnaud Caubel (LSCE/IPSL \& FECIT/Fujitsu),
Damien Declat (CERFACS),
Italo Epicoco (CMCC),
Veronika Gayler (MPI-M\&D),
Josefine Ghattas (CERFACS),
Jean Latour (CERFACS \& Fujitsu-Fecit),
Eric Maisonnave (CERFACS),
Silvia Mocavero (CMCC),
Elodie Rapaport (CERFACS),
Hubert Ritzdorf (CCRLE-NEC),
Sami Saarinen (ECMWF),
Eric Sevault (M\'et\'eo-France),
Laurent Terray (CERFACS),
Olivier Thual (CERFACS),
Reiner Vogelsang (SGI Germany),
Li Yan (CERFACS).

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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 (M\'et\'eo-France),
Dominique Bielli (M\'et\'eo-France),
Gilles Bourhis (IDRIS),
Pascale Braconnot (IPSL/LSCE),
Sandro Calmanti (M\'et\'eo-France),
Christophe Cassou (CERFACS),
Yves Chartier (RPN),
Jalel Chergui (IDRIS),
Philippe Courtier (M\'et\'eo-France),
Philippe Dandin (M\'et\'eo-France),
Michel D\'equ\'e (M\'et\'eo-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),
Eric Guilyardi (CERFACS),
Charles Henriet (CRAY France),
Pierre Herchuelz (ACCRI),
Maurice Imbard (M\'et\'eo-France),
Luis Kornblueh (MPI-M),
Stephanie Legutke (MPI-M\&D),
Claire L\'evy (LODYC),
Olivier Marti (IPSL/LSCE),
S\'ebastien Masson (IPSL/LOCEAN)
Claude Mercier (IDRIS),
Pascale Noyret (EDF),
Andrea Piacentini (CERFACS),
Marc Pontaud (M\'et\'eo-France),
Adam Ralph (ICHEC),
Ren\'e Redler (MPI-M),
Tim Stockdale (ECMWF),
Rowan Sutton (UGAMP),
V\'eronique Taverne (CERFACS),
Jean-Christophe Thil (UKMO),
Nils Wedi (ECMWF).



