CNRM

Welcome

The Centre national de recherches météorologiques (CNRM) is a joint research unit (UMR 3589) set up by the CNRS and Météo-France. Until the end of 2015, the UMR was also known as the Groupe d’Étude de l’Atmosphère Météorologique. Its research activities are mainly carried out at the Météo-France sites in Toulouse, Grenoble and Lannion.

The CNRM is responsible for a large part of the research activities of Météo-France, the national weather and climate service. As a result, many of the CNRM’s objectives are guided by the operational missions of Météo-France, which means that the CNRM works very closely with the production teams of the Établissement and allows research projects to be prioritised.

Priority is given to needs related to the protection of people and property: weather forecasting on several space-time scales, atmospheric physics and dynamics, climate knowledge and evolution, human-climate-atmosphere interactions, etc.

The CNRM is responsible for a large part of the research activities of Météo-France, the national weather and climate service. As a result, many of the CNRM’s objectives are guided by the operational missions of Météo-France, which means that the CNRM works very closely with the production teams of the Établissement and allows research projects to be prioritised.

Priority is given to needs related to the protection of people and property: weather forecasting on several space-time scales, atmospheric physics and dynamics, climate knowledge and evolution, human-climate-atmosphere interactions, etc.

CNRM’s research focuses on weather forecasting and climate change, and draws on the synergy and mutual enrichment between research and operational applications. The CNRM also carries out research enabling Météo-France to meet the major challenges of aeronautics, defense and personal and property safety. As part of the research community, but also in contact with Météo-France departments, CNRM teams contribute to upstream scientific progress in the field of atmospheric sciences and the terrestrial environment, as well as to their applications in response to societal expectations, for example on subjects such as urban meteorology, air quality, hydrology, fog, etc.

CNRM’s research and development activities focus mainly on the predictability of atmospheric phenomena, particularly extreme events, the study of climate and climate change, the water cycle, the interfaces between ocean-atmosphere-continents-cryosphere environments, atmospheric physico-chemistry and urban meteorology, assimilation and modeling for numerical weather prediction, instrumental developments and the micro-structure of snow cover.

The research carried out at CNRM represents a major contribution to the efforts made by the French, European and international scientific community in these fields, and conversely feeds on the work carried out by the international scientific community.