Group Director : Aurelien Ribes
ssistant manaer : Sophie Pelletier and Roland Seferian
Group organisation :
The Large-Scale Meteorology and Climate Group (GMGEC, Toulouse) focuses on the study and analysis of climate and climate change, modelling of the climate system and its various components (atmosphere, ocean, surface, biosphere, etc.) on a global or regional scale, understanding climate variability and long-term forecasting (e.g., seasonal forecasting). These activities involve participation in various model intercomparison exercises such as CMIP or CORDEX and their analysis, conducting impact studies and attribution studies of climate change already observed, and certain extreme events. The group also studies atmospheric composition and develops operational forecasting chains for this atmospheric composition on a scale of a few days, in order to predict dust episodes, pollutant dispersion, or air quality on global and regional scales.
Main activities :
- Climate variability and climate change
- Climate forecasting: from seasonal to decadal
- Surface oceanography and ocean-atmosphere coupling
- Atmospheric composition and air quality
- Modelling, understanding and forecasting regional climates
The models :
- Development and maintenance of global atmospheric climate models ARPEGE-Climat, regional atmospheric conditions CNRM-ALADIN et CNRM-AROME, global coupled CNRM-CM, Earth system CNRM-ESM, regional coupled CNRM-RCSM.
- Contribution to the development of the surface platform SURFEX-CTRIP and ocean models NEMO, NEMOMED8 et NEMOMED12.
- Maintenance of the transport chemistry model MOCAGE and contribution to the development of the shared library ACLIB (including the aerosol scheme) TACTIC)
The research teams
- COMETS (A suppr
- EST (Study of the Earth System)
- IOGA (Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Interactions)
- MOSCA (Regional Climate System Modelling)
- PASTEL (Seasonal Atmospheric Predictability and Teleconnections)
- COMPO (définir acronyme) (ancienne page plasma )
- CLIMSTAT (Statistical Analysis, Extremes, Climate Change)
- GLOB-ATM (GLOBal ATMospheric modelling)
- PHYCLIM (Atmospheric Physics and Climate Modelling)
Forecast supply contracts
- CAMS (Copernicus EU)
- CAMS2_35
- CAMS2_40
- CAMS2_83
- C3S (Copernicus Climate Change Services) – Regional climate simulations for Europe
- C3S-34b-lot2
- C3S (Copernicus Climate Change Services) – Seasonal forecast supply contracts
- C3S-330 (2018-2021)
- C3S-433 (2016-2018)
- C3S2-370 (2021-2025)