Frédéric Hourdin

Fields of research

• Study and numerical modeling of the general circulation of planetary atmosphere (the Earth, Mars, Titan, Venus)

• Coupling between atmospheric dynamics, chemistry and haze microphysics on Titan.

• Numerical modeling of the Earth climate and climate change.

• Numerical modeling of the advection of atmospheric trace species.

• Inversion of atmospheric transport.

• Parameterization of the atmospheric boundary layer.

• Parameterization of pyro-convection.

• West African climate.

• In charge of the LMDZ global climate model.

Publications

PhD

Student reports

Habilitation diriger des Recherches

Training material

Links :

• Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique

• The LMDZ climate model

• Atlas of the LMDZ6 version prepared for CMIP6