CNRS Senior Research Scientist / Directeur de Recherche au CNRS
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CNRS, UPMC
LMD/CNRS/UPMC
Case 99
T 45 - 55, 3ème étage
4 place Jussieu
Paris F75252 Cedex 05
Email: frederic.hourdin@lmd.ipsl.fr
Fields of research
Simulating cities under climate change using a ray-tracing based
multiphysics MonteCarlo approach.
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.
Paramaterization of shallow and deep
convection
Tuning and exploration of parametric uncertainty in climate simulations
Climate change and urban climate
In charge of the LMDZ
global climate
model.