Jean-Louis Dufresne CNRS Senior reserach scientist at Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (LMD) , Intitut Pierre et Simon Laplace (IPSL) Climate Modeling and Climate Change (EMC3) group IPSL Climate Modelling Centre (ICMC) Curriculum Vitae

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Research topics

• Role of clouds in the climate system, cloud modelling in climate models, evaluation of clouds using spatial observations

• Analysis of the greenhouse effect and radiative exchanges in atmospheres, calculation of radiative exchanges and radiative forcings

• Climate change, climate response to forcings, climate feedbacks, climate sensitivity

• Development of coupled atmosphere-ocean climate model, so called Earth System Model (ESM)

Research activities and tools

• Contribution of the IPSL Climate Modelling Centre (ICMC) to the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP)

• IPSL-CM , the IPSL Climate Models

• The CFMIP Observational Simulator Package (COSP) and the associated observations (with GOCCP, GCM Oriented Calipso Cloud Product)

• The LMDZ atmospheric general circulation model

Research Projects

• ANR MCG-Rad project on Monte-Carlo Global Radiative Forcings Computation
• ANR High-Tune on HIGH resolution simulations to improve and TUNE the boundary-layer cloud parameterizations
• Calva project, on CALibration and VAlidation of meteorological and climate models and satellite retrievals in Antarctic
• ANR Convergence project on facing Big Data era and Exascale challenges for Climate Sciences
• Projet CMUG de l'ESA, sur l'utilisation des données satellitales dans les modèles
• European project EUCLIPSE, European Union Cloud Intercomparison, Process Study & Evaluation Project
• European projects EMBRACE, COMBINE, ENSEMBLES on climate model developments, climate change simulations and analysis