Research and Community activities
Research areas
- El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)
- ENSO dynamics and
physical mechanisms, role of the atmosphere, scale interactions, role
of intra-seasonal variability
- Evaluation of ENSO in
state-of-the-art climate models
- ENSO in a changing climate
- Current related projects: METRO,
EL PASO,
EUCLIPSE
- Development of Earth System Models
(see related publications)
Community activities
- Convener, EGU ENSO session (since 2008)
- Member of NERC Peer Review College (since 2010)
- Lead, ENSO metrics group, CLIVAR Pacific Panel (since
2008)
- IPCC service:
- Lead Author, WG1 IPCC
AR5, Chapter "Model evaluation" (2013)
- Expert Reviewer, WG1 IPCC AR4 (2007)
- Contributing Author, WG1 IPCC TAR (2001)
- Member of the European Geophysical Union (EGU), the
American Geophysical Union (AGU), the American Meterological Society
(AMS) and Associate Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (RMetS,
UK)
- Contributor, EU Joint Programming Initiative (JPI)
Climate
(since 2011)
- Coordinator, METAFOR FP7 project (since 2008)
- Co-leader, Climate Variability and Impacts (VARCLIM)
Group,
LOCEAN, IPSL (since 2008)
- Co-leader, Tropical Group, NCAS-Climate, Univ. Reading
(since 2008)
- Member, Conseil de l'OSU IPSL (2007-2010)
- Member, Comité Scientifique LEFE/IMAGO
(Institut
National des Sciences de l'Univers) (since 2009)
- "Decadal predictability" Work Package leader, Labex IPSL
(since 2011)
- Outreach and general public involvement