A fiery wakeup call for climate science
26 February 2020
The extent of the recent wildfires in Australia significantly exceeded the projections of any member of the multi-model CMIP archive. This highlights how current multi-model ensembles may be under-representing the risks of natural disasters under climate change. Limited coupled system process representation in most models coupled with a lack of parameter uncertainty exploration means that some risks are not explored by the existing international multi-model framework. This calls for a reassessment of how to focus climate model development on providing robust risk quantification for those impacts which most directly affect society. Sanderson, B.M., Fisher, R.A. A fiery wake-up call for climate science. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2020) nature.com Media coverage BBC Sydney Morning Herald The Guardian Wired The Daily Express Yahoo
A researcher of CERFACS guest during the France Culture radio show « La méthode scientifique » this week
20 January 2020
Mélanie Rochoux, a researcher at Cerfacs working on wildfire spread modeling at the interface between CFD simulations and data science, is invited to the France Culture radio show « La méthode scientifique » next Wednesday to talk about megafires. Who are they? How are they formed? What are their impacts? How science can provide insights? The radio show is on Wednesday, January 22nd at 4:00 pm on the France Culture's channel.
Thierry Poinsot becomes member of the French Academy of Sciences
14 January 2020
Thierry Poinsot was elected at the French Academy of Sciences in december 2019 with 17 other scientists. This is a great recognition for the work done in Toulouse at IMFT (CNRS) and CERFACS over the last thirty years in CFD and in combustion.
Ph.D Defense Maël HARNIEH
7 January 2020
Prediction of the loss generation in anisothermal compressible flows applied to Nozzle Guide Vane with the Large Eddy Simulations Maël HARNIEH Monday January 20th - 2 p.m.
CERFACS scientist named in 2019 Clarivate ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ list
25 November 2019
Dr. Rosie Fisher, a researcher at CERFACS working on land surface modeling and terrestrial ecosystem dynamics, was named in the 2019 Web of Science "Highly Cited Researchers" list, which recognizes influential researchers of the past decade, as demonstrated by the authorship of highly-cited papers that rank in the top 1% by citations. Dr Fisher has been working in the Global Change group (GLOBC) at CERFACS since 2018 as part of a collaboration with the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, where she was formerly a staff scientist.
THESIS PRIZE PAUL CASEAU, Thibaut LUNET, November 13, 2019
14 November 2019
THESIS PRIZE PAUL CASEAU 2019 was awarded on November 13, 2019 by EDF and National Academy of Technologies of France to M. Thibaut LUNET doctoral student of the ALGO team, for his thesis defended on 9 January 2018 and entitled "Space-time parallel strategies for the numerical simulation of turbulent flows"
A PhD student awarded of the “Outstanding Student Poster” of EGU
6 November 2019
Rem-Sophia MOURADI, PhD student at CERFACS and EDF R&D Hydraulic Department, has been awarded of the "Outstanding Student Poster", during the EGU General Assembly 2019 (European Geosciences Union). This international conference gathers each year about 16 000 scientists with 6 000 oral presentations and 10 000 posters. Among the 2 500 posters presented by PhD students, fifty only are awarded with this price, that to say 2%. A combined orthogonal decomposition and polynomial chaos methodology for data-based analysis and prediction of coastal dynamics (Mouradi, R.-S.; Goeury, C.; Thual, O.; Zaoui, F.; Tassi, P.)
Cerfacs’ kraken configuration upgrade to more than 500 Tflop/s
2 October 2019
64 skylake nodes have been added to Cerfacs' cluster Kraken which offer now more than 7 000 skylake cores and 563 peak Tflop/s.
67 climate modelling groups use OASIS3-MCT to assemble more than 80 coupled applications
10 September 2019
OASIS3-MCT is a coupler of codes developed at Cerfacs and used around the world, mainly for climate modelling applications. Our last survey confirms that OASIS3-MCT is used by 67 modelling groups to assemble more than 80 different coupled applications over the 5 continents. These applications include global or regional configurations of ocean and atmosphere models but also sea ice, sea level, wave, ocean biogeochemistry, land, vegetation, river routing, hydrological and atmospheric chemistry models. OASIS3-MCT is used in 5 of the 7 European Earth System Models participating to the 6th Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) that produces the climate simulations forming the basis of the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)”
Sparse Days Meeting 2019 at Cerfacs, Toulouse
12 May 2019
The annual Sparse Days meeting will be held at CERFACS in Toulouse on 11th and 12th July 2019. Registration for the Sparse Days is free but we ask people who are coming to register as soon as possible although the deadline is June 14th. Please complete the registration form (deadline : June 14th) indicating whether you want to give a talk and whether you wish to attend the conference dinner. Although an emphasis will be on parallel aspects, any talk that has an association with sparsity is welcome.
The Telemac-Mascaret User Conference 2019 will be held in Toulouse on October 15-17th
2 May 2019
The conference is organized by the European Center for Advanced Research and Training for Computational Science (CERFACS), on the Météo-France campus, in the conference room CIC. The conference will start with a one-day technical workshop (October 15th 2019), followed by a two-day conference on October 16-17th. A gala dinner will take place on the 16th evening for delegates and guests. Please check more details.
