Simulating the climate system dynamics
CERFACS conducts fundamental and applied research in the field of climate modeling and its global change. The “Climate modelling and global change” team (GLOBC) participates in the development of coupled models between the oceans, the atmosphere and the other components of the climate system. Numerical simulation of the evolution of these systems requires the use of high performance computers in order to correctly represent sufficiently fine spatial and temporal scales to reproduce the dynamics of the observed climate. Many simulations are carried out through various research projects and the analysis of the results leads to numerous publications in international journals.
To develop high level softwares
The team strategy is based on a dual approach combining theoretical modeling studies and on the development of high-level softwares, such as, for instance, the OASIS and OpenPALM couplers, needed to address the various linkages involved in climate science or in multi-physical / multi-component industrial applications.
To contribute to application and transverse axes
The GLOBC team is particularly involved in the following application areas
- Climate variability and predictability
- HPC for modelling climate-air transport links
- HPC simulation of environment and safety
These application areas feed and are fed by the following transversal areas:
- Coupling
- Data Driven Modelling :
All this research takes place through the coordination and participation in national and international research programs.
For many years, the team is associated with the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) through the UMR CECI 5318 research unit.
Team members
Project leader: Olivier Thual
UMR 5318 Director: Laurent Terray
UMR 5318 Administrator: Nadège Parrier
Projects & Results & Important meetings
Projects Pictures of GLOBC Videos of GLOBC Internal Conferences Booklet MISSTERRE : Modeling to predic and understand the climate
Meeting with the Scientists of Giec6 at Toulouse, France, 29/08/2019 : The presentations : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuHV-5ZKhJs – The debate : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdrM1LqofD4
