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The Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) is a federation of research laboratories devoted to study the climate system and the global environment. Since 1995, the IPSL Climate Modelling Centre (IPSL-CMC) develops and uses climate models in order to improve our understanding and knowledge of the climate system, its current characteristics and its past and future changes.
Many aspects of the climate system are studied at IPSL and IPSL-CMC is one of the few climate modelling centres worldwide that develop most aspects of its Earth System Model (ESM). Such a model represent the different components of the climate system and their interactions. The IPSL Earth System Model comprises of the LMDz model for the atmosphere, the INCA and REPROBUS models for atmospheric composition, the NEMO model for the ocean, including ocean dynamics (NEMO-OCE), sea-ice (NEMO-LIM) and ocean biogeochemistry (NEMO-PISCES), and the ORCHIDEE model for terrestrial surfaces. The IPSL climate model uses the OASIS coupler and the powerful XIOS input/output server. A new dynamical core for the atmosphere, known as DYNAMICO, is now coupled to the atmospheric physics and forms our next generation model.
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Jobs at IPSL CMC
The IPSL Climate Modelling Centre keeps hiring, please visit our « job opportunities » webpage: https://cmc.ipsl.fr/about-job-opportunities/
IPSL climate model training sessions
Like every year, we propose a 2-day training course in simulation tools used for climate modeling at IPSL. This course is for both beginners and advanced users of modipsl/libIGCM tools. The duration of the training session is 2 days and the course will take place in person at IDRIS (Orsay). You will have the possibility […]
Pascale Braconnot vice-chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Pascale Braconnot (France) has been appointed as Vice Chair of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC), where she joins Prof. Detlef Stammer (Germany) who remains Chair for the next two years. Pascale Braconnot has also been involved with WCRP for a long time, in CLIVAR, in the Working […]