Research themes

Dynamics and Physical processes

Numerical weather prediction

Climate variability and climate change

Climate prediction from weeks to years

Snow studies

Upper layer oceanography

Observation systems, instrumental meteorology

Land surface

From global chemical environment to air quality

Urban climate

The themes of CNRM are grouped into 10 parts.

For a detailed explanation see the following list:

• Encadrés scientifiques
• Dynamics and Physical processes
  • 10. Physical processes study
    • Atmospheric Boundary Layer
    • Clouds and precipitations
      • Convection
      • Microphysics
    • Fog
  • Soil moisture heterogeneity favours development of Sahel thunderstorms
  • Cyclogenesis at mid-latitudes and weather regimes
    • Dynamics of cyclogenesis
    • Stormtracks
    • Weather regimes
  • The Mediterranean water cycle: HyMeX
  • AMMA: the African monsoon
• Urban climate
• Numerical weather prediction
  • General overview of NWP: main principles
  • Data assimilation algorithms
  • Use of observations
  • Predictability and ensemble prediction
• Climate variability and climate change
  • Large scale climate variability
  • Past climate modelling
  • Climatic scenario at global scale
  • Detection and attribution of climate change
  • Downscaling and climate extremes
  • Interactions aérosols-climat
• Climate prediction from weeks to years
• Snow studies
  • Future of weather forecasting in the mountains
  • Snowdrift
  • Avalanches
  • Snow remote sensing
  • Snow physical properties
    • Macroscopic-scale physical variables
    • Pictures of snow crystals and grains
  • Snow microstructure
  • Cryosphere-climate interactions
  • Snow and ice hydrology
  • [the national coordination of the avalanche hazard forecasting
  • Snow specific instrumentation
  • Past and future climate in mountain regions
• Upper layer oceanography
  • Surface fluxes parametrization
  • Mesoscale ocean/atmosphere coupling
  • Observation network
• Observation systems, instrumental meteorology
  • On site measurements
  • Remote sensing
  • Measurement instrumentation dedicated to aerosol and cloud particles
  • Airborne measurement instrumentation
  • Physical simulation of geophysical flows
    • Our activities
      • Research activities in geophysical fluid mechanics (SPEA team)
      • Applied studies
    • European Access and collaboration
    • Our lab, its facilities and measurement systems
      • Facilities of the lab
      • Measurement systems
  • Processing and validation of collected data
  • UAV
• Land surface
  • Simulation of water balance and discharge of the French large basins
  • Rush flood simulation
  • Carbon cycle modelling
  • Use of remote sensing observations of soil moisture and vegetation variables
  • Cartographie des paramètres de surface
  • Effects of climate change
• From global chemical environment to air quality
  • Evolution of the Ozone and of the stratospheric water vapour
  • Research on the effects of transportation on climate