1995-1996 SCIENTIFIC REPORT

   
1     INTRODUCTION							 
									
1.1   Overview of the team activities				 
1.2   Team  Participants in 1995 and 1996				 
									
2     DEVELOPMENT OF OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE COUPLED MODELS			 
									
2.1   Initial ocean-atmosphere coupled experiments 			
      (L. M. Terray, E. Guilyardi, P. Barthelet, O. Thual, P. Rogel)  
2.2   Anthropogenic climate change studies: scenario experiments 	
      (P. Barthelet, L. Terray, E. Guilyardi)			 
2.2.1 Study of radiative scheme for the AGCM ARPEGE V2		 
2.2.2 Calculation of non solar heat flux when open water and 	
      sea-ice are simultaneously present				 
2.3   Analysis of coupled models (E. Guilyardi, L. Terray)		 
2.4   Development of coupled models 					
      (L. Terray, E. Guilyardi, P. Barthelet)			 
2.5   Sensitivity of climate drift to physical parametrizations 	
      (L. Terray)							 
									
3     FOCUSED ANALYSIS WITH THE COUPLED MODEL			 
									
3.1   North Atlantic air-sea interaction and seasonal prediction 	
      (Ph. Rogel, D. Stephenson, C. Gaffard)				 
3.1.1 Seasonal climate prediction					 
3.1.2 Model validation using altimeter data				 
3.2   Water mass analysis (E. Guilyardi, L. Terray)			 
3.3   Sensitivity to small coupling flux perturbations 		
      (C. Cassou, O. Thual, L. Terray)				 
3.4   Intercomparison of climate experiments 			
      (M. Pontaud, L. Terray, E. Guilyardi)				 
									
4     DEVELOPMENTS OF OTHER COUPLED MODELS				 
									
4.1   Coupling of an empirical atmosphere to a Pacific OGCM 		
      (J. Macias, D. Stephenson, L. Terray)				 
4.2   Coupling of a sea-ice mixed-layer model with an atmospheric CGM
      (G. Garric, D. Stephenson, L. Terray)				 
									
5     CONCEPTUAL MODELS FOR TWO CLIMATE PARADIGMS			 
									
5.1   El Niņo: theoretical approach and GCM confrontation 	
      (M. Pontaud, O. Thual)						 
5.2   Thermohaline oceanic circulation (L. Fleury, O. Thual)		 
									
6     COMPUTER SCIENCE  DEVELOPMENTS					 
									
6.1   OASIS : the 2.0 version (L. Terray, S. Valcke, A. Piacentini)   
6.2   VAIRMER: the experiment manager 				
      (E. Guilyardi, S. Valcke, A. Piacentini)			 
6.3   CATHODe : a distributed computing project 			
      (C. Cassou, O. Thual, L. Terray)				 
									
7     DATA ASSIMILATION						 
									
7.1   Optimal Interpolation (Ph. Rogel)				 
7.2   Variational Assimilation (E. Greiner)				 
7.3   PALM 								
      (E. Greiner, Th. Lagarde, A. Piacentini, Ph. Rogel, O. Thual)   
									
8     PUBLICATIONS							 
									
8.1   Journals with referees						 
8.2   Theses								 
8.3   Publications in proceedings					 
8.4   Technical Reports						 

Last update : 28 mai 2003, Nicolas Daget.