Eric maisonnave 9, rue des Paradoux 31000 toulouse (france)  ([phone]

Eric MAISONNAVE 19, rue des Paradoux 31000 TOULOUSE (FRANCE)  ([phone]

Date of birth: January 24, 1971 e-mail: [e-mail]

Climate Modelling Research Engineer

Education

July 1994

Engineer degree from the Physics Department of I.N.S.A., one of the french "grandes écoles"

Employment history

February 1999 –May 2000 & December 2000 – Present	Research Engineer Global Change and Climate Modelling group, Cerfacs (European Center for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computing), Toulouse, France GCM (global circulation model) Coupling: Setting of several coupled GCMs configurations (multiprocessor communication techniques, coupling fields, interpolation, models interface) for various laboratories (C.E.R.F.A.C.S., I.P.S.L., Paris; J.P.L., Los Angeles, …). Seasonal Climate Prediction: Installation on various platforms of an ensemble seasonal forecast chain (preparation, execution and post-processing). Development of automated production procedures of oceanic-atmospheric initial conditions. Creation of basic statistic analyses and visualization toolkits.
June 2000 – November 2000	Research Engineer C.N.R.S., I.P.S.L., University of Paris VI, France Coordination of model coupling actions of atmospheric (LMD) and oceanographic (LODyC, LSCE-CEA) laboratories. Standardization of models configurations, implementation of new coupling physic routines, developed toys models, finalization of platform independent coupled models packages (sources, makefiles, execution scripts, input data tarfiles).
July 1997 – January 1999	Software Engineer Computing support team, Sogéclair, Gimont, France Development and partly design of a cartographic software for the French Electricity Company (Electricité de France, EDF) Assured software support for cartographic production
April 1995 – June 1995	Engineer trainee Ifremer, French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea, Brest, France Development of visualization tools and correlation algorithms. Investigation interactions between wind stress fields and Maud Rise Polynya extension (SSMI and ER1 satellite data)

Proceedings

P. Rogel, E. Maisonnave, L. Terray, S. Valcke, and C. Cassou, (2000), Use of satellite altimetry data for climate prediction studies, In XXV General Assembly of the EGS, Nice, France

P. Rogel, E. Maisonnave, L. Terray, C. Cassou, and S. Valcke, (1999), Seasonal climate hindcast experiments using a coupled model initialized with altimeter data and atmospheric analyses, In OCEANOBS99, St Raphael, France
P. Rogel, E. Maisonnave, L. Terray, and S. Valcke, (1999), Expériences couplées océan-atmosphère de prévision saisonnière initialisées par des analyses atmosphériques et par l'altimétrie., In Atelier de Modélisation de l'Atmosphère, CNRM, Météo-France, Toulouse, France

Computer Literacy

Computers	Developments and porting on supercomputers SGI Origin 2000, NEC SX5, Fujitsu VPP 700 and 5000
Operating systems	Strong educational background on UNIX 3 years of bourne, korn and C shells programming Knowledge of Windows, Ms-dos, VMS
Languages	Proficiency in C code development (graphic libraries, graphical user interface, event driven application) Fluent in Fortran 77-90-95 Knowledge of C++, Ada, Pv-wave, Cgi, HTML, LaTex, Netcdf, Matlab
Softwares	Visualization: Pv-wave, Ferret, IDL, GMT GCM: Arpège (Météo-France), OPA, LMDZ (C.N.R.S.) GCM Coupler: Oasis (Cerfacs) Others: Oracle, Sybase (databases), CVS (Version control system)

Language skills

Spanish	Fluent
English	Educational background