Jean-Marc Bélanger
Current research and/or projects
Development of a global coupled atmosphere-ice-ocean model for environmental prediction in collaboration with national (DFO, DND) and international (MERCATOR) partners
- Coupling of global atmospheric and oceanic models in a massively parallel computing framework
- Sensitivity studies of global atmospheric forecasts to SST perturbations
- Study of physical processes at the atmosphere-ocean interface
- Atmospheric data assimilation
Professional activities / interests
Ten years experience in atmospheric data assimilation mostly in the context of R&D in support of the operational 3D/4D variational data assimilation systems at the Canadian Meteorological Centre
Three years experience in processing and assimilation of surface wind measurements over the ocean from satellite data (scatterometer)
Experience in adjoint model coding (computational differentiation) applied to data assimilation
Three years experience in implementation and experimentation with land surface processes parameterization CLASS (Canadian Land Surface Scheme) in the multiscale atmospheric model (GEM)
Education and awards
M.Sc. (Atmospheric Sciences), Université du Québec à Montréal
B.Sc. (Physics), Université du Québec à Montréal
Award – NSERC scholarship (1989-1991)
Key publications
Bélanger, J.-M. 2007. Processing of the 100 km-KNMI scatterometer winds at the Canadian Meteorological Centre. CMC Internal Report, 29 p.
Delage, Y., W. Lei and J.-M. Bélanger. 1999. Aggregation of parameters for the land surface model CLASS. Atmosphère-Océan 37(2): 157-178.
Bélanger, J.-M. and B. Bilodeau. 1997. Génération d'opérateurs linéaires tangents et adjoints pour une fonction nonlinéaire représentée par un programme informatique. Report from training course in data assimilation, UQAM, 30 p.