David SALAS Y MELIA
A Climate researcher at the French National Meteorological Research Center (CNRM) David Salas y Mélia is Head of the department on air quality and climate research. This entity's missions are to increase understanding of the processes and impacts of climate change, to study air quality, to develop a seasonal climate forecast model and to regularly produce climate simulations as support to IPCC reports. David Salas y Mélia mainly works on understanding and assessing past and future climate evolutions through models. More specifically, he focuses on the role and evolution that marine ice plays within climatic systems. To this end, he has namely created and developed a model to represent the evolution of the Arctic and Antarctic ice packs.
About the CNRM:
The CNRM is a Mixed Research Unit, which includes the CNRS and Météo-France. Research and development activities, which are mostly based in the Météo-France sites of Toulouse, Grenoble and Lannion, mainly focus on forecasting atmospheric events, namely extreme events, and the study of climate, climate change, the water cycle, as well as interactions between the ocean, the atmosphere, the continents, ice, snow, atmospheric chemistry and urban meteorology. Research and development also includes work on models for digital weather forecasting and the development of measuring tools.
David Salas y Mélia is a research climatologist at the French National Center for Meteorological Research (CNRM), where he heads the Climate and Air Quality Research Department. The main missions of this structure are to better understand the mechanisms and impacts of climate change, to study air quality, to develop a seasonal climate forecasting system and to regularly produce climate simulations in support of the IPCC reports. David Salas y Mélia's main aim is to better understand and estimate past and future climate trends through the use of models. He is particularly interested in the role and evolution of sea ice in the climate system. As such, he has created and developed a model representing the evolution of Antarctic and Arctic sea ice.
About CNRM :
CNRM is a joint research unit set up by CNRS and Météo-France. Its research activities are mainly carried out at the Toulouse, Grenoble and Lannion sites of Météo-France. The CNRM's research and development activities focus on the predictability of atmospheric phenomena, particularly extreme events, the study of climate and climate change, the water cycle, interactions between the ocean, atmosphere, continents, ice and snow, atmospheric chemistry and urban meteorology, modeling for numerical weather prediction, and the development of measuring instruments.
