Pierre BESSEMOULIN

Born 18 May 1943

Married, 3 children

Ph D Obtained in 1969 at University Paris VI

After a 4-year period in a private company, P. Bessemoulin joined the National Center for Atmospheric Research (CNRM) of Météo-France on 1 January 1976, as a research engineer dealing with hydraulic simulation (rotating annulus, water tank) of geophysical flows, in Magny les Hameaux, close to Paris. In 1980, he became deputy director of the Applied Meteorology section, with special responsibilities in environmental activities. Following the establishment of CNRM in Toulouse in 1982, he was in charge of the Scientific and Technical Studies section. From 1986 to 1998, he headed the Group of Experimental and Instrumental Meteorology, consisting in 6 research teams in charge of respectively: Airborne and Satellite Doppler Lidar, Airborne measurements, Microphysics of Clouds and Precipitations, Physical simulation of atmospheric flows, Strato-Tropospheric wind profilor, and Mobile Meso-network. This Group was meant to develop new observing systems, and to deploy them during large field experiments, such as HAPEX-MOBILHY(1986), MFDP-FRONTS(1987), PYREX(1990), EFEDA(1991), HAPEX-SAHEL(1992), SEMAPHORE (1993), BOREAS(1994), MUREX (1994-97), FASTEX (1997).

P. Bessemoulin became Director of the operational Climate service in 1998, until 2006.

He is author or co-author of more than 160 publications, 55 of them in referred international journals, and co-recipient of the WMO Gerbier-Mumm 2000 award for the publication:

CALVET, J.C., J. NOILHAN, J.L. ROUJEAN, P. BESSEMOULIN, M. CABELGUENNE, A. OLIOSO and J.P. WIGNERON (1998): An interactive vegetation SVAT model tested against data from six contrasting sites. Agric. Forest Meteorol ., 92, 73-95.

Contact Information:

Pierre BESSEMOULIN

METEO-FRANCE

Direction Générale

Président de la Commission de Climatologie de l'Organisation Météorologique Mondiale (OMM)

President of the Commission for Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

42 Av. G. Coriolis

31057 TOULOUSE Cedex

FRANCE

Phone: +33 5.61.07.86.80

Fax: +33 5.61.07.80.99

Mobile: +33 6.07.37.56.29

Email: pierre.bessemoulin>at<meteo.fr

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