Goosse, Hughes (19..-....)

Hugues Goosse (http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=hgs%23HomePage) is research associate with the Belgian National fund for Scientific Research (http://www1.frs-fnrs.be/), part-time lecturer at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL, http://www.uclouvain.be) and invited professor at the Universiteit Gent (http://www.ugent.be/). At UCL, he is member of the Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaître (http://www.climate.be ) that has gained over the last 30 years a worldwide reputation for the study of climate dynamics and mesoscale meteorology. In particular, it is widely known for its contributions to the astronomical theory of paleoclimates and to the development of various climate models, in particular the model LOVECLIM (http://www.astr.ucl.ac.be/index.php?page=LOVECLIM%40Description ). Hugues Goosse has about 15 years of experience in global climate modelling and his research interest is presently focused on climate variability in mid- and high latitudes on different time scales. He has recently applied a data assimilation method to study the climate of the last millennium. Hugues Goosse is author or co-author of more than 80 papers in international refereed journals or books. He is member of the CLIVAR/CLiC/SCAR Southern Ocean Panel, co-chief editor of the journal Climate of the Past, editor of the journal Geophysical Model Development and is contributing author of two chapters of the IPCC AR4. Additionally, he has written an online textbook about climate dynamics and climate modeling that is be freely available since October 2008 (at the address http://www.climate.be/textbook )

References :

· Goosse H., H. Renssen, A. Timmermann, R.S. Bradley and M.E. Mann, 2006. Using paleoclimate proxy-data to select optimal realisations in an ensemble of simulations of the climate of the past millennium. http://www.springerlink.com/content/jv1538862132259u/

· Goosse H., O. Arzel, J. Luterbacher, M. E. Mann, H. Renssen, N. Riedwyl, A. Timmermann, E. Xoplaki and H. Wanner, 2006. The origin of the European "Medieval Warm Period". Climate of the Past 2, 99-113 (http://www.clim-past.net/2/99/2006/cp-2-99-2006.pdf ).

· Goosse H., Driesschaert E., Fichefet T., and M.-F. Loutre, 2007. Information on the early Holocene climate constrains the summer sea ice projections for the 21st century Clim. Past 3, 683-692, 2007 (http://www.clim-past.net/3/683/2007/cp-3-683-2007.pdf)