François Counillon

Counillon leads the Climate Dynamics and Prediction group at the Nansen Center. 

He has expertise in oceanography, climate dynamics, and data assimilation. He develops innovative solutions to improve climate prediction using data assimilation, modelling, and artificial intelligence. 

Together with other partners at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, he leads the development of the Norwegian Climate Prediction Model (NorCPM). NorCPM is our only national climate prediction system and delivers monthly forecasts and seasonal-to-decadal predictions to national and international projects. 

He leads the strategic project PARCIM at the Bjerknes Center (SKD-PARCIM), which develops the capability to produce paleo reanalysis with NorCPM for the last millennium.  Counillon also lead the development of the first supermodel for Earth system modelling, which interactively connects different models so that their systematic errors are compensated, achieving superior performance. 
 

Bjerknes Climate Prediction Unit
 

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