François Counillon
About
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
More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)
Selected publications
Selected projects
Proxy assimilation for reconstructing climate and improving model
The main objective of PARCIM is to create the first online millennium-long paleo-climate reanalysis, using modern data assimilation, model, and wealth of paleo-proxy archives.
Read more about this climate reconstruction here.
Infrastructure for Norwegian Earth System Modelling phase 2
NorESM is the Norwegian Earth System Model and is an essential tool for researchers to be able to simulate the climate in the past, present and future. The infrastructure project INES2 will upgrade NorESM with new and updated functionality by incorporating research-driven development in a nationally coordinated manner.