Jean Bidlot

Contractor
Research, Earth System Modelling, Ocean Modelling

Summary:

Main tasks at ECMWF

Maintenance and development of the wind wave components of ECMWF Earth System Model (coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean system).

Research and development on the role of wind waves on the atmosphere and the oceans.

Model validation using wind and wave observations.

Support to wind wave data assimilation developments.

 

Professional interests:

Role of ocean waves, which essentially means air-sea interaction, atmospheric marine boundary layer, upper ocean mixing
 

Career background:

Education:
PhD in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
1993.


B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
"Mécanique Physique"
(mathematical modelization of continuum media)
University of Liège,  Belgium.
1988
 

Previous position:
From November 1993 to July 1995:
Research Scientist
Management Unit of the Mathematical Model of the North Sea and Scheldt Estuary
Brussels, Belgium.

 

 

External recognitions

ECMWF representative at the WMO Expert Team on Wind Waves and Coastal Hazards.