Gilbert Brunet
Director
Meteorological Research
Environment and climate change
Canada
Biography
Chair, Joint Scientific Committee for the World Weather Research Programme of the World Meteorological Organization (since March 2007) Theses completed under co-supervision: Martinez, Y. (Ph.D. 2008, McGill U., P. Yau), Ravia, R. ( M.Sc. 2007, McGill U., P. Yau); Yazidi, H. (M.Sc. 2006, UQÀM, R. Laprise); Chen, Y. (Ph.D. 2002, McGill U., P. Yau); Zadra, A. (Ph.D. 2000, McGill U., J. Derome); Wang, Y. (M. Sc. 1999, McGill U., J. Derome); Tran, D. (Ph.D. 1998, McGill U., J. Derome); Charron, M. (Ph.D. 1998, McGill U., T. Warn); Choboter, P. (M.Sc.1997, McGill U., S. Maslowe) Recent speaking invitations from conferences and institutions: TTISS (Monterey, USA, 2009); WAF&NWP (Omaha, USA, 2009); EGU(Vienna, Austria, 2009), TTISS (Monterey, USA, 2009), PANDOWAE (Murnau, Germany, 2009), IUGG XXIV (Perugia, Italy, 2007), American Meteorological Society 87th Annual Meeting (San Antonio, U.S., 2007), Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Trieste, Italy, 2006), U.S.-Egypt Workshop on Predictive Methodologies for Global Weather-Related Disasters (Cairo, Egypt, 2006), High-Resolution Workshop, Earth Simulator Center (Yokohama, Japan, 2006).
Research Interest
Contributing to science that supports weather and environmental predictions and services, decision making and policy development as head of Meteorological Research Division
Publications
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Nobre, Carlos, Guy P. Brasseur, Melvyn A. Shapiro, Myanna Lahsen, Gilbert Brunet, Antonio J. Busalacchi, Kathy Hibbard, Kevin Noone and Jean Ometto, 2010: Addressing the complexity of the Earth system. Accepted in Bull Amer. Met. Soc..
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Brunet, G., M. A. Shapiro, B. Hoskins, M. Moncrieff, R. Dole, G. N. Kiladis, B. Kirtman, A. Lorenc, B. Mills, R. Morss, S. Polavarapu, D. Rogers, J. Schaake, and J. Shukla, 2010: Toward a seamless process for the prediction of weather and climate: the advancement of sub-seasonal to seasonal prediction. Accepted in Bull. Amer. Met. Soc..
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Martinez, Y., G. Brunet and P. Yau, 2010: On the dynamics of two-dimensional hurricane-like concentric rings vortex formation. Accepted in J. Atmos. Sci..
