Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

François-Xavier Le Dimet has been nominated Fellow of the American Meteorological Society. He received this distinction in New Orleans on the January, 22, 2012 during the annual General Assembly of the Association. He is the second French scientist to get this award. See http://www.ujf-grenoble.fr/universite/medias-et-communication/actualities/francois-xavier-le-dimet-elu-fellow-of-the-american-meteorological-society-244259.htm?RH=UJF

The paper "Variational algorithms for analysis and assimilation of meteorological observations." by F.-X. Le Dimet and O. Talagrand [86] has received more than 1 000 citations.