11 results on '"Boulanger, Jean-Philippe"'
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2. Observed precipitation in the Paraná-Plata hydrological basin: long-term trends, extreme conditions and ENSO teleconnections
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Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, Leloup, Julie, Penalba, Olga, Rusticucci, Matilde, Lafon, Florence, and Vargas, Walter
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- 2005
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3. Triggering of El Niño by westerly wind events in a coupled general circulation model
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Lengaigne, Matthieu, Guilyardi, Eric, Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, Menkes, Christophe, Delecluse, Pascale, Inness, Pete, Cole, Jeff, and Slingo, Julia
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- 2004
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4. Projection of future climate change conditions using IPCC simulations, neural networks and Bayesian statistics. Part 2: Precipitation mean state and seasonal cycle in South America
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Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, Martinez, F., Segura, E.C., Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'océanographie dynamique et de climatologie (LODYC), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL)
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MODELE MATHEMATIQUE ,RESEAU NEURONAL ,Atmospheric Science ,VARIATION SAISONNIERE ,010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences ,[SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph] ,[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global Changes ,0207 environmental engineering ,INTELLIGENCE ARTIFICIELLE ,[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph] ,02 engineering and technology ,01 natural sciences ,VARIATION ANNUELLE ,CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE ,MODELE CLIMATIQUE ,020701 environmental engineering ,ANALYSE STATISTIQUE ,0105 earth and related environmental sciences - Published
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5. Twentieth century ENSO characteristics in the IPCC database
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Leloup, Julie, primary, Lengaigne, Matthieu, additional, and Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, additional
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- 2007
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6. Neural network based daily precipitation generator (NNGEN-P)
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Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, primary, Martinez, Fernando, additional, Penalba, Olga, additional, and Segura, Enrique Carlos, additional
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- 2006
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7. Detecting decadal changes in ENSO using neural networks
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Leloup, Julie A., primary, Lachkar, Zouhair, additional, Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, additional, and Thiria, Sylvie, additional
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- 2006
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8. Twentieth century ENSO characteristics in the IPCC database.
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Leloup, Julie, Lengaigne, Matthieu, and Boulanger, Jean-Philippe
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ALGORITHMS ,NONLINEAR statistical models ,MODELS & modelmaking ,ARTIFICIAL neural networks - Abstract
In this paper, we assess and compare to observations the spatial characteristics of the twentieth Century ENSO SST variability simulated by 23 models of the IPCC-AR4/CMIP3 database. The analysis is confined to the SST anomalies along the equatorial Pacific and is based on the use of a non-linear neural classification algorithm, the Self-Organizing Maps. Systematic biases include a larger than observed proportion for modelled ENSO maximum variability occurring in the Western Pacific. No clear relationship is found between this bias and the characteristics of the modelled mean state bias in the equatorial Pacific. This bias is mainly related to a misrepresentation of both El Niño and La Niña termination phases for most of the models. In contrast, the onset phase is quite well simulated. Modelled El Niño and La Niña peak phases display an asymmetric bias. Whereas the main bias of the modelled El Niño peak is to exhibit a maximum in the western Pacific, the simulated La Niña bias mainly occurs in the central Pacific. In addition, some models are able to capture the observed El Niño peak characteristics while none of them realistically simulate La Niña peaks. It also arises that the models closest to the observations score unevenly in reproducing the different phases, preventing an accurate classification of the models quality to reproduce the overall ENSO-like variability. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2008
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9. Neural network based daily precipitation generator (NNGEN-P).
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Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, Martinez, Fernando, Penalba, Olga, and Segura, Enrique
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ARTIFICIAL neural networks , *PERCEPTRONS , *ARTIFICIAL intelligence , *METEOROLOGICAL precipitation , *RAINFALL , *RISK assessment , *MARKOV processes - Abstract
Daily weather generators are used in many applications and risk analyses. The present paper explores the potential of neural network architectures to design daily weather generator models. Focusing this first paper on precipitation, we design a collection of neural networks (multi-layer perceptrons in the present case), which are trained so as to approximate the empirical cumulative distribution (CDF) function for the occurrence of wet and dry spells and for the precipitation amounts. This approach contributes to correct some of the biases of the usual two-step weather generator models. As compared to a rainfall occurrence Markov model, NNGEN-P represents fairly well the mean and standard deviation of the number of wet days per month, and it significantly improves the simulation of the longest dry and wet periods. Then, we compared NNGEN-P to three parametric distribution functions usually applied to fit rainfall cumulative distribution functions (Gamma, Weibull and double-exponential). A data set of 19 Argentine stations was used. Also, data corresponding to stations in the United States, in Europe and in the Tropics were included to confirm the results. One of the advantages of NNGEN-P is that it is non-parametric. Unlike other parametric function, which adapt to certain types of climate regimes, NNGEN-P is fully adaptive to the observed cumulative distribution functions, which, on some occasions, may present complex shapes. On-going works will soon produce an extended version of NNGEN to temperature and radiation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2007
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10. Projection of future climate change conditions using IPCC simulations, neural networks and Bayesian statistics. Part 2: Precipitation mean state and seasonal cycle in South America.
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Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, Martinez, Fernando, and Segura, Enrique
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CLIMATE change , *METEOROLOGICAL precipitation , *GREENHOUSE gases , *ARTIFICIAL neural networks , *BAYESIAN analysis - Abstract
Evaluating the response of climate to greenhouse gas forcing is a major objective of the climate community, and the use of large ensemble of simulations is considered as a significant step toward that goal. The present paper thus discusses a new methodology based on neural network to mix ensemble of climate model simulations. Our analysis consists of one simulation of seven Atmosphere–Ocean Global Climate Models, which participated in the IPCC Project and provided at least one simulation for the twentieth century (20c3m) and one simulation for each of three SRES scenarios: A2, A1B and B1. Our statistical method based on neural networks and Bayesian statistics computes a transfer function between models and observations. Such a transfer function was then used to project future conditions and to derive what we would call the optimal ensemble combination for twenty-first century climate change projections. Our approach is therefore based on one statement and one hypothesis. The statement is that an optimal ensemble projection should be built by giving larger weights to models, which have more skill in representing present climate conditions. The hypothesis is that our method based on neural network is actually weighting the models that way. While the statement is actually an open question, which answer may vary according to the region or climate signal under study, our results demonstrate that the neural network approach indeed allows to weighting models according to their skills. As such, our method is an improvement of existing Bayesian methods developed to mix ensembles of simulations. However, the general low skill of climate models in simulating precipitation mean climatology implies that the final projection maps (whatever the method used to compute them) may significantly change in the future as models improve. Therefore, the projection results for late twenty-first century conditions are presented as possible projections based on the “state-of-the-art” of present climate modeling. First, various criteria were computed making it possible to evaluate the models’ skills in simulating late twentieth century precipitation over continental areas as well as their divergence in projecting climate change conditions. Despite the relatively poor skill of most of the climate models in simulating present-day large scale precipitation patterns, we identified two types of models: the climate models with moderate-to-normal (i.e., close to observations) precipitation amplitudes over the Amazonian basin; and the climate models with a low precipitation in that region and too high a precipitation on the equatorial Pacific coast. Under SRES A2 greenhouse gas forcing, the neural network simulates an increase in precipitation over the La Plata basin coherent with the mean model ensemble projection. Over the Amazonian basin, a decrease in precipitation is projected. However, the models strongly diverge, and the neural network was found to give more weight to models, which better simulate present-day climate conditions. In the southern tip of the continent, the models poorly simulate present-day climate. However, they display a fairly good convergence when simulating climate change response with a weak increase south of 45°S and a decrease in Chile between 30 and 45°S. Other scenarios (A1B and B1) strongly resemble the SRES A2 trends but with weaker amplitudes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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11. Detecting decadal changes in ENSO using neural networks.
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Leloup, Julie, Lachkar, Zouhair, Boulanger, Jean-Philippe, and Thiria, Sylvie
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ARTIFICIAL neural networks ,CLIMATE change ,CLIMATOLOGY ,TRANSITION temperature ,PRECIPITATION anomalies ,EL Nino ,PACIFIC Ocean currents - Abstract
The present manuscript analyzes monthly equatorial Pacific indices by using a specific neural algorithm, the so-called “Self-Organizing Maps” (SOMs). The main result is a change found in the nature of the transitions between cold to warm and warm to cold extreme events from 1950 to present, around the late 1970s. SOM is an unsupervised clustering technique which allows one to reduce high-dimensional data space (in this case, three indices over 636 months) in terms of a smaller set of three-dimensional reference vectors (100) characterizing pertinent situations. These reference vectors, which are displayed on a two-dimension map, are closely related by a topological relationship leading us to discriminate La Niña conditions from the opposite El Niño conditions. In a second step, a Hierarchical Agglomerative Clustering (HAC) method is used to further group the reference vectors into a small number of clusters (12) whose spatial and temporal characteristics can be analyzed and interpreted in terms of physical parameters. Schematically, these 12 clusters can be divided into two “warm” clusters, six “neutral” or “transition” clusters and four “cold” clusters. In each particular group (warm, neutral, cold), the clusters mainly differ from each other by the amplitude of the anomalies, their spatial patterns and their temporal variability. Some clusters are found to be strongly linked to the boreal spring period, while others have barely any records during that season. Other clusters are associated with records mainly observed either prior to or after 1980. This suggests that the method is able to identify changes in the variability of the tropical Pacific basin observed on decadal time scales (1976 climate shift in our case). Each monthly record can be summarized by the cluster to which it belongs. The temporal evolution of this value during extreme ENSO events shows similar patterns (persistence in specific clusters and transition between groups of clusters) associated with comparable El Niño or La Niña events. The methodology described in the present study (SOM plus HAC) is suggested to be useful both for seasonal ENSO predictability and for the detection of decadal changes in ENSO behavior. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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