Present Positions:
Distinguished Research Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences,
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), since October 2003, ghil@atmos.ucla.edu, http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/tcd;
Distinguished Professor of Geosciences (since Sept. 2002, Emeritus since Sept.
2012), Ecole Normale Suprieure (ENS), ghil@lmd.ens.fr,
http://www.environnement.ens.fr/.
Professional preparation: B.Sc.
(Mech. Eng.) cum laude, August l966,
and M.Sc. (Mech. Eng.), June 1971, Technion–Israel Institute of
Technology, Haifa, Israel; M.S. (Math.), February l973, and Ph.D. (Math.), June
1975, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New
York.
Current Research Interests:
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Climate Dynamics, Dynamical and Complex
Systems Theory, Estimation Theory, Extreme Events and Prediction, Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics, Macroeconomics, Numerical and Statistical Methods, Remote
Sensing and Applications.
Appointments: 1. Head, Geosciences Department, ENS (July 2003–Dec.
2009); 2. Director, Environmental Research & Teaching Institute
(CERES-ERTI), ENS (November 2002–September 2010); 3. Director, Institute
of Geophysics & Planetary Physics, UCLA, July 1992–June 2003. 2.
Chairman, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, UCLA, Sept. 1988–June
1992. 4. Professor of Climate
Dynamics, July 1985–June 1994; Distinguished Professor, July
1994–June 2003. 5. Courant
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU, September 1971–May 1987,
Research Assistant (1971–1975) to Research Professor (1982–1987),
via intermediate appointments.
6. NASA Goddard Institute
for Space Studies, New York, August 1975–September 1976, NAS/NRC Research
Associate. 7. Israel Armed Forces, November
1967–August 1971, classified position. 8.
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 1966–1971,
Research Assistant to Instructor.
Other Professional Activities:
Advisor, Applied Mathematical Sciences
Series, Springer-Verlag, New York/Heidelberg/Berlin, 1981–97;
Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal Tech/NASA;
University of California (Systemwide) Committee on Research, Oakland,
1988–91; Chair, Scientific Advisory Council, Climate System Modeling
Program, NSF/UCAR, 1988–99; Climate Research Committee, National Research
Council (NRC), 1989–98; Visiting Committee, Goddard Laboratory for
Atmospheres; Board of Governors, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot,
Israel, 1995–2000.
Honors and Awards: A. Wegener Medal & Honorary
Member, European Geosciences Union (EGU), 2012; Honorary Member, Hungarian
Academy of Sciences (2010); P. D. Thompson Lecturer, National Center for
Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo., 2007; Lorenz Lecture, American
Geophysical Union, 2005; Foreign Member, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW),
2005; L. F. Richardson Medal, EGU, 2004; Highly Cited in the Geosciences (ISI
Web of Science, http://isihighlycited.com),
2004–present; G. Lematre Chair, Universit Catholique de Louvain,
Belgium, 2004; Honorary Member, Academy of Engineering Sciences, Romania
(AST-R), 2004; Associate (= Honorary Member), Royal Astronomical Society, 2002;
Foreign Member, Academia Europaea, 1998; 1997 Visiting Chair and Medal, Collge
de France, Paris; CNRS Chair and Medal, Acadmie des Sciences, Paris, 1996;
Condorcet Chair and Medal, Ecole Normale Suprieure, Paris, 1995; Fellow,
American Geophysical Union, 1995; NSF Special Creativity Awards,
1993–1995 and 1998–2000; Guggenheim Fellow, 1991-92; Fellow,
American Meteorological Society, 1988.
Five Most Relevant Publications (out
of a dozen books and over 275 refereed
articles and chapters in
books, selected exclusively from the last ten years; h-index = 47 in ISI WoS,
12 Nov. 2012):
1.
Chekroun, M.
D., D. Kondrashov, and M. Ghil, 2011: Predicting stochastic systems by noise
sampling, and application to the El Nio-Southern Oscillation, Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, doi:10.1073/pnas.1015753108.
2.
Chekroun,
M. D., E. Simonnet, and M. Ghil, 2011: Stochastic climate
dynamics: Random attractors and time-dependent invariant measures, Physica D, doi :10.1016/j.physd.2011.06.005.
3.
Ghil, M., P. Yiou, S. Hallegatte, B. D.
Malamud, P. Naveau, A. Soloviev, P.
Friederichs, V. Keilis-Borok, D. Kondrashov, et al., 2011: Extreme events: Dynamics, statistics and prediction, Nonlin.
Processes Geophys., 18, 295–350, doi:10.5194/npg-18-295-2011.
4.
Ghil, M., M. D. Chekroun, and E. Simonnet, 2008: Climate dynamics
and fluid mechanics: Natural variability and related uncertainties, Physica D, 237, 2111–2126, doi:10.1016/j.physd.2008.03.036
.
5.
Kravtsov, S., D. Kondrashov, and M. Ghil, 2009: Empirical model reduction and the modeling
hierarchy in climate dynamics, in Stochastic
Physics and Climate Modelling, Eds. T. N. Palmer and P. Williams, Cambridge
Univ. Press, pp. 35–72.
Five Other Significant
Publications:
1.
Ghil, M., R.
Benzi, and G. Parisi (Eds.), 1985: Turbulence
and Predictability in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Climate Dynamics,
North-Holland Publ. Co., Amsterdam/New York, 449 pp.
2.
Ghil,
M., and S. Childress, 1987: Topics in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics: Atmospheric Dynamics, Dynamo
Theory and Climate Dynamics, Springer-Verlag, New York/Berlin/Tokyo,
485 pp.
3.
Ghil, M. and
P. Malanotte-Rizzoli, 1991: Data assimilation in meteorology and oceanography, Adv. Geophys., 33, 141–266.
4.
Ghil, M., 2001: Hilbert problems for the geosciences in the 21st
century, Nonlin. Proc. Geophys., 8, 211–222.
5.
Ghil,
M., and A. W. Robertson, 2002:
"Waves" vs. "particles" in the atmosphere's phase space: A
pathway to long-range forecasting? Proc.
Natl. Acad. Sci., 99 (Suppl. 1), 2493–2500.
1. Chaired the Scientific
Advisory Council (SAC) of the Community
Climate System Modeling Program (CCSM; 1988–99) and member of the
CCSM Advisory Board (CAB; 1999–2006).
2.
Helped formulate the
scientific basis for U.S. climate-research programs on the decade-to-century
time scale (NRC, 1995: Natural
Climate Variability on Decade-to-Century Time Scales, Martinson, D., K.
Bryan, M. Ghil, M. Hall, T. R. Karl,
E. S. Sarachik, S. Sorooshian, and L. D. Talley, Eds., National Academy
Press,Washington, D.C., 630 pp.).
3.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the IMA Thematic Year on Mathematics in the
Geosciences 2001–02 and Co-Organizer of Workshops #1, #3 and #10.
4.
Initiated and led a transcontinental collaboration
to develop, maintain and continue improving the SSA-MTM Toolkit (Ghil M., M. R. Allen, M. D. Dettinger, K. Ide, D. Kondrashov, M. E.
Mann, A. W. Robertson, A. Saunders, Y. Tian, F. Varadi, and P. Yiou, 2002:
Advanced spectral methods for climatic time series, Rev. Geophys., 40(1),
pp. 3.1–3.41, 10.1029/2000GR000092; http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/tcd/ssa).
Ph.D. Advisor: Prof. Peter D. Lax (Abel Prize
Laureate 2005), Courant Inst. Math. Sciences, NYU.
Collaborators and Other Affiliations: Much
too numerous to list. Please see list of Former
Ph.D. students (and their students, to the fifth generation), and Former post-docs and junior visitors below
(and on the Math Genealogy Project web site), and other collaborators on the
web site of the TCD research group at UCLA, http://www.atmos.ucla.edu/tcd/MG/index.html.
Former Ph.D. students (selected): E. Klln (1980), S. E. Cohn (1982), D. P. Dee (1983), B. Legras (1983), A. P.
Mullhaupt (1984), H. Le Treut (1985), G. Wolansky (1985), M. Kimoto (1989), H.
Sakuma (1989), F. Varadi (1989), C. L. Keppenne (1989), S. L. Marcus (1990), R.
Todling (1992), Y. Sezginar Unal (1994), D. Paillard (1995), M. D. Dettinger
(1997), Y.-d. Tian (1999), S. Koo (2001), G. Bellon (2004), Y. Zhang (2006), M.
D. Chekroun (2009); B. Deremble (2010); total Ph.D. students = 32, total
descendants (cf. The Math Genealogy
Project, http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/)
³ 63.
Former post-docs and junior visitors (selected): K. P. Bube (1978–80), J. J.
Tribbia (1984), R. N. Miller (1985), G. Wolansky (1985), H. Itoh (1986), R.
Vautard (1987–89), D. Mller (1986–90), C. Penland (1988–89),
M. Kimoto (1990–91), F.-f. Jin (1988–93), K. Ide (1990–92),
R. Fu (1991–93), A. W. Robertson (1992–93), S. Speich
(1992–94), P. Yiou (1996-97), K.-I. Chang (1997–98), F. Lott
(1997–98), A. Wirth (1997–99), G. Loeper (1998), M. Boiseau
(1998–99), M. Karaca (1998–1999), S. Kravtsov (1998–2001),
C.-j. Sun (1998–2000), L. U. Sushama (1999–2000), Y. Tian
(1999–2000), D. Kondrashov (1999–2001), E. Simonnet (2001–02), G.
Bellon (2001–02), S. Conil (2003–05), S. Brachet (2005–2008),
B. Coluzzi (2005–2009), A. Groth (2007– ), total = 40.