Laurent MENUT
CNRS Scientist - Research Director
[menut @ lmd.ipsl.fr]
Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
Ecole Polytechnique, 91128 Palaiseau, France [map]
[LMD webmail]

Air pollution modelling:
Dynamics and chemistry-transport modelling with WRF and CHIMERE

  1. Menut L., A.Cholakian, R.Pennel, G.Siour, S.Mailler, M.Valari, L.Lugon and Y.Meurdesoif, The CHIMERE chemistry-transport model v2023r1, .Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 3645-3665, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3645-2024, 2024.
  2. Menut, L., Bessagnet, B., Cholakian, A., Siour, G., Mailler, S., and Pennel, R.:What is the relative impact of nudging and online coupling on meteorological variables, pollutant concentrations and aerosol optical properties?, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 3645-3665, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-3645-2024, 2024.

Mineral dust

List of mineral dust articles, with PDFs and abstracts.
  1. Menut, L., Variability and combination as ensemble of mineral dust forecast during the 2021 CADDIWA experiment, Geosci. Model Dev., 16, 4265-4281, , 2023.
  2. Menut, L., Siour, G., Bessagnet, B., Couvidat, F., Journet, E., Balkanski, Y., and Desboeufs, K.: Modelling the mineralogical composition and solubility of mineral dust in the Mediterranean area with CHIMERE 2017r4, Geosci. Model Dev., 13, 2051-2071, , 2020

Fires

  1. Menut, L., Cholakian, A., Siour, G., Lapere, R., Pennel, R., Mailler, S., and Bessagnet, B.: Impact of Landes forest fires on air quality in France during the summer 2022, ACP, , 2023.
  2. Menut L., G.Siour, B.Bessagnet, A.Cholakian, R.Pennel and S.Mailler, Impact of wildfires on mineral dust emissions in Europe, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, 127, e2022JD037395.

Experimental forecast

Pollen

  1. Menut, L. and Khvorostyanov D. and Couvidat, F. and Meleux, F., Impact of ragweed pollen daily release intensity on long-range transport in western Europe, Atmosphere 2021, 12(6), 693; .

Research projects

  • Europe
  • NETDESA (2020-2022)
    Modeling air pollution in stable conditions
  • CHARMEX (2013-2016)
    Atmospheric Chemistry over the Mediteranean Basin
  • APPAD (2012-2015)
    Analysis and previsibility of atmospheric aerosols dense plumes
  • CHEDAR (2014-2018)
    The Laki eruption modeling with WRF and CHIMERE
  • South-America
  • CHIMSUR (2024-)
    Characterizing spatial-temporal evolution of atmospheric composition in the south cone with CHIMERE
  • ESCALAIR (2022-)
    Towards a new unstructured mesh model
  • PAPILA (2022-)
    Prediction of Air Pollution in Latin America and the Carribean
  • Africa
  • CADDIWA (2021-2024)
    Aerosol effects on tropical meteorology
  • DACCIWA (2014-2018)
    Clouds-aerosols interactions in western Africa
  • Asia
  • SEACAI (2025-)
    Integrated approaches to climate mitigation and air quality improvement in Southeast Asia

Model developments

  • CHIMERE is regional chemistry-transport model designed to calculate atmospheric concentrations of pollutants from urban to hemispheric scales
  • web site
  • Short Overview
  • Wikipedia page: [Fr], [Eng]
  • Emisurf
  • The anthropogenic emissions pre-processor
  • (the code is freely available on the CHIMERE web page)
  • emifiresCAMS
  • Biomass burning: CAMS preprocessor
  • [program]
    (the code is freely available on the CHIMERE web page)
  • Backplumes
  • Plot backtrajectories using WRF or CHIMERE models outputs.
  • [program]