[GO-ESSP] Welcome Christiane

[Don Middleton]

I just added Christiane Textor from Service d'Aéronomie in Paris to  
our mailing list. She sent a brief note about herself, which I've  
included below - note the CF work! Welcome Christiane.

don

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I have been contributing to different model intercomparisons of  
chemistry and aerosol models in the frameworks of AEROCOM, GEMS, and  
HTAP, and I have lead the definition of names for aerosols and  
chemical for the CF standard name convention. I have strongly  
encouraged these communities to use the netDCF/CF data format, and  
this starts to work.

http://dataipsl.ipsl.jussieu.fr/AEROCOM/
http://aqm.jrc.it/HTAP/
http://www.ecmwf.int/research/EU_projects/GEMS/index.jsp
http://wiki.esipfed.org/index.php/Air_Quality/ 
Chemistry_Naming_Conventions

Recently I started to work as the scientific project manager of  
GEOMON which has the objective to create a European data base  
containing data of the atmospheric composition. http:// 
geomon.ipsl.jussieu.fr/
In this community, 'nobody' knows about CF, they use mainly different  
types of ASCII formats (NARSTO, NASA AMES, no specific format...).

I consider the data format issue very important to increase the  
efficiency of research in our field, this is why I contribute,  
although I sometimes find it quite technical.

Last week I met Jean-Yves Peterschmitt who has told me about GO-ESSP,  
which seems to be a useful initiative for me to connect to. This is  
why I have subscribed. If you have further questions, do not hesitate  
to contact me.

Best regards,
Christiane