Université de Liège Faculté des Sciences Département de Géographie Laboratoire de Climatologie et Topoclimatologie
Quartier Village 4 Clos Mercator 3, B11 4000 Liège Belgique Phone: +32 (0)4 366-52-55
Fax: +32 (0)4 366-57-22
Dr. Xavier FETTWEIS
Dr. Xavier FETTWEIS
Research Associate F.R.S.-FNRS
Address:
University of Liège
Department of Geography
UR SPHERES
n°2, Allée du 6 Août,Bat. B11
4000 Liège, BELGIUM
Phone: +32 (0)4 3665468
Fax: +32 (0)4 3665722
Birth date and place: 10/10/1977, Belgium
web: http://climato.be/fettweis
Email: xavier.fettweis @ uliege.be
Twitter: https://twitter.com/xavierfettweis
Specialisation:
- Regional climate modelling: Simulation of the Greenland ice sheet climate and surface mass balance with the regional climate model MAR
- Recent changes (ex: Fettweis, 2007; 2017)
- Future projections (ex: Fettweis et al., 2013)
- Current climate: 1948-2014, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
- Contribution of the Greenland ice sheet to present and future sea level rise (ex: for the FP7 ICE2SEA project, ANR Greenland project and the Fifth Assessment Report of IPCC in 2013).
- Evaluation of the CMIP3/CMIP5 global models as forcing for the regional models (ex: Belleflamme et al., 2012)
- Outputs of the MAR model: MARv3.x , MAR outputs for ISMIP6
- Weather forecasting
- leader of the SMBMIP intercomparison exercice.
- Remote sensing: retrieving melt extent and albedo over Greenland from satellite data (ex: Fettweis et al., 2011)
- Atmospheric circulation pattern clustering: impact of the general circulation in the recent surface melt increase over the Greenland ice sheet with the help of an automatic circulation type classification. (ex: Fettweis et al., 2013)
- Climatological time series analysis with wavelets transform (ex: Nicolay et al., 2011)
Education:
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1996-2000 |
Master in Mathematics at the University of Liège (ULg, Belgium). |
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2000-2001 |
Master degree in physics sciences (climatology) at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL, Belgium). |
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2001-2006 |
PhD thesis in climatology at UCL.
Title: Reconstruction of the 1979-2005 Greenland ice sheet surface mass balance using satellite data and the regional climate model MAR. PDF Promoters: Jean-Pascal van Ypersele and Hubert Gallée |
Work experience:
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2001-2002 |
Assistant in physics at UCL. |
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2002-2004 |
Research Fellow from the F.R.S-FNRS at UCL. |
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2004-2007 |
Research engineer in climatology at UCL. |
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2007-2009 |
Assistant in climatology at ULg. |
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2009 |
Post-doctoral Researcher from the F.R.S-FNRS at ULg. |
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2010 |
Post-doctoral Researcher from the F.R.S-FNRS at the Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research Utrecht (IMAU, Prof M. van den Broeke) from the Utrecht University (The Netherlands). |
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2011-2013 |
Post-doctoral Researcher from the F.R.S-FNRS at ULg. |
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2013- ... |
Research Associate (fixed position) from the F.R.S-FNRS at ULg. |
Teaching experience:
Holder of two lectures in the master of Climatology from the University of Liège:
Awards:
- 2000: Prix Henri Garnir (ULg, Mathematics)
- 2013: Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists 2013 (European Geosciences Union)
The 2013 Arne Richter Award for Outstanding Young Scientists is awarded to Xavier Fettweis for fundamental contributions in understanding and quantifying the current and future surface mass balance of the Greenland ice sheet.
Scientific Media:
- 19/11/2007: Greenland: the surface of the ice sheet is melting faster than predicted (ULg, Reflexions)
- 08/11/2012: An uncertain future for the Greenland ice sheet (ULg, Reflexions)
- 10/04/2013: ice2sea scientist wins award for Greenland ice sheet work (ICE2SEA news)
- 10/04/2013: 2013 EGU Award Ceremony: movie [27-32min]
- 10/05/2013: Dr. Xavier Fettweis – pursing a passion for meteorology (ICE2SEA synthesis report)
- 05/06/2013: Geotalk (The official blog of EGU)
- 06/06/2013: Predicting the evolution of the polar ice caps (ULg)
- (no more updated)
Publications:
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