SPECQ Damien

Researcher in subseasonal-to-seasonal climate predictability

Research group in large-scale meteorology and climate (GMGEC)
PASTEL team (Seasonal predictability and teleconnections)

CNRM, Université de Toulouse, Météo-France, CNRS
42, Av. G. Coriolis
31057 Toulouse Cedex 1, France

Tél. +33 (0) 5 61 07 93 34

E-mail : damien.specq@meteo.fr

 Research

  • Subseasonal (S2S) and seasonal forecasting with coupled climate models
  • Analysis of teleconnections and other sources of predictability, with specific interest on tropical climate variability and its impacts
  • Ensemble forecast correction, calibration and downscaling with statistical methodes
  • Forecast verification

 Curriculum

2017-2020

  • Phd thesis
    Supervised by Lauriane Batté and Michel Déqué. Defence date : 6 November 2020
    Title: Predictability of heavy precipitation at the subseasonal timescales in the southwest tropical Pacific
    Available here

2015-2016

  • Master’s degree "Water, Air, Pollution, Energy", Université Paris-Saclay and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
  • Exchange semester at Columbia University (New York), Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences
  • Research internship, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Nouméa (New Caledonia)
    Supervised by Christophe Menkes, Jérôme Lefèvre and Gilles Bellon
    Title: Diurnal cycle over New Caledonia in warm season (November-April) : influence of Madden-Julian oscillation and weather regimes. Available here.

2012-2015

  • Ecole polytechnique, master’s degree in engineering

 Publications

2022

  • Specq, D., L. Batté (2022). Do subseasonal forecasts take advantage of Madden-Julian oscillation windows of opportunity? Atmospheric Science Letters, https://doi.org/10.1002/asl.1078

2021

  • Ardilouze, C., D. Specq, L. Batté, C. Cassou (2021). Flow dependence of wintertime subseasonal prediction skill over Europe. Weather and Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.5194/wcd-2-1033-2021

2020

  • Specq, D., L. Batté (2020). Improving subseasonal precipitation forecasts through a statistical-dynamical approach: application to the southwest tropical Pacific. Climate Dynamics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00382-020-05355-7
  • Specq, D., L. Batté, M. Déqué, C. Ardilouze (2020). Multimodel forecasting of precipitation at subseasonal timescales over the southwest tropical Pacific. Earth and Space Science, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA001003
  • Specq, D., G. Bellon, A. Peltier, J. Lefèvre, C. Menkes (2020). Influence of subseasonal variability on the diurnal cycle of precipitation on a mountainous island: the case of New Caledonia. Monthly Weather Review, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-19-0177.1

 Oral presentations

2022

  • Temperature and precipitation scenarios over Europe in the Météo-France C3S seasonal forecasts (poster). Copernicus C3S General Assembly, The Hague (Netherlands), september 2022
  • An overview of subseasonal forecasting research at CNRM in the S2S project. PISSARO project workshop, Saint-Denis (Reunion Island), june 2022
  • Do subseasonal forecasts take advantage of windows of opportunity related to a precursor phenomenon?. EGU General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), may 2022
  • Contribution to the "Challenge to improve S2S predictions using Artificial Intelligence". WMO S2S Prediction Project Monthly Webinar, online, january 2022

2021

  • Do subseasonal forecasts take advantage of windows of opportunity for heavy precipitation?. WMO S2S Prediction Project Monthly Webinar on Predicting Extreme Weather, online, september 2021
  • A statistical-dynamical approach to improve subseasonal precipitation forecasts: application to the southwest tropical Pacific. EGU General Assembly, vEGU21: Gather Online, april 2021

2019

  • Subseasonal predictability of heavy precipitation in the southwest tropical Pacific in relation with the Madden-Julian Oscillation. International Meeting on Statistical Climatology, Toulouse (France), june 2019
  • Forecasting heavy precipitation at the subseasonal timescales: application to the southwest tropical Pacific. EGU General Assembly, Vienna (Austria), april 2019
  • Benefits of a multimodel approach for forecasting precipitation over New Caledonia. Workshop on predictability, dynamics and applications research using the TIGGE and S2S ensembles, ECMWF, Reading (United Kingdom), april 2019

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