| Research, Projects and Operations | 
                        
                        | Operational mode:  Assimilation
                                     of soil moisture and surface variables in ARPEGE (NWP) | 
                        
                        | Climate research mode: ARPEGE | 
                        
                        | CO2 model coupling with an Interacive Vegetation option: 
                                     ISBA-Ags | 
                        
                        | Hydrological studies: ISBA-MODCOU | 
                        
                        | Participation in the Project for the Intercomparison of Land-Atmosphere Transfer 
                                     Schemes (PILPS) Project | 
                        
                        | Town Energy Budget model (TEB) Land Surface Scheme | 
                        
                        | MUREX Case study for SVAT model validation | 
                        
                        | Soil Moisture Assimilation: SMOS | 
                        
                        | Land Cover parameters from satellite | 
                        
                        | Coupling with the Operational Avalanche Prediction Model CROCUS: CIRSE (CROCUS-ISBA) | 
                        
                        | 14-year coupled ISBA-MODCOU Simulation for the Rhone basin | 
                        
                        | Participation in 
                                     PILPS Phase2e: Arctic Model Intercomparison. The main goal
                                     of this project is to explore how Land Surface Schemes are able to simulate the hydroligical
                                     cycle of a high-latitude river basin. | 
                        
                        | Participation in Snowmip (Snow Model Intercomparison Project)
                                     The goal of this project is to explore how snow schemes of various levels
                                     of complexity are able to simulate snowpack evolution at four contrasting
	                             local-scale sites.
                                 GICC-Rhone Project: Impact of Climate Change 
                                     on the Rhone basin Hydrological Cycle | 
                        
                        | Organization of and participation in 
                                the Rhone-AGG (Rhone AGGregation) Project.
                                The main objective
                                of exploring how Land Surface Scheme simulations are impacted when moving from a very fine
	                        spatial scale (8 km) up to that of a Global Climate Model (1 degree). | 
                        
                        | Participation in the MOPEX project | 
                        
                        | Operational Application of SAFRAN-ISBA-Modcou (SIM) | 
                        
                        | Meteo-France is using ISBA within the
                                     European Land Data Assimilation System 
                                     (ELDAS)
                                     to predict Floods and Droughts | 
                        
                        | Participation in the Global Soil Wetness (GSWP) Project Phase 2: Atmospheric forcing will be used to
                                     drive ISBA at a global scale for 10 years. | 
                        
                        | Participation in PILPS-C1: Intercomparison of Land Surface Schemes which
                                     simulate both the water cycle and CO2
                                     (a document describing the experiment can be obtained from the
                                     GLASS
                                      site) |