Arnaud MONGES

amonges2000@gmail.com

last update: January 2011

 

Education

08/01-05/03             Master of Science in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta USA

Area of specialization: Dynamics of the atmosphere. GPA: 3.6/4.0

Classes of Synoptic meteorology, Physical meteorology, Atmospheric chemistry. Experience in reading meteorological maps, drawing fronts

 

09/97-06/01             BS. in Hydraulics and Fluid Mechanics

ENSEEIHT, Toulouse FRANCE (with two years of preparatory classes)

Classes of Compressible flow, elasticity, Thermodynamics, Signal processing, Wave propagation, Mathematics and Statistics. (see a project in French)

 

Experiences

2005-2010                Weather Engineer for Team Alinghi, America’s Cup Defender

§        Set up and deploy weather network

§        Statistical data analysis

§        Forecasting for professional sailors

§        Contribute to design weather stations

§        Development of Graphical User Interface to do short term wind prediction

 

2008                          Weather Engineer for the Swiss Sailing Team, Olympic Games

§        Forecasting

§        Software development to access buoy data provided by the organization

 

2004-2005                Hydraulic Engineer for Ginger Group

§        Design raining water infrastructure for roads

§        Chief supervisor for the construction of water tanks to collect raining water

 

2001-2003                Graduate Research Associate, Georgia Institute of Technology

§        Conducted research on the Madden Julian Oscillation and its impact on intraseaonal variation of precipitation over South America by doing statistical analysis and numerical modeling (see thesis and a poster presented at AGU)

§        Presented a poster at AGU (American Geophysical Union) meeting which is the most famous in the world for meteorology

 

09/02-12/02              Scientist assistant for the large scale Biosphere-Atmosphere (LBA) field experiment

                                   in Amazon, Brazil in collaboration with the University of Sao Paulo (see presentation)

§        Measured precipitation and wind with Doppler radars during day/night shifts

§        Radio sounding in deforested areas and tropical forest

 

Skills

Languages:                         Trilingual English, French, Spanish. Basic knowledge in Chinese

Computer science:             Matlab, Linux, Visual Basic, Grads, numerical models (like Regional Climate, MM5) using super calculators SGI

 

Personal Information

Nationality: French, Birth date:  04/17/1979