Dominique Bouniol

Dominique Bouniol received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Paris, Paris, France, in 2000, with a thesis on process-oriented use of observational data sets for understanding mesoscale storm deepening. After 18 months in the Radar Meteorology Group, University of Reading, Reading, England, she joined the CNRS as a Researcher in 2002, first in IPSL/CETP, Velizy, where she was involved in the implementation and exploitation of ground-based cloud radar in the framework of the Cloudnet project. She led the deployment of the airborne version of the cloud radar within the AMMA experiment in Niger and Senegal, in 2006. While she was with CNRS, she joined the CNRM (joint laboratory between CNRS and Météo-France), in 2006, where her research focuses on physical processes involved in the tropical mesoscale convective system life cycle and more generally on tropical cloud processes using both observations and modeling tools.