Roger Durbe

Roger Durbe received the Diplôme de Technologie in physics from the Universitaire de Montepellier, Montepellier, France, in 1971. He is currently a Research Engineer with Météo-France, Centre National de Recherches Meteorologiques (CNRM), Toulouse, France. He is Head of the electronics laboratory of Météo-France/CNRM. Since 1987, he was involved in many field experiments making use of ST VHF radars, enabling the retrieval of wind speed profiles into the troposphere. He has contributed to the field campaigns FRONT 87, PYREX 90, MAP 99, ESCOMPTE 2001, and to the development of the RASS (Radio Acoustic Sound System), enabling the retrieval of air temperature profiles into the troposphere. His team at Météo-France/CNRM has put a lot of effort into the making of the fully automatic system of control, rotation, and acquisition of LEWIS, both from a technical and logistics point of view.