Department:	Climate Research & Seismology - Global Climate Division
Function:	Senior scientist
Address:	P.O. Box 201, 3730 AE De Bilt, The Netherlands
Telephone:	+31 30 2206761
Telefax:	+31 30 2202570
Email:
Web:	www.knmi.nl/~selten

• Cloud-climate interactions
  - Using the EC-Earth model to evaluate and understand cloud-climate interactions in the context of the EUCLIPSE project with Carlo Lacagnina
  
• Role of the Indian Ocean in the global climate system
  - Atmospheric teleconnections from the Indian Ocean are studied with EC-Earth in the context of the INATEX project with Iris Manola
  
• Climate modeling
  - Development of a new multi-model approach to the climate prediction problem in the context of the SUMO project with Paul Hiemstra
  - Evaluation and tuning of the EC-Earth model
  
• Climate extremes
  - Research into characteristics of extreme events (droughts, heatwaves, winds) and their relation to the large-scale circulation using large ensembles of climate model simulations in the context of the future weather project with Sarah Kew
• Climate statistics
  - Research into the skewness properties of the atmospheric circulation with Rubén Pasmanter

• Dynamical systems approach to atmospheric dynamics
  - Unstable Periodic Orbits and atmospheric regime transitions
  
• Climate change studies
  - Understanding of simulated changes in atmospheric circulation under global warming
  

• Parameter sensitivity studies
  - Developing techniques to find parameter perturbations that effectively change climate
  
• Development of the intermediate complexity climate model ECBILT to study climate variations:
  - North Atlantic Oscillation
  - Antarctic Circumpolar Wave
  - Solar induced climate variability
  - Millennial scale variability
  - Arctic climate variability
  - Predictability of climate change
• Construction of low-order models using Empirical Orthogonal Functions as a basis

Sources of the global 3 level, spectral quasi-geostrophic model of Franco Molteni. Sources of the global barotropic model of Frank Selten and Wim Verkley.

Brainstorm stochastic modelling of unresolved motions in atmospheric models, 2th of March 2007

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