BRETON Florentin

My main research interests are centered around climate change and territories, to understand the physical and social causes and effects of weather and climate phenomena, to find ways of reducing GHG emissions, and to prepare society for current and future changes.

• Climate model development and evaluation

• Urban representation and impact on weather conditions
• Bias quantification with weather measurements

• Study of past, present and future climates

• Spatiotemporal variability and local changes
• Cluster methods (weather types, local analogs)

• Development of urban approaches

• Energy consumption and thermal comfort
• Options of building design and renovation

• Development of social approaches

• Assessment and comparison of population perception and scientific knowledge of local climate change
• Exploration of territorial options (mitigation, adaptation) with inhabitants

• January 2022 - July 2023: CNRS Postdoctoral researcher at the “Laboratoire image, ville, environnement” (LIVE), Strasbourg University, France.
• January 2018 - June 2021: PhD thesis in climatology at the “Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement” (LSCE), Paris-Saclay University, France.
• May - October 2017: Graduate research assistant at “Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques“ (LOCEAN) and “Servicio de Hidrografía Naval“ (SHN), France and Argentina.
• April - July 2016: Graduate research assistant at “Laboratoire de météorologie dynamique” (LMD), France.
• June - August 2015: Graduate research assistant at “Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement” (LSCE), France.

• Member of the “PUNCHY“ project (2022-2023)
• Member of the “AMBRES“ project (2022-2023)
• Member of the “CoCliServ“ project (2018-2021)

Teaching

• 2023: Course on “Urban climate” (Bachelor level) at Strasbourg University, France.
• 2022: MOOC “Climate change, mitigation and adaptation” at Strasbourg University, France.
• 2018-2019: practical exercises of data analysis (Matlab) in Biology (Bachelor level) at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.

Academic (co-)supervision

• G. Ponche (Master 1, May-June 2022, with N. Blond).

Academic activities

• Member of the “Urban Climate” group (2022-2023)
• Member of the European Geophysical Union (2020, 2023)
• Member of the laboratory council at ”Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement” (2018-2021)

• 2021: PhD thesis in climatology, on the topic “European climate change: co-development of local climate services and clustering approaches”, under the supervision of Mathieu Vrac (LSCE) and Jean-Paul Vanderlinden (CEARC), at the “Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement” (LSCE), Paris-Saclay University, France.
• 2017: Master label in entrepreneurship and innovation, EIT Climate KIC, France.
• 2017: Master of Climate Science, Paris-Saclay University, France.
• 2015: Bachelor of Earth Sciences, Paris-Sud University, France.

• EGU2023 highlight of session on Urban Climate: “A modeling approach to address building energy consumption and thermal comfort under urban climate change”

Articles published

• Breton, F., Vrac, M., Yiou, P., Vaittinada Ayar, P., & Jézéquel, A. (2022). Seasonal circulation regimes in the North Atlantic: Towards a new seasonality. International Journal of Climatology, 42(11), 5848-5870. https://doi.org/10.1002/joc.7565
• Mathy, S., Labussière, O., Lavorel, S., Lebel, T., Schmitt, B. & collectif « Autour du 2 °C 2019 » (2021). Les enjeux de l’interdisciplinarité de la recherche et des parcours de formation sur le changement climatique : l’école d’été « Autour du 2° C ». https://doi.org/10.1051/nss/2021017
• da Cunha, C., Rocha, A. P. F., Cardon, M., Breton, F., Labeyrie, L., & Vanderlinden, J. P. (2020). Adaptation planning in France: inputs from narratives of change in support of a community-led foresight process. Climate Risk Management, 30, 100243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2020.100243

Articles submitted or in revision

• Sajjad, S. H., Blond, N., Breton, F., & Clappier, A. (2023). A modeling approach to study the effect of urban structure on minimum and maximum temperatures: application to Lahore city in Pakistan. Frontiers In Sustainable Cities. In revision.
• Article Tatiana

PhD thesis

Breton, F. (2021). European climate change: co-development of local climate services and clustering approaches (Doctoral dissertation, Université Paris-Saclay). https://theses.hal.science/tel-03512518/document

Conferences

• 2023: General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union. Breton, F.: Territorial climate change: understanding, mitigating and adapting.
• 2023: General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union. Blond, N., Breton, F., Maury-Micolier, A.: A modeling approach to address building energy consumption and thermal comfort under urban climate change.
• 2023: Workshop of the “Urban Climate“ group. Breton, F: Estimation de la consommation d’énergie et du confort thermique des bâtiments en ville avec le changement climatique.
• 2020: General Assembly of the European Geophysical Union. Breton, F., Vrac, M., Pascal, Y., Vaittinada Ayar, P., and Jézéquel, A.: Seasonal weather regimes in the North Atlantic region: towards new seasonality?, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-5449.

Outreach

• May 2023: invited conference on Climate Change at Ecole Sainte-Madeleine, Strasbourg, France.

• October 2022: invited conference on Climate Change at Collège des Missions Africaines, Haguenau, France.
• October 2022: invited conference on Climate Change at the “Jardin des Sciences”, Haguenau, France
• October 2022: member of the animation team at “Fête de la Science” in Strasbourg, France
• 2018-2020: member of the animation team at “Forum International de la Météo et du Climat” in Paris, France
• 2015-2021: member of the animation team at “Fête de la Science” in the Paris area, France