Patrice dumas (pertusus) home page

CIRAD researcher in the CIRED laboratory on adaptation to climate change in the context of uncertainty. Main themes are currently the agricultural and water sectors. Also working on the assessment of the economic consequences of climatic extreme events.

I collaborate with the CERES-ERTI (Environmental Research and Teaching Institute) at the ENS on data assimilation and business cycles. Also associated with the LMD laboratory on coupling methodologies in the TEF-ZOOM collaboration

My professional homepage is in CIRED.

Phd thesis

My Phd dissertation "L'évaluation des dommages du changement climatique en situation d'incertitude : l'apport de la modélisation des coûts de l'adaptation" (Contribution of adaptation costs representation to climate change damage assessment) is available in french, an english summary is also available.

Free software

A page with instructions on how to install MiniKer.

Links for free software project I contribute (or contributed) to or I am interested in:

Texinfo the GNU project documentation format, a descriptive language with a lightweight syntax similar with LaTeX. Numerous converters exist.
halevt Halevt (HAL events manager) is a daemon that executes arbitrary commands when a device with certain properties is added to the system and when device properties change. Halevt uses HAL to monitor the state of your system's hardware.
xdm-xsessionssome scripts to have the freedesktop sessions available in xdm.
fedora linux is a linux distribution developped by Red Hat with the help of the free software community. I left Fedora in 2008, but I still contribute to EPEL. My page on Fedora.
grads a visualization and data transformation tool.
OPeNDAP an Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol.

To use the yum repositories I did for Centos/SL 4:

rpm -ivh http://pertusus.free.fr/centos/4/i386/RPMS/secante-centos-2.0.0-3.noarch.rpm

To use the yum repositories I did for Centos/SL 5:

rpm -ivh http://pertusus.free.fr/centos/5/i386/RPMS/secante-centos-2.0.0-3.noarch.rpm

My geek code, prepared by the one I am r++ with ;-)

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