Scientist
Research, Earth System Assimilation, Infrared Radiance Observations
Summary:
Cristina joined ECMWF in January 2010 and works on activities related to the exploitation of infrared satellite observations for numerical weather prediction.
Professional interests:
- Assimilation of infrared satellite data
- Radiative transfer modelling
- Diagnostics to assess the impact of different types of satellite observations on the quality of forecasts
Career background:
Professional experience
- 2013 - present: Scientist, Infrared Radiance Observations Group, ECMWF, Reading (U.K.)
- 2010 - 2012: EUMETSAT Research Fellow, Satellite Section, ECMWF, Reading (U.K.)
- 2002 - 2003: Research assistant, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal (Canada)
- 1996 - 2001: Physics Teacher, Mircea Cristea Technical College, Brasov (Romania)
Education
- 2005 - 2009: Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal (Canada)
- 2002 - 2005: M.Sc., Atmospheric Sciences, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal (Canada)
- 1991 - 1996: B.Sc., Physics, University of Bucharest, Bucharest (Romania)
- 2024
- (April 2024) Methods for assessing the impact of current and future components of the global observing system, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 916. DOI: 10.21957/2f240fe55f
- (February 2024) SURFEM-ocean microwave surface emissivity evaluated, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 915. DOI: 10.21957/0af49d82e2
- 2020
- (July 2020) The ERA5 global reanalysis, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3803
- Sebastien Massart, Niels Bormann, Massimo Bonavita, Cristina Lupu (August 2020) Skin Temperature Analysis for the Assimilation of Clear-Sky Satellite Radiances, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 870. DOI: 10.21957/goe0ads8z
- 2018
- (December 2018) Satellite and In Situ Observations for Advancing Global Earth Surface Modelling: A Review, Remote Sensing n. 12. DOI: 10.3390%2Frs10122038
- (April 2018) CERA-SAT: A coupled satellite-era reanalysis, ECMWF Newsletter. DOI: 10.21957/sp619ds74g
- Saunders R., Hocking J., Turner E., Rayer P., Rundle D., Brunel P., Vidot J., Roquet P., Matricardi M., Geer A., Bormann N., Lupu C. (April 2018) An update on the RTTOV fast radiative transfer model (currently at version 12), Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-2717-2018
- 2017
- Eresmaa R., Letertre-Danczak J., Lupu C., Bormann N., McNally A.P. (April 2017) The assimilation of Cross-track Infrared Sounder radiances at ECMWF, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3171
- Geer A.J., Baordo F., Bormann N., Chambon P., English S.J., Kazumori M., Lawrence H., Lean P., Lonitza K., Lupu C. (April 2017) The growing impact of satellite observations sensitive to humidity, cloud and precipitation, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3172
- Niels Bormann, Cristina Lupu, Alan Geer, Heather Lawrence, P. Weston, Stephen English (April 2017) Assessment of the forecast impact of suface-sensitive microwave radiances over land and sea-ice, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 804. DOI: 10.21957/qyh34roht
- 2016
- Cristina Lupu, Alan Geer, Niels Bormann, Stephen English (April 2016) An evaluation of radiative transfer modelling errors in AMSU-A data, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 770. DOI: 10.21957/2z8x0imgl
- 2015
- Lupu C., Cardinali C., Mcnally A.P. (April 2015) Adjoint-based forecast sensitivity applied to observation-error variance tuning, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2599
- Cristina Lupu, Alan Geer (March 2015) Operational implementation of RTTOV-11 in the IFS, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 748. DOI: 10.21957/pg12f0wjj
- Cristina Lupu, Carla Cardinali, A. McNally (June 2015) Adjoint-based forecast sensitivity applied to observation error variances tuning, ECMWF Technical Memorandum n. 753. DOI: 10.21957/30j382il
- Cristina Lupu, Alan Geer, Niels Bormann (March 2015) Revision of the microwave coefficient files in the IFS, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 749. DOI: 10.21957/bvjbx3kf
- 2012
- Lupu C., Gauthier P., Laroche S. (April 2012) Assessment of the impact of observations on analyses derived from observing system experiments, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/MWR-D-10-05010.1
- 2011
- Lupu C., Gauthier P. (April 2011) Observability of flow-dependent structure functions for use in data assimilation, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3424.1
- Lupu C., Gauthier P., Laroche S.P. (April 2011) Evaluation of the impact of observations on analyses in 3D- and 4D-Var based on information content, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/2010MWR3404.1
Contact Details:
cristina.lupu
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