Gianpaolo Balsamo

Principal Scientist

Research, Earth System Modelling, Coupled Processes

Summary:

I contribute to the development of ECMWF Integrated Forecasting Systems in the Research department. In particular, I coordinate the research on Coupled Processes within Earth System Modelling. Representing the Earth surface (soil, snow, vegetation, urban areas, water and ice contrasts) at kilometric scale has sizeable scientific and technological challenges and large scope to enhance Earth system monitoring and predictive skills.

Professional interests:

Numerical weather prediction and Earth system science
Surface-Atmosphere interactions and predictability
Earth Observations and use of machine learning
Climate-change and low-frequency variability

Career background:

Team-leader, Principal scientist, Earth System Modelling/Coupled Processes, ECMWF 2016-present
Senior scientist, Model Division/Physical Aspects, ECMWF 2009-2015
Scientist, Model Division/Physical Aspects, ECMWF 2006-2009
Visiting scientist at the Meteorological Service of Canada, ECCC 2004-2005
ALATNET (PhD/postdoc) researcher at Météo-France/GMAP, CNRM 2000-2003
Weather forecasting and land modelling at the ARPA 1999-2002

External recognitions

WCRP/GEWEX Global Energy and Water Cycle Exchanges, Science Steering Group member
WCRP/NTCP Grand Challenge on Near-Term Climate Prediction, Steering Group member
CGMS/IESWG International Earth Surface Working Group, co-chair
Copernicus CO2 European Commission CO2 Monitoring Task-Force member
EUMETSAT/LSA-SAF Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility, Steering Group member
EUMETNET/SRNWP Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction, Land expert team member

2025
- Gianpaolo Balsamo, Lars Peter Riishojgaard (January 2025) The Global Greenhouse Gas Watch. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-19389
- Stephan Thober, Juliane Mai, Cinzia Mazzetti, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Christel Prudhomme, Robert Schweppe, Matthias Kelbling, Sebastian Müller, Luis Samaniego (January 2025) Multi-basin calibration of the ECMWF land-surface model ECLand. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-13129
- Emanuele Di Carlo, Andrea Alessandri, Fransje van Oorschot, Annalisa Cherchi, Susanna Corti, Giampaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Timothy Stockdale (January 2025) Effects of the realistic vegetation cover representation on the large-scale circulation and predictions at decadal time scale.. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-1120
- Jasper Denissen, Gabriele Arduini, Ervin Zsoter, Cinzia Mazzetti, Christel Prudhomme, Shaun Harrigan, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Iria Ayan-Miguez, Peter Dueben, Irina Sandu, Benoit Vanniere (January 2025) Towards a global km-scale flood forecasting system. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15657
- Andrea Alessandri, Emanuele Di Carlo, Franco Catalano, Bart van den Hurk, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Tim Stockdale (January 2025) The role of realistic vegetation variability in climate predictability and prediction. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15829
- Marieke Wesselkamp, Matthew Chantry, Maria Kalweit, Ewan Pinnington, Margarita Choulga, Joschka Boedecker, Carsten Dormann, Florian Pappenberger, Gianpaolo Balsamo (January 2025) Partial land surface emulator forecasts ecosystem states at verified horizons. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20863
- Marieke Wesselkamp, Matthew Chantry, Ewan Pinnington, Margarita Choulga, Souhail Boussetta, Maria Kalweit, Joschka Bödecker, Carsten F. Dormann, Florian Pappenberger, Gianpaolo Balsamo (February 2025) Advances in land surface forecasting: a comparison of LSTM, gradient boosting, and feed-forward neural networks as prognostic state emulators in a case study with ecLand, Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-18-921-2025
2024
- Birgit Sützl, Annelize van Niekerk, Anton Beljaars, Pedro Maciel, Margarita Choulga, Martin Janoušek, Bennoît Vannière, Richard Forbes, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Irina Sandu, Peter Dueben (August 2024) Optimising orography for global high-resolution simulations. DOI: 10.5194/ems2024-259
- Cecile B. Menard, Sirpa Rasmus, Ioanna Merkouriadi, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Annett Bartsch, Chris Derksen, Florent Domine, Marie Dumont, Dorothee Ehrich, Richard Essery, Bruce C. Forbes, Gerhard Krinner, David Lawrence, Glen Liston, Heidrun Matthes, Nick Rutter, Melody Sandells, Martin Schneebeli, Sari Stark (January 2024) Exploring the decision-making process in model development: focus on the Arctic snowpack. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-2926
- Cecile B. Menard, Sirpa Rasmus, Ioanna Merkouriadi, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Annett Bartsch, Chris Derksen, Florent Domine, Marie Dumont, Dorothee Ehrich, Richard Essery, Bruce C. Forbes, Gerhard Krinner, David Lawrence, Glen Liston, Heidrun Matthes, Nick Rutter, Melody Sandells, Martin Schneebeli, Sari Stark (January 2024) Supplementary material to "Exploring the decision-making process in model development: focus on the Arctic snowpack". DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-2926-supplement
- (January 2024) Improved two-metre temperature forecasts in the 2024 upgrade, ECMWF Newsletter n. 178, pp. 24-29. DOI: 10.21957/bi49s20qa8
- L. Cavaleri, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, L. Bertotti, S. Davison, J. Edwards, T. Kanehama, N. Wedi (March 2024) ECMWF and UK Met Office Offshore Blowing Winds: Impact of Horizontal Resolution and Coastal Orography, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1029/2023JD039673
- Marieke Wesselkamp, Matthew Chantry, Ewan Pinnington, Margarita Choulga, Souhail Boussetta, Maria Kalweit, Joschka Bödecker, Carsten F. Dormann, Florian Pappenberger, Gianpaolo Balsamo (August 2024) Advances in Land Surface Model-based Forecasting: A Comparison of LSTM, Gradient Boosting, and Feedforward Neural Networks as Prognostic State Emulators in a Case Study with ECLand. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-2081
- Marieke Wesselkamp, Matthew Chantry, Ewan Pinnington, Margarita Choulga, Souhail Boussetta, Maria Kalweit, Joschka Bödecker, Carsten F. Dormann, Florian Pappenberger, Gianpaolo Balsamo (August 2024) Supplementary material to "Advances in Land Surface Model-based Forecasting: A Comparison of LSTM, Gradient Boosting, and Feedforward Neural Networks as Prognostic State Emulators in a Case Study with ECLand". DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-2081-supplement
- Cecile B. Menard, Sirpa Rasmus, Ioanna Merkouriadi, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Annett Bartsch, Chris Derksen, Florent Domine, Marie Dumont, Dorothee Ehrich, Richard Essery, Bruce C. Forbes, Gerhard Krinner, David Lawrence, Glen Liston, Heidrun Matthes, Nick Rutter, Melody Sandells, Martin Schneebeli, Sari Stark (October 2024) Exploring the decision-making process in model development: focus on the Arctic snowpack, The Cryosphere. DOI: 10.5194/tc-18-4671-2024
2023
- Melissa Ruiz‐Vásquez, Sungmin O, Gabriele Arduini, Souhail Boussetta, Alexander Brenning, Ana Bastos, Sujan Koirala, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Markus Reichstein, René Orth (November 2023) Impact of Updating Vegetation Information on Land Surface Model Performance, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1029/2023JD039076
- Anna Agustí-Panareda, Jérôme Barré, Sébastien Massart, Antje Inness, Ilse Aben, Melanie Ades, Bianca C. Baier, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Tobias Borsdorff, Nicolas Bousserez, Souhail Boussetta, Michael Buchwitz, Luca Cantarello, Cyril Crevoisier, Richard Engelen, Henk Eskes, Johannes Flemming, Sébastien Garrigues, Otto Hasekamp, Vincent Huijnen, Luke Jones, Zak Kipling, Bavo Langerock, Joe McNorton, Nicolas Meilhac, Stefan Noël, Mark Parrington, Vincent-Henri Peuch, Michel Ramonet, Miha Razinger, Maximilian Reuter, Roberto Ribas, Martin Suttie, Colm Sweeney, Jérôme Tarniewicz, Lianghai Wu (March 2023) Technical note: The CAMS greenhouse gas reanalysis from 2003 to 2020, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI: 10.5194/acp-23-3829-2023
- Fransje van Oorschot, Ruud van der Ent, Markus Hrachowitz, Emanuele di Carlo, Franco Catalano, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Andrea Alessandri (May 2023) Improving the temporal and spatial vegetation variability in land surface models based on satellite observations. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6528
- Gianpaolo Balsamo, Florence Rabier, Magdalena Balmaseda, Peter Bauer, Andy Brown, Peter Dueben, Steve English, Tony McNally, Florian Pappenberger, Irina Sandu, Jean-Noël Thepaut, Nils Wedi (May 2023) Recent progress and outlook for the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13110
- Tom Kimpson, Margarita Choulga, Matthew Chantry, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Peter Dueben, Tim Palmer (December 2023) Deep learning for quality control of surface physiographic fields using satellite Earth observations, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI: 10.5194/hess-27-4661-2023
- Melissa Ruiz-Vásquez, Sungmin O, Gabriele Arduini, Souhail Boussetta, Alexander Brenning, Ana Bastos, Sujan Koirala, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Markus Reichstein, Rene Orth (April 2023) Impact of updating vegetation information on land surface model performance. DOI: 10.22541/essoar.168182273.38487150/v1
- Jasper M.C. Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling, Sujan Koirala, Markus Reichstein, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Martha M. Vogel, Xin Yu, Rene Orth (September 2023) Intensified future heat extremes linked with increasing ecosystem water limitation. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-1925
- Jasper M.C. Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling, Sujan Koirala, Markus Reichstein, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Martha M. Vogel, Xin Yu, Rene Orth (September 2023) Supplementary material to "Intensified future heat extremes linked with increasing ecosystem water limitation". DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-1925-supplement
- Benoît Vannière, Irina Sandu, Estibaliz Gascon, Richard Forbes, Inna Polichtchouk, Annelize Van Niekerk, Birgit Suetzl, Michail Diamantakis, Peter Bechtold, Gianpaolo Balsamo (May 2023) Towards a Digital Twin of the Earth: ECMWF's effort to build a Kilometre-scale Earth System Model. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6365
- Emanuele Di Carlo, Andrea Alessandri, Fransje van Oorschot, Annalisa Cherchi, Susanna Corti, Giampaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Timothy Stockdale (May 2023) Effects of the realistic vegetation cover on predictions at seasonal and decadal time scales. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-12428
- Stephan Thober, Robert Schweppe, Matthias Kelbling, Sebastian Müller, Juliane Mai, Christel Prudhomme, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Luis Samaniego (May 2023) Multi-basin calibration of the ECMWF land-surface model ECLand. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9526
- Melissa Ruiz-Vásquez, Sungmin Oh, Alexander Brenning, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Gabriele Arduini, Markus Reichstein, René Orth (May 2023) Updating vegetation information in a land surface model. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-12430
- Margarita Choulga, Tom Kimpson, Matthew Chantry, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Peter Dueben, Tim Palmer (May 2023) Deep Learning for Verification of Earth's surfaces. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-8777
- Joaquin Munoz-Sabater, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Carlo Buontempo, Samantha Burgess, Hans Hersbach, John Hodkinson, Anna Mueller-Quintino, Raluca Radu, Iryna Rozum, Sebastien Villaume (May 2023) ERA5-Land: More than 7 decades of land surface consistency with timely updates. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9774
- Fransje van Oorschot, Ruud J. van der Ent, Markus Hrachowitz, Emanuele Di Carlo, Franco Catalano, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Andrea Alessandri (May 2023) Representing inter-annual land cover and vegetation variability based on satellite observations in the HTESSEL land surface model. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-803
- Fransje van Oorschot, Ruud J. van der Ent, Markus Hrachowitz, Emanuele Di Carlo, Franco Catalano, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Andrea Alessandri (May 2023) Supplementary material to "Representing inter-annual land cover and vegetation variability based on satellite observations in the HTESSEL land surface model". DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2023-803-supplement
- J. McNorton, A. Agustí‐Panareda, G. Arduini, G. Balsamo, N. Bousserez, S. Boussetta, M. Chericoni, M. Choulga, R. Engelen, M. Guevara (March 2023) An Urban Scheme for the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System: Global Forecasts and Residential CO2 Emissions, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2022MS003286
- Emanuele Di Carlo, Andrea Alessandri, Fransje van Oorschot, Annalisa Cherchi, Susanna Corti, Giampaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Timothy Stockdale (July 2023) Effects of the realistic vegetation cover on the large-scale circulation at seasonal and decadal time scales.. DOI: 10.5194/ems2023-559
- Fransje van Oorschot, Ruud J. van der Ent, Markus Hrachowitz, Emanuele Di Carlo, Franco Catalano, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Andrea Alessandri (November 2023) Interannual land cover and vegetation variability based on remote sensing data in the HTESSEL land surface model: implementation and effects on simulated water dynamics, Earth System Dynamics. DOI: 10.5194/esd-14-1239-2023
- Gregory Duveiller, Mark Pickering, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Luca Caporaso, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Alessandro Cescatti (December 2023) Getting the leaves right matters for estimating temperature extremes, Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-16-7357-2023
2022
- Joe McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Richard Engelen, Vincent Huijnen, Antje Inness, Zak Kipling, Mark Parrington, Roberto Ribas (January 2022) Quantification of methane emissions from hotspots and during COVID-19 using a global atmospheric inversion. DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-1056
- Margarita Choulga, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Joe McNorton (March 2022) Representing seasonal water in ECMWF ECLand system. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-2787
- Jasper Denissen, Adriaan J. Teuling, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Rene Orth (March 2022) Shift towards ecosystem water limitation exacerbates hot temperature extremes. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-5787
- Melissa Ruiz-Vásquez, Sungmin Oh, Alexander Brenning, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Ulrich Weber, Markus Reichstein, Randal Koster, René Orth (March 2022) Exploring the relationship between S2S temperature forecasting errors and Earth system variables. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-9889
- Andrea Alessandri, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Constantin Ardilouze (March 2022) Proposal for an international effort aimed at quantifying the impact of a realistic representation of vegetation/land cover on seasonal climate forecasts (GLACE-VEG). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-10473
- Tom Kimpson, Margarita Choulga, Matthew Chantry, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Peter Dueben, Tim Palmer (December 2022) Deep Learning for Verification of Earth-System Parametrisation of Water Bodies. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-1177
- Joe McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Luca Cantarello, Richard Engelen, Vincent Huijnen, Antje Inness, Zak Kipling, Mark Parrington, Roberto Ribas (May 2022) Quantification of methane emissions from hotspots and during COVID-19 using a global atmospheric inversion, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-5961-2022
- Melissa Ruiz-Vásquez, Sungmin O, Alexander Brenning, Randal D. Koster, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Ulrich Weber, Gabriele Arduini, Ana Bastos, Markus Reichstein, René Orth (April 2022) Exploring the relationship between temperature forecast errors and Earth system variables. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-183
- Melissa Ruiz-Vásquez, Sungmin O, Alexander Brenning, Randal D. Koster, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Ulrich Weber, Gabriele Arduini, Ana Bastos, Markus Reichstein, René Orth (October 2022) Exploring the relationship between temperature forecast errors and Earth system variables, Earth System Dynamics. DOI: 10.5194/esd-13-1451-2022
- Gregory Duveiller, Mark Pickering, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Luca Caporaso, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Alessandro Cescatti (November 2022) Getting the leaves right matters for estimating temperature extremes. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2022-216
- Anna Agustí-Panareda, Joe McNorton, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Bianca C. Baier, Nicolas Bousserez, Souhail Boussetta, Dominik Brunner, Frédéric Chevallier, Margarita Choulga, Michail Diamantakis, Richard Engelen, Johannes Flemming, Claire Granier, Marc Guevara, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Nellie Elguindi, Jean-Matthieu Haussaire, Martin Jung, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Rigel Kivi, Sébastien Massart, Dario Papale, Mark Parrington, Miha Razinger, Colm Sweeney, Alex Vermeulen, Sophia Walther (April 2022) Global nature run data with realistic high-resolution carbon weather for the year of the Paris Agreement, Scientific Data. DOI: 10.1038/s41597-022-01228-2
- Gabriele Arduini, Sarah Keeley, Jonathan J. Day, Irina Sandu, Lorenzo Zampieri, Gianpaolo Balsamo (July 2022) On the Importance of Representing Snow Over Sea‐Ice for Simulating the Arctic Boundary Layer, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems n. 7. DOI: 10.1029/2021MS002777
- Christel Prudhomme, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpalo Balsamo, Andy Brown, Souhail Boussetta, Hannah Cloke, patricia de Rosnay, Shaun Harrigan, Cinzia Mazzetti, Florian Pappenberger, Irina Sandu, Ervin zsoter (June 2022) EC-Land Hydro: the benefits of integrating hydrology in earth system modelling. DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-692
- Anna Agusti-Panareda, Jérôme Barré, Sébastien Massart, Antje Inness, Ilse Aben, Melanie Ades, Bianca C. Baier, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Tobias Borsdorff, Nicolas Bousserez, Souhail Boussetta, Michael Buchwitz, Luca Cantarello, Cyril Crevoisier, Richard Engelen, Henk Eskes, Johannes Flemming, Sébastien Garrigues, Otto Hasekamp, Vincent Huijnen, Luke Jones, Zak Kipling, Bavo Langerock, Joe McNorton, Nicolas Meilhac, Stefan Noel, Mark Parrington, Vincent-Henri Peuch, Michel Ramonet, Miha Ratzinger, Maximilian Reuter, Roberto Ribas, Martin Suttie, Colm Sweeney, Jérôme Tarniewicz, Lianghai Wu (July 2022) Technical note: The CAMS greenhouse gas reanalysis from 2003 to 2020. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-283
- Melissa Ruiz-Vásquez, Sungmin O, Alexander Brenning, Randal D. Koster, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Ulrich Weber, Gabriele Arduini, Ana Bastos, Markus Reichstein, René Orth (April 2022) Supplementary material to "Exploring the relationship between temperature forecast errors and Earth system variables". DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-183-supplement
- Joe McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Richard Engelen, Vincent Huijnen, Antje Inness, Zak Kipling, Mark Parrington, Roberto Ribas (January 2022) Supplementary material to "Quantification of methane emissions from hotspots and during COVID-19 using a global atmospheric inversion". DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-1056-supplement
2021
- Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta (March 2021) ECLand: an ECMWF land surface modelling platform. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-16240
- Paul A. Dirmeyer, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Eleanor M. Blyth, Ross Morrison, Hollie M. Cooper (June 2021) Land‐Atmosphere Interactions Exacerbated the Drought and Heatwave Over Northern Europe During Summer 2018, AGU Advances n. 2. DOI: 10.1029/2020AV000283
- Margarita Choulga, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Ingrid Super, Efisio Solazzo, Anna Agusti-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Nicolas Bousserez, Monica Crippa, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Richard Engelen, Diego Guizzardi, Jeroen Kuenen, Joe McNorton, Gabriel Oreggioni, Antoon Visschedijk (November 2021) Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as a prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation, Earth System Science Data. DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-5311-2021
- J. R. McNorton, G. Arduini, N. Bousserez, A. Agustí‐Panareda, G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, M. Choulga, I. Hadade, R. J. Hogan (June 2021) An Urban Scheme for the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System: Single‐Column and Global Offline Application, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2020MS002375
- Hylke E. Beck, Ming Pan, Diego G. Miralles, Rolf H. Reichle, Wouter A. Dorigo, Sebastian Hahn, Justin Sheffield, Lanka Karthikeyan, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Robert M. Parinussa, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Noemi Vergopolan, Eric F. Wood (January 2021) Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. DOI: 10.5194/hess-25-17-2021
- Melissa Ruiz, Sungmin Oh, Rene Orth, Gianpaolo Balsamo (March 2021) Exploring the potential of vegetation information for improving weather forecast performance. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-3105
- Joe McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Gabriele Arduini, Anna Agusti-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Margarita Choulga, Ioan Hadade, Robin Hogan (March 2021) Global NWP Modeling of urban environments at ~1km resolution. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-7542
- Souhail Boussetta, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Emanuel Dutra, Anna Agusti-Panareda, Ervin Zoster, David Stevens (March 2021) What’s the impact of improved soil representations in the ECMWF land surface model and how does it affect the extremes?. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9740
- Andrea Alessandri, Franco Catalano, Matteo De Felice, Bart van den Hurk, Gianpaolo Balsamo (March 2021) Varying Snow and Vegetation Signatures of Surface Albedo Feedback on the Northern Hemisphere Land Warming. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-13456
- Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Gabriele Arduini, Emanuel Dutra, Joe McNorton, Margarita Choulga, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Anton Beljaars, Nils Wedi, Joaquin Munõz-Sabater, Patricia de Rosnay, Irina Sandu, Ioan Hadade, Glenn Carver, Cinzia Mazzetti, Christel Prudhomme, Dai Yamazaki, Ervin Zsoter (April 2021) ECLand: The ECMWF Land Surface Modelling System. DOI: 10.20944/preprints202104.0486.v1
- Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Gabriele Arduini, Emanuel Dutra, Joe McNorton, Margarita Choulga, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Anton Beljaars, Nils Wedi, Joaquín Munõz-Sabater, Patricia de Rosnay, Irina Sandu, Ioan Hadade, Glenn Carver, Cinzia Mazzetti, Christel Prudhomme, Dai Yamazaki, Ervin Zsoter (June 2021) ECLand: The ECMWF Land Surface Modelling System, Atmosphere n. 6, pp. 723. DOI: 10.3390/atmos12060723
- Miguel Nogueira, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Clément Albergel, Isabel F. Trigo, Frederico Johannsen, Diego G. Miralles, Emanuel Dutra (August 2021) Upgrading Land‐Cover and Vegetation Seasonality in the ECMWF Coupled System: Verification With FLUXNET Sites, METEOSAT Satellite Land Surface Temperatures, and ERA5 Atmospheric Reanalysis, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres n. 15. DOI: 10.1029/2020JD034163
- irina sandu, Gabriele Arduini, Jonathan Day, Linus Magnusson, Heather Lawrence, Niels Bormann, Peter Bauer, Sarah Keeley, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Thomas Haiden (July 2021) How APPLICATE contributed to ECMWF core activities, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 168, pp. 24-31. DOI: 10.21957/ir5fk44das
- Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater, Emanuel Dutra, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Clément Albergel, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Margarita Choulga, Shaun Harrigan, Hans Hersbach, Brecht Martens, Diego G. Miralles, María Piles, Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández, Ervin Zsoter, Carlo Buontempo, Jean-Noël Thépaut (September 2021) ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications, Earth System Science Data. DOI: 10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021
- Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater, Emanuel Dutra, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Clément Albergel, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Margarita Choulga, Shaun Harrigan, Hans Hersbach, Brecht Martens, Diego G. Miralles, María Piles, Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández, Ervin Zsoter, Carlo Buontempo, Jean-Noël Thépaut (March 2021) ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications. DOI: 10.5194/essd-2021-82
- Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater, Emanuel Dutra, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Clément Albergel, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Margarita Choulga, Shaun Harrigan, Hans Hersbach, Brecht Martens, Diego G. Miralles, María Piles, Nemesio J. Rodríguez-Fernández, Ervin Zsoter, Carlo Buontempo, Jean-Noël Thépaut (March 2021) Supplementary material to "ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications". DOI: 10.5194/essd-2021-82-supplement
- Jérôme Barré, Ilse Aben, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Nicolas Bousserez, Peter Dueben, Richard Engelen, Antje Inness, Alba Lorente, Joe McNorton, Vincent-Henri Peuch, Gabor Radnoti, Roberto Ribas (April 2021) Systematic detection of local CH4 anomalies by combining satellite measurements with high-resolution forecasts, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI: 10.5194/acp-21-5117-2021
2020
- Jerome Barre, Ilse Aben, Melanie Ades, Anna Agusti-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Nicolas Bousserez, Margarita Choulga, Richard Engelen, Johannes Flemming, Antje Inness, Zak Kipling, Jochen Landgraf, Alba Lorente-Delgado, Sebastien Massart, Joe McNorton, Mark Parrington, Vincent-Henri Peuch (March 2020) Atmospheric methane monitoring and analysis using tropOMI retrievals at ECMWF.. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10480
- Margarita Choulga, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Joe McNorton, Efisio Solazzo, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agusti-Panareda (March 2020) Anthropogenic CO2 emission uncertainties. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10560
- Margarita Choulga, Souhail Boussetta, Ekaterina Kourzeneva, Gianpaolo Balsamo (March 2020) Update of lake cover for NWP modelling. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10668
- Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Emanuel Arduini, Miguel Nogueira, Gabriele Arduini, Margarita Choulga, Nils Wedi, Joaquin Munoz Sabater (March 2020) Sensitivity of the ECMWF Land surface model to vegetation and LU/LC maps. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-22238
- Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Emanuel Dutra, Jonathan J. Day, Irina Sandu, Souhail Boussetta, Thomas Haiden (March 2020) Impact of a multi-layer snow scheme on near-surface weather forecasts. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-22247
- J. Vilà‐Guerau de Arellano, X. Wang, X. Pedruzo‐Bagazgoitia, M. Sikma, A. Agustí‐Panareda, S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, L. A. T. Machado, T. Biscaro, P. Gentine, S. T. Martin, J. D. Fuentes, T. Gerken (July 2020) Interactions Between the Amazonian Rainforest and Cumuli Clouds: A Large‐Eddy Simulation, High‐Resolution ECMWF, and Observational Intercomparison Study, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2019MS001828
- Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Bertrand Bonan, Emanuel Dutra, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Simon Munier, Clara Draper, Patricia de Rosnay, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Gianpaolo Balsamo, David Fairbairn, Catherine Meurey, Jean-Christophe Calvet (September 2020) Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences n. 9, pp. 4291-4316. DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-4291-2020
- Margarita Choulga, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Ingrid Super, Anna Agusti-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Nicolas Bousserez, Monica Crippa, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Richard Engelen, Diego Guizzardi, Jeroen Kuenen, Joe McNorton, Gabriel Oreggioni, Efisio Solazzo, Antoon Visschedijk (April 2020) Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation. DOI: 10.5194/essd-2020-68
- Margarita Choulga, Greet Janssens-Maenhout, Ingrid Super, Anna Agusti-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Nicolas Bousserez, Monica Crippa, Hugo Denier van der Gon, Richard Engelen, Diego Guizzardi, Jeroen Kuenen, Joe McNorton, Gabriel Oreggioni, Efisio Solazzo, Antoon Visschedijk (April 2020) Supplementary material to "Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation". DOI: 10.5194/essd-2020-68-supplement
- Emanuel Dutra, Joaquín Muñoz‐Sabater, Souhail Boussetta, Takuya Komori, Shoji Hirahara, Gianpaolo Balsamo (May 2020) Environmental Lapse Rate for High‐Resolution Land Surface Downscaling: An Application to ERA5, Earth and Space Science. DOI: 10.1029/2019EA000984
- Joe McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Margarita Choulga, Andrew Dawson, Richard Engelen, Zak Kiping, Simon Lang (January 2020) Representing Model Uncertainty for Global Atmospheric CO2 Flux Inversions Using ECMWF-IFS-46R1. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2019-314
- Stephan Thober, Matthias Kelbling, Florian Pappenberger, Christel Prudhomme, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Robert Schweppe, Sabine Attinger, Luis Samaniego (March 2020) Improvement of the simulation of the water and energy cycle using Multiscale Parameter Regionalization (MPR). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-11596
- Nicolas Bousserez, Joe McNorton, Melanie Ades, Anna Agusti-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Margarita Choulga, Richard Engelen, Johannes Flemming, Antje Innes, Zak Kipling, Sebastien Massart, Mark Parrington, Vincent-Henri Peuch, Jerome Barre (March 2020) Towards an European operational monitoring capacity for CO2 emissions: the CO2 Human Emission project at ECMWF. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-18741
- Jonathan Day, Gabriele Arduini, Irina Sandu, Linus Magnusson, Anton Beljaars, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Mark Rodwell, David Richardson (May 2020) Measuring the impact of a new snow model using surface energy budget process relationships. DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10502951.1
- Joe R. McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Margarita Choulga, Andrew Dawson, Richard Engelen, Zak Kipling, Simon Lang (May 2020) Representing model uncertainty for global atmospheric CO2 flux inversions using ECMWF-IFS-46R1, Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-2297-2020
- Paul A Dirmeyer, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Eleanor Blyth, Ross Morrison, Hollie Cooper (June 2020) Land-Atmosphere Interactions Exacerbated the Drought and Heatwave over Northern Europe during Summer 2018. DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10503148.1
- Silvia Terzago, Valentina Andreoli, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Lorenzo Campo, Claudio Cassardo, Edoardo Cremonese, Daniele Dolia, Simone Gabellani, Jost von Hardenberg, Umberto Morra di Cella, Elisa Palazzi, Gaia Piazzi, Paolo Pogliotti, Antonello Provenzale (August 2020) Sensitivity of snow models to the accuracy of meteorological forcings in mountain environments, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences n. 8, pp. 4061-4090. DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-4061-2020
- Jonathan J. Day, Gabriele Arduini, Irina Sandu, Linus Magnusson, Anton Beljaars, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Mark Rodwell, David Richardson (December 2020) Measuring the Impact of a New Snow Model Using Surface Energy Budget Process Relationships, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2020MS002144
- David Stevens, Pedro M. A. Miranda, René Orth, Souhail Boussetta, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Emanuel Dutra (December 2020) Sensitivity of Surface Fluxes in the ECMWF Land Surface Model to the Remotely Sensed Leaf Area Index and Root Distribution: Evaluation with Tower Flux Data, Atmosphere n. 12, pp. 1362. DOI: 10.3390/atmos11121362
- irina sandu, Thomas Haiden, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Polly Schmederer, Gabriele Arduini, Jonathan Day, Anton Beljaars, Zied Ben Bouallègue, Souhail Boussetta, Martin Leutbecher, Linus Magnusson, Patricia de Rosnay (November 2020) Addressing near-surface forecast biases: outcomes of the ECMWF project 'Understanding uncertainties in surface atmosphere exchange' (USURF), ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 875. DOI: 10.21957/wxjwsojvf
- Hylke E. Beck, Ming Pan, Diego G. Miralles, Rolf H. Reichle, Wouter A. Dorigo, Sebastian Hahn, Justin Sheffield, Lanka Karthikeyan, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Robert M. Parinussa, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Noemi Vergopolan, Eric F. Wood (May 2020) Supplementary material to "Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors". DOI: 10.5194/hess-2020-184-supplement
- Renato Benintendi, Elena Merino Gòmez, Gianluigi De Mare, Antonio Nesticò, Gianpaolo Balsamo (May 2020) Energy, environment and sustainable development of the belt and road initiative: The Chinese scenario and Western contributions, Sustainable Futures. DOI: 10.1016/j.sftr.2020.100009
- Jérôme Barré, Ilse Aben, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Nicolas Bousserez, Peter Dueben, Richard Engelen, Antje Inness, Alba Lorente, Joe McNorton, Vincent-Henri Peuch, Gabor Radnoti, Roberto Ribas (September 2020) Systematic detection of local CH4 emissions anomalies combining satellite measurements and high-resolution forecasts. DOI: 10.5194/acp-2020-550
- Hylke E. Beck, Ming Pan, Diego G. Miralles, Rolf H. Reichle, Wouter A. Dorigo, Sebastian Hahn, Justin Sheffield, Lanka Karthikeyan, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Robert M. Parinussa, Albert I. J. M. van Dijk, Jinyang Du, John S. Kimball, Noemi Vergopolan, Eric F. Wood (May 2020) Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors. DOI: 10.5194/hess-2020-184
- Joe McNorton, Nicolas Bousserez, Anna Agustí-Panareda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Margarita Choulga, Andrew Dawson, Richard Engelen, Zak Kiping, Simon Lang (January 2020) Supplementary material to "Representing Model Uncertainty for Global Atmospheric CO2 Flux Inversions Using ECMWF-IFS-46R1". DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2019-314-supplement
2019
- Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Emanuel Dutra, Jonathan J. Day, Irina Sandu, Souhail Boussetta, Thomas Haiden (December 2019) Impact of a Multi‐Layer Snow Scheme on Near‐Surface Weather Forecasts, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2019MS001725
- Margarita Choulga, Ekaterina Kourzeneva, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Souhail Boussetta, Nils Wedi (October 2019) Upgraded global mapping information for earth system modelling: an application to surface water depth at the ECMWF, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences n. 10, pp. 4051-4076. DOI: 10.5194/hess-23-4051-2019
- Frederic Vitart, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Laura Ferranti, Angela Benedetti, Beena Balan Sarojini, Steffen Tietsche, Junchen Yao, Martin Janousek, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Martin Leutbecher, Peter Bechtold, Inna Polichtchouk, David Richardson, Timothy Stockdale, Chris Roberts (November 2019) Extended-range prediction, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 854. DOI: 10.21957/pdivp3t9m
- Frederic Vitart, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Jean Bidlot, Simon Lang, Ivan Tsonevsky, David Richardson, Magdalena A. Balmaseda (November 2019) Use of ERA5 reanalysis to initialise re‑forecasts proves beneficial, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 161, pp. 26-31. DOI: 10.21957/g71fv083lm
- Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Bertrand Bonan, Emanuel Dutra, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Simon Munier, Clara Draper, Patricia de Rosnay, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Gianpaolo Balsamo, David Fairbairn, Catherine Meurey, Jean-Christophe Calvet (October 2019) Supplementary material to "Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces". DOI: 10.5194/hess-2019-534-supplement
- Silvia Terzago, Valentina Andreoli, Gabriele Arduini, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Lorenzo Campo, Claudio Cassardo, Edoardo Cremonese, Daniele Dolia, Simone Gabellani, Jost von Hardenberg, Umberto Morra di Cella, Elisa Palazzi, Gaia Piazzi, Paolo Pogliotti, Antonello Provenzale (November 2019) Sensitivity of snow models to the accuracy of meteorological forcings in mountain environment. DOI: 10.5194/hess-2019-511
- Clément Albergel, Yongjun Zheng, Bertrand Bonan, Emanuel Dutra, Nemesio Rodríguez-Fernández, Simon Munier, Clara Draper, Patricia de Rosnay, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Gianpaolo Balsamo, David Fairbairn, Catherine Meurey, Jean-Christophe Calvet (October 2019) Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces. DOI: 10.5194/hess-2019-534