Jasper Denissen

Scientist (High Resolution Earth-System Modelling)
Research, Earth System Modelling, Coupled Processes

Summary:

Jasper joined ECMWF in 2022 as part of the Destination Earth Project. His background is in land-atmosphere interactions and his work at the ECMWF focusses on improving land initial conditions for high-resolution weather simulations and developing land-atmosphere coupling-strength diagnostics.

 

Professional interests:
  • Land surface modelling
  • Developing diagnostics for validation and statistical analysis of high-resolution model output
  • Land-atmosphere interactions, water vs. energy limitation, terrestrial evaporation, soil moisture. ​
Career background:

Feb 2018 - Jun 2022: PhD researcher, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Thesis: "Mapping terrestrial evaporation regimes - A data-driven analysis of land-atmosphere interactions under climate change". Advisors: René Orth and Adriaan J. Teuling

Jan 2015 - Aug 2017: MSc Earth & Environment, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Thesis: "The effect of cloud-core area fraction on convective transport by cumulus convection in EMAC". Supervisors: Huug Ouwersloot and Maarten Krol

Sep 2010 - Dec 2014: BSc Soil, Water, Atmosphere, Wageningen University, Wageningen, Netherlands
Thesis: "The role of soil moisture limits and advection in the field-site micrometeorology during the Po-Valley PEGASOS field campaign". Supervisor: Laurens Ganzeveld

Professional experience

  • Since Jul 2022: Scientist, Research Department, ECMWF
  • Oct 2019 - Jan 2020: Visiting PhD researcher, Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
  • Mar 2017 - Aug 2017: MSc internship "Developing a tool for lightning forecasting based on ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System (IFS) data", Joint Meteorological Group, Royal Netherlands Air Force, Woensdrecht, Netherlands
  • Sep 2016 - Feb 2017: MSc thesis, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany