Magdalena is an expert on predictability, initialized seamless predictions and ocean/coupled reanalyses.
- Seamless probabilistic forecasting systems and forecasting strategies: initialization, ensemble generation, model evaluation and skill assessment.
- Air-Sea interaction
- Ocean and coupled reanalyses: methodology and evaluation.
- Climate dynamics: process studies and prediction
- Evaluation of the Ocean Observing System.
2016-present: Principal Scientist, Head of Earth System Predictability Section, ECMWF
2011-2015: Principal Scientist, Marine Prediction Section, ECMWF
2001-2011: Senior Scientist, Seasonal Forecasting Section, ECMWF
1995-2000: Scientist, Seasonal Forecasting Section, ECMWF
1994-1995: Lecturer, Physics Department, Universidad de Alcala de Henares, Madrid, Spain
1993-1994: PostDoc, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics Department, Oxford University, UK
• Member of the NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) Earth System Science and Modeling (ESSM) advisory Council.
• Member of the EuroArgo Scientific Steering Group.
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Bjerkness Center.
• Member of GODAE Ocean View Scientific Steering Team
• Past Member of the CLIVAR Pacific Panel (2000-2006), CLIVAR GSOP panel (2008-2016) and EUROBRISA (2006-2011).
• Involvement on different EU and ESA funded project.
• Organizer of several international workshops and conferences.
- 2023
- A. Oertel, M. Pickl, J. F. Quinting, S. Hauser, J. Wandel, L. Magnusson, M. Balmaseda, F. Vitart, C. M. Grams (February 2023) Everything Hits at Once: How Remote Rainfall Matters for the Prediction of the 2021 North American Heat Wave, Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2022GL100958
- S. Sharmila, H. Hendon, O. Alves, A. Weisheimer, M. Balmaseda (March 2023) Contrasting El Niño–La Niña Predictability and Prediction Skill in 2-Year Reforecasts of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-22-0028.1
- Danni Du, Aneesh C. Subramanian, Weiqing Han, Ho‐Hsuan Wei, Beena Balan Sarojini, Magdalena Balmaseda, Frederic Vitart (March 2023) Assessing the Impact of Ocean In Situ Observations on MJO Propagation Across the Maritime Continent in ECMWF Subseasonal Forecasts, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2022MS003044
- Eric de Boisseson, Hao Zuo, Philip Browne, Marcin Chrust, Magdalena Balmaseda, Patricia de Rosnay, Beena Balan Sarojini (February 2023) Preliminary evaluation of the ECMWF 6th generation ocean and sea-ice reanalysis system (ORAS6). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-4961
- Michael Mayer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Steffen Tietsche (February 2023) Representation of tropical SST trends in ECMWF seasonal hindcasts and implications for recent ENSO forecasts. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11500
- Charles Pelletier, Christopher D. Roberts, Frederic Vitart, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Kristian Mogensen, Irina Sandu (February 2023) Generating ocean initial condition for coupled forecasts through nudged NEMO experiments. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-11718
- 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 (February 2023) Recent progress and outlook for the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-13110
- Steffen Tietsche, Frederic Vitart, Michael Mayer, Antje Weisheimer, Magdalena Balmaseda (February 2023) Underestimation of Arctic warming trends in sub-seasonal forecasts. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-14141
- 2022
- Eric de Boisseson, Magdalena Balmaseda, Michael Mayer, Hao Zuo (March 2022) Monitoring and predictions of Marine Heatwave events in the North East Pacific from ocean reanalyses and seasonal forecasts. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-4079
- Ronan McAdam, Simona Masina, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Silvio Gualdi, Retish Senan, Michael Mayer (March 2022) Seasonal forecast skill of upper-ocean heat content in coupled high-resolution systems. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-13219
- Linus Magnusson, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Mohamed Dahoui, Richard Forbes, Thomas Haiden, David Lavers, irina sandu, Steffen Tietsche (March 2022) Summary of the UGROW subproject on tropospheric temperature bias during JJA over the Northern Hemisphere, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 891. DOI: 10.21957/vsy2iiph
- Michael Mayer, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Stephanie Johnson, Linus Magnusson, Chris Roberts, Hao Zuo (July 2022) Outcomes from UGROW-IO: Forecast errors in the Eastern Indian Ocean across lead times, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 898. DOI: 10.21957/q4v6n81vl
- Antje Weisheimer, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Tim N. Stockdale, Michael Mayer, S. Sharmila, Harry Hendon, Oscar Alves (May 2022) Variability of ENSO Forecast Skill in 2‐Year Global Reforecasts Over the 20th Century, Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1029/2022GL097885
- Patricia de Rosnay, Philip Browne, Eric de Boisséson, David Fairbairn, Yoichi Hirahara, Kenta Ochi, Dinand Schepers, Peter Weston, Hao Zuo, Magdalena Alonso‐Balmaseda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Massimo Bonavita, Niels Borman, Andy Brown, Marcin Chrust, Mohamed Dahoui, Giovanna Chiara, Stephen English, Alan Geer, Sean Healy, Hans Hersbach, Patrick Laloyaux, Linus Magnusson, Sébastien Massart, Anthony McNally, Florian Pappenberger, Florence Rabier (July 2022) Coupled data assimilation at ECMWF: current status, challenges and future developments, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.4330
- Frederic Vitart, Rebecca Emerton, Mark John Rodwell, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Thomas Haiden, Stephanie Johnson, Linus Magnusson, Chris Roberts, irina sandu (January 2022) Investigating biases in the representation of the Pacific sub-tropical jet stream and associated teleconnections (a UGROW sub-project), ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 889. DOI: 10.21957/jcfqpdr2
- Steffen Tietsche, Frederic Vitart, Magdalena Balmaseda (June 2022) Sub-seasonal Arctic-midlatitude linkages as causal networks. DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-668
- Steffen Tietsche, Frederic Vitart, Michael Mayer, Magdalena Balmaseda (June 2022) Multi-year trend errors in sub-seasonal reforecasts. DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-657
- Annika Oertel, Moritz Pickl, Julian F. Quinting, Seraphine Hauser, Jan Wandel, Linus Magnusson, Magdalena Balmaseda, Frederic Vitart, Christian M. Grams (June 2022) How warm conveyor belt activity across the North Pacific influenced the predictability of the North American heat wave 2021. DOI: 10.5194/ems2022-227
- Michael Mayer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Stephanie Johnson (March 2022) Understanding and reducing seasonal prediction errors of the ECMWF system in the tropical Indian Ocean. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu22-7416
- Annika Oertel, Moritz Pickl, Julian F. Quinting, Seraphine Hauser, Jan Lucas Wandel, Linus Magnusson, Magdalena Balmaseda, Frederic Vitart, Christian Michael Grams (August 2022) Everything hits at once - how remote rainfall matters for the prediction of the Canadian heat 2021. DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10512269.1
- Frederic Vitart, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Laura Ferranti, Manuel Fuentes (October 2022) The next extended-range configuration for IFS Cycle 48r1, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 173, pp. 21-26. DOI: 10.21957/fv6k37c49h
- Minghong Liu, Michael J. McPhaden, Hong‐Li Ren, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Run Wang (December 2022) Oceanic Heat Content as a Predictor of the Indian Ocean Dipole, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. DOI: 10.1029/2022JC018896
- 2021
- Linus Magnusson, Sharanya Majumdar, Rebecca Emerton, David Richardson, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Calum Baugh, Peter Bechtold, Jean Bidlot, Antonino Bonanni, Massimo Bonavita, Niels Bormann, Andy Brown, Philip Browne, Hilda Carr, Mohamed Dahoui, Giovanna De Chiara, Michail Diamantakis, David Ian Duncan, Stephen English, Richard Forbes, Alan Geer, Thomas Haiden, Sean Healy, Timothy Hewson, Bruce Ingleby, Martin Janousek, Christian Kühnlein, Simon Lang, Sarah-Jane Lock, Tony McNally, Kristian S. Mogensen, Florian Pappenberger, Inna Polichtchouk, Fernando Prates, Christel Prudhomme, Florence Rabier, Patricia de Rosnay, Tiago Quintino, Michael Rennie (October 2021) Tropical cyclone activities at ECMWF, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 888. DOI: 10.21957/zzxzzygwv
- Chris Roberts, Frederic Vitart, Magdalena Balmaseda (March 2021) Remote impact of North Atlantic sea surface temperature errors in sub‐seasonal forecasts. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-846
- C. D. Roberts, F. Vitart, M. A. Balmaseda (February 2021) Hemispheric Impact of North Atlantic SSTs in Subseasonal Forecasts, Geophysical Research Letters n. 4. DOI: 10.1029/2020GL091446
- Paolo Davini, Antje Weisheimer, Magdalena Balmaseda, Stephanie J. Johnson, Franco Molteni, Christopher D. Roberts, Retish Senan, Timothy N. Stockdale (January 2021) The representation of winter Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking in ECMWF seasonal prediction systems, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3974
- Hao Zuo, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Eric de Boisseson, Steffen Tietsche, Michael Mayer, Patricia de Rosnay (March 2021) The ORAP6 ocean and sea-ice reanalysis: description and evaluation. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-9997
- Roberto Bilbao, Magdalena Balmaseda, Lauriane Batte, Markus Donat, Pablo Ortega, Etienne Tourigny, Tim Stockdale (March 2021) Implementing the capability to respond to large volcanic eruptions in the C3S prediction systems. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-16465
- Ho‐Hsuan Wei, Aneesh C. Subramanian, Kristopher B. Karnauskas, Charlotte A. DeMott, Matthew R. Mazloff, Magdalena A. Balmaseda (July 2021) Tropical Pacific Air‐Sea Interaction Processes and Biases in CESM2 and Their Relation to El Niño Development, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans n. 6. DOI: 10.1029/2020JC016967
- 2020
- Beena Balan-Sarojini, Steffen Tietsche, Michael Mayer, Magdalena Balmaseda, Hao Zuo, Patricia de Rosnay, Tim Stockdale, Frederic Vitart (May 2020) Year-round Impact of Winter Sea Ice Thickness Observations on Seasonal Forecasts. DOI: 10.5194/tc-2020-73
- Chris Roberts, Antje Weisheimer, Stephanie Johnson, Timothy Stockdale, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Philip Browne, Andrew Dawson, Martin Leutbecher, Frederic Vitart (January 2020) Reduced-resolution ocean configurations for efficient testing with the ECMWF coupled model, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 858. DOI: 10.21957/6fz18mn9r
- Chris Roberts, Frederic Vitart, Magdalena Balmaseda, Franco Molteni (March 2020) Impacts of ocean model resolution in S2S forecasts with the ECMWF coupled model. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-3565
- Antje Weisheimer, Magdalena Balmaseda, Tim Stockdale (March 2020) Multi-decadal variability in long-range ENSO predictions (SEAS5-20C). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-7763
- Steffen Tietsche, Beena Balan Sarojini, Michael Mayer, Hao Zuo, Frederic Vitart, Magdalena Balmaseda (March 2020) Improving sea-ice cover and SST forecasts by sea-ice thickness initialization. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-9729
- Michael Mayer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (March 2020) Indian Ocean impact on ENSO evolution 2014-2016 in a set of seasonal forecasting experiments. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10693
- 2019
- (March 2019) Synthesis of Ocean Observations Using Data Assimilation for Operational, Real-Time and Reanalysis Systems: A More Complete Picture of the State of the Ocean, Frontiers in Marine Science. DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00090
- (March 2019) SEAS5: The new ECMWF seasonal forecast system , Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-12-1087-2019
- (March 2019) Evolution of ocean heat content related to ENSO, Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-18-0607.1
- Hao Zuo, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Steffen Tietsche, Kristian Mogensen, Michael Mayer (January 2019) The ECMWF operational ensemble reanalysis-analysis system for ocean and sea-ice: a description of the system and assessment. DOI: 10.5194/os-2018-154
- Hao Zuo, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Steffen Tietsche, Kristian Mogensen, Michael Mayer (June 2019) The ECMWF operational ensemble reanalysis–analysis system for ocean and sea ice: a description of the system and assessment, Ocean Science n. 3, pp. 779-808. DOI: 10.5194/os-15-779-2019
- Beena Balan Sarojini, Steffen Tietsche, Michael Mayer, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Hao Zuo (March 2019) Towards Improved Sea Ice Initialization and Forecasting with the IFS, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 844. DOI: 10.21957/mt6m6rpwt
- Frederic Vitart, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Jean Bidlot, Simon Lang, Ivan Tsonevsky, David Richardson, Magdalena A. Balmaseda (March 2019) Use of ERA5 to Initialize Ensemble Re-forecasts, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 841. DOI: 10.21957/w8i57wuz6
- 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 (December 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 (December 2019) Use of ERA5 reanalysis to initialise re‑forecasts proves beneficial, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 161, pp. 26-31. DOI: 10.21957/g71fv083lm
- 2018
- (December 2018) The added value of the multi-system spread information for ocean heat content and steric sea level investigations in the CMEMS GREP ensemble reanalysis product, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4585-5
- Buizza R., Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Andrew Brown, S.J. English, Richard Forbes, Alan Geer, Haiden T., Martin Leutbecher, Linus Magnusson, Mark John Rodwell, M. Sleigh, Timothy Stockdale, Frederic Vitart, Wedi N. (October 2018) The development and evaluation process followed at ECMWF to upgrade the Integrated Forecasting System (IFS), ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 829. DOI: 10.21957/xzopnhty9
- Alexey Yu. Karpechko, Andrew Charlton‐Perez, Magdalena Balmaseda, Nicholas Tyrrell, Frederic Vitart (December 2018) Predicting Sudden Stratospheric Warming 2018 and Its Climate Impacts With a Multimodel Ensemble, Geophysical Research Letters n. 24. DOI: 10.1029/2018GL081091
- Frederic Vitart, Magdalena A. Balmaseda (October 2018) Impact of sea surface temperature biases on extended-range forecasts, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 830. DOI: 10.21957/xvbl914ps
- Hans Hersbach, Patricia de Rosnay, Bill Bell, Dinand Schepers, Adrian Simmons, Cornel Soci, Saleh Abdalla, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Peter Bechtold, P. Berrisford, Jean Bidlot, de Boisséson E., Massimo Bonavita, Browne P., Roberto Buizza, Per Dahlgren, Dick Dee, Rossana Dragani, Michail Diamantakis, Johannes Flemming, Richard Forbes, Alan Geer, Thomas Haiden, Elias Hólm, L. Haimberger, Robin Hogan, Andras Horanyi, Janiskova M., Patrick Laloyaux, Philippe Lopez, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, C. Peubey, Raluca Radu, David Richardson, Jean-Noel THEPAUT, Frederic Vitart, Yang X, Ervin Zsoter, Hao Zuo (December 2018) Operational global reanalysis: progress, future directions and synergies with NWP, ERA Report Series n. 27. DOI: 10.21957/tkic6g3wm
- Timothy Stockdale, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Stephanie Johnson, Laura Ferranti, Franco Molteni, Linus Magnusson, Steffen Tietsche, Frederic Vitart, Damien Decremer, Antje Weisheimer, Chris Roberts, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Sarah Keeley, Kristian S. Mogensen, Hao Zuo, Michael Mayer, B.M. Monge-Sanz (December 2018) SEAS5 and the future evolution of the long-range forecast system, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 835. DOI: 10.21957/z3e92di7y
- Michael Mayer, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Leopold Haimberger (April 2018) Unprecedented 2015/2016 Indo‐Pacific Heat Transfer Speeds Up Tropical Pacific Heat Recharge, Geophysical Research Letters n. 7, pp. 3274-3284. DOI: 10.1002/2018GL077106
- Patrick Laloyaux, Eric de Boisseson, Magdalena Balmaseda, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, Stefan Broennimann, Roberto Buizza, Per Dalhgren, Dick Dee, Leopold Haimberger, Hans Hersbach, Yuki Kosaka, Matthew Martin, Paul Poli, Nick Rayner, Elke Rustemeier, Dinand Schepers (May 2018) CERA-20C: A Coupled Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2018MS001273
- Steffen Tietsche, Magdalena Alonso-Balmaseda, Patricia Rosnay, Hao Zuo, Xiangshan Tian-Kunze, Lars Kaleschke (June 2018) Thin Arctic sea ice in L-band observations and an ocean reanalysis, The Cryosphere n. 6, pp. 2051-2072. DOI: 10.5194/tc-12-2051-2018
- Hao Zuo, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Mogensen K., Steffen Tietsche (August 2018) OCEAN5: The ECMWF Ocean Reanalysis System and its Real-Time analysis component, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 823. DOI: 10.21957/la2v0442
- 2017
- Karspeck A.R., Stammer D., Köhl A., Danabasoglu G., Balmaseda M., Smith D.M., Fujii Y., Zhang S., Giese B., Tsujino H., Rosati A. (March 2017) Comparison of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation between 1960 and 2007 in six ocean reanalysis products, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2787-7
- Shi L., Alves O., Wedd R., Balmaseda M.A., Chang Y., Chepurin G., Ferry N., Fujii Y., Gaillard F., Good S.A., Guinehut S., Haines K., Hernandez F., Lee T., Palmer M., Peterson K.A., Masuda S., Storto A., Toyoda T., Valdivieso M., Vernieres G., Wang X., Yin Y. (March 2017) An assessment of upper ocean salinity content from the Ocean Reanalyses Inter-comparison Project (ORA-IP), Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2868-7
- Valdivieso M., Haines K., Balmaseda M., Chang Y.-S., Drevillon M., Ferry N., Fujii Y., Köhl A., Storto A., Toyoda T., Wang X., Waters J., Xue Y., Yin Y., Barnier B., Hernandez F., Kumar A., Lee T., Masina S., Andrew Peterson K. (March 2017) An assessment of air–sea heat fluxes from ocean and coupled reanalyses, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2843-3
- Huang B., Shin C.-S., Shukla J., Marx L., Balmaseda M.A., Halder S., Dirmeyer P., Kinter J.L. (March 2017) Reforecasting the ENSO events in the past 57 years (1958-2014), Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0642.1
- Palmer M.D., Roberts C.D., Balmaseda M., Chang Y.-S., Chepurin G., Ferry N., Fujii Y., Good S.A., Guinehut S., Haines K., Hernandez F., Köhl A., Lee T., Martin M.J., Masina S., Masuda S., Peterson K.A., Storto A., Toyoda T., Valdivieso M., Vernieres G., Wang O., Xue Y. (March 2017) Ocean heat content variability and change in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2801-0
- Toyoda T., Fujii Y., Kuragano T., Kosugi N., Sasano D., Kamachi M., Ishikawa Y., Masuda S., Sato K., Awaji T., Hernandez F., Ferry N., Guinehut S., Martin M., Andrew Peterson K., Good S.A., Valdivieso M., Haines K., Storto A., Masina S., Köhl A., Yin Y., Shi L., Alves O., Smith G., Chang Y.-S., Vernieres G., Wang X., Forget G., Heimbach P., Wang O., Fukumori I., Lee T., Zuo H., Balmaseda M. (March 2017) Interannual-decadal variability of wintertime mixed layer depths in the North Pacific detected by an ensemble of ocean syntheses, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2762-3
- Storto A., Masina S., Balmaseda M., Guinehut S., Xue Y., Szekely T., Fukumori I., Forget G., Chang Y.-S., Good S.A., Köhl A., Vernieres G., Ferry N., Peterson K.A., Behringer D., Ishii M., Masuda S., Fujii Y., Toyoda T., Yin Y., Valdivieso M., Barnier B., Boyer T., Lee T., Gourrion J., Wang O., Heimback P., Rosati A., Kovach R., Hernandez F., Martin M.J., Kamachi M., Kuragano T., Mogensen K., Alves O., Haines K., Wang X. (March 2017) Steric sea level variability (1993–2010) in an ensemble of ocean reanalyses and objective analyses, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2554-9
- Chevallier M., Smith G.C., Dupont F., Lemieux J.-F., Forget G., Fujii Y., Hernandez F., Msadek R., Peterson K.A., Storto A., Toyoda T., Valdivieso M., Vernieres G., Zuo H., Balmaseda M., Chang Y.-S., Ferry N., Garric G., Haines K., Keeley S., Kovach R.M., Kuragano T., Masina S., Tang Y., Tsujino H., Wang X. (March 2017) Erratum to: Intercomparison of the Arctic sea ice cover in global ocean–sea ice reanalyses from the ORA-IP project (Clim Dyn, 10.1007/s00382-016-2985-y), Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3155-y
- Toyoda T., Fujii Y., Kuragano T., Kamachi M., Ishikawa Y., Masuda S., Sato K., Awaji T., Hernandez F., Ferry N., Guinehut S., Martin M.J., Peterson K.A., Good S.A., Valdivieso M., Haines K., Storto A., Masina S., Köhl A., Zuo H., Balmaseda M., Yin Y., Shi L., Alves O., Smith G., Chang Y.-S., Vernieres G., Wang X., Forget G., Heimbach P., Wang O., Fukumori I., Lee T. (March 2017) Intercomparison and validation of the mixed layer depth fields of global ocean syntheses, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2637-7
- Xue Y., Wen C., Kumar A., Balmaseda M., Fujii Y., Alves O., Martin M., Yang X., Vernieres G., Desportes C., Lee T., Ascione I., Gudgel R., Ishikawa I. (March 2017) A real-time ocean reanalyses intercomparison project in the context of tropical pacific observing system and ENSO monitoring, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3535-y
- (July 2017) Multi-year predictability of climate, drought, and wildfire in southwestern North America., Scientific reports. DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-06869-7
- Hao Zuo, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Eric de Boisseson, S. Hirahara, Marcin Chrust, Patricia de Rosnay (March 2017) A generic ensemble generation scheme for data assimilation and ocean analysis, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 795. DOI: 10.21957/cub7mq0i4
- Jieshun Zhu, Arun Kumar, Wanqiu Wang, Zeng-Zhen Hu, Bohua Huang, Magdalena A. Balmaseda (July 2017) Importance of convective parameterization in ENSO predictions, Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/2017gl073669
- Eric de Boisséson, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Michael Mayer (August 2017) Ocean heat content variability in an ensemble of twentieth century ocean reanalyses, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3845-0
- Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (August 2017) Editorial for Ocean Reanalysis Intercomparison Special Issue, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3813-8
- Steffen Tietsche, Magdalena Alonso-Balmaseda, Patricia Rosnay, Hao Zuo, Xiangshan Tian-Kunze, Lars Kaleschke (March 2017) Thin sea ice in the Arctic: comparing L-band radiometry retrievals with an ocean reanalysis, The Cryosphere Discussions. DOI: 10.5194/tc-2017-247
- Magdalena A. Balmaseda (May 2017) Data assimilation for initialization of seasonal forecasts, Journal of Marine Research. DOI: 10.1357/002224017821836806
- Martin Puy, Jérôme Vialard, Matthieu Lengaigne, Eric Guilyardi, Pedro N. DiNezio, Aurore Voldoire, Magdalena Balmaseda, Gurvan Madec, Christophe Menkes, Michael J. Mcphaden (October 2017) Influence of Westerly Wind Events stochasticity on El Niño amplitude: the case of 2014 vs. 2015, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-017-3938-9
- Steffen Tietsche, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Hao Zuo, Patricia de Rosnay (March 2017) Comparing Arctic winter sea-ice thickness from SMOS and ORAS5, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 803. DOI: 10.21957/rhycas70q
- 2016
- Simmons A., Fellous J.-L., Ramaswamy V., Trenberth K., Asrar G., Balmaseda M., Burrows J.P., Ciais P., Drinkwater M., Friedlingstein P., Gobron N., Guilyardi E., Halpern D., Heimann M., Johannessen J., Levelt P.F., Lopez-Baeza E., Penner J., Scholes R., Shepherd T. (March 2016) Observation and integrated Earth-system science: A roadmap for 2016-2025, Advances in Space Research. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2016.03.008
- von Schuckmann K., Le Traon P.-Y., Alvarez-Fanjul E., Axell L., Balmaseda M., Breivik L.-A., Brewin R.J.W., Bricaud C., Drevillon M., Drillet Y., Dubois C., Embury O., Etienne H., Sotillo M.G., Garric G., Gasparin F., Gutknecht E., Guinehut S., Hernandez F., Juza M., Karlson B., Korres G., Legeais J.-F., Levier B., Lien V.S., Morrow R., Notarstefano G., Parent L., Pascual Á., Pérez-Gómez B., Perruche C., Pinardi N., Pisano A., Poulain P.-M., Pujol I.M., Raj R.P., Raudsepp U., Roquet H., Samuelsen A., Sathyendranath S., She J., Simoncelli S., Solidoro C., Tinker J., Tintoré J., Viktorsson L., Ablain M., Almroth-Rosell E., Bonaduce A., Clementi E., Cossarini G., Dagneaux Q., Desportes C., Dye S., Fratianni C., Good S., Greiner E., Gourrion J., Hamon M., Holt J., Hyder P., Kennedy J., Manzano-Muñoz F., Melet A., Meyssignac B., Mulet S., Buongiorno Nardelli B., O’Dea E., Olason E., Paulmier A., Pérez-González I., Reid R., Racault M.-F., Raitsos D.E., Ramos A., Sykes P., Szekely T., Verbrugge N. (March 2016) The Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service Ocean State Report, Journal of Operational Oceanography. DOI: 10.1080/1755876X.2016.1273446
- Chevallier M., Smith G.C., Dupont F., Lemieux J.-F., Forget G., Fujii Y., Hernandez F., Msadek R., Peterson K.A., Storto A., Toyoda T., Valdivieso M., Vernieres G., Zuo H., Balmaseda M., Chang Y.-S., Ferry N., Garric G., Haines K., Keeley S., Kovach R.M., Kuragano T., Masina S., Tang Y., Tsujino H., Wang X. (March 2016) Intercomparison of the Arctic sea ice cover in global ocean–sea ice reanalyses from the ORA-IP project, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-2985-y
- (March 2016) The role of off-equatorial surface temperature anomalies in the 2014 El Niño prediction., Scientific reports. DOI: 10.1038/srep19677
- (March 2016) Ocean Data Assimilation in Support of Climate Applications: Status and Perspectives., Annual review of marine science. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-marine-122414-034113
- David P. Mulholland, Keith Haines, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (October 2016) Improving seasonal forecasting through tropical ocean bias corrections, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2869
- Patrick Laloyaux, Magdalena Balmaseda, Dick Dee, Kristian Mogensen, Peter Janssen (May 2016) Erratum to ‘A coupled data assimilation system for climate reanalysis’, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2800
- Eric Guilyardi, Andrew Wittenberg, Magdalena Balmaseda, Wenju Cai, Matthew Collins, Michael J. McPhaden, Masahiro Watanabe, Sang-Wook Yeh (May 2016) Fourth CLIVAR Workshop on the Evaluation of ENSO Processes in Climate Models: ENSO in a Changing Climate, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-15-00287.1
- Julien Boucharel, Fei-Fei Jin, Matthew H. England, Boris Dewitte, I. I. Lin, Hsiao-Ching Huang, Magdalena A. Balmaseda (December 2016) Influence of Oceanic Intraseasonal Kelvin Waves on Eastern Pacific Hurricane Activity, Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-16-0112.1
- Magdalena Balmaseda (May 2016) Review of manuscript entitled “Observed and simulated full-depth ocean heat content changes for 1970-2005”, by Lijing Cheng, Kevin E. Trenberth, Matthew D. Palmer, Jiang Zhu, John P. Abraham. DOI: 10.5194/os-2016-16-RC2
- 2015
- Ablain M., Cazenave A., Larnicol G., Balmaseda M., Cipollini P., Faugère Y., Fernandes M.J., Henry O., Johannessen J.A., Knudsen P., Andersen O., Legeais J., Meyssignac B., Picot N., Roca M., Rudenko S., Scharffenberg M.G., Stammer D., Timms G., Benveniste J. (March 2015) Improved sea level record over the satellite altimetry era (1993-2010) from the Climate Change Initiative project, Ocean Science. DOI: 10.5194/os-11-67-2015
- Fujii Y., Cummings J., Xue Y., Schiller A., Lee T., Balmaseda M.A., Rémy E., Masuda S., Brassington G., Alves O., Cornuelle B., Martin M., Oke P., Smith G., Yang X. (March 2015) Evaluation of the Tropical Pacific Observing System from the ocean data assimilation perspective, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2579
- Øyvind Breivik, Kristian Mogensen, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Peter A. E. M. Janssen (May 2015) Surface wave effects in the NEMO ocean model: Forced and coupled experiments, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. DOI: 10.1002/2014jc010565
- David P. Mulholland, Patrick Laloyaux, Keith Haines, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (December 2015) Origin and Impact of Initialization Shocks in Coupled Atmosphere–Ocean Forecasts*, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-15-0076.1
- Steffen Tietsche, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Hao Zuo, Kristian Mogensen (June 2015) Arctic sea ice in the global eddy-permitting ocean reanalysis ORAP5, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2673-3
- Hao Zuo, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Kristian Mogensen (June 2015) The new eddy-permitting ORAP5 ocean reanalysis: description, evaluation and uncertainties in climate signals, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2675-1
- Julien Boucharel, Axel Timmermann, Agus Santoso, Matthew H. England, Fei-Fei Jin, Magdalena A. Balmaseda (May 2015) A surface layer variance heat budget for ENSO, Geophysical Research Letters. DOI: 10.1002/2015gl063843
- Michael J. McPhaden, Axel Timmermann, Matthew J. Widlansky, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Timothy N. Stockdale (October 2015) The Curious Case of the EL Niño That Never Happened: A Perspective from 40 Years of Progress in Climate Research and Forecasting, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-14-00089.1
- Susanna Corti, Tim Palmer, Magdalena Balmaseda, Antje Weisheimer, Sybren Drijfhout, Nick Dunstone, Wilco Hazeleger, Jürgen Kröger, Holger Pohlmann, Doug Smith, Jin-Song von Storch, Bert Wouters (July 2015) Impact of Initial Conditions versus External Forcing in Decadal Climate Predictions: A Sensitivity Experiment, Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-14-00671.1
- Patrick Laloyaux, Magdalena Balmaseda, Dick Dee, Kristian Mogensen, Peter Janssen (October 2015) A coupled data assimilation system for climate reanalysis, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2629
- Simona Masina, Andrea Storto, Nicolas Ferry, Maria Valdivieso, Keith Haines, Magdalena Balmaseda, Hao Zuo, Marie Drevillon, Laurent Parent (July 2015) An ensemble of eddy-permitting global ocean reanalyses from the MyOcean project, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2728-5
- Marina Tonani, Magdalena Balmaseda, Laurent Bertino, Ed Blockley, Gary Brassington, Fraser Davidson, Yann Drillet, Pat Hogan, Tsurane Kuragano, Tong Lee, Avichal Mehra, Francis Paranathara, Clemente A.S. Tanajura, Hui Wang (August 2015) Status and future of global and regional ocean prediction systems, Journal of Operational Oceanography. DOI: 10.1080/1755876x.2015.1049892
- 2014
- Irene Polo, Jon Robson, Rowan Sutton, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (October 2014) The Importance of Wind and Buoyancy Forcing for the Boundary Density Variations and the Geostrophic Component of the AMOC at 26°N, Journal of Physical Oceanography. DOI: 10.1175/jpo-d-13-0264.1
- Michael Mayer, Leopold Haimberger, Magdalena A. Balmaseda (October 2014) On the Energy Exchange between Tropical Ocean Basins Related to ENSO*, Journal of Climate. DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-14-00123.1
- Bohua Huang, Jieshun Zhu, Lawrence Marx, Xingren Wu, Arun Kumar, Zeng-Zhen Hu, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Shaoqing Zhang, Jian Lu, Edwin K. Schneider, James L. Kinter III (December 2014) Climate drift of AMOC, North Atlantic salinity and arctic sea ice in CFSv2 decadal predictions, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-014-2395-y
- Steffen Tietsche, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Hao Zuo, Kristian S. Mogensen (October 2014) Arctic sea ice in the ECMWF MyOcean2 ocean reanalysis ORAP5, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 737. DOI: 10.21957/i9s4wt41
- Hao Zuo, Magdalena A. Balmaseda, Kristian S. Mogensen (October 2014) The ECMWF-MyOcean2 eddy-permitting ocean and sea-ice reanalysis ORAP5. Part 1: Implementation, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 736. DOI: 10.21957/5awbusgo