Senior Scientist Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Data Assimilation
Research, Earth System Assimilation, Coupled Assimilation
Summary:
Phil Browne is a scientist working on coupled ocean-atmosphere data assimilation.
He investigates new ways to use observations of the ocean to constrain the estimate of the atmospheric state, and vice-versa.
Professional interests:
- Coupled data assimilation methodologies
- Coupled data assimilation infrastructure
- Sea surface temperature observations
- Sea ice observations
- Air sea flux observations and modelling
- Nonlinear data assimilation methodologies
Career background:
Professional Experience
- Since 01/2017: Scientist at ECMWF, Research Department, Earth System Assimilation Section
- 09/2012 - 16/2016: Postdoc, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading
- 01/2012 - 06/2012: Knowledge Transfer Fellow, UK Met Office and Department of Mathematics, University of Bath
External recognitions
Observing Air Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) working group member - airseaobs.org
EURO-ARGO ERIC Scientific and Technical Advisory Group member euro-argo.eu
- 2025
- (July 2025) A new approach for using altimeter measurements, ECMWF Newsletter n. 184, pp. 25-31. DOI: 10.21957/sh82vcy05d
- Eric de Boisseson, Hao Zuo, Magdalena Balmaseda, Philip Browne, Marcin Chrust, Stephanie Johnson, Sarah Keeley, Michael Mayer, Kristian Mogensen, Charle Pelletier, Christopher Roberts, Patricia de Rosnay, Toshinari Takakura (March 2025) ECMWF 6th generation ocean and sea-ice reanalysis system (ORAS6). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-8348
- (July 2025) Earth system assimilation for the cryosphere: Status and way forward [TD-01], ESA Contract Report n. 4000145717/24/I-NS-bgh. DOI: 10.21957/533c989211
- (July 2025) Earth system assimilation for the cryosphere: Status and way forward [TD-01], ESA Contract Report n. 4000145717/24/I-NS-bgh. DOI: 10.21957/38ea6c0d6c
- (July 2025) Earth system assimilation for the cryosphere: Status and way forward [TD-01], ESA Contract Report n. 4000145717/24/I-NS-bgh. DOI: 10.21957/0031f7bc16
- Eric de Boisseson, Hao Zuo, Marcin Chrust, Philip Browne, Magdalena Balmaseda, Patricia de Rosnay (January 2025) ECMWF 6th generation ocean and sea-ice reanalysis system (ORAS6). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-10659
- Marcin Chrust, Anthony T. Weaver, Philip Browne, Hao Zuo, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda (January 2025) Impact of ensemble‐based hybrid background‐error covariances in ECMWF's next‐generation ocean reanalysis system, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.4914
- Hao Zuo, Kristian Mogensen, Eric de Boisseson, Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda, Philip Browne, Marcin Chrust, Stephanie Johnson, Sarah Keeley, Christopher Roberts (March 2025) Effects of Argo floats data on the ECMWF Ocean DA system and coupled forecasts . DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11966
- 2024
- (July 2024) ECMWF’s next ensemble reanalysis system for ocean and sea ice: ORAS6, ECMWF Newsletter n. 180, pp. 30-36. DOI: 10.21957/hzd5y821lk
- Jozef Skakala, David Ford, Keith Haines, Amos Lawless, Matthew Martin, Philip Browne, Marcin Chrust, Stefano Ciavatta, Alison Fowler, Daniel Lea, Matthew Palmer, Andrea Rochner, Jennifer Waters, Hao Zuo, Mike Bell, Davi Carneiro, Yumeng Chen, Susan Kay, Dale Partridge, Martin Price, Richard Renshaw, Georgy Shapiro, James While (June 2024) Marine data assimilation in the UK: the past, the present and the vision for the future. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-1737
- (August 2024) Improving Ocean Surface Temperature for NWP using All-Sky Microwave Imager Observations, EUMETSAT/ECMWF Fellowship Programme Research Report n. RR64. DOI: 10.21957/c16be07b23
- 2023
- M F Cronin, S Swart, C A Marandino, C Anderson, P Browne, S Chen, W R Joubert, U Schuster, R Venkatesan, C I Addey, O Alves, F Ardhuin, S Battle, M A Bourassa, Z Chen, M Chory, C Clayson, R B de Souza, M du Plessis, M Edmondson, J B Edson, S T Gille, J Hermes, V Hormann, S A Josey, M Kurz, T Lee, F Maicu, E H Moustahfid, S-A Nicholson, E S Nyadjro, J Palter, R G Patterson, S G Penny, L P Pezzi, N Pinardi, J E J Reeves Eyre, N Rome, A C Subramanian, C Stienbarger, T Steinhoff, A J Sutton, H Tomita, S M Wills, C Wilson, L Yu, Howard Browman (March 2023) Developing an Observing Air–Sea Interactions Strategy (OASIS) for the global ocean, ICES Journal of Marine Science. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsac149
- Eric de Boisseson, Hao Zuo, Philip Browne, Marcin Chrust, Magdalena Balmaseda, Patricia de Rosnay, Beena Balan Sarojini (May 2023) Preliminary evaluation of the ECMWF 6th generation ocean and sea-ice reanalysis system (ORAS6). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-4961
- Patricia de Rosnay, Phil browne, Eric de Boisséson, David Fairbairn, Sébastien Garrigues, Christoph Herbert, Kenta Ochi, Dinand Schepers, Pete Weston, Hao Zuo (May 2023) Coupled data assimilation for numerical weather prediction at ECMWF. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu23-16806
- 2022
- Hiroe Yamazaki, Hilary Weller, Colin J. Cotter, Philip A. Browne (July 2022) Conservation with moving meshes over orography, Journal of Computational Physics, pp. 111217. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcp.2022.111217
- 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
- (July 2022) Progress on developing a new coupled sea-surface temperature analysis, ECMWF Newsletter, pp. 17-22. DOI: 10.21957/tm4913hs8d
- (March 2022) Evaluation of Surface Conditions from Operational Forecasts Using in situ Saildrone Observations in the Pacific Arctic, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-20-0379.1
- 2021
- Linus Magnusson, Sharan Majumdar, Rebecca Emerton, David Richardson, Magdalena Alonso-Balmaseda, C. Baugh, Peter Bechtold, Jean-Raymond Bidlot, Antonino Bonanni, Massimo Bonavita, Niels Bormann, Andy Brown, Philip Browne, Hilda Carr, Mohamed Dahoui, Giovanna De Chiara, Michail Diamantakis, David Duncan, Stephen English, Richard Forbes, Alan J. Geer, Thomas Haiden, Sean Healy, Tim Hewson, B. Ingleby, Martin Janousek, Christian Kuehnlein, Simon Lang, Sarah-Jane Lock, Tony McNally, Kristian Mogensen, Florian Pappenberger, Inna Polichtchouk, Fernando Prates, C. 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
- 2020
- Michael Sleigh, Philip Browne, Chris Burrows, Martin Leutbecher, Thomas Haiden, David Richardson (July 2020) IFS upgrade greatly improves forecasts in the stratosphere, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 164, pp. 18-23. DOI: 10.21957/b72xo6ms93
- Christopher D. Roberts, Antje Weisheimer, Stephanie Johnson, Tim Stockdale, Magdalena Alonso-Balmaseda, Philip Browne, Andrew Dawson, Martin Leutbecher, Frédéric Vitart (January 2020) Reduced-resolution ocean configurations for efficient testing with the ECMWF coupled model, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 858. DOI: 10.21957/6fz18mn9r
- 2019
- Philip A. Browne, Patricia de Rosnay, Hao Zuo, Andrew Bennett, Andrew Dawson (January 2019) Weakly Coupled Ocean–Atmosphere Data Assimilation in the ECMWF NWP System, Remote Sensing. DOI: 10.3390/rs11030234
- Michael Sleigh, Philip Browne, Thomas Haiden, David Richardson, Michail Diamantakis (July 2019) IFS upgrade greatly improves forecasts, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 160, pp. 18-22. DOI: 10.21957/gt23msc861
- Philip Browne, Patricia de Rosnay, Hao Zuo, Andrew Bennett, Andrew Dawson (January 2019) Weakly coupled ocean-atmosphere data assimilation in the ECMWF NWP system, ECMWF Technical Memorandum n. 836. DOI: 10.21957/eqe8rx02
- Philip Browne, Patricia de Rosnay, Hao Zuo (July 2019) Coupled ocean–atmosphere data assimilation at ECMWF, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 160, pp. 23-28. DOI: 10.21957/ka471pbj9e
- 2018
- (July 2018) ECMWF activities for improved hurricane forecasts, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.
- 2017
- (July 2017) Data assimilation in the solar wind: challenges and first results, Space Weather.
- 2016
- (July 2016) Mesh adaptation on the sphere using optimal transport and the numerical solution of a Monge--Ampère type equation, Journal of Computational Physics.
- (July 2016) Model error moment estimation via data assimilation, arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.01226.
- (July 2016) A comparison of the equivalent weights particle filter and the local ensemble transform Kalman filter in application to the barotropic vorticity equation, Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography.
- (July 2016) A systematic method of parameterisation estimation using data assimilation, Tellus A: Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography.
- 2015
- (July 2015) A simple method for integrating a complex model into an ensemble data assimilation system using MPI, Environmental Modelling & Software.
- (July 2015) Twin experiments with the equivalent weights particle filter and HadCM3, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society.
- 2014
- (July 2014) Fast three dimensional r-adaptive mesh redistribution, Journal of Computational Physics.
- (July 2014) RMetS special interest group Meeting: high resolution data assimilation, Atmospheric Science Letters.
- 2012
- (July 2012) A fast method for binary programming using first-order derivatives, with application to topology optimization with buckling constraints, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
Contact Details:
philip.browne
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