Retish Senan

Scientist

Research Department, Earth System Predictability Section, Long Range

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Summary:

Retish Senan is a Scientist in the Earth System Predictability Section of ECMWF's Research Department. Having joined the Centre in 2016, he contributed to the development of a climate configuration of IFS and has been responsible for maintaining and improving long multiyear experimentation capabilities of IFS. His interests include climate variability on sub-seasonal to interannual timescales and the impact of land-surface and cryosphere on seasonal predictability. He also focuses on the attribution of seasonal climate anomalies - their forecast error and predictability, as well as improving diagnostic tools for seasonal forecast verification.

Professional interests:

Earth System Modelling
Model evaluation and diagnostics
Sub-seasonal to interannual climate variability and predictability
Land-surface and cryospheric impacts on climate

Career background:

Education

Ph.D., Indian Institute of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Bangalore, India (2004). Thesis on "Intraseasonal variability of the equatorial Indian Ocean circulation". Advisors: Profs. Debasis Sengupta and B. N. Goswami

M.Sc. (Engg.), Indian Institute of Science, Faculty of Engineering, Bangalore, India (1999). Master's Thesis on "Intraseasonal variability of the northeast Indian Ocean circulation in an ocean model".

M.Sc. in Oceanography, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kochi, India (1997).

Professional Experience

2012-2015: Researcher, Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2007-2011: Scientist, Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
2007: Research Engineer, LSCE/IPSL/CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
2006-2007: Research Engineer, LOCEAN, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
2004-2006: Post-Doctoral Researcher, LOCEAN, University Pierre and Marie Curie, Paris, France
1999-2004: Doctoral Researcher, Indian Institute of Sciences, Bangalore, India

Publications

2022
- Wei Li, Jie Chen, Lu Li, Yvan J. Orsolini, Yiheng Xiang, Retish Senan, Patricia de Rosnay (May 2022) Impacts of snow assimilation on seasonal snow and meteorological forecasts for the Tibetan Plateau. DOI: 10.5194/tc-2022-87
- Wei Li, Jie Chen, Lu Li, Yvan J. Orsolini, Yiheng Xiang, Retish Senan, Patricia de Rosnay (May 2022) Supplementary material to "Impacts of snow assimilation on seasonal snow and meteorological forecasts for the Tibetan Plateau". DOI: 10.5194/tc-2022-87-supplement
- Mugni Hadi Hariadi, Gerard Schrier, Gert‐Jan Steeneveld, Ardhasena Sopaheluwakan, Albert Klein Tank, Malcolm John Roberts, Marie‐Pierre Moine, Alessio Bellucci, Retish Senan, Etienne Tourigny, Dian Putrasahan (April 2022) Evaluation of onset, cessation and seasonal precipitation of the Southeast Asia rainy season in CMIP5 regional climate models and HighResMIP global climate models, International Journal of Climatology n. 5, pp. 3007–3024. DOI: 10.1002/joc.7404
- Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Louis-Philippe Caron, Saskia Loosveldt Tomas, Javier Vegas-Regidor, Oliver Gutjahr, Marie-Pierre Moine, Dian Putrasahan, Christopher D. Roberts, Malcolm J. Roberts, Retish Senan, Laurent Terray, Etienne Tourigny, Pier Luigi Vidale (January 2022) Impact of increased resolution on long-standing biases in HighResMIP-PRIMAVERA climate models, Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-15-269-2022
- Norman G. Loeb, Michael Mayer, Seiji Kato, John T. Fasullo, Hao Zuo, Retish Senan, John M. Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, Magdalena Balmaseda (June 2022) Evaluating Twenty‐Year Trends in Earth's Energy Flows From Observations and Reanalyses, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1029/2022JD036686
- Daniel L. R. Hodson, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière, Christophe Cassou, Paolo Davini, Nicholas P. Klingaman, Katja Lohmann, Jorge Lopez-Parages, Marta Martín-Rey, Marie-Pierre Moine, Paul-Arthur Monerie, Dian A. Putrasahan, Christopher D. Roberts, Jon Robson, Yohan Ruprich-Robert, Emilia Sanchez-Gomez, Jon Seddon, Retish Senan (February 2022) Coupled climate response to Atlantic Multidecadal Variability in a multi-model multi-resolution ensemble, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-022-06157-9
- Ronan McAdam, Simona Masina, Magdalena Balmaseda, Silvio Gualdi, Retish Senan, Michael Mayer (January 2022) Seasonal forecast skill of upper-ocean heat content in coupled high-resolution systems, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-021-06101-3
- Norman G. Loeb, Michael Mayer, Seiji Kato, John Fasullo, Hao Zuo, Retish Senan, John Miller Lyman, Gregory C. Johnson, Magdalena Alonso-Balmaseda (February 2022) Evaluating Twenty-Year Trends in Earth's Energy Flows from Observations. DOI: 10.1002/essoar.10510650.1
- 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
- Steve Delhaye, Thierry Fichefet, François Massonnet, David Docquier, Rym Msadek, Svenya Chripko, Christopher Roberts, Sarah Keeley, Retish Senan (May 2022) Summertime changes in climate extremes over the peripheral Arctic regions after a sudden sea ice retreat, Weather and Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.5194/wcd-3-555-2022
2021
- Yongkang Xue, Tandong Yao, Aaron A. Boone, Ismaila Diallo, Ye Liu, Xubin Zeng, William K. M. Lau, Shiori Sugimoto, Qi Tang, Xiaoduo Pan, Peter J. van Oevelen, Daniel Klocke, Myung-Seo Koo, Tomonori Sato, Zhaohui Lin, Yuhei Takaya, Constantin Ardilouze, Stefano Materia, Subodh K. Saha, Retish Senan, Tetsu Nakamura, Hailan Wang, Jing Yang, Hongliang Zhang, Mei Zhao, Xin-Zhong Liang, J. David Neelin, Frederic Vitart, Xin Li, Ping Zhao, Chunxiang Shi, Weidong Guo, Jianping Tang, Miao Yu, Yun Qian, Samuel S. P. Shen, Yang Zhang, Kun Yang, Ruby Leung, Yuan Qiu, Daniele Peano, Xin Qi, Yanling Zhan, Michael A. Brunke, Sin Chan Chou, Michael Ek, Tianyi Fan, Hong Guan, Hai Lin, Shunlin Liang, Helin Wei, Shaocheng Xie, Haoran Xu, Weiping Li, Xueli Shi, Paulo Nobre, Yan Pan, Yi Qin, Jeff Dozier, Craig R. Ferguson, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Qing Bao, Jinming Feng, Jinkyu Hong, Songyou Hong, Huilin Huang, Duoying Ji, Zhenming Ji, Shichang Kang, Yanluan Lin, Weiguang Liu, Ryan Muncaster, Patricia de Rosnay, Hiroshi G. Takahashi, Guiling Wang, Shuyu Wang, Weicai Wang, Xu Zhou, Yuejian Zhu (July 2021) Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): organization and experimental design, Geoscientific Model Development n. 7, pp. 4465–4494. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-14-4465-2021
- Amulya Chevuturi, Andrew G. Turner, Stephanie Johnson, Antje Weisheimer, Jonathan K. P. Shonk, Timothy N. Stockdale, Retish Senan (February 2021) Forecast skill of the Indian monsoon and its onset in the ECMWF seasonal forecasting system 5 (SEAS5), Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05624-5
- Steve Delhaye, Thierry Fichefet, François Massonnet, David Docquier, Rym Msadek, Svenya Chripko, Christopher Roberts, Sarah Keeley, Retish Senan (December 2021) Summertime changes in climate extremes over the peripheral Arctic regions after a sudden sea ice retreat. DOI: 10.5194/wcd-2021-80
- Antonello A. Squintu, Gerard van der Schrier, Else van den Besselaar, Eveline van der Linden, Dian Putrasahan, Christopher Roberts, Malcolm Roberts, Enrico Scoccimarro, Retish Senan, Albert Klein Tank (March 2021) Evaluation of trends in extreme temperatures simulated by HighResMIP models across Europe, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05596-6
- 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
- Steve Delhaye, Thierry Fichefet, François Massonnet, David Docquier, Christopher Roberts, Sarah Keeley, Retish Senan, Rym Msadek, Svenya Chripko, Javier García-Serrano, Pierre-Antoine Bretonnière (March 2021) Role of the internal climate variability in the atmospheric response to a sudden summer Arctic sea ice loss. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-2528
- Omar V. Müller, Pier Luigi Vidale, Benoît Vannière, Reinhard Schiemann, Retish Senan, Reindert J. Haarsma, Johann H. Jungclaus (February 2021) Land–Atmosphere Coupling Sensitivity to GCMs Resolution: A Multimodel Assessment of Local and Remote Processes in the Sahel Hot Spot, Journal of Climate n. 3, pp. 967–985. DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-20-0303.1
- Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Louis-Philippe Caron, Saskia Loosveldt Tomas, Oliver Gutjahr, Marie-Pierre Moine, Dian Putrasahan, Christopher D. Roberts, Malcolm J. Roberts, Retish Senan, Laurent Terray, Etienne Tourigny, Pier Luigi Vidale (June 2021) Impact of increased resolution on long-standing biases in HighResMIP-PRIMAVERA climate models. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2021-209
- Eduardo Moreno-Chamarro, Louis-Philippe Caron, Saskia Loosveldt Tomas, Oliver Gutjahr, Marie-Pierre Moine, Dian Putrasahan, Christopher D. Roberts, Malcolm J. Roberts, Retish Senan, Laurent Terray, Etienne Tourigny, Pier Luigi Vidale (June 2021) Supplementary material to "Impact of increased resolution on long-standing biases in HighResMIP-PRIMAVERA climate models". DOI: 10.5194/gmd-2021-209-supplement
2020
- Gerard van der Schrier, Antonello Squintu, Else van den Besselaar, Eveline van der Linden, Enrico Scoccimarro, Christopher Roberts, Retish Senan, Dian Putrasahan, Malcolm Roberts, Albert Klein Tank (March 2020) Evaluation of trends in extreme temperatures simulated by HighResMIP models across Europe. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-21769
- Marie-Estelle Demory, Ségolène Berthou, Jesús Fernández, Silje L. Sørland, Roman Brogli, Malcolm J. Roberts, Urs Beyerle, Jon Seddon, Rein Haarsma, Christoph Schär, Erasmo Buonomo, Ole B. Christensen, James M. Ciarlo ̀, Rowan Fealy, Grigory Nikulin, Daniele Peano, Dian Putrasahan, Christopher D. Roberts, Retish Senan, Christian Steger, Claas Teichmann, Robert Vautard (November 2020) European daily precipitation according to EURO-CORDEX regional climate models (RCMs) and high-resolution global climate models (GCMs) from the High-Resolution Model Intercomparison Project (HighResMIP), Geoscientific Model Development n. 11, pp. 5485–5506. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-13-5485-2020
- Margot Bador, Julien Boé, Laurent Terray, Lisa V. Alexander, Alexander Baker, Alessio Bellucci, Rein Haarsma, Torben Koenigk, Marie‐Pierre Moine, Katja Lohmann, Dian A. Putrasahan, Chris Roberts, Malcolm Roberts, Enrico Scoccimarro, Reinhard Schiemann, Jon Seddon, Retish Senan, Sophie Valcke, Benoit Vanniere (July 2020) Impact of Higher Spatial Atmospheric Resolution on Precipitation Extremes Over Land in Global Climate Models, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres n. 13. DOI: 10.1029/2019jd032184
- Malcolm John Roberts, Joanne Camp, Jon Seddon, Pier Luigi Vidale, Kevin Hodges, Benoit Vanniere, Jenny Mecking, Rein Haarsma, Alessio Bellucci, Enrico Scoccimarro, Louis-Philippe Caron, Fabrice Chauvin, Laurent Terray, Sophie Valcke, Marie-Pierre Moine, Dian Putrasahan, Christopher Roberts, Retish Senan, Colin Zarzycki, Paul Ullrich (April 2020) Impact of Model Resolution on Tropical Cyclone Simulation Using the HighResMIP–PRIMAVERA Multimodel Ensemble, Journal of Climate n. 7, pp. 2557–2583. DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0639.1
- Julien Boé, Laurent Terray, Marie-Pierre Moine, Sophie Valcke, Alessio Bellucci, Sybren Drijfhout, Rein Haarsma, Katja Lohmann, Dian A. Putrasahan, Chris Roberts, Malcom Roberts, Enrico Scoccimarro, Jon Seddon, Retish Senan, Klaus Wyser (August 2020) Past long-term summer warming over western Europe in new generation climate models: role of large-scale atmospheric circulation, Environmental Research Letters n. 8, pp. 084038. DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ab8a89
- Benoît Vannière, Malcolm Roberts, Pier Luigi Vidale, Kevin Hodges, Marie-Estelle Demory, Louis-Philippe Caron, Enrico Scoccimarro, Laurent Terray, Retish Senan (October 2020) The Moisture Budget of Tropical Cyclones in HighResMIP Models: Large-Scale Environmental Balance and Sensitivity to Horizontal Resolution, Journal of Climate n. 19, pp. 8457–8474. DOI: 10.1175/jcli-d-19-0999.1
- Franco Molteni, Christopher D. Roberts, Retish Senan, Sarah P. E. Keeley, Alessio Bellucci, Susanna Corti, Ramon Fuentes Franco, Rein Haarsma, Xavier Levine, Dian Putrasahan, Malcolm J. Roberts, Laurent Terray (July 2020) Boreal-winter teleconnections with tropical Indo-Pacific rainfall in HighResMIP historical simulations from the PRIMAVERA project, Climate Dynamics n. 7-8, pp. 1843–1873. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-020-05358-4
2019
- Yvan Orsolini, Martin Wegmann, Emanuel Dutra, Boqi Liu, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Kun Yang, Patricia de Rosnay, Congwen Zhu, Wenli Wang, Retish Senan, Gabriele Arduini (August 2019) Evaluation of snow depth and snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau in global reanalyses using in situ and satellite remote sensing observations, The Cryosphere n. 8, pp. 2221–2239. DOI: 10.5194/tc-13-2221-2019
2018
- Christopher D. Roberts, Retish Senan, Franco Molteni, Souhail Boussetta, Michael Mayer, Sarah P. E. Keeley (September 2018) Climate model configurations of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System (ECMWF-IFS cycle 43r1) for HighResMIP, Geoscientific Model Development n. 9, pp. 3681–3712. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-11-3681-2018
- Benoît Vannière, Marie-Estelle Demory, Pier Luigi Vidale, Reinhard Schiemann, Malcolm J. Roberts, Christopher D. Roberts, Mio Matsueda, Laurent Terray, Torben Koenigk, Retish Senan (2018) Multi-model evaluation of the sensitivity of the global energy budget and hydrological cycle to resolution, Climate Dynamics n. 11, pp. 6817–6846. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-018-4547-y
2016
- Michel Mesquita, Vidyunmala Veldore, Lu Li, R. Krishnan, Yvan Orsolini, Retish Senan, M. Ramarao, Ellen Viste (March 2016) Forecasting India's Water Future, Eos. DOI: 10.1029/2016eo049099
- Rasmus E. Benestad, Retish Senan, Yvan Orsolini (November 2016) The use of regression for assessing a seasonal forecast model experiment, Earth System Dynamics n. 4, pp. 851–861. DOI: 10.5194/esd-7-851-2016
- Retish Senan, Yvan J. Orsolini, Antje Weisheimer, Frédéric Vitart, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Timothy N. Stockdale, Emanuel Dutra, Francisco J. Doblas-Reyes, Droma Basang (November 2016) Impact of springtime Himalayan–Tibetan Plateau snowpack on the onset of the Indian summer monsoon in coupled seasonal forecasts, Climate Dynamics.
2015
- Y. J. Orsolini, R. Senan, F. Vitart, G. Balsamo, A. Weisheimer, F. J. Doblas-Reyes (November 2015) Influence of the Eurasian snow on the negative North Atlantic Oscillation in subseasonal forecasts of the cold winter 2009/2010, Clim Dyn. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-015-2903-8
2013
- Y. J. Orsolini, R. Senan, G. Balsamo, F. J. Doblas-Reyes, F. Vitart, A. Weisheimer, A. Carrasco, R. E. Benestad (May 2013) Impact of snow initialization on sub-seasonal forecasts, Clim Dyn n. 7-8, pp. 1969–1982. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-013-1782-0
2012
- Debasis Sengupta, B. N. Goswami, Retish Senan (2012) Coherent intraseasonal oscillations of ocean and atmosphere during the Asian Summer Monsoon, Geophysical Research Letters n. 21, pp. 4127–4130. DOI: 10.1029/2001gl013587
2011
- Yvan J. Orsolini, Retish Senan, Rasmus E. Benestad, Arne Melsom (August 2011) Autumn atmospheric response to the 2007 low Arctic sea ice extent in coupled ocean–atmosphere hindcasts, Climate Dynamics n. 11-12, pp. 2437–2448. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-011-1169-z
- R. E. Benestad, R. Senan, M. Balmaseda, L. Ferranti, Y. Orsolini, A. Melsom (March 2011) Sensitivity of summer 2-m temperature to sea ice conditions, TELLUSA. DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v63i2.15781
2007
- Debasis Sengupta, Retish Senan, B. N. Goswami, Jérôme Vialard (July 2007) Intraseasonal Variability of Equatorial Indian Ocean Zonal Currents, Journal of Climate n. 13, pp. 3036–3055. DOI: 10.1175/jcli4166.1
2006
- Toru Miyama, Julian P. McCreary, Debasis Sengupta, Retish Senan (May 2006) Dynamics of Biweekly Oscillations in the Equatorial Indian Ocean*, Journal of Physical Oceanography n. 5, pp. 827–846. DOI: 10.1175/jpo2897.1
2003
- Retish Senan, Debasis Sengupta, B. N. Goswami (July 2003) Intraseasonal “monsoon jets” in the equatorial Indian Ocean, Geophysical Research Letters n. 14. DOI: 10.1029/2003gl017583
2001
- Debasis Sengupta, Retish Senan, B. N. Goswami (April 2001) Origin of intraseasonal variability of circulation in the tropical central Indian Ocean, Geophysical Research Letters n. 7, pp. 1267–1270. DOI: 10.1029/2000gl012251