Principal Scientist
Research, Earth System Modelling, Physical Processes
Summary:
Richard leads the team working on the representation of atmospheric physical processes in the ECMWF global numerical weather prediction model (the Integrated Forecasting System, IFS) to improve forecasts across space- and time-scales. He has a particular interest in the representation of clouds and precipitation in models and has used a wide range of observations to evaluate models across space and time scales, and understand physical processes and their interactions.
Professional interests:
- Improving numerical weather prediction from days to seasonal timescales
- Parametrization of cloud and precipitation microphysics and sub-grid processes
- Using observations for evaluation of atmospheric models
- Understanding interactions between different atmospheric processes
Career background:
- 2024-present: Team Leader Physical Processes, Principal Scientist, Research Department, ECMWF
- 2022-2023: Team Leader Physical Processes, Senior Scientist, Research Department, ECMWF
- 2010-2021: Senior Scientist, Research Department, ECMWF
- 2007-2010: Scientist (Atmospheric Processes), Research Department, ECMWF
- 2004: Secondment to Norwegian Meteorological Institute, Oslo, Norway
- 1998-2007: Scientist (Mesoscale and Convective-scale Processes), Joint Centre for Mesoscale Meteorology, Met Office, Reading, UK
- 1998-2001: PhD (Extra-tropical Cyclones), Dept of Meteorology, University of Reading, UK
- 1992-1998: Scientist (Ocean Modelling and Data Assimilation), Met Office, Bracknell, UK
External recognitions
- 2024-present: Member of GEWEX Scientific Steering Group
- 2016-2019: Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for KIAPS, South Korea
- 2007-2012: Chair of the Royal Meteorological Society Meetings Committee and Council Member
- 2003: European Meteorological Society Young Scientist Award
- 1995: Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (FRMetS)
- 2024
- Paolo Andreozzi, Mark Fielding, Richard Forbes, Robin Hogan (March 2024) Implementing the first indirect radiative effect of aerosols in the ECMWF model. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17697
- Benoît Vannière, Irina Sandu, Peter Dueben, Richard Forbes, Inna Polichtchouk, Annelize Van Niekerk, Birgit Sützl, Michail Diamantakis, Jasper Denissen, Estibaliz Gascon, Michael Maier-Gerber, Llorenç Lledo, Ivan Bastak-Duran, Aristofanis Tsiringakis, Tobias Becker, Josef Schröttle, Ziga Zaplotnik (March 2024) The Global Extremes Digital Twin of Destination Earth: successes and challenges. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20097
- Luise Schulte, Linus Magnusson, Richard Forbes, Jonathan Day, Vera Schemann, Susanne Crewell (March 2024) Representation of Arctic mixed-phase clouds in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System during MOSAiC. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-20507
- Andrew Gettelman, Richard Forbes, Roger Marchand, Chih-Chieh Chen, Mark Fielding (April 2024) The Impact of Cloud Microphysics and Ice Nucleation on Southern Ocean Clouds Assessed with Single Column Modeling and Instrument Simulators. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2024-599
- Birgit Sützl, Annelize van Niekerk, Anton Beljaars, Pedro Maciel, Margarita Choulga, Martin Janoušek, Bennoît Vannière, Richard Forbes, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Irina Sandu, Peter Dueben (July 2024) Optimising orography for global high-resolution simulations. DOI: 10.5194/ems2024-259
- 2023
- Andrew Gettelman, Hugh Morrison, Trude Eidhammer, Katherine Thayer-Calder, Jian Sun, Richard Forbes, Zachary McGraw, Jiang Zhu, Trude Storelvmo, John Dennis (March 2023) Importance of ice nucleation and precipitation on climate with the Parameterization of Unified Microphysics Across Scales version 1 (PUMASv1), Geoscientific Model Development. DOI: 10.5194/gmd-16-1735-2023
- Gillian Young McCusker, Jutta Vüllers, Peggy Achtert, Paul Field, Jonathan J. Day, Richard Forbes, Ruth Price, Ewan O'Connor, Michael Tjernström, John Prytherch, Ryan Neely III, Ian M. Brooks (April 2023) Evaluating Arctic clouds modelled with the Unified Model and Integrated Forecasting System, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI: 10.5194/acp-23-4819-2023
- 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
- Estíbaliz Gascón, Irina Sandu, Benoît Vannière, Linus Magnusson, Richard Forbes, Inna Polichtchouk, Annelize Van Niekerk, Birgit Sützl, Michael Maier-Gerber, Michail Diamantakis, Peter Bechtold, Gianpaolo Balsamo (July 2023) Advances towards a better prediction of weather extremes in the Destination Earth initiative . DOI: 10.5194/ems2023-659
- Linette Boisvert, Melinda A. Webster, Chelsea L. Parker, Richard M. Forbes (October 2023) Rainy Days in the Arctic, Journal of Climate.
- 2022
- 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
- Andrew Gettelman, Alan J. Geer, Richard M. Forbes, Greg R. Carmichael, Graham Feingold, Derek J. Posselt, Graeme L. Stephens, Susan C. van den Heever, Adam C. Varble, Paquita Zuidema (April 2022) The future of Earth system prediction: Advances in model-data fusion, Science Advances n. 14. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abn3488
- Ian Boutle, Wayne Angevine, Jian-Wen Bao, Thierry Bergot, Ritthik Bhattacharya, Andreas Bott, Leo Ducongé, Richard Forbes, Tobias Goecke, Evelyn Grell, Adrian Hill, Adele L. Igel, Innocent Kudzotsa, Christine Lac, Bjorn Maronga, Sami Romakkaniemi, Juerg Schmidli, Johannes Schwenkel, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Benoît Vié (January 2022) Demistify: a large-eddy simulation (LES) and single-column model (SCM) intercomparison of radiation fog, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI: 10.5194/acp-22-319-2022
- Andrew Gettelman, Hugh Morrison, Trude Eidhammer, Katherine Thayer-Calder, Jian Sun, Richard Forbes, Zachary McGraw, Jiang Zhu, Trude Storelvmo, John Dennis (November 2022) Importance of Ice Nucleation and Precipitation on Climate with the Parameterization of Unified Microphysics Across Scales version 1 (PUMASv1). DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-2022-980
- 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 I. 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
- Richard Forbes, Patrick Laloyaux, Mark John Rodwell (October 2021) IFS upgrade improves moist physics and use of satellite observations, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 169, pp. 17-24. DOI: 10.21957/m3805gf17r
- Jake Bland, Suzanne Gray, John Methven, Richard Forbes (October 2021) Characterising extratropical near‐tropopause analysis humidity biases and their radiative effects on temperature forecasts, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society n. 741, pp. 3878-3898. DOI: 10.1002/qj.4150
- Ian Boutle, Wayne Angevine, Jian-Wen Bao, Thierry Bergot, Ritthik Bhattacharya, Andreas Bott, Leo Ducongé, Richard Forbes, Tobias Goecke, Evelyn Grell, Adrian Hill, Adele Igel, Innocent Kudzotsa, Christine Lac, Bjorn Maronga, Sami Romakkaniemi, Juerg Schmidli, Johannes Schwenkel, Gert-Jan Steeneveld, Benoît Vié (October 2021) Demistify: an LES and SCM intercomparison of radiation fog. DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-832
- Gillian Young, Jutta Vüllers, Peggy Achtert, Paul Field, Jonathan J. Day, Richard Forbes, Ruth Price, Ewan O'Connor, Michael Tjernström, John Prytherch, Ryan Neely III, Ian M. Brooks (September 2021) Supplementary material to "Evaluating Arctic clouds modelled with the Unified Model and Integrated Forecasting System". DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-662-supplement
- Gillian Young, Jutta Vüllers, Peggy Achtert, Paul Field, Jonathan J. Day, Richard Forbes, Ruth Price, Ewan O'Connor, Michael Tjernström, John Prytherch, Ryan Neely III, Ian M. Brooks (September 2021) Evaluating Arctic clouds modelled with the Unified Model and Integrated Forecasting System. DOI: 10.5194/acp-2021-662
- Jake Bland, Suzanne Gray, John Methven, Richard Forbes (March 2021) Characterising extratropical near tropopause analysis humidity biases and their radiative effects on temperature forecasts. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu21-8834
- Simon T. K. Lang, Sarah‐Jane Lock, Martin Leutbecher, Peter Bechtold, Richard M. Forbes (January 2021) Revision of the Stochastically Perturbed Parametrisations model uncertainty scheme in the Integrated Forecasting System, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3978
- Inna Polichtchouk, Peter Bechtold, Massimo Bonavita, Richard Forbes, Sean Healy, Robin Hogan, Patrick Laloyaux, Michael Rennie, Timothy Stockdale, Nils Wedi, Michail Diamantakis, Johannes Flemming, Stephen English, Lars Isaksen, Filip Vána, Sonja Gisinger, Nicholas Byrne (January 2021) Stratospheric modelling and assimilation, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 877. DOI: 10.21957/25hegfoq
- 2020
- Daniel Steinfeld, Maxi Boettcher, Richard Forbes, Stephan Pfahl (February 2020) The sensitivity of atmospheric blocking to changes in upstream latent heating – numerical experiments. DOI: 10.5194/wcd-2020-5
- Daniel Steinfeld, Maxi Boettcher, Richard Forbes, Stephan Pfahl (February 2020) Supplementary material to "The sensitivity of atmospheric blocking to changes in upstream latent heating – numerical experiments". DOI: 10.5194/wcd-2020-5-supplement
- Daniel Steinfeld, Maxi Boettcher, Richard Forbes, Stephan Pfahl (August 2020) The sensitivity of atmospheric blocking to upstream latent heating – numerical experiments, Weather and Climate Dynamics n. 2, pp. 405-426. DOI: 10.5194/wcd-1-405-2020
- Mark D. Fielding, Sophia A. K. Schäfer, Robin J. Hogan, Richard M. Forbes (April 2020) Parametrizing cloud geometry and its application in a subgrid cloud‐edge erosion scheme, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3758
- Stephan Pfahl, Daniel Steinfeld, Maxi Boettcher, Richard Forbes (March 2020) The sensitivity of atmospheric blocking to changes in upstream latent heating. DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-17897
- Peter Bechtold, Richard Forbes, irina sandu, Simon Lang, Maike Ahlgrimm (July 2020) A major moist physics upgrade for the IFS, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 164, pp. 24-32. DOI: 10.21957/3gt59vx1pb
- 2019
- Alan Geer, Niels Bormann, Katrin Lonitz, Peter Weston, Richard Forbes, Stephen English (November 2019) Recent progress in all‑sky radiance assimilation, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 161, pp. 20-25. DOI: 10.21957/mb31c8ag74
- (June 2019) Modification of Potential Vorticity near the Tropopause by Nonconservative Processes in the ECMWF Model, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences. DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-18-0295.1
- Roman Attinger, Elisa Spreitzer, Maxi Boettcher, Richard Forbes, Heini Wernli, Hanna Joos (May 2019) Quantifying the role of individual diabatic processes for the formation of PV anomalies in a North Pacific cyclone, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3573
- 2018
- C. J. Morcrette, K. Van Weverberg, H.‐Y. Ma, M. Ahlgrimm, E. Bazile, L. K. Berg, A. Cheng, F. Cheruy, J. Cole, R. Forbes, W. I. Gustafson Jr, M. Huang, W.‐S. Lee, Y. Liu, L. Mellul, W. J. Merryfield, Y. Qian, R. Roehrig, Y.‐C. Wang, S. Xie, K.‐M. Xu, C. Zhang, S. Klein, J. Petch (March 2018) Introduction to CAUSES: Description of Weather and Climate Models and Their Near‐Surface Temperature Errors in 5 day Hindcasts Near the Southern Great Plains, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres n. 5, pp. 2655-2683. DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027199
- (September 2018) The Numerics of Physical Parametrization in the ECMWF Model, Frontiers in Earth Science. DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00137
- (November 2018) Building the Next Generation of Climate Modelers: Scale-Aware Physics Parameterization and the “Grey Zone” Challenge, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1175/bams-d-18-0145.1
- (March 2018) CAUSES: On the Role of Surface Energy Budget Errors to the Warm Surface Air Temperature Error Over the Central United States, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1002/2017jd027194
- (April 2018) CAUSES: Attribution of Surface Radiation Biases in NWP and Climate Models near the U.S. Southern Great Plains, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1002/2017jd027188
- Christophe Genthon, Richard Forbes, Etienne Vignon, Andrew Gettelman, Jean‐Baptiste Madeleine (August 2018) Comment on “Surface Air Relative Humidities Spuriously Exceeding 100% in CMIP5 Model Output and Their Impact on Future Projections” by K. Ruosteenoja et al. (2017), Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1029/2017JD028111
- Maike Ahlgrimm, Richard M. Forbes, Robin J. Hogan, Irina Sandu (August 2018) Understanding Global Model Systematic Shortwave Radiation Errors in Subtropical Marine Boundary Layer Cloud Regimes, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems. DOI: 10.1029/2018MS001346
- Mark John Rodwell, Richard Forbes, Heini Wernli (July 2018) Why warm conveyor belts matter in NWP , ECMWF newsletter, issue 154, pp. 21-28. DOI: 10.21957/mr20vg
- 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
- 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
- 2017
- (January 2017) Towards process-level representation of model uncertainties: stochastically perturbed parametrizations in the ECMWF ensemble, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2931
- (October 2017) Katabatic winds diminish precipitation contribution to the Antarctic ice mass balance, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1707633114
- (July 2017) Stochastic representations of model uncertainties at ECMWF: state of the art and future vision, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3094
- (April 2017) Using satellite and reanalysis data to evaluate the representation of latent heating in extratropical cyclones in a climate model, Climate Dynamics. DOI: 10.1007/s00382-016-3204-6
- (October 2017) Regime dependence of ice cloud heterogeneity - a convective life-cycle effect?, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.3178
- Andrew I. Barrett, Robin J. Hogan, Richard M. Forbes (September 2017) Why are mixed‐phase altocumulus clouds poorly predicted by large‐scale models? Part 2. Vertical resolution sensitivity and parameterization, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1002/2016JD026322
- Andrew I. Barrett, Robin J. Hogan, Richard M. Forbes (September 2017) Why are mixed‐phase altocumulus clouds poorly predicted by large‐scale models? Part 1. Physical processes, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1002/2016JD026321
- Alan Geer, Maike Ahlgrimm, Peter Bechtold, Massimo Bonavita, Niels Bormann, Stephen English, Mark Fielding, Richard Forbes, Robin Hogan, Elias Hólm, Marta Janiskova, Katrin Lonitz, Philippe Lopez, Marco Matricardi, irina sandu, P. Weston (July 2017) Assimilating observations sensitive to cloud and precipitation, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 815. DOI: 10.21957/sz7cr1dym
- Roberto Buizza, Erik Andersson, Richard Forbes, M. Sleigh (July 2017) The ECMWF research to operations (R20) process, ECMWF Technical Memorandum n. 806. DOI: 10.21957/m3r9bvg6x
- 2016
- (January 2016) Summer Arctic clouds in the ECMWF forecast model: an evaluation of cloud parametrization schemes, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2658
- (October 2016) Impact of different IFS microphysics on a warm conveyor belt and the downstream flow evolution, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2863
- Maike Ahlgrimm, Richard M. Forbes, Jean-Jacques Morcrette, Roel A. J. Neggers (April 2016) ARM’s Impact on Numerical Weather Prediction at ECMWF, Meteorological Monographs. DOI: 10.1175/amsmonographs-d-15-0032.1
- Maike Ahlgrimm, Richard M. Forbes (April 2016) Regime dependence of cloud condensate variability observed at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Sites, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2783
- Elias Hólm, Richard Forbes, Simon Lang, Magnusson L., Malardel S. (July 2016) New model cycle brings higher resolution, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 147, pp. 14-19. DOI: 10.21957/s2gvuwmg
- Richard Forbes, Alan Geer, Katrin Lonitz, Maike Ahlgrimm (July 2016) Reducing systematic errors in cold-air outbreaks, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 146, pp. 17-22. DOI: 10.21957/s41h7q7l
- 2015
- (April 2015) Comparison of ECMWF analysis and forecast humidity data with CARIBIC upper troposphere and lower stratosphere observations, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.2400
- Richard Forbes, Thomas Haiden, Magnusson L. (July 2015) Improvements in IFS forecasts of heavy precipitation, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 144, pp. 21-26. DOI: 10.21957/jxtonky0
- Thomas Haiden, Richard Forbes, Maike Ahlgrimm, Alessio Bozzo (July 2015) The skill of ECMWF cloudiness forecasts, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 143, pp. 14-19. DOI: 10.21957/lee5bz2g
- 2014
- (October 2014) Comparison of Fast In situ Stratospheric Hygrometer (FISH) measurements of water vapor in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS) with ECMWF (re)analysis data, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-10803-2014
- (August 2014) Characterizing the radiative impacts of precipitating snow in the ECMWF Integrated Forecast System global model, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1002/2014jd021450
- (August 2014) Diagnosing the average spatio-temporal impact of convective systems – Part 2: A model intercomparison using satellite data, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI: 10.5194/acp-14-8701-2014
- (June 2014) Global versus Local MJO Forecast Skill of the ECMWF Model during DYNAMO, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-13-00292.1
- Maike Ahlgrimm, Richard Forbes (February 2014) Improving the Representation of Low Clouds and Drizzle in the ECMWF Model Based on ARM Observations from the Azores, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-13-00153.1
- Richard M. Forbes, Maike Ahlgrimm (September 2014) On the Representation of High-Latitude Boundary Layer Mixed-Phase Cloud in the ECMWF Global Model, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-13-00325.1
- Richard Forbes, Ivan Tsonevsky, Timothy Hewson, Martin Leutbecher (July 2014) Towards predicting high-impact freezing rain events, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 141, pp. 15-21. DOI: 10.21957/xcauc5jf
- Thomas Haiden, Linus Magnusson, Ivan Tsonevsky, Fredrik Wetterhall, L. Alfieri, Florian Pappenberger, Patricia de Rosnay, Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater, Gianpaolo Balsamo, C. Albergel, Richard Forbes, Timothy Hewson, S. Malardel, David Richardson (June 2014) ECMWF forecast performance during the June 2013 flood in Central Europe, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 723, pp. 34. DOI: 10.21957/4p9ebc2r3
- Peter Bechtold, irina sandu, D. Klocke, N. Semane, Maike Ahlgrimm, Anton Beljaars, Richard Forbes, Mark John Rodwell (July 2014) The role of shallow convection in ECMWF's Integrated Forecasting System, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 725, pp. 27. DOI: 10.21957/heba1qwem
- A. Kunz, N. Spelten, P. Konopka, R. Müller, R. M. Forbes, H. Wernli (June 2014) Comparison of in-situ FISH measurements of water vapor in the UTLS with ECMWF (re)analysis data n. 10, pp. 14399-14438. DOI: 10.5194/acpd-14-14399-2014
- 2013
- (December 2013) Diagnosing the average spatio-temporal impact of convective systems – Part 1: A methodology for evaluating climate models, Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-12043-2013
- Peter Bauer, Anton Beljaars, Maike Ahlgrimm, Peter Bechtold, Jean Bidlot, Massimo Bonavita, Alessio Bozzo, Richard Forbes, E. V. Hólm, Martin Leutbecher, Philippe Lopez, Linus Magnusson, F. Prates, Mark John Rodwell, irina sandu, A. Untch, Frederic Vitart (July 2013) Model Cycle 38r2: Components and Performance, ECMWF Technical Memoranda n. 704, pp. 58. DOI: 10.21957/xc1r0lj6l
- M. S. Johnston, P. Eriksson, S. Eliasson, M. D. Zelinka, R. M. Forbes, K. Wyser (May 2013) Diagnosing the average spatio-temporal impact of convective systems – Part 1: A methodology for evaluating climate models n. 5, pp. 13653-13684. DOI: 10.5194/acpd-13-13653-2013
- 2012
- Maike Ahlgrimm, Richard Forbes (November 2012) The Impact of Low Clouds on Surface Shortwave Radiation in the ECMWF Model, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-11-00316.1
- Sabatino Di Michele, Maike Ahlgrimm, Richard Forbes, Mark Kulie, Ralf Bennartz, Marta Janisková, Peter Bauer (April 2012) Interpreting an evaluation of the ECMWF global model with CloudSat observations: ambiguities due to radar reflectivity forward operator uncertainties, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.1936
- H.-Y. Ma, M. Köhler, J.-L. F. Li, J. D. Farrara, C. R. Mechoso, R. M. Forbes, D. E. Waliser (March 2012) Evaluation of an ice cloud parameterization based on a dynamical-microphysical lifetime concept using CloudSat observations and the ERA-Interim reanalysis, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1029/2011jd016275
- 2011
- Richard Forbes, Tompkins A. (July 2011) An improved representation of cloud and precipitation, ECMWF Newsletter, issue 129, pp. 13-18. DOI: 10.21957/nfgulzhe
- Richard Forbes, A.M. Tompkins, A. Untch (September 2011) A new prognostic bulk microphysics scheme for the IFS, ECMWF Technical Memorandum n. 649, pp. 22. DOI: 10.21957/bf6vjvxk
- 2010
- Anna Agustí-Panareda, Anton Beljaars, Maike Ahlgrimm, Gianpaolo Balsamo, Olivier Bock, Richard Forbes, Anna Ghelli, Françoise Guichard, Martin Köhler, Remi Meynadier, Jean-Jacques Morcrette (July 2010) The ECMWF re-analysis for the AMMA observational campaign, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1002/qj.662
- Graeme L. Stephens, Tristan L'Ecuyer, Richard Forbes, Andrew Gettelmen, Jean-Christophe Golaz, Alejandro Bodas-Salcedo, Kentaroh Suzuki, Philip Gabriel, John Haynes (July 2010) Dreary state of precipitation in global models, Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres. DOI: 10.1029/2010jd014532
- 2009
- Yong Ming Tang, Rachel Capon, Richard Forbes, Peter Clark (June 2009) Fog prediction using a very high resolution numerical weather prediction model forced with a single profile, Meteorological Applications. DOI: 10.1002/met.88
- Anna Agusti-Panareda, Anton Beljaars, Maike Ahlgrimm, Gianpaolo Balsamo, O. Bock, Richard Forbes, A Ghelli, F. Guichard, M. Köhler, R. Meynadier, J.-J. Morcrette (December 2009) The ECMWF re-analysis for the AMMA observational campaign, ECMWF Technical Memorandum n. 612, pp. 29. DOI: 10.21957/7mrvtf61j
- 2008
- Humphrey W. Lean, Peter A. Clark, Mark Dixon, Nigel M. Roberts, Anna Fitch, Richard Forbes, Carol Halliwell (September 2008) Characteristics of High-Resolution Versions of the Met Office Unified Model for Forecasting Convection over the United Kingdom, Monthly Weather Review. DOI: 10.1175/2008mwr2332.1
- 2006
- Richard M. Forbes, Robin J. Hogan (April 2006) Observations of the depth of ice particle evaporation beneath frontal cloud to improve NWP modelling, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1256/qj.04.187
- 2003
- Richard M. Forbes, Peter A. Clark (January 2003) Sensitivity of extratropical cyclone mesoscale structure to the parametrization of ice microphysical processes, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. DOI: 10.1256/qj.01.171
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