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67
Citations
56030
World Ranking
1912
National Ranking
156

Overview

Anton Beljaars is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a primary focus on Atmospheric Science and Global and Planetary Change. Additional subfields include Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Environmental Engineering.

The scientist's work centers on key topics such as Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Climate Variability and Models, Geophysics and Gravity Measurements, Aeolian Processes and Effects, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Cryospheric Studies and Observations.

Anton Beljaars has contributed to several publications across notable venues, including Boundary-Layer Meteorology, Atmosphere, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, and Preprints.org. Frequent co-authors include Gianpaolo Balsamo, Gabriele Arduini, Irina Sandu, Nils Wedi, and A.A.M. Holtslag.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Anton Beljaars include:

  • ECLand: The ECMWF Land Surface Modelling System, 2021, Atmosphere
  • Fifty Years of Atmospheric Boundary-Layer Research at Cabauw Serving Weather, Air Quality and Climate, 2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Representation of Boundary-Layer Processes in Numerical Weather Prediction and Climate Models, 2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology
  • Measuring the Impact of a New Snow Model Using Surface Energy Budget Process Relationships, 2020, Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Commentaries on Top-Cited Boundary-Layer Meteorology Articles, 2020, Boundary-Layer Meteorology

Best Publications

  • The ERA-Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system

    D. P. Dee;S. M. Uppala;A. J. Simmons;Paul Berrisford

  • The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

    S. M. Uppala;P. W. Kållberg;Adrian J. Simmons;U. Andrae

  • Flux Parameterization over Land Surfaces for Atmospheric Models

    A. C. M. Beljaars;A. A. M. Holtslag

  • A Revised Hydrology for the ECMWF Model: Verification from Field Site to Terrestrial Water Storage and Impact in the Integrated Forecast System

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars;Klaus Scipal;Pedro Viterbo

  • The land surface-atmosphere interaction: A review based on observational and global modeling perspectives

    Alan K. Betts;John H. Ball;Anton C. M. Beljaars;Martin J. Miller

  • The EarthCARE Satellite: The Next Step Forward in Global Measurements of Clouds, Aerosols, Precipitation, and Radiation

    A. J. Illingworth;H. W. Barker;A. Beljaars;Marie Ceccaldi

  • The parametrization of surface fluxes in large-scale models under free convection

    Anton C. M. Beljaars

  • An Improved Land Surface Parameterization Scheme in the ECMWF Model and Its Validation.

    Pedro Viterbo;Anton C. M. Beljaars

  • The Anomalous Rainfall over the United States during July 1993: Sensitivity to Land Surface Parameterization and Soil Moisture Anomalies

    Anton C. M. Beljaars;Pedro Viterbo;Martin J. Miller;Alan K. Betts

  • ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set

    G. Balsamo;C. Albergel;A. Beljaars;S. Boussetta

  • Aerosol analysis and forecast in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Integrated Forecast System : Forward modeling

    J.-J. Morcrette;O. Boucher;L. Jones;D. Salmond

  • Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers and Diurnal Cycles: Challenges for Weather and Climate Models

    A. A. M. Holtslag;Gunilla Svensson;P. Baas;S. Basu

  • Climatology of the planetary boundary layer over the continental United States and Europe

    Dian J. Seidel;Yehui Zhang;Anton Beljaars;Jean-Christophe Golaz

  • Single-Column Model Intercomparison for a Stably Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer

    J Cuxart;A A M Holtslag;R J Beare;E Bazile

  • Representing Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Convection in Large-Scale Models

    Peter Bechtold;Noureddine Semane;Philippe Lopez;Jean-Pierre Chaboureau

  • Comparison of trends and low-frequency variability in CRU, ERA-40, and NCEP//NCAR analyses of surface air temperature

    A. J. Simmons;P. D. Jones;V. da Costa Bechtold;A. C. M. Beljaars

  • The representation of soil moisture freezing and its impact on the stable boundary layer

    Pedro Viterbo;Anton Beljaars;Jean‐François Mahfouf;João Teixeira

  • An Improved Snow Scheme for the ECMWF Land Surface Model: Description and Offline Validation

    Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Pedro Viterbo;Pedro M. A. Miranda

  • The simulation of the diurnal cycle of convective precipitation over land in a global model

    P. Bechtold;J.-P. Chaboureau;A. Beljaars;A. K. Betts

  • Tropospheric chemistry in the integrated forecasting system of ECMWF

    J. Flemming;V. Huijnen;J. Arteta;P. Bechtold

  • A new parametrization of turbulent orographic form drag

    Anton C. M. Beljaars;Andrew R. Brown;Nigel Wood

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Pedro Viterbo
Pedro Viterbo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Peter Bechtold
Peter Bechtold European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Anna Agusti-Panareda
Anna Agusti-Panareda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Alan K. Betts
Alan K. Betts Colorado State University
Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Adrian M. Tompkins
Adrian M. Tompkins International Centre for Theoretical Physics
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Jean-Jacques Morcrette
Jean-Jacques Morcrette European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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