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Overview

Eleni Katragkou is affiliated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. Their research focuses primarily on environmental and earth sciences, with significant contributions to atmospheric science and global and planetary change.

Their work spans topics including:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change impacts on agriculture
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Plant water relations and carbon dynamics
  • Precipitation measurement and analysis

Eleni Katragkou has contributed to major publication venues such as:

  • Climate Dynamics
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The Cryosphere
  • Geophysical Research Letters

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Katragkou include:

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community, 2020, Regional Environmental Change
  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation, 2021, Climate Dynamics
  • Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: first results from the LUCAS (Land Use and Climate Across Scales) regional climate model intercomparison, 2020, Earth System Dynamics
  • The Opposing Effects of Reforestation and Afforestation on the Diurnal Temperature Cycle at the Surface and in the Lowest Atmospheric Model Level in the European Summer, 2020, Journal of Climate
  • The added value of km-scale simulations to describe temperature over complex orography: the CORDEX FPS-Convection multi-model ensemble runs over the Alps, 2022, Climate Dynamics

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Stefan Sobolowski
  • Pedro M. M. Soares
  • Rita M. Cardoso
  • Στέργιος Κάρτσιος
  • Jesús Fernández

The primary fields of study covered by their publications are environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their subfields focus on atmospheric science and global and planetary change, with additional studies in ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, as well as environmental engineering and public health related to environmental and occupational health.

Best Publications

  • The simulation of European heat waves from an ensemble of regional climate models within the EURO-CORDEX project

    Robert Vautard;Andreas Gobiet;Daniela Jacob;Michal Belda

  • Regional climate downscaling over Europe: perspectives from the EURO-CORDEX community

    Daniela Jacob;Claas Teichmann;Stefan Sobolowski;Eleni Katragkou

  • A first-of-its-kind multi-model convection permitting ensemble for investigating convective phenomena over Europe and the Mediterranean

    Erika Coppola;Stefan Sobolowski;E. Pichelli;F. Raffaele

  • Tropospheric chemistry in the integrated forecasting system of ECMWF

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

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, part I: evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola;Emanuela Pichelli

  • The CAMS interim Reanalysis of Carbon Monoxide, Ozone and Aerosol for 2003–2015

    Johannes Flemming;Angela Benedetti;Antje Inness;Richard J. Engelen

  • Regional climate hindcast simulations within EURO-CORDEX: evaluation of a WRF multi-physics ensemble

    E. Katragkou;M. García-Díez;R. Vautard;S. Sobolowski

  • Data assimilation of satellite-retrieved ozone, carbon monoxide and nitrogen dioxide with ECMWF's Composition-IFS

    A. Inness;A. M. Blechschmidt;I. Bouarar;S. Chabrillat

  • Reviews and perspectives of high impact atmospheric processes in the Mediterranean

    Silas Michaelides;Silas Michaelides;Theodore Karacostas;Jose Luis Sánchez;Adrianos Retalis

  • Land-atmosphere coupling in EURO-CORDEX evaluation experiments

    Sebastian Knist;Klaus Goergen;Erasmo Buonomo;Ole Bøssing Christensen

  • Biogeophysical impacts of forestation in Europe: first results from the LUCAS (Land Use and Climate Across Scales) regional climate model intercomparison

    Edouard Léopold Davin;Diana Rechid;Marcus Breil;Rita M. Cardoso

  • Future climate change impacts on summer surface ozone from regional climate‐air quality simulations over Europe

    E. Katragkou;P. Zanis;I. Kioutsioukis;I. Tegoulias

  • Aerosol Lidar observations and model calculations of the Planetary Boundary Layer evolution over Greece, during the March 2006 Total Solar Eclipse

    V. Amiridis;D. Melas;D. S. Balis;A. Papayannis

  • Validation of reactive gases and aerosols in the MACC global analysis and forecast system

    H. Eskes;V. Huijnen;A. Arola;A. Benedictow

  • Recent past and future patterns of the Etesian winds based on regional scale climate model simulations

    Christina Anagnostopoulou;Prodromos Zanis;Eleni Katragkou;Ioannis Tegoulias

  • Is the ozone climate penalty robust in Europe

    Augustin Colette;Camilla Andersson;Alexander Baklanov;Bertrand Bessagnet

  • The Opposing Effects of Reforestation and Afforestation on the Diurnal Temperature Cycle at the Surface and in the Lowest Atmospheric Model Level in the European Summer

    Marcus Breil;D. Rechid;E. L. Davin;N. De Noblet-Ducoudré

  • PM10 regional transport pathways in Thessaloniki, Greece

    E. Katragkou;S. Kazadzis;V. Amiridis;V. Papaioannou

  • Global model simulations of air pollution during the 2003 European heat wave

    C Ordoñez;C Ordoñez;N Elguindi;O Stein;V Huijnen

  • Particle emissions from aircraft engines – a survey of the European project PartEmis

    Andreas Petzold;Markus Fiebig;Lutz Fritzsche;Claudia Stein

  • A deep stratosphere-to-troposphere ozone transport event over Europe simulated in CAMS global and regional forecast systems: analysis and evaluation

    Dimitris Akritidis;Eleni Katragkou;Prodromos Zanis;Ioannis Pytharoulis

  • The first multi-model ensemble of regional climate simulations at kilometer-scale resolution, Part I: Evaluation of precipitation

    Nikolina Ban;Erwan Brisson;Cécile Caillaud;Erika Coppola

Frequent Co-Authors

Prodromos Zanis
Prodromos Zanis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Dimitrios Melas
Dimitrios Melas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Rita M. Cardoso
Rita M. Cardoso University of Lisbon
Pedro M. M. Soares
Pedro M. M. Soares University of Lisbon
Johannes Flemming
Johannes Flemming European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Martin Schultz
Martin Schultz Forschungszentrum Jülich
Antje Inness
Antje Inness European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Christos Zerefos
Christos Zerefos Academy of Athens
Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré
Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

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