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1531
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124

Overview

Gianpaolo Balsamo is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily lies in the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a focus on Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Water Science and Technology.

The scientist's work covers several key topics, including Climate variability and models, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Cryospheric studies and observations, Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics, Atmospheric Ozone and Climate, and Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols.

Among recent papers, notable publications include:

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications, 2021, Earth system science data
  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors, 2021, Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Land-Atmosphere Interactions Exacerbated the Drought and Heatwave Over Northern Europe During Summer 2018, 2021, AGU Advances
  • Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing, 2021, Nature Geoscience

Frequent coauthors include:

  • Souhail Boussetta
  • Margarita Choulga
  • Joe McNorton
  • Anna Agustí-Panareda
  • Gabriele Arduini

Common publication venues where the scientist's work has appeared are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
  • Earth system science data
  • Hydrology and earth system sciences
  • Nature Geoscience

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 ERA5 global reanalysis

    Hans Hersbach;Bill Bell;Paul Berrisford;Shoji Hirahara

  • ERA5-Land: a state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications

    Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Anna Agustí-Panareda;Clément Albergel;Clément Albergel

  • ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding : State-of-the art and future directions

    Wouter Dorigo;Wolfgang Wagner;Clement Albergel;Franziska Albrecht

  • The WFDEI meteorological forcing data set: WATCH Forcing Data methodology applied to ERA-Interim reanalysis data

    Graham P. Weedon;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Nicolas Bellouin;Sandra Gomes

  • 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

  • Advances in simulating atmospheric variability with the ECMWF model: From synoptic to decadal time-scales

    Peter Bechtold;Martin Köhler;Thomas Jung;Francisco Doblas-Reyes

  • SEAS5: the new ECMWF seasonal forecast system

    Stephanie J. Johnson;Timothy N. Stockdale;Laura Ferranti;Magdalena A. Balmaseda

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

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

  • Contribution of land surface initialization to subseasonal forecast skill: first results from a multi-model experiment.

    R. D. Koster;S. P.P. Mahanama;S. P.P. Mahanama;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;T.J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • The Second Phase of the Global Land–Atmosphere Coupling Experiment: Soil Moisture Contributions to Subseasonal Forecast Skill

    R. D. Koster;S. P. P. Mahanama;S. P. P. Mahanama;S. P. P. Mahanama;T. J. Yamada;T. J. Yamada;T. J. Yamada;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • Global intercomparison of 12 land surface heat flux estimates

    C. Jiménez;C. Prigent;B. Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne

  • Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations

    Brigitte Mueller;S. I. Seneviratne;C. Jimenez;T. Corti

  • ERA-5 and ERA-Interim driven ISBA land surface model simulations: which one performs better?

    Clement Albergel;Emanuel Dutra;Simon Munier;Jean Christophe Calvet

  • 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

  • A simplified Extended Kalman Filter for the global operational soil moisture analysis at ECMWF

    Patricia de Rosnay;Matthias Drusch;Drasko Vasiljevic;Gianpaolo Balsamo

  • The Plumbing of Land Surface Models: Benchmarking Model Performance

    M.J. Best;G. Abramowitz;H.R. Johnson;A.J. Pitman

  • Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors

    Hylke E. Beck;Ming Pan;Diego G. Miralles;Rolf H. Reichle

  • Why is it so difficult to represent stably stratified conditions in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models

    Irina Sandu;Anton Beljaars;Peter Bechtold;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • Skill and Global Trend Analysis of Soil Moisture from Reanalyses and Microwave Remote Sensing

    C. Albergel;W. Dorigo;R. H. Reichle;G. Balsamo

  • Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system

    P. Ciais;A. J. Dolman;A. Bombelli;R. Duren

  • A global water resources ensemble of hydrological models: The eartH2Observe Tier-1 dataset

    Jaap Schellekens;Emanuel Dutra;Emanuel Dutra;Alberto Martínez-de la Torre;Gianpaolo Balsamo

Frequent Co-Authors

Emanuel Dutra
Emanuel Dutra Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Anton Beljaars
Anton Beljaars European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Anna Agusti-Panareda
Anna Agusti-Panareda European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Joaquin Munoz-Sabater
Joaquin Munoz-Sabater European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Pedro Viterbo
Pedro Viterbo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
P. de Rosnay
P. de Rosnay European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Florian Pappenberger
Florian Pappenberger European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Frederic Vitart
Frederic Vitart European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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