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Jean-François Mahfouf is affiliated with the Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées in France. Their research spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on Environmental Science.

Their work encompasses several subfields, including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Aerospace Engineering, Water Science and Technology, and Oceanography.

Research topics covered by Mahfouf include Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Precipitation Measurement and Analysis, Climate variability and models, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mahfouf are:

  • Vivien Pourret
  • Philippe Chambon
  • Christophe Payan
  • Patrick Moll
  • Nadia Fourrié

Publications are often found in key meteorological and atmospheric science journals. Regular publication venues include:

  • La Météorologie
  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Mahfouf provide insight into practical and methodological advancements within numerical weather prediction and data assimilation. Notable works published are:

  • Operational assimilation of Aeolus winds in the Météo-France global NWP model ARPEGE, 2022, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Advancing Weather and Climate Forecasting for Our Changing World, 2022, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Impact of the variational assimilation of ground-based GNSS zenith total delay into AROME-Morocco model, 2020, Tellus A Dynamic Meteorology and Oceanography
  • Toward a variational assimilation of polarimetric radar observations in a convective-scale numerical weather prediction (NWP) model, 2020, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques
  • Bayesian Selection of Atmospheric Profiles from an Ensemble Data Assimilation System using Infrasonic Observations of May 2016 Mount Etna Eruptions, 2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres

Best Publications

  • The ERA‐40 re‐analysis

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

  • The ECMWF operational implementation of four-dimensional variational assimilation. I: Experimental results with simplified physics

    F. Rabier;H. Järvinen;E. Klinker;J.-F. Mahfouf

  • The ISBA land surface parameterisation scheme

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  • The SURFEXv7.2 land and ocean surface platform for coupled or offline simulation of earth surface variables and fluxes

    V. Masson;P. Le Moigne;E. Martin;S. Faroux

  • A new snow parameterization for the Météo-France climate model

    H. Douville;J. F. Royer;J. F. Mahfouf

  • Cabauw Experimental Results from the Project for Intercomparison of Land-Surface Parameterization Schemes

    T.H. Chen;A. Henderson-Sellers;P.C.D. Milly;A.J. Pitman

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

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

  • Analysis of Soil Moisture from Near-Surface Parameters: A Feasibility Study

    Jean-François Mahfouf

  • A Canadian precipitation analysis (CaPA) project: Description and preliminary results

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  • Evaluation of the Optimum Interpolation and Nudging Techniques for Soil Moisture Analysis Using FIFE Data

    Hervé Douville;Pedro Viterbo;Jean-François Mahfouf;Anton C. M. Beljaars

  • Interpretation of snow-climate feedback as produced by 17 general circulation models.

    R. D. Cess;G. L. Potter;M. H. Zhang;J. P. Blanchet

  • The Influence of Soil and Vegetation on the Development of Mesoscale Circulations

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  • The ecmwf operational implementation of four-dimensional variational assimilation. III: Experimental results and diagnostics with operational configuration

    E. Klinker;F. Rabier;G. Kelly;J.‐F. Mahfouf

  • Issues Regarding the Assimilation of Cloud and Precipitation Data

    Ronald M. Errico;Peter Bauer;Jean-François Mahfouf

  • Satellite and in situ observations for advancing global earth surface modelling: A review

    Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anna Agusti-Panareda;Clement Albergel;Gabriele Arduini

  • The Land Surface Scheme ISBA within the Météo-France Climate Model ARPEGE. Part I. Implementation and Preliminary Results

    J.-F. Mahfouf;A. O. Manzi;J. Noilhan;H. Giordani

  • A new snow parameterization for the Météo-France climate model: Part II: validation in a 3-D GCM experiment

    H. Douville;J. F. Royer;J. F. Mahfouf

  • Operational Implementation of the 1D+3D-Var Assimilation Method of Radar Reflectivity Data in the AROME Model

    Eric Wattrelot;Olivier Caumont;Jean-François Mahfouf

  • Inclusion of Gravitational Drainage in a Land Surface Scheme Based on the Force-Restore Method.

    J.-F. Mahfouf;J. Noilhan

  • Tropical singular vectors computed with linearized diabatic physics

    J. Barkmeijer;R. Buizza;T. N. Palmer;K. Puri

  • Key results and implications from phase 1(c) of the Project for Intercomparison of Land-surface Parametrization Schemes

    A. J. Pitman;A. Henderson-Sellers;C. E. Desborough;Z.-L. Yang

  • Influence of physical processes on the tangent‐linear approximation

    Jean-François Mahfouf

  • An EKF assimilation of AMSR-E soil moisture into the ISBA land surface scheme

    C S Draper;Jean-Francois F Mahfouf;Jeffrey P Walker

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jeffrey P. Walker
Jeffrey P. Walker Monash University
Eric Martin
Eric Martin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
F. Chevallier
F. Chevallier University of Paris-Saclay
Jean-Louis Roujean
Jean-Louis Roujean Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Anton Beljaars
Anton Beljaars European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Pedro Viterbo
Pedro Viterbo Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Jean-Jacques Morcrette
Jean-Jacques Morcrette European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Bertrand Timbal
Bertrand Timbal Bureau of Meteorology

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