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Environmental Sciences
UK
2023

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
74
Citations
52996
World Ranking
1305
National Ranking
104

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Magdalena Balmaseda is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with extensive work in Environmental Science. Within these fields, their specialized subfields include Global and Planetary Change, Atmospheric Science, Oceanography, and areas related to Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law.

Their scholarly contributions concentrate on various topics such as Climate Variability and Models, Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations, Marine and Coastal Ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Magdalena Balmaseda has published a range of papers, with notable recent works including:

  • Current and Emerging Developments in Subseasonal to Decadal Prediction (2020), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects (2021), Science
  • Coupled data assimilation at ECMWF: current status, challenges and future developments (2022), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Evaluating Twenty-Year Trends in Earth's Energy Flows From Observations and Reanalyses (2022), Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • The representation of winter Northern Hemisphere atmospheric blocking in ECMWF seasonal prediction systems (2021), Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society

Frequent collaborators in their work include Frédéric Vitart, Hao Zuo, Michael Mayer, Christopher D. Roberts, and Arun Kumar.

Magdalena Balmaseda often publishes in venues such as the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Climate Dynamics, Frontiers in Marine Science, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, and the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans.

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

  • Evaluation of the ECMWF ocean reanalysis system ORAS4

    Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda;Kristian Mogensen;Anthony T. Weaver

  • The ECMWF operational ensemble reanalysis–analysis system for ocean and sea ice: a description of the system and assessment

    Hao Zuo;Magdalena Alonso Balmaseda;Steffen Tietsche;Kristian Mogensen

  • Distinctive climate signals in reanalysis of global ocean heat content

    Magdalena A. Balmaseda;Kevin E. Trenberth;Erland Källén

  • SEAS5: the new ECMWF seasonal forecast system

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

  • Global sea-level budget 1993 - present

    Anny Cazenave;Benoit Meyssignac;Michael Ablain

  • Earth’s Energy Imbalance

    Kevin E. Trenberth;John T. Fasullo;Magdalena A. Balmaseda

  • The ECMWF Ocean Analysis System: ORA-S3

    Magdalena A. Balmaseda;Arthur Vidard;David L. T. Anderson

  • Global seasonal rainfall forecasts using a coupled ocean–atmosphere model

    T. N. Stockdale;D. L. T. Anderson;J. O. S. Alves;M. A. Balmaseda

  • CERA-20C: A Coupled Reanalysis of the Twentieth Century

    Patrick Laloyaux;Eric de Boisseson;Magdalena Balmaseda;Jean-Raymond Bidlot

  • The Ocean Reanalyses Intercomparison Project (ORA-IP)

    M. A. Balmaseda;F. Hernandez;A. Storto;M. D. Palmer

  • Improved Sea Level record over the satellite altimetry era (1993-2010) from the Climate Change Initiative project

    M. Ablain;A. Cazenave;G. Larnicol;M. Balmaseda

  • Current and emerging developments in subseasonal to decadal prediction

    William J. Merryfield;Johanna Baehr;Lauriane Batté;Emily J. Becker

  • Toward a Consistent Reanalysis of the Climate System

    D. P. Dee;M. Balmaseda;G. Balsamo;R. Engelen

  • A coupled data assimilation system for climate reanalysis

    Patrick Laloyaux;Magdalena Balmaseda;Dick Dee;Kristian Mogensen

  • The role of the ocean in the Madden-Julian Oscillation : Implications for MJO prediction

    S. J. Woolnough;F. Vitart;M. A. Balmaseda

  • Decadal and Seasonal Dependence of ENSO Prediction Skill

    Magdalena A. Balmaseda;Michael K. Davey;David L. T. Anderson

  • Impact of initialization strategies and observations on seasonal forecast skill

    M. Balmaseda;D. Anderson

  • Decadal climate variability in the tropical Pacific: Characteristics, causes, predictability, and prospects.

    Scott Power;Scott Power;Matthieu Lengaigne;Antonietta Capotondi;Antonietta Capotondi;Myriam Khodri

  • ECMWF seasonal forecast system 3 and its prediction of sea surface temperature

    Timothy N. Stockdale;David L. T. Anderson;Magdalena A. Balmaseda;Francisco Doblas-Reyes

Frequent Co-Authors

David L. T. Anderson
David L. T. Anderson European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Simona Masina
Simona Masina Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici
Frederic Vitart
Frederic Vitart European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Keith Haines
Keith Haines University of Reading
Timothy N. Stockdale
Timothy N. Stockdale European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Detlef Stammer
Detlef Stammer Universität Hamburg
Matthew Martin
Matthew Martin Met Office
Tong Lee
Tong Lee California Institute of Technology
Anny Cazenave
Anny Cazenave Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales

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