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P. de Rosnay is affiliated with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with significant contributions to subfields including Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Environmental Engineering, Oceanography, and Water Science and Technology.

Their scientific work covers a range of topics such as:

  • Climate variability and models
  • Meteorological phenomena and simulations
  • Soil moisture and remote sensing
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Precipitation measurement and analysis
  • Geophysics and gravity measurements

P. de Rosnay has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications - confronting product characteristics with user requirements, 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • ECLand: The ECMWF Land Surface Modelling System, 2021, Atmosphere
  • Coupled data assimilation at ECMWF: current status, challenges and future developments, 2022, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): organization and experimental design, 2021, Geoscientific Model Development

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Gianpaolo Balsamo
  • David Fairbairn
  • Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater
  • Peter Weston
  • Frédéric Vitart

P. de Rosnay commonly publishes in venues such as:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Remote Sensing
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • The Cryosphere

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

  • L-band Microwave Emission of the Biosphere (L-MEB) Model: Description and calibration against experimental data sets over crop fields

    J.P. Wigneron;Y.H. Kerr;P. Waldteufel;K. Saleh

  • Upscaling sparse ground‐based soil moisture observations for the validation of coarse‐resolution satellite soil moisture products

    Wade T. Crow;Aaron A. Berg;Michael H. Cosh;Alexander Loew

  • The ASCAT Soil Moisture Product: A Review of its Specifications, Validation Results, and Emerging Applications

    Wolfgang Wagner;Sebastian Hahn;Richard Kidd;Thomas Melzer

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

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

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    Clement Albergel;Patricia de Rosnay;Claire Gruhier;Joaquin Muñoz-Sabater

  • Modeling Root Water Uptake in Hydrological and Climate Models

    R.A. Feddes;H. Hoff;M. Bruen;T.E. Dawson

  • Modelling the Passive Microwave Signature from Land Surfaces: A Review of Recent Results and Application to the L-Band SMOS SMAP Soil Moisture Retrieval Algorithms

    J.-P. Wigneron;T.J. Jackson;P. O'Neill;G. De Lannoy

  • Snow depth variability in the Northern Hemisphere mountains observed from space.

    Hans Lievens;Hans Lievens;Matthias Demuzere;Matthias Demuzere;Hans-Peter Marshall;Hans-Peter Marshall;Rolf H. Reichle

  • The Representation of Snow in Land Surface Schemes: Results from PILPS 2(d)

    A. G. Slater;A. G. Slater;C. A. Schlosser;C. E. Desborough;A. J. Pitman

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

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

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

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

  • A roadmap for high-resolution satellite soil moisture applications ─ confronting product characteristics with user requirements

    Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Jian Peng;Clement Albergel;Anna Balenzano;Luca Brocca

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

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

  • Global-scale evaluation of two satellite-based passive microwave soil moisture datasets (SMOS and AMSR-E) with respect to Land Data Assimilation System estimates

    A. Al-Yaari;A. Al-Yaari;J.-P. Wigneron;A. Ducharne;Y. Kerr

  • Simulations of a boreal grassland hydrology at Valdai, Russia: PILPS phase 2(d).

    C. Adam Schlosser;Andrew G. Slater;Alan Robock;Andrew J. Pitman

  • Evaluation of snow depth and snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau in global reanalyses using in situ and satellite remote sensing observations

    Yvan Orsolini;Martin Wegmann;Martin Wegmann;Emanuel Dutra;Boqi Liu

  • Initialisation of Land Surface Variables for Numerical Weather Prediction

    Patricia de Rosnay;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Clément Albergel;Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater

  • A new parameterization of the effective temperature for L band radiometry

    T. R. H. Holmes;T. R. H. Holmes;P. de Rosnay;R. de Jeu;R. J.-P. Wigneron

  • Large-scale overview of the summer monsoon over West Africa during the AMMA field experiment in 2006

    S. Janicot;C. D. Thorncroft;A. Ali;N. Asencio

  • Effects of frozen soil on soil temperature, spring infiltration, and runoff: Results from the PILPS 2(d) experiment at Valdai, Russia

    Lifeng Luo;Alan Robock;Konstantin Y. Vinnikov;C. Adam Schlosser

  • Soil moisture active and passive microwave products : intercomparison and evaluation over a Sahelian site

    C. Gruhier;P. de Rosnay;S. Hasenauer;T.R.H. Holmes

  • Modelling root water uptake in a complex land surface scheme coupled to a GCM

    P. de Rosnay;J. Polcher

  • From near-surface to root-zone soil moisture using different assimilation techniques

    Joaquín Muñoz Sabater;Lionel Jarlan;Jean-Christophe Calvet;François Bouyssel

  • Evaluation of remotely sensed and modelled soil moisture products using global ground-based in situ observations

    C. Albergel;P. de Rosnay;C. Gruhier;J. Munoz-Sabater

Frequent Co-Authors

Clément Albergel
Clément Albergel Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Jean-Pierre Wigneron
Jean-Pierre Wigneron University of Rennes
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jean-Christophe Calvet
Jean-Christophe Calvet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Yann Kerr
Yann Kerr Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Joaquin Munoz-Sabater
Joaquin Munoz-Sabater European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Eric Mougin
Eric Mougin Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Matthias Drusch
Matthias Drusch European Space Agency
Arnaud Mialon
Arnaud Mialon Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Lars Isaksen
Lars Isaksen European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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