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Peter Bechtold 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 significant contributions in Environmental Science. The main subfields of their work include Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Bechtold's work covers several scientific topics, including:

  • Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
  • Climate variability and models
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Precipitation Measurement and Analysis
  • Wind and Air Flow Studies

The scientist has frequently published in several academic venues, notably:

  • Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN
  • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Peter Bechtold include:

  • The ERA5 global reanalysis, 2020, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Characteristics of convective precipitation over tropical Africa in storm-resolving global simulations, 2021, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • Revision of the Stochastically Perturbed Parametrisations model uncertainty scheme in the Integrated Forecasting System, 2021, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society
  • High-Resolution Aircraft Observations of Turbulence and Waves in the Free Atmosphere and Comparison With Global Model Predictions, 2022, Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres
  • Unraveling the Mechanism of Extreme (More than 30 Sigma) Precipitation during August 2018 and 2019 over Kerala, India, 2021, Weather and Forecasting

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Irina Sandu
  • P. Mukhopadhyay
  • R. Phani
  • Jean-Raymond Bidlot
  • Richard Forbes

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

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

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

  • A mass-flux convection scheme for regional and global models

    P. Bechtold;E. Bazile;F. Guichard;P. Mascart

  • Aerosol analysis and forecast in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts Integrated Forecast System : Forward modeling

    J.-J. Morcrette;O. Boucher;L. Jones;D. Salmond

  • Sensitivity of moist convection to environmental humidity

    S. H. Derbyshire;I. Beau;P. Bechtold;J.-Y. Grandpeix

  • Representing Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Convection in Large-Scale Models

    Peter Bechtold;Noureddine Semane;Philippe Lopez;Jean-Pierre Chaboureau

  • Entrainment and detrainment in cumulus convection: an overview

    Wim C. de Rooy;Peter Bechtold;Kristina Fröhlich;Cathy Hohenegger

  • The simulation of the diurnal cycle of convective precipitation over land in a global model

    P. Bechtold;J.-P. Chaboureau;A. Beljaars;A. K. Betts

  • Transport and scavenging of soluble gases in a deep convective cloud

    Céline Mari;Daniel James Jacob;Peter Bechtold

  • Overview of the Meso-NH model version 5.4 and its applications

    Christine Lac;Jean Pierre Chaboureau;Valéry Masson;Jean Pierre Pinty

  • Modelling the diurnal cycle of deep precipitating convection over land with cloud-resolving models and single-column models

    F Guichard;J C Petch;J L Redelsperger;P Bechtold

  • Tropospheric chemistry in the integrated forecasting system of ECMWF

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

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

    Irina Sandu;Anton Beljaars;Peter Bechtold;Thorsten Mauritsen

  • Stochastic representations of model uncertainties at ECMWF: state of the art and future vision

    Martin Leutbecher;Sarah‐Jane Lock;Pirkka Ollinaho;Simon T. K. Lang

  • An intercomparison of radiatively driven entrainment and turbulence in a smoke cloud, as simulated by different numerical models

    C. S. Bretherton;M. K. Macvean;P. Bechtold;Andreas Chlond

  • Daytime convective development over land: A model intercomparison based on LBA observations

    W. W. Grabowski;P. Bechtold;A. Cheng;R. Forbes

  • Characteristics of occasional poor medium-range weather forecasts for Europe

    Mark J Rodwell;Linus Magnusson;Peter Bauer;Peter Bechtold

  • Improved Middle Atmosphere Climate and Forecasts in the ECMWF Model through a Nonorographic Gravity Wave Drag Parameterization

    Andrew Orr;Peter Bechtold;John Scinocca;Manfred Ern

  • Towards process-level representation of model uncertainties: stochastically perturbed parametrizations in the ECMWF ensemble

    Pirkka Ollinaho;Pirkka Ollinaho;Sarah-Jane Lock;Martin Leutbecher;Peter Bechtold

  • Review Article Entrainment and detrainment in cumulus convection: an overview

    Wim C. de Rooy;Peter Bechtold;Harm Jonker;Dmitrii Mironov

Frequent Co-Authors

Anton Beljaars
Anton Beljaars European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jean-Luc Redelsperger
Jean-Luc Redelsperger University of Western Brittany
Françoise Guichard
Françoise Guichard Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Gianpaolo Balsamo
Gianpaolo Balsamo European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Frederic Vitart
Frederic Vitart European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Peter Bauer
Peter Bauer European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Adrian M. Tompkins
Adrian M. Tompkins International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau
Jean-Pierre Chaboureau Laboratoire d'Aérologie
Robin J. Hogan
Robin J. Hogan European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
Jean-Jacques Morcrette
Jean-Jacques Morcrette European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts

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