2023
Agustí-Panareda, A., Barré, J., Massart, S., Inness, A., Aben, I., Ades, M., Baier, B. C., Balsamo, G., Borsdorff, T., Bousserez, N., Boussetta, S., Buchwitz, M., Cantarello, L., Crevoisier, C., Engelen, R., Eskes, H., Flemming, J., Garrigues, S., Hasekamp, O., Huijnen, V., Jones, L., Kipling, Z., Langerock, B., McNorton, J., Meilhac, N., Noël, S., Parrington, M., Peuch, V.-H., Ramonet, M., Razinger, M., Reuter, M., Ribas, R., Suttie, M., Sweeney, C., Tarniewicz, J., and Wu, L.: Technical note: The CAMS greenhouse gas reanalysis from 2003 to 2020, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 3829–3859, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-3829-2023, 2023.
, , , , , , et al. (2023). An urban scheme for the ECMWF Integrated forecasting system: Global forecasts and residential CO2 emissions. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 15, e2022MS003286. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022MS003286.
Petrescu, A. M. R., Qiu, C., McGrath, M. J., Peylin, P., Peters, G. P., Ciais, P., Thompson, R. L., Tsuruta, A., Brunner, D., Kuhnert, M., Matthews, B., Palmer, P. I., Tarasova, O., Regnier, P., Lauerwald, R., Bastviken, D., Höglund-Isaksson, L., Winiwarter, W., Etiope, G., Aalto, T., Balsamo, G., Bastrikov, V., Berchet, A., Brockmann, P., Ciotoli, G., Conchedda, G., Crippa, M., Dentener, F., Groot Zwaaftink, C. D., Guizzardi, D., Günther, D., Haussaire, J.-M., Houweling, S., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Kouyate, M., Leip, A., Leppänen, A., Lugato, E., Maisonnier, M., Manning, A. J., Markkanen, T., McNorton, J., Muntean, M., Oreggioni, G. D., Patra, P. K., Perugini, L., Pison, I., Raivonen, M. T., Saunois, M., Segers, A. J., Smith, P., Solazzo, E., Tian, H., Tubiello, F. N., Vesala, T., van der Werf, G. R., Wilson, C., and Zaehle, S.: The consolidated European synthesis of CH4 and N2O emissions for the European Union and United Kingdom: 1990–2019, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 15, 1197–1268, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-1197-2023, 2023.
McGrath, M. J., Petrescu, A. M. R., Peylin, P., Andrew, R. M., Matthews, B., Dentener, F., Balkovič, J., Bastrikov, V., Becker, M., Broquet, G., Ciais, P., Fortems, A., Ganzenmüller, R., Grassi, G., Harris, I., Jones, M., Knauer, J., Kuhnert, M., Monteil, G., Munassar, S., Palmer, P. I., Peters, G. P., Qiu, C., Schelhaas, M.-J., Tarasova, O., Vizzarri, M., Winkler, K., Balsamo, G., Berchet, A., Briggs, P., Brockmann, P., Chevallier, F., Conchedda, G., Crippa, M., Dellaert, S., Denier van der Gon, H. A. C., Filipek, S., Friedlingstein, P., Fuchs, R., Gauss, M., Gerbig, C., Guizzardi, D., Günther, D., Houghton, R. A., Janssens-Maenhout, G., Lauerwald, R., Lerink, B., Luijkx, I. T., Moulas, G., Muntean, M., Nabuurs, G.-J., Paquirissamy, A., Perugini, L., Peters, W., Pilli, R., Pongratz, J., Regnier, P., Scholze, M., Serengil, Y., Smith, P., Solazzo, E., Thompson, R. L., Tubiello, F. N., Vesala, T., and Walther, S.: The consolidated European synthesis of CO2 emissions and removals for EU27 and UK: 1990–2020, Earth Syst. Sci. Data Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2022-412, in review, 2023.
L. Cavaleri, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, L. Bertotti, S. Davison, J. Edwards, T. Kanehama, N. Wedi, 2023: ECMWF and UK Met Office offshore blowing winds: impact of horizontal resolution and coastal orography. JGR-Atmosphere (accepted).
Denissen, J. M. C., Teuling, A. J., Koirala, S., Reichstein, M., Balsamo, G., Vogel, M. M., Yu, X., Orth, R., 2023: Intensified future heat extremes linked with increasing ecosystem water limitation, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1925.
Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 104, E126–E157, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-22-0061.1.
2022
On the importance of representing snow over sea-ice for simulating the Arctic boundary layer. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 14, e2021MS002777. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021MS002777
2021
GEWEX, 2021. Global Energy and Water EXchanges (GEWEX) Science Plan (2023-2032), WCRP Publication 9/2021;: Online; 12 pp. https://www.gewex.org/gewex-content/uploads/2022/11/GEWEX-science-plan-v8.pdf.
M. Choulga, I. Hadade, R. J. Hogan, 2021: An Urban Scheme for the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System: Single‐Column and Global Offline Application. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 13, e2020MS002375. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002375.
J. Muñoz-Sabater, E. Dutra, A. Agustí-Panareda, C. Albergel, G. Arduini, G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, M. Choulga, S. Harrigan, H. Hersbach, B.Martens, D.G. Miralles, M. Piles, N.J. Rodríguez-Fernández, E. Zsoter, C. Buontempo, J.-N. Thépaut, 2021: ERA5-Land: A state-of-the-art global reanalysis dataset for land applications, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 4349–4383, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4349-2021.
P. de Rosnay, Y. Orsolini, E. Dutra, G. Balsamo, G. Arduini, B. Liu, R. Senan, W. Wang, M. Wegmann, K. Yang, and C. Zhu, 2021: Impact of snow cover data assimilation over the tibetan plateau on medium range numerical weather prediction. Remote Sensing (in prep.).
J. Duoying, Q. Bao, T. Yao, A. Boone, Y Qian, W. Guo, M. Zhao, S. Xie, I. Diallo, Y. Zhu, X.-Z. Liang,Y. Xue, W. Lau, D. Neelin, M. Ek, J. Yang, X. Li, S. Hong, X. Pan, Q. Tang, Y. Takaya, Q. Chen, S. Materia, C. Shi, D. Klocke, G. Balsamo, Z. Lin, J. Feng, X. Zeng, T. Nakamura, T. Sato, L. R. Leung, S. Saha, Y. Zhang, Y. Liu, Y. Pan, P. J. van Oevelen, M.-S. Koo, C. Ardilouze, X. Qi, R. Senan, H. Wang, H. Zhang, M. A. Brunke, T. Fan, D. Peano, Y. Zhan, F. Vitart, P. de Rosnay, 2021: Spring Land Temperature in Tibetan Plateau Enhances Global-Scale Summer Precipitation Prediction, Nature Geoscience (submitted).
L. Grant, I. Vanderkelen, L. Gudmundsson, Z. Tan, M. Perroud, M. Stepanenko, A. V. Debolskiy, B. Droppers, A. B. G. Janssen, R. I. Woolway, M. Choulga, G. Balsamo, G. Kirillin, J. Schewe, F. Zhao, I. Vega del Valle, M. Golub, D. Pierson, R. Marcé, S. I. Seneviratne, W. Thiery, 2021: Attribution of global lake systems change to anthropogenic forcing, Nature Geoscience, doi: 10.1038/s41561-021-00833-x. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00833-x.
S. Garrigues, A. Verhoef, E. Blyth, A. Wright, B. Balan-Sarojini, E.L. Robinson, S. Dadson, A. Boone, S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, 2021: Capability of the variogram to quantify the spatial patterns of surface fluxes and soil moisture simulated by land surface models, Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment, https://doi.org/10.1177/0309133320986147.
G. Balsamo, R. Engelen, D. Thiemert, A. Agusti-Panareda, N. Bousserez, G. Broquet, D. Brunner, M. Buchwitz, F. Chevallier, M. Choulga, H. Denier van der Gon, L. Florentie, J.-M. Haussaire, G. Janssens-Maenhout, M. W. Jones, T. Kaminski, M. Krol, C. Le Quéré, J. Marshall, J. McNorton, P. Prunet, M. Reuter, W. Peters, M. Scholze & CHE Team, 2021: The CO2 Human Emissions (CHE) project: first steps towards a European operational capacity to monitor anthropogenic CO2 emissions, Special issue on Anthropogenic Emission Monitoring with the Copernicus CO2 Monitoring Mission, Forntiers for Remote Sensing, Vol.2, pages 32, doi: 10.3389/frsen.2021.707247. https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frsen.2021.707247.
Y. Xue, Yao, T., Boone, A. A., Diallo, I., Liu, Y., Zeng, X., Lau, W. K.-M., Sugimoto, S., Tang, Q., Pan, X., van Oevelen, P. J., Klocke, D., Koo, M.-S., Lin, Z., Takaya, Y., Sato, T., Ardilouze, C., Saha, S. K., Zhao, M., Liang, X.-Z., Vitart, F., Li, X., Zhao, P., Neelin, D., Guo, W., Yu, M., Qian, Y., Shen, S. S. P., Zhang, Y., Yang, K., Leung, R., Yang, J., Qiu, Y., Brunke, M. A., Chou, S. C., Ek, M., Fan, T., Guan, H., Lin, H., Liang, S., Materia, S., Nakamura, T., Qi, X., Senan, R., Shi, C., Wang, H., Wei, H., Xie, S., Xu, H., Zhang, H., Zhan, Y., Li, W., Shi, X., Nobre, P., Qin, Y., Dozier, J., Ferguson, C. R., Balsamo, G., Bao, Q., Feng, J., Hong, J., Hong, S., Huang, H., Ji, D., Ji, Z., Kang, S., Lin, Y., Liu, W., Muncaster, R., Pan, Y., Peano, D., de Rosnay, P., Takahashi, H. G., Tang, J., Wang, G., Wang, S., Wang, W., Zhou, X., and Zhu, Y.: Impact of Initialized Land Surface Temperature and Snowpack on Subseasonal to Seasonal Prediction Project, Phase I (LS4P-I): Organization and Experimental design, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-329, in review, 2021.
I. Sandu, T. Haiden, G. Balsamo, 2021: Progress in investigating near-surface forecast biases, ECMWF Newsletter N. 166, Winter 2021, https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/166/news/progress-investigating-near-surface-forecast-biases.
H. Beck, E., Pan, M., Miralles, D. G., Reichle, R. H., Dorigo, W. A., Hahn, S., Sheffield, J., Karthikeyan, L., Balsamo, G., Parinussa, R. M., van Dijk, A. I. J. M., Du, J., Kimball, J. S., Vergopolan, N., and Wood, E. F.: Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements from 826 sensors, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 25, 17–40, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-17-2021, 2021.
2020
I. Sandu, T. Haiden, G. Balsamo, P. Schmederer, G. Arduini, J. Day, A. Beljaars, Z. B. Bouallegue, S. Boussetta, M. Leutbecher, L. Magnusson, P. de Rosnay, 2020: Addressing near-surface forecast biases: outcomes of the ECMWF project 'Understanding uncertainties in surface atmosphere exchange' (USURF), ECMWF Tech. Memo., 875, pp 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.21957/wxjwsojvf.
H. Hersbach, B. Bell, P. Berrisford, S. Hirahara, A. Horanyi, J. Munoz-Sabater, J. Nicolas, C. Peubey, R. Radu, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, S. Abdalla, X. Abellan, G. Balsamo, P. Bechtold, G. Biavati, J. Bidlot, M. Bonavita, G. De Chiara, P. Dahlgren, D. Dee, M. Diamantakis, R. Dragani, J. Flemming, R. Forbes, M. Fuentes, A. Geer, L. Haimberger, S. Healy, R. J. Hogan, E. Holm, M. Janiskova, S. Keeley, P. Laloyaux, P. Lopez, G. Radnoti, P. de Rosnay, I. Rozum, F. Vamborg, S. Villaume, J.-N. Thepaut, 2020: The ERA5 Global Reanalysis, QJRMS, https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3803.
G. Janssens-Maenhout, B. Pinty, M. Dowell, H. Zunker, E. Andersson, G. Balsamo, J.-L. Bézy, T. Brunhes, H. Bösch, B. Bojkov, D. Brunner, M. Buchwitz, D. Crisp, P. Ciais, P. Counet, D. Dee, H. Denier van der Gon, H. Dolman, M. Drinkwater, O. Dubovnik, R. Engelen, T. Fehr, V. Fernandez, M. Heimann, K. Holmlund, S. Houweling, R. Husband, O. Juvyns, A. Kentarchos, J. Landgraf, R. Lang, A. Löscher, J. Marshall, Y. Meijer, M. Nakajima, P.I. Palmer, P. Peylin, P. Rayner, M. Scholze, B. Sierk, J. Tamminen, P. Veefkind, 2020: Towards an operational anthropogenic CO2 emissions monitoring and verification support capacity, BAMS, BAMS-D-19-0017, https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0017.1.
J. McNorton, N. Bousserez, A. Agustí-Panareda, G. Balsamo, M. Choulga, A. Dawson, R. Engelen, Z. Kiping, Z. Lang, 2020: Representing Model Uncertainty for Global Atmospheric CO2 Flux Inversions Using ECMWF-IFS-46R1, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 13, 2297-2313. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2019-314.
M. Nogueira, S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, I. F. Trigo, F. Johannsen, D. Miralles, E. Dutra, 2020: Upgrading land-cover and vegetation seasonality in the ECMWF coupled system: verification with FLUXNET sites, METEOSAT satellite land surface temperatures and ERA5 atmospheric reanalysis. JGR Atmosphere, submitted.
Stevens, D.; Miranda, P.M.A.; Orth, R.; Boussetta, S.; Balsamo, G.; Dutra, E. Sensitivity of Surface Fluxes in the ECMWF Land Surface Model to the Remotely Sensed Leaf Area Index and Root Distribution: Evaluation with Tower Flux Data. Atmosphere 2020, 11, 1362. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11121362
A. Alessandri, F. Catalano, M. De Felice, B. van den Hurk, G. Balsamo, 2020: Varying Snow and Vegetation Signatures of Surface Albedo Feedback on the Northern Hemisphere Land Warming, Env. Res. Lett., in review.
M. Choulga, G. Janssens-Maenhout, I. Super, A. Agusti-Panareda, G. Balsamo, N. Bousserez, M. Crippa, H. Denier van der Gon, R. Engelen, D. Guizzardi, J. Kuenen, J. McNorton, G. Oreggioni, E. Solazzo, and A. Visschedijk, 2020: Global anthropogenic CO2 emissions and uncertainties as prior for Earth system modelling and data assimilation. Earth Syst. Sci. Data, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-2020-68, in discussion.
J. Barré, I. Aben, A. Agustí-Panareda, G. Balsamo, N. Bousserez, P. Dueben, R. Engelen, A. Inness, A. Lorente, J. McNorton, V.-H. Peuch, G. Radnoti, R. Ribas, 2020: Systematic detection of local CH4 emissions anomalies combining satellite measurements and high-resolution forecasts, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2020-550, in discussion.
E. Dutra, J. Munoz-Sabater, S. Boussetta, T. Komori, S. Hirahara, G. Balsamo, 2020: Environmental lapse rate for high resolution land surface downscaling: An application to ERA5. Earth and Space Science, 7, e2019EA000984, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EA000984.
H. E. Beck, M. Pan, D. G. Miralles, R. H. Reichle, W. A. Dorigo, S. Hahn, W. Wagner, J. Sheffield, L. Karthikeyan, G. Balsamo, R. M. Parinussa, N. Vergopolan, E. F. Wood, 2020: Evaluation of 18 satellite- and model-based soil moisture products using in situ measurements, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2020-184, accepted.
P. A. Dirmeyer, G. Balsamo, E. M. Blyth, R Morrison, and H. M. Cooper, 2020: Land-Atmosphere Interactions Exacerbated the Drought and Heatwave over Northern Europe during Summer 2018, AGU Advances (in review) [preprint] https://doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10503148.1.
S. Terzago, Andreoli, V., Arduini, G., Balsamo, G., Campo, L., Cassardo, C., Cremonese, E., Dolia, D., Gabellani, S., von Hardenberg, J., Morra di Cella, U., Palazzi, E., Piazzi, G., Pogliotti, P., and Provenzale, A., 2020: Sensitivity of snow models to the accuracy of meteorological forcings in mountain environments, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 24, 4061–4090, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-4061-2020.
J. J. Day, Arduini, G., Sandu, I., Magnusson, L., Beljaars, A., Balsamo, G., et al., 2020: Measuring the impact of a new snow model using surface energy budget process relationships. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 12, e2020MS002144. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002144.
J. Vilà-Guerau de Arellano, X. Wang, X. Pedruzo-Bagazgoitia, M. Sikma, A. Agustí-Panareda, S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, L. Machado, P. Gentine, S. Martin, J. Fuentes, T. Gerken, 2020: Interactions between the Amazonian rainforest and cumuli clouds: A large-eddy simulation, high-resolution ECMWF and observational intercomparison study. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001828.
R. Benintendi, E. Merino Gòmez, G. De Mare G., A. Nesticò, G. Balsamo, 2020: Energy, environment and sustainable development of the belt and road initiative: The Chinese scenario and Western contributions", Sustainable Futures, 2, 100009, issn 2666-1888, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sftr.2020.100009.
G. Balsamo and J.-F. Mahfouf, 2020: Les schémas de surface continentale pour le suivi et de la prévision du système Terre au CEPMMT, Numéro spécial Interactions surfaces continentales-atmosphere dédié à Joël Noilhan, La Météorologie, n. 108, 77-81, https://doi.org/10.37053/lameteorologie-2020-0019.
E. Ferrero and G. Balsamo, 2020: The 1994 Piedmont flood revisited, ECMWF Newsletter n. 163, 8-9. https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/162/news/1994-piedmont-flood-revisited.
G. Balsamo, 2020: Les modèles de biosphère, hydrosphère et cryosphère, Encyclopédie de l’Environnement, [en ligne ISSN 2555-0950] url : https://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/air/modeles-de-biosphere-hydrosphere-cryosphere/, (English version available here).
2019
G. Arduini, G. Balsamo, E. Dutra, J.J. Day, I. Sandu, S. Boussetta, T. Haiden, 2019: Impact of a multi‐layer snow scheme on near‐surface weather forecasts. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 11, 4687– 4710. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020MS002144.
S. Terzago, P. Pogliotti, E. Cremonese, U. Morra di Cella, G. Piazzi, L. Campo, D. Dolia, S. Gabellani, V. Andreoli, C. Cassardo, G. Arduini, G. Balsamo, J. von Hardenberg, E. Palazzi, A. Provenzale, 2019: Sensitivity of snow models to the accuracy of meteorological forcings in mountain environment, HESSD, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-511.
F. Vitart, M. Alonso-Balmaseda, L. Ferranti, A. Benedetti, B. Balan-Sarojini, S. Tietsche, J. Yao, M. Janousek, G. Balsamo, M. Leutbecher, P. Bechtold, I. Polichtchouk, D. Richardson, T. Stockdale, C.D. Roberts, 2019: Extended range prediction, ECMWF Tech. Memo. 854, 1-58, http://dx.doi.org/10.21957/pdivp3t9m.
C. Albergel, Y. Zheng, B. Bonan, E. Dutra, N. Rodríguez-Fernández, S. Munier, C. Draper, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, G. Balsamo, D. Fairbairn, C. Meurey, J.-C. Calvet, 2019: Data assimilation for continuous global assessment of severe conditions over terrestrial surfaces, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-534.
F. Vitart, G. Balsamo, J.-R. Bidlot, S. Lange, I. Tsonevsky, D. Richardson, M Balmaseda, 2019: Use of ERA5 reanalysis to initialise re‑forecasts proves beneficial, ECMWF Newsletter n. 161, 26-29, doi: 10.21957/g71fv083lm. https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/161/meteorology/use-era5-reanalysis-initialise-re-forecasts-proves-beneficial
M. Choulga, Kourzeneva, E., Balsamo, G., Boussetta, S., and Wedi, N., 2019: Upgraded global mapping information for earth system modelling: an application to surface water depth at ECMWF, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 23, 4051–4076. https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4051-2019.
Y. Orsolini, Wegmann, M., Dutra, E., Liu, B., Balsamo, G., Yang, K., de Rosnay, P., Zhu, C., Wang, W., Senan, R., and Arduini, G. 2019: Evaluation of snow depth and snow cover over the Tibetan Plateau in global reanalyses using in situ and satellite remote sensing observations, The Cryosphere, 13, 2221–2239, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-13-2221-2019.
O. Schmidt, G. Mengaldo, G. Balsamo, N. Wedi, 2019: Spectral empirical orthogonal function analysis of weather and climate data. Mon. Wea. Rev., 147, 2979–2995, https://doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-18-0337.1
H. Vereecken, L. Weihermüller, S. Assouline, M. Rahmadi, J. Šimůnek, A. Verhoef, M. Herbst, A. Nicole, B. Mohanty, C. Montzka, J. Vanderborght, A. Ducharne, Y. Xue, Q. Li, A. Boone, B. Decharme, G. Balsamo, S. Chadburn, M. Cuntz, S. Swenson, D. Or, R. Walko, M. Bechtold, S. Kollet, K. Görken, J. Ingwersen, P. de Vrese, 2018: Infiltration from the pedon to global grid scales: An overview and outlook for land surface modelling, ISMC-GEWEX review for VDZ Vadose Zone Journal, doi: 10.2136/vzj2018.10.0191.
F. Vitart, G. Balsamo, J. Bidlot, S. Lang, I. Tsonevsky, D. Richardson, M. Alonso-Balmaseda, 2019: Use of ERA5 to Initialize Ensemble Re-forecasts, ECMWF Tech Memo 841, DOI: 10.21957/w8i57wuz6.
C. Albergel, Dutra, E., Bonan, B., Zheng, Y., Munier, S., Balsamo, G., de Rosnay, P., Munoz-Sabater, J., Calvet, J. 2019: Monitoring and Forecasting the Impact of the 2018 Summer Heatwave on Vegetation. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 520. DOI: 10.3390/rs11050520.
Y. Kushnir, Scaife A. A., Arritt R., Balsamo G., Boer G., Doblas-Reyes F., Hawkins E., Kimoto M., Kumar Kolli R., Kumar A., Matei D., Matthes K., Müller W. A., O’Kane T., Perlwitz J., Power S., Raphael M., Shimpo A., Smith D., Tuma M., Wu B., 2019: Towards operational predictions of the near-term climate, Nature Climate Change, 1758-6798, DOI: 10.1038/s41558-018-0359-7.
2018
G. Balsamo, Agusti-Panareda, A., Albergel, C., Arduini, G., Beljaars, A., Bidlot, J., Bousserez, N., Boussetta, S., Brown, A., Buizza, R., Buontempo, C., Chevallier, F., Choulga, M., Cloke, H., Cronin, M.F., Dahoui, M., De Rosnay, P., Dirmeyer, P.A., Dutra, M.D.E., Ek, M.B., Gentine, P., Hewitt, H., Keeley, S.P.E., Kerr, Y., Kumar, S., Lupu, C., Mahfouf, J.-F., McNorton, J., Mecklenburg, S., Mogensen, K., Muñoz-Sabater, J., Orth, R., Rabier, F., Reichle, R., Ruston, B., Pappenberger, F., Sandu, I., Seneviratne, S.I., Tietsche, S., Trigo, I.F., Uijlenhoet, R., Wedi, N., Woolway, R.I., Zeng, X, 2018: Satellite and In Situ Observations for Advancing Global Earth Surface Modelling: A Review. Remote Sens., 10, 2038. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/12/2038.
R. Dragani, A. Benedetti, J. Flemming, G. Balsamo, M. Diamantakis, A.J. Geer, R. Hogan, T. Stockdale, M. Ades, A. Agusti-Panareda, J. Barré, P. Bechtold, A. Bozzo, H. Hersbach, E. Hólm, Z. Kipling, A. Inness, J. Letertre-Danczak, S. Massart, M. Matricardi, T. McNally, M. Parrington, I. Sandu, C. Soci, F. Vitart, 2018: Atmospheric Composition priority developments for Numerical Weather Prediction. ECMWF Tech. Memo. 833, pp. 31, DOI: 10.21957/5e0whui2y http://dx.doi.org/10.21957/5e0whui2y.
H. Hersbach, P. de Rosnay, B. Bell, D. Schepers, A. Simmons, C. Soci, S. Abdalla, M. Alonso-Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, P. Bechtold, P. Berrisford, J. Bidlot, E. de Boisséson, M. Bonavita, P. Browne, R. Buizza, P. Dahlgren, D. Dee, R. Dragani, M. Diamantakis, J. Flemming, R. Forbes, A. Geer, T. Haiden, E. Hólm, L. Haimberger, R. Hogan, A. Horányi, M. Janisková, P. Laloyaux, P. Lopez, J. Muñoz-Sabater, C. Peubey, R. Radu, D. Richardson, J.-N. Thépaut, F. Vitart, X. Yang, E. Zsótér, H. Zuo, 2018: Operational global reanalysis: progress, future directions and synergies with NWP, ERA-Report Series, 27, pp 63, https://www.ecmwf.int/node/18765.
T. Stockdale, M. Alonso-Balmaseda, S. Johnson, L. Ferranti, F. Molteni, L. Magnusson, S. Tietsche, F. Vitart, D. Decremer, A. Weisheimer, C.D. Roberts, G. Balsamo, S. Keeley, K. Mogensen, H. Zuo, B.M. Monge-Sanz, 2018: SEAS5 and the future evolution of the long-range forecast system, ECMWF Tech. Memo 835, pp 81. doi: 10.21957/z3e92di7y.
S. Johnson, T. Stockdale, L. Ferranti, M. Balmaseda, F. Molteni, L. Magnusson, S. Tietsche, D. Decremer, A. Weisheimer, G. Balsamo, S. Keeley, K. Mogensen, H. Zuo, and B. Monge-Sanz, 2018: SEAS5: The new ECMWF seasonal forecast system. Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2018-228, (accepted).
B. Ruston, G. Balsamo, I. F. Trigo, 2018: Joint Workshop of the International Surface Working Group and Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility, Lisbon, Portugal 26–28 June 2018. GEWEX Newsletter, vol. 29, pp. 7-8, https://www.gewex.org/gewex-content/uploads/2018/12/Nov2018.pdf.
D. Salisbury, K. Mogensen, G. Balsamo, 2018: Use of in situ observations to verify the diurnal cycle of sea surface temperature in ECMWF coupled model forecasts, ECMWF Tech. Memo. 826, pp 19. Available at https://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/18745-use-situ-observations-verify-diurnal-cycle-sea-surface-temperature-ecmwf-coupled.
T. Haiden, I. Sandu, G. Balsamo, G. Arduini, A. Beljaars, 2018: Addressing biases in near-surface forecasts, ECMWF Newsletter N. 157, Autumn 2018, https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/157/meteorology/addressing-biases-near-surface-forecasts.
R. Buizza, G. Balsamo, T. Haiden, 2018: IFS brings more seamless coupled forecasts, ECMWF Newsletter, No. 156 - Summer 2018, pp. 18-22 , https://www.ecmwf.int/en/newsletter/156/meteorology/ifs-upgrade-brings-more-seamless-coupled-forecasts.
A. Beljaars, G. Balsamo, P. Bechtold, A Bozzo, R. Forbes, R. J. Hogan, M. Koehler, J.-J. Morcrette, A. M. Tompkins, P. Viterbo, N. Wedi, 2018: The numerics of physical parameterisation in the ECMWF model, Frontiers in Earth Sciences, DOI: 10.3389/feart.2018.00137. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2018.00137/full.
G. Krinner, Derksen, C., Essery, R., Flanner, M., Hagemann, S., Clark, M., Hall, A., Rott, H., Brutel-Vuilmet, C., Kim, H., Ménard, C. B., Mudryk, L., Thackeray, C., Wang, L., Arduini, G., Balsamo, G., Bartlett, P., Boike, J., Boone, A., Chéruy, F., Colin, J., Cuntz, M., Dai, Y., Decharme, B., Derry, J., Ducharne, A., Dutra, E., Fang, X., Fierz, C., Ghattas, J., Gusev, Y., Haverd, V., Kontu, A., Lafaysse, M., Law, R., Lawrence, D., Li, W., Marke, T., Marks, D., Ménégoz, M., Nasonova, O., Nitta, T., Niwano, M., Pomeroy, J., Raleigh, M. S., Schaedler, G., Semenov, V., Smirnova, T. G., Stacke, T., Strasser, U., Svenson, S., Turkov, D., Wang, T., Wever, N., Yuan, H., Zhou, W., and Zhu, D., 2018: ESM-SnowMIP: assessing snow models and quantifying snow-related climate feedbacks, Geosci. Model Dev., 11, 5027-5049, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-11-5027-2018.
Y. Malbéteau, O. Merlin, G. Balsamo, S. Er-Raki, S. Khabba, J.P. Walker, and L. Jarlan, 2018: Toward a Surface Soil Moisture Product at High Spatiotemporal Resolution: Temporally Interpolated, Spatially Disaggregated SMOS Data. J. Hydrometeor., 19, 183–200, https://doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0280.1.
C. Albergel, Dutra, E., Munier, S., Calvet, J.-C., Munoz-Sabater, J., de Rosnay, P., and Balsamo, G., 2018: ERA-5 and ERA-Interim driven ISBA land surface model simulations: Which one performs better?, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2018-117.
P. A. Dirmeyer, P. Gentine, M. B. Ek, and G. Balsamo, 2018: Land surface processes relevant to S2S prediction. The Gap between Weather and Climate Forecasting: Sub-Seasonal to Seasonal Prediction, A. W. Robertson and F. Vitart, Eds., Elsevier, published on 24th of October 2018: https://www.elsevier.com/books/sub-seasonal-to-seasonal-prediction/robertson/978-0-12-811714-9.
P. A. Dirmeyer, L. Chen, J. Wu, C.-S. Shin, B. Huang, B. Cash, M. Bosilovich, S. Mahanama, R. D. Koster, J. A. Santanello Jr., M. B. Ek, G. Balsamo, and D. M. Lawrence, 2018: Verification of land-atmosphere coupling in forecast models, reanalyses and land surface models using flux site observations. J. Hydrometeor., 19, 375-392, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-17-0152.1. https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/10.1175/JHM-D-17-0152.1.
2017
R. J. Hogan, M. Ahlgrimm, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, P. Berrisford, A. Bozzo, F. Di Giuseppe, R. M. Forbes, T. Haiden, S. Lang, M. Mayer, I. Polichtchouk, I. Sandu, F. Vitart and N. Wedi, 2017: Radiation in Numerical Weather Prediction. Paper to the ECMWF 46th Science Advisory Committee, 9–11 October 2017. ECMWF Tech. Memo. 816, pp. 49. Available at https://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/17771-radiation-numerical-weather-prediction.
G. Balsamo, K. Mogensen, S. Keeley, J.-R. Bidlot, S. Boussetta, E. Dutra, N. Wedi, 2017: Coupling of oceans and land surfaces in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System: Sensitivity and impact of diurnal and synoptic variability on medium-range skill. WGNE Blue Book 2017, Section 9 "Development of and studies with coupled and Earth system models and data assimilation systems", pdf.
G. Balsamo and A. Belward, 2017: Lakes in weather prediction: a moving target. ECMWF Newsletter 150, 6-7. https://www.ecmwf.int/en/elibrary/16987-newsletter-no-150-winter-2016-17
M. Leutbecher, S.-J. Lock, P. Ollinaho, S. T. K. Lang, G. Balsamo, P. Bechtold, M. Bonavita, H. M. Christensen, M. Diamantakis, E. Dutra, S. English, M. Fisher, R. M. Forbes, J. Goddard, T. Haiden, R. J. Hogan, S. Jurickec, H. Lawrence, D. MacLeod, L. Magnusson, S. Malardel, S. Massart, I. Sandu, P. K. Smolarkiewicz, A. Subramanian, F. Vitart, N. Wedi, A. Weisheimer, 2017: Stochastic representations of model uncertainties at ECMWF: State of the art and future vision. Q. J. Roy. Met. Soc., 10.1002/qj.3094. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/qj.3094/abstract
J. Schellekens, Dutra, E., Martínez-de la Torre, A., Balsamo, G., van Dijk, A., Sperna Weiland, F., Minvielle, M., Calvet, J.-C., Decharme, B., Eisner, S., Fink, G., Flörke, M., Peßenteiner, S., van Beek, R., Polcher, J., Beck, H., Orth, R., Calton, B., Burke, S., Dorigo, W., and Weedon, G. P., 2017: A global water resources ensemble of hydrological models: the eartH2Observe Tier-1 dataset, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 389-413, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-389-2017.
W. Dorigo, W. Wagner, C. Albergel, F. Albrecht, G. Balsamo, L. Brocca, D. Chung, M. Ertl, M. Forkel, A. Gruber, E. Haas, P. Hamer, M. Hirschi, J. Ikonen, R. de Jeu, R. Kidd, W. Lahoz, Y. Y. Liu, D. Miralles, T. Mistelbauer, N. Nocolai-Shaw, R. Parinussa, C. Pratola, C. Reimer, R. van der Schalie, S. I. Seneviratne, T. Smolander, P. Lecomte, 2017: ESA CCI Soil Moisture for improved Earth system understanding: state-of-the art and future directions, Remote Sens. Env. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425717303061
A. Alessandri, F. Catalano, M. De Felice, B. van den Hurk, F. Doblas-Reyes, S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, P. Miller, 2017: Multi-scale enhancement of climate prediction over land by increasing the model sensitivity to vegetation variability in EC-Earth. Clim. Dyn., 49(4), 1215–1237. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-016-3372-4
A. Getirana, A. Boone, C. Peugeot, and ALMIP2 working group, 2017: Streamflows over a West African basin from the ALMIP-2 model ensemble. J. Hydrometeor., http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0233.1
M. Grippa, L. Kergoat, A. Boone, and ALMIP2 working group, 2017: Modeling Surface Runoff and Water Fluxes over Contrasted Soils in the Pastoral Sahel: Evaluation of the ALMIP2 Land Surface Models over the Gourma Region in Mali. J. Hydrometeor., http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/JHM-D-16-0170.1.
R. Orth, Dutra, E., Trigo, I. F., and Balsamo, G., 2017: Advancing land surface model development with satellite-based Earth observations, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 21, 2483-2495, doi:10.5194/hess-21-2483-2017. http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/21/2483/2017/hess-21-2483-2017.html
A. Beljaars, Dutra, E., Balsamo, G., and Lemarié, F., 2017: On the numerical stability of surface–atmosphere coupling in weather and climate models, Geosci. Model Dev., 10, 977-989, doi:10.5194/gmd-10-977-2017. http://www.geosci-model-dev.net/10/977/2017/
2016
G. Balsamo, 2016: Les modèles de biosphère, hydrosphère, et cryosphère, Encyclopedie de l'Environnement, Rubrique Air, Section Prévisions Météorologiques, Université Grenoble-Alpes, http://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/
C. Peugeot et al. with the ALMIP-2 Working Group, 2016: An evaluation of surface and hydrological processes along the West African Eco-climatic gradient: AMMA Land surface Model Intercomparison Project phase 2. J. Hydrometeor.. (in review).
Mueller, A., E. Dutra, H. Cloke, A. Verhoef, G. Balsamo, F. Pappenberger, 2016: Water infiltration and redistribution in Land Surface Models, ECMWF Tech Memo 791, pp 1-23, ECMWF Research Department, Reading, UK, available at:
https://www.ecmwf.int/sites/default/files/elibrary/2016/16903-water-infiltration-and-redistribtuion-land-surface-models.pdf
R. Senan, Y. J. Orsolini, A. Weisheimer, F. Vitart, G. Balsamo, T. N. Stockdale, E. Dutra, F. J. Doblas-Reyes, D. Basang, 2016: Impact of springtime Himalayan-Tibetan Plateau snowpack on the onset of the Indian summer monsoon in coupled seasonal forecasts. Clim. Dyn., 2709. doi:10.1007/s00382-016-2993-y http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00382-016-2993-y.
A. Ceglar, A. Toreti, G. Balsamo, S. Kobayash, 2016: Precipitation over monsoon Asia: a comparison of reanalyses and observations. J. Climate, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-16-0227.1
E. Zsoter, F. Pappenberger, P. Smith, R.E. Emerton, E. Dutra, F. Wetterhall, D. Richardson, K. Bogner, G. Balsamo, 2016: Building a multi-model flood prediction system with the TIGGE archive. J. Hydrometeor., DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-15-0130.1
N. Haughton, G. Abramowitz, A. J. Pitman, D. Or, M. J. Best, H. R. Johnson, G. Balsamo, A. Boone, M. Cuntz, B. Decharme, P. A. Dirmeyer, J. Dong, M. Ek, Z. Guo, V. Haverd B. J. J. van den Hurk, G. S. Nearing, B. Pak, J. A. Santanello Jr., L. E. Stevens, N. Vuichard, 2016: The plumbing of land surface models: is poor performance a result of methodology or data quality? J. Hydromet. http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JHM-D-15-0171.1
P. A. Dirmeyer, J. Wu, H. E. Norton, W. A. Dorigo, S. M. Quiring, T. W. Ford, J. A. Santanello Jr., M. G. Bosilovich, M. B. Ek, R. D. Koster, G. Balsamo, D. M. Lawrence, 2015: Confronting weather and climate models with observational data from soil moisture networks over the United States. J. Hydromet. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-15-0196.1.
A. Agustí-Panareda, S. Massart, F. Chevallier, G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, E. Dutra, A. Beljaars, 2016: A biogenic CO2 flux adjustment scheme for the mitigation of large-scale biases in global atmospheric CO2 analyses and forecasts, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., doi:10.5194/acp-2015-987, http://www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/acp-2015-987/
Zsoter E., P. Smith, F. Pappenberger, E. Dutra, D. Richardson, F. Wetterhall, K. Bogner, R. E. Emerton, G. Balsamo, 2016: Multimodel discharge prediction and evaluation with the TIGGE ensemble data archive, Journal of Hydromet., vol. 17, issue 11, pp. 2923-2940. https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JHM-D-15-0130.1
2015
E. Dutra, I. Sandu, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, H. Freville, E. Vignon, E. Brun, 2015: Understanding the ECMWF winter surface temperature biases over Antarctica, available as ECMWF TM 762. http://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.5165.5762
Y. J. Orsolini, R. Senan, F. Vitart, A. Weisheimer, G. Balsamo, F. Doblas-Reyes, 2015: Influence of the Eurasian snow on the negative North Atlantic Oscillation in subseasonal forecasts of the cold winter 2009/10. Clim. Dyn., http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00382-015-2903-8.
I. Trigo, S. Boussetta, P. Viterbo, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, I. Sandu, 2015: Comparison of model land skin temperature with remotely sensed estimates and assessment of surface-atmosphere coupling, J. Geophy. Res., Volume 120, Issue 23(12), 96–111. http://doi.org/10.1002/2015JD023812.
R. Pail, R. Bingham, C. Braitenberg, A. Eicker, M. Horwath, E. Ivins, L. Longuevergne, I. Panet, B. Wouters, G. Balsamo, M. Becker, D. Bertrand, J. D. Bolten, J.-P. Boy, M. van den Broeke, A. Cazenave, D. Chambers, T. van Dam, M. Diament, A. van Dijk, H. Dobslaw, P. Döll, J. Ebbing, J. Famiglietti, W. Feng, R. Forsberg, N. van de Giesen, M. Greff, A. Güntner, J.-Y. Guo, S.-C. Han, E. Hanna, K. Heki, G. Hetényi, S. Jayne, W. Jiang, S. Jin, G. Kaser, M. King, A. Köhl, H. Kunstmann, J. Kusche, T. Lay, A. Löcher, S. Luthcke, M. Marcos, M. van der Meijde, V. Mikhailov, C. Ohlwein, F. Pollitz, Y. Pokhrel, R. Ponte, M. Rodell, C. Rolstad-Denby, H. Save, B. Scanlon, S. Seneviratne, F. Seyler, A. Shepherd, T. Song, W. Spakman, C.K. Shum, H. Steffen, W. Sun, Q. Tang, V. Tiwari, I. Velicogna, J. Wahr, W. van der Wal, L. Wang, H. Xie, H.-C. Yeh, P. Yeh, B. Zaitchik, V. Zlotnicki,2015: Observing Mass Transport to Understand Global Change and to Benefit Society: Science and User Needs - An international multi-disciplinary initiative for IUGG., München 2015, ISSN 0065-5317, ISBN 978-3-7696-8599-2, available at http://www.dgk.badw.de/fileadmin/docs/b-320.pdf
C. Albergel , E. Dutra, J. Muñoz-‐Sabater, T. Haiden, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, L. Isaksen, P. de Rosnay, I. Sandu, N. Wedi, 2015: Soil temperature at ECMWF: an assessment using ground-based observations., J. Geophys. Res., doi: 10.1002/2014JD022505. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2014JD022505/full
Best, M.J., G. Abramowitz, H.R. Johnson, A.J. Pitman, G. Balsamo, A. Boone, M. Cuntz, B. Decharme, P.A. Dirmeyer, J. Dong, M. Ek, Z. Guo, V. Haverd, B.J.J van den Hurk, G.S. Nearing, B. Pak, C. Peters‐Lidard, J.A. Santanello Jr., L. Stevens, and N. Vuichard: 2015: The plumbing of land surface models: benchmarking model performance. J. of Hydromet. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0158.1.
Boussetta, S., G. Balsamo, E. Dutra, A. Beljaars, C. Albergel, 2015: Assimilation of surface albedo and vegetation states from satellite observations and their impact on numerical weather prediction. Rem. Sens. Env.,163, 15, 111–126. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2015.03.009.
P. A. Dirmeyer, C. Peters-Lidard, and G. Balsamo, 2015: Land-Atmosphere Interactions and the Water Cycle. [Chapter 8 in: Seamless Prediction of the Earth System: from Minutes to Months, (G Brunet, S Jones, PM Ruti Eds.)], World Meteorological Organization (WMO-No. 1156), Geneva. http://library.wmo.int/pmb_ged/wmo_1156_en.pdf
G. Balsamo, Albergel, C., Beljaars, A., Boussetta, S., Brun, E., Cloke, H., Dee, D., Dutra, E., Muñoz-Sabater, J., Pappenberger, F., de Rosnay, P., Stockdale, T., and Vitart, F., 2015: ERA-Interim/Land: a global land surface reanalysis data set, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 19, 389‐407,http://www.hydrol-earth‐syst-sci.net/19/389/2015/hess-19-389‐2015.html.
2014
Dee, D.P., M. Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, R. Engelen, A.J. Simmons, and J. Thépaut, 2014: Toward a Consistent Reanalysis of the Climate System. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 95:8, 1235-1248
F.Vitart, G. Balsamo, R. Buizza, L. Ferranti, S. Keeley, L. Magnusson, F. Molteni, A. Weisheimer, 2014: Sub-seasonal predictions, ECMWF Tech. Memo. 738, available at: http://old.ecmwf.int/publications/library/do/references/show?id=91226.
G. Balsamo, A. Agusti-Panareda, C. Albergel, A. Beljaars, S. Boussetta, E. Dutra, T. Komori, S. Lang, J. Munoz-Sabater, F. Pappenberger, P. de Rosnay, I. Sandu, N. Wedi, A. Weisheimer, F. Wetterhall, E. Zsoter, 2014: Representing the Earth surfaces in the Integrated Forecasting System: Recent advances and future challenges, ECMWF Tech. Memo. 729 October 2014. http://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.4248.0324
Haiden, T., L. Magnusson, I. Tsonevsky, F. Wetterhall, L. Alfieri, F. Pappenberger, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, R. Forbes, T. Hewson, S. Malardel, D. Richardson: ECMWF forecast performance during the June 2013 flood in Central Europe, ECMWF Technical Memorandum 723, June 2014. Available at:http://old.ecmwf.int/publications/library/do/references/show?id=91043
Getirana, A.C.V., E. Dutra, M. Guimberteau, J. Kam, H.-Y. Li, B. Decharme, Z. Zhang, A. Ducharne, A. Boone, G. Balsamo, M. Rodell, A. M. Toure, Y. Xue, C. D. Peters-Lidard, S. V. Kumar, K. Arsenault, G. Drapeau, L. Ruby Leung, J. Ronchail, and J. Sheffield, 2014: Water Balance in the Amazon Basin from a Land Surface Model Ensemble. J. Hydrometeor, 15, 2586–2614. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-14-0068.1.
de Rosnay P., G. Balsamo, C. Albergel J. Muñoz-Sabater and L. Isaksen, 2014: Initialisation of land surface variables for Numerical Weather Prediction, Surveys in Geophysics, 35(3), pp 607-621, doi: 10.1007/s10712-012-9207-x.
Weedon, G. P., G. Balsamo, N. Bellouin, S. Gomes, M. J. Best, and P. Viterbo, 2014: The WFDEI meteorological forcing data set: WATCH Forcing Data methodology applied to ERA-Interim reanalysis data, Water Resour. Res., 50, 7505–7514, doi:10.1002/2014WR015638.
Ciais, P., Dolman, A. J., Bombelli, A., Duren, R., Peregon, A., Rayner, P. J., Miller, C., Gobron, N., Kinderman, G., Marland, G., Gruber, N., Chevallier, F., Andres, R. J., G. Balsamo, Bopp, L., Bréon, F.-M., Broquet, G., Dargaville, R., Battin, T. J., Borges, A., Bovensmann, H., Buchwitz, M., Butler, J., Canadell, J. G., Cook, R. B., DeFries, R., Engelen, R., Gurney, K. R., Heinze, C., Heimann, M., Held, A., Henry, M., Law, B., Luyssaert, S., Miller, J., Moriyama, T., Moulin, C., Myneni, R. B., Nussli, C., Obersteiner, M., Ojima, D., Pan, Y., Paris, J.-D., Piao, S. L., Poulter, B., Plummer, S., Quegan, S., Raymond, P., Reichstein, M., Rivier, L., Sabine, C., Schimel, D., Tarasova, O., Valentini, R., Wang, R., van der Werf, G., Wickland, D., Williams, M., and Zehner, C.: Current systematic carbon-cycle observations and the need for implementing a policy-relevant carbon observing system, Biogeosciences, 11, 3547-3602, doi:10.5194/bg-11-3547-2014, 2014. http://www.biogeosciences.net/11/3547/2014/bg-11-3547-2014.html.
Sandu I., Beljaars A. Balsamo G., 2014: Improving the representation of stable boudary layers, ECMWF Newsletter, 138, 24-29, doi: 10.21957/kdvw4lub.
Agustí-Panareda, A., Massart, S., Chevallier, F., Boussetta, S., G. Balsamo, Beljaars, A., Ciais, P., Deutscher, N. M., Engelen, R., Jones, L., Kivi, R., Paris, J.-D., Peuch, V.-H., Sherlock, V., Vermeulen, A. T., Wennberg, P. O., and Wunch, D., 2014: Forecasting global atmospheric CO2, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 11959-11983, doi:10.5194/acp-14-11959-2014.
Balzarolo, M., Boussetta, S., G. Balsamo, Beljaars, A., Maignan, F., Calvet, J.-C., Lafont, S., Barbu, A., Poulter, B., Chevallier, F., Szczypta, C., and Papale, D. 2014: Evaluating the potential of large-scale simulations to predict carbon fluxes of terrestrial ecosystems over a European Eddy Covariance network, Biogeosciences, 11, 2661-2678, doi:10.5194/bg-11-2661-2014.
2013
Agusti-Panareda A., S. Massart, S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, F. Chevallier, R. Engelen, V.H. Peuch, M. Razinger, 2013: The New MACC-II CO2 forecasts, ECMWF Newsletter, 135, 8-13, http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/newsletters/pdf/135.pdf
G. Balsamo 2013: Interactive lakes in the Integrated Forecasting System. ECMWF Newsletter n. 137, Autumn 2013, 30-34. Available at: http://old.ecmwf.int/publications/newsletters/pdf/137.pdf.
Pappenberger, F., F. Wetterhall, C. Albergel, G. Balsamo, I. Tsonevsky, J. Muñoz-Sabater, K. Bogner, L. Magnusson, L. Alfieri, P. de Rosnay, T. Haiden, T. Hewson, 2013: Floods in Central Europe in June 2013, ECMWF Newsletter, 136, http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/newsletters/pdf/136.pdf.
Boussetta, S., G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, A. Agusti-Panareda, J.-C. Calvet, C. Jacobs, B. van den Hurk, P. Viterbo, S. Lafont, E. Dutra, L. Jarlan, M. Balzarolo, D. Papale, G. van der Werf, 2013: Natural land carbon dioxide exchanges in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System: Implementation and offline validation, J. Geophys. Res., 118, 5923–5946, DOI: 10.1002/jgrd.50488, also available as ECMWF Tech. memo. 675.
Manrique Suñén, A., A. Nordbo, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, I. Mammarella, 2013: Representing land surface heterogeneity with the tiling method: merits and limitations in presence of large contrast, J. Hydromet. 14, 850–867. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-12-0108.1, also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 683.
Orsolini Y. J. ,R. Senan, G. Balsamo, F. J. Doblas-Reyes, F. Vitart, A. Weisheimer, A. Carrasco, R. E. Benestad, 2013: Impact of snow initialization on sub-seasonal forecasts. Climate Dynamics, DOI 10.1007/s00382-013-17820. http://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs00382-013-1782-0.pdf.
Sandu, I., A. Beljaars, P. Bechtold, T. Mauritsen and G. Balsamo, 2013: Why is it so difficult to represent stably stratified conditions in NWP models?, J. Advances Modelling Earth Systems, VOL. 5, 1–17, doi:10.1002/jame.20013, also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 684.
Albergel, C., W. Dorigo, G. Balsamo, J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. de Rosnay, L. Isaksen, L. Brocca, R. de Jeu, W. Wagner, 2013: Monitoring multi-decadal satellite earth observation of soil moisture products through land surface reanalyses. Rem. Sens. of Env. 11/2013, 138:77-89. DOI:10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.009.
de Rosnay, P., M. Drusch, D. Vasiljevic, G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, L. Isaksen, 2013: A simplified Extended Kalman Filter for the global operational soil moisture analysis at ECMWF, Q. J. of the Roy. Met. Soc. 07/2013, 139(674). DOI:10.1002/qj.2023, also available as ECMWF Tech. memo 662 [link].
Dutra, E., L. Magnusson, F. Wetterhall, H. L. Cloke, G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, F. Pappenberger, 2013: The 2010-2011 drought in the Horn of Africa in ECMWF reanalysis and seasonal forecast products. Int. J. of Climatol. 06/2013, 33(7-7):1720-1729. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/joc.3545.
Sandu, I., A. Beljaars, P. Bechtold, T. Mauritsen, and G. Balsamo, 2013: Why is it so difficult to represent stably stratified conditions in numerical weather prediction (NWP) models?, J. Adv. Model. Earth Syst., 5, 117–133, doi:10.1002/jame.20013. Also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 684 [link].
Boussetta, S., G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, T. Kral, L. Jarlan, 2013: Impact of a satellite-derived leaf area index monthly climatology in a global numerical weather prediction model. Int. J. of Rem. Sens., Vol. 34, Iss. 9-10, 3520-3542. DOI:10.1080/01431161.2012.716543, also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 640 [pdf].
Lacaze, R., B. Smets, I. Trigo, J.-C. Calvet, A. Jann, F. Camacho, F. Baret, R. Kidd, P. Defourny, K. Tansey, P. Pacholczyk, G. Balsamo, B. Szintai, 2013: The Copernicus Global Land Service: present and future. EGU 2013, Vienna, Austria.
Albergel C., W. Dorigo , R. Reichle, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, L. Isaksen, R. de Jeu and W. Wagner, 2013: Skill and global trend analysis of soil moisture from reanalyses and microwave remote sensing. Journal of Hydrometeorology, 14, pp 1259-1277, doi: 10.1175/JHM-D-12-0161.1
Manrique-Suñén, A., A. Nordbo, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, I. Mammarella, 2013: Representing Land Surface Heterogeneity: Offline Analysis of the Tiling Method. J. of Hydromet. 02/2013, 14(3):850-867. DOI:10.1175/JHM-D-12-0108.1. also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 683 [link].
Albergel C., W. Dorigo , G. Balsamo, J. Muñoz-Sabater, P. de Rosnay, L. Isaksen, L. Brocca, R. de Jeu and W. Wagner, 2013: Monitoring multi-decadal satellite earth observation of soil moisture products through land surface reanalyses. Remote Sensing of Environment, 138, pp77-89, doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2013.07.009.
2012
C. Albergel, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, and S. Boussetta, 2012: A bare ground evaporation revision in the ECMWF land-surface scheme: evaluation of its impact using ground soil moisture and satellite microwave data, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 16, 16, 3607-3620, doi:10.5194/hess-16-3607-2012, 2012. http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/16/3607/2012/hess-16-3607-2012.html
E. Dutra, L. Magnusson, F. Wetterhall, H. Cloke, G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, F. Pappenberger, 2012: The 2010/11 drought in the Horn of Africa, J. Climate, doi:10.1002/joc.3545 [link].
C. Albergel, P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, L. Isaksen, J. Muñoz Sabater, 2012: Soil moisture analyses at ECMWF: evaluation using global ground-based in-situ observations, J. Hydrometeor. 13, 1442–1460. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JHM-D-11-0107.1., also available as ECMWF Tech. memo 651 [link].
E. Dutra, L. Magnusson, F. Wetterhall, H. Cloke, G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, F. Pappenberger, 2012: Monitoring and forecasting the 2010/11 drought in the Horn of Africa, ECMWF Newsletter, 131, 9-11 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, M. Balzarolo, A. Beljaars, S. Boussetta, J.C. Calvet, E. Dutra, T. Kral, D. Papale, P. de Rosnay, and I. Sandu, 2012: Usefulness of Benchmarking for Global Land Surface Model Development" BAMS Conference notebook, summary from the 26th AMS Conference on Hydrology, 22-26 January, 2012, New Orleans, Louisiana, US [pdf].
G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, A. Beljaars, S. Boussetta, E. Brun, H. Cloke, D. Dee, E. Dutra, F. Pappenberger, P. de Rosnay, J. Muñoz-Sabater, T. Stockdale, F. Vitart, 2012: ERA-Interim/Land: A global land-surface reanalysis based on ERA-Interim meteorological forcing, ERA-Report series, n. 13, pp. 25 [link].
B. van den Hurk, F. Doblas-Reyes, G. Balsamo, R. Koster, S. Seneviratne and H. Camargo Jr, 2012: Soil moisture effects on seasonal temperature and precipitation forecast scores in Europe, Clim. Dyn., doi:10.1007/s00382-010-0956-2 [link].
E. Dutra, P. Viterbo, P. M. A. Miranda, G. Balsamo, 2012: Complexity of snow schemes in a climate model and its impact on surface energy and hydrology. J. Hydrometeor, 13, 521-538. doi:10.1175/JHM-D-11-072.1 [link].
I. Sandu, A. Beljaars, G. Balsamo, A. Ghelli, 2012: Revision of the surface roughness length table, ECMWF Newsletter, 130, 8-10 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, R. Salgado, E. Dutra, S. Boussetta, T. Stockdale, M. Potes, 2012: On the contribution of lakes in predicting near-surface temperature in a global weather forecasting model, Tellus-A, 64, 15829, DOI: 10.3402/tellusa.v64i0.15829 [link].
P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, J. Muñoz Sabater, C. Albergel, and L. Isaksen, 2012: Land surface data assimilation, Proc. of ECMWF seminar on data assimilation for atmosphere and ocean, 6-9 September 2011, Reading, UK [pdf].
2011
F. Molteni, T. Stockdale, M. Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, R. Buizza, L. Ferranti, L. Magnusson, K. Mogensen, T. Palmer and F. Vitart, 2011: The new ECMWF seasonal forecast system (System 4), ECMWF Tech. memo 656 [pdf].
E. Dutra, S. Kotlarski, P. Viterbo, G. Balsamo, P. M. A. Miranda, C. Schär, P. Bissolli, and T. Jonas, 2011: Snow cover sensitivity to horizontal resolution, parameterizations and atmospheric forcing in a land surface model, J. Geophys. Res., doi:10.1029/2011JD016061 [link].
P. de Rosnay, M. Drusch, G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, L. Isaksen, 2011: Extended Kalman Filter soil moisture analysis in the IFS, ECMWF Newsletter, 127, 12-16 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, E. Dutra, A. Beljaars, P. Viterbo, B. Van den Hurk, 2011: Evolution of land surface processes in the IFS, ECMWF Newsletter, 127, 17-22 [pdf].
M. Grippa, L. Kergoat, F. Frappart, Q. Araud, A. Boone. P. de Rosnay, J.-M. Lemoine, S. Gascoin, G. Balsamo, C. Ottlé, B. Decharme, and S. Saux-Picart, 2011: Land water storage variability over West Africa estimated by Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and land surface models, Water Resour. Res., 47, W05549, doi:10.1029/2009WR008856.
C. Jiménez, C. Prigent, B. Mueller, S. I. Seneviratne, M. F. McCabe, E. F. Wood, W. B. Rossow, C. D. Kummerow, G. Balsamo, A. K. Betts, G. B. Bonan, M. G. Bosilovich, P. A. Dirmeyer, M. B. Ek, J. B. Fisher, M. Jung, M. Kanamitsu, R. D. Koster, R. H. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, J. Sheffield, K. Tu, K. Wang, 2011: Global comparison of 12 land surface heat fluxes, J. Geophys. Res., 116, D02102, doi: 10.1029/2010JD014545.
B. Mueller, S.I. Seneviratne , C. Jimenez, T. Corti, M. Hirschi , G. Balsamo , P. Ciais, P. Dirmeyer, J.B. Fisher, Z. Guo , M. Jung, F. Maignan, M.F. McCabe, R. Reichle, M. Reichstein, M. Rodell, J. Sheffield, A. J. Teuling, K. Wang, E.F. Wood, and Y. Zhang, 2011: Evaluation of global observations-based evapotranspiration datasets and IPCC AR4 simulations. Geophysical Research Letters, 38, L06402, doi:10.1029/2010GL046230.
R. D. Koster, S. P. P. Mahanama, T. J. Yamada, G. Balsamo, A. A. Berg, M. Boisserie, P. A. Dirmeyer, F. J. Doblas-Reyes, G. Drewitt, C. T. Gordon, Z. Guo, J.-H. Jeong, W.-S. Lee, Z. Li, L. Luo, S. Malyshev, W. J. Merryfield, S. I. Seneviratne, T. Stanelle, B. J. J. M. van den Hurk, F. Vitart, and E. F. Wood, 2010: The Second Phase of the Global Land-Atmosphere Coupling Experiment: Soil Moisture Contributions to Subseasonal Forecast Skill, J. Hydrometeor., doi: 10.1175/2011JHM1365.1 [link].
D. P. Dee, S. M. Uppala, A. J. Simmons, P. Berrisford, P. Poli, S. Kobayashi, U. Andrae, M. A. Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, P. Bauer, P. Bechtold, A. C. M. Beljaars, L. van de Berg, J. Bidlot, N. Bormann, C. Delsol, R. Dragani, M. Fuentes, A. J. Geer, L. Haimberger, S. Healy, H. Hersbach, E. V. Hólm, L. Isaksen, P. Kållberg, M. Köhler, M. Matricardi, A. P. McNally, B. M. Monge-Sanz, J.-J. Morcrette, C. Peubey, P. de Rosnay, C. Tavolato, J.-N. Thépaut, F. Vitart, 2011: The ERA-Interim reanalysis: Configuration and performance of the data assimilation system, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., doi: 10.1002/qj.828, also available as ERA Report Series, n. 9, pp. 71 [pdf].
C. Szczypta, J.-C. Calvet, C. Albergel, G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, D. Carrer, S. Lafont, and C. Meurey, 2011: Verification of the new ECMWF ERA-Interim reanalysis over France, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 647-666, doi:10.5194/hess-15-647-2011, 2011 [pdf].
R. Lacaze, F. Baret, F. Camacho, R. d'Andrimont, S. C. Freitas, P. Pacholczyk, H. Poilvé, B. Smets h, K. Tansey, W. Wagner, J.-C. Calvet, G. Balsamo, R. Kidd, H. Makhmara, M. Weiss, A. Bradley, 2011: geoland2 - Towards an operational GMES Land Monitoring Core Service: the Biogeophysical Parameter Core Mapping Service, Proc. of the International Symposium of Remote Sensing of Environment (ISRSE).
2010
E. Dutra, G. Balsamo, P. Viterbo, P.M.A. Miranda, A. Beljaars, C. Schär, K. Elder, 2010: An improved snow scheme for the ECMWF land surface model: description and offline validation. J. Hydrometeor.11, 899-916. doi: 10.1175/2010JHM1249.1., also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 607 [pdf].
A. Beljaars, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, B. van den Hurk, M. Best: 2010: Land surface modelling, data assilimilation and implications for predictability, ECMWF Newsletter, 112, pp. 9-10 [pdf].
C. Albergel, J.-C. Calvet, P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, W. Wagner, S. Hasenauer, V. Naeimi, E. Martin, E. Bazile, F. Bouyssel, J.-F. Mahfouf, 2010: Cross-evaluation of modelled and remotely sensed surface soil moisture with in situ data in Southwestern France, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., 7, 4291-4330, doi:10.5194/hessd-7-4291-2010 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, S. Boussetta, P. Lopez, L. Ferranti, 2010: Evaluation of ERA-Interim and ERA-Interim-GPCP-rescaled precipitation over the U.S.A., ERA Report Series, n. 5, pp10 [pdf].
M.J. Rodwell, T.Jung, P. Bechtold, P. Berrisford, N. Bormann, C. Cardinali, L. Ferranti, T. Hewson, F. Molteni, N. Wedi, M.A. Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, M. Bonavita, R. Buizza, M. Dahoui, A. Garcia-Mendez ,M. Leutbecher, P. Lopez, Y. Trémolet and F. Vitart, 2010: Developments in diagnostics research, ECMWF Tech. Memo. 637 [pdf].
Y. Takaya, F. Vitart, G. Balsamo, M. Balmaseda, M. Leutbecher, F. Molteni, 2010: Implementation of an ocean mixed layer model in the ECMWF Integrated Forecast System. ECMWF Tech. memo. 622 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, F. Pappenberger, E. Dutra, P. Viterbo, B. van den Hurk, 2010: A revised land hydrology in the ECMWF model: A step towards daily water flux prediction in a fully-closed water cycle., Special issue on large scale hydrology of Hydrological Processes, doi:10.1002/hyp.7808.
T. Jung, G. Balsamo, P. Bechtold, A. Beljaars, M. Köhler, M. Miller, J.-J. Morcrette, A. Orr, M. Rodwell, A. Tompkins, 2010 : The ECMWF model climate: Recent progress through improved physical parametrizations. Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 136(650), 1145-1160, doi: 10.1002/qj.63 also available as ECMWF Tech. memo. 623 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, E. Dutra, S. Boussetta, A. Beljaars, P. Viterbo, B. van den Hurk, 2010: Recent advances in land surface modelling at ECMWF, Proc. of ECMWF/GLASS workshop on Land Surface Modelling, Data Assimilation and the implications for predictability, 9-12 November 2009, Reading, UK [pdf].
P. De Rosnay, M. Drusch, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, L. Isaksen, D. Vasiljevic, C. Albergel and K. Scipal, 2010: Advances in land data assimilation at ECMWF, Proc. of ECMWF/GLASS workshop on Land Surface Modelling, Data Assimilation and the implications for predictability, 9-12 November 2009, Reading, UK [pdf].
E. Dutra, V.M. Stepanenko, G. Balsamo, P. Viterbo, P.M. Miranda, D. Mironov, C. Schär, 2010: Global offline lake simulations: Validation and Impact on ERA-Interim, Bor. Env. Res., 15, 100-112, also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 608 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, E. Dutra, V.M. Stepanenko, P. Viterbo, P.M. Miranda, D. Mironov, 2010: Deriving an effective lake depth from satellite lake surface temperature data: A feasibility study with MODIS data, Bor. Env. Res., 15, 178-190, also available as ECMWF Tech. memo. 609 [pdf].
2009
J.-C. Calvet, G. Balsamo, M. Balzarolo, A. Barbu, A. Cescatti, F. Chevallier, N. Delbart, J. de Vries, A.-L. Gibelin, A. Horanyi, L. Kullmann, S. Lafont, J.-F. Mahfouf, F. Maignan, D. Papale, G. Seufert and H. The, 2009: Monitoring soil and vegetation fluxes of carbon and water at the global cale: the land carbon core information service of GEOLAND2, Proc. of ECMWF/GLASS workshop on Land Surface Modelling, Data Assimilation and the implications for predictability, 9-12 November 2009, Reading, UK [pdf].
B. van den Hurk, E. Dutra, B. Smith, M. Brandt, M. Weiss, R. Haarsma, W. Hazeleger, G. Balsamo and M. van der Molen, 2009: The EC-Earth modelling challenges, Proc. of ECMWF/GLASS workshop on Land Surface Modelling, Data Assimilation and the implications for predictability, 9-12 November 2009, Reading, UK [pdf].
A. Agustí-Panareda, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, 2009: Impact of improved soil moisture on the ECMWF precipitation forecast in West Africa, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37, L20808, doi:10.1029/2010GL044748, also available as ECMWF Tech. memo. 611 [pdf].
R. D. Koster, S. Mahanama, T. Yamada, G. Balsamo, M. Boisserie, P. Dirmeyer, F. Doblas-Reyes, T. Gordon, Z. Guo, J.-H. Jeong, D. Lawrence, Z. Li, L. Luo, S. Malyshev, W. Merryfield13, S. I. Seneviratne, T. Stanelle, B. van den Hurk, F. Vitart, and E. F. Wood, 2009: The Contribution of Land Surface Initialization to Subseasonal Forecast Skill: First Results from the GLACE-2 Project, Geophys. Res. Lett., 2009GL041677R.
A. Agustí-Panareda, A. Beljaars, M. Ahlgrimm, G. Balsamo, O. Bock, R. Forbes, A. Ghelli, F. Guichard, M. Köhler, R. Meynadier and J.-J. Morcrette, 2009: The ECMWF re-analysis for the AMMA observational campaign, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc. (in press), doi:10.1002/qj.662 , also available as ECMWF Tech. memo. 612 [pdf].
J. Muñoz Sabater, P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, 2009: Sensitivity of L-band NWP forward modelling to soil roughness, Int. J. Rem. Sens. (accepted), also available as ECMWF Tech. memo. 624 [pdf].
F. Rabier, A. Bouchard, E. Brun, A. Doerenbecher, S. Guedj, V. Guidard, F. Karbou, V.-H. Peuch, L. El Amraoui, D. Puech, C. Genthon, G. Picard, M. Town, A. Hertzog, F. Vial, P. Cocquerez, S. A. Cohn, T. Hock, J. Fox, H. Cole, D. Parsons, J. Powers, K. Romberg, J. VanAndel, T. Deshler, J. Mercer, J. S. Haase, L. Avallone, L. Kalnajs, C. R. Mechoso, A. Tangborn, A. Pellegrini, Y. Frenot, J.-N. Thépaut, A. McNally, G. Balsamo, P. Steinle, 2009: The Concordiasi project in Antarctica, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 10.1175/2009BAMS2764,1 [pdf].
F. Pappenberger, H. Cloke, G. Balsamo, T. Ngo-Duc, T. Oki, 2009: Global runoff routing with the hydrological component of the ECMWF NWP system, Int. J. Climatol.,doi:10.1002/joc.2028 [pdf].
A. Boone, P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, F. Chopin, B. Decharme, C. Delire, A. Ducharne, S. Gascoin, M. Grippa, F. Guichard, Y. Gusev, P. Harris, L. Jarlan, L. Kergoat, E. Mougin, O. Nasonova, A. Norgaard, T. Orgeval, C. Ottlé, I. Poccard-Leclercq, J. Polcher, I. Sandholt, S. Saux-Picart, C. Taylor, and Y. Xue, 2009: The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 90 (12). 1865-1880. doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2786.1.
P. de Rosnay, M. Drusch, A. Boone, G. Balsamo, B. Decharme, P. Harris, Y. Kerr, T. Pellarin, J. Polcher and J-P. Wigneron, 2009: The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Experiment coupled to the Community Microwave Emission Model: ALMIP-MEM. J. Geophys. Res., Vol 114, doi:10.1029/2008JD010724.
F. Guichard, N. Asencio, C. Peugeot, O. Bock, J.-L. Redelsperger, X. Cui, M. Garvert, B. Lamptey, E. Orlandi, J. Sander, F. Fierli, M. A. Gaertner, S. Jones, J.-P. Lafore, A. Morse, M. Nuret, A. Boone, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, B. Decharme, P. P. Harris and J.-C. Bergès, 2009 : An intercomparison of simulated rainfall and evapotranspiration associated with a mesoscale convective system over West Africa, Weather and Forecasting, 25, 37-60. doi : 10.1175/2009WAF2222250.1.
G. Balsamo, P. Viterbo, A. Beljaars, B. van den Hurk, M. Hirschi, A.K. Betts, and K. Scipal, 2009: A Revised Hydrology for the ECMWF Model: Verification from Field Site to Terrestrial Water Storage and Impact in the Integrated Forecast System. J. Hydrometeor., 10, 623-643, also available as ECMWF Tech. memo. 563 [pdf].
M. Drusch, K. Scipal, P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, E. Andersson, P. Bougeault, P. Viterbo, 2009: Towards a Kalman filter based soil moisture analysis system for the operational ECMWF Integrated Forecast System, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L10401, doi:10.1029/2009GL037716.
M. Drusch, T. Holmes, P. de Rosnay and G. Balsamo, 2009: Comparing ERA-40 based L-band brightness temperatures with Skylab observations: A calibration / validation study using the Community Microwave Emission Model.10, 213-225, DOI: 10.1175/2008JHM964.1 ECMWF Tech. memo. 566 [pdf].
J.-F. Mahfouf and G. Balsamo, 2009: Recent development in land data assimilation for numerical weather prediction, Proc. 5th WMO Symposium on data assimilation, 5 - 9 October 2009, Melbourne, Australia [link].
T. Jung, G. Balsamo, P. Bechtold, A. Beljaars, M. Köhler, M. Miller, J-J. Morcrette, A. Orr, M. Rodwell and A.M. Tompkins, 2009: The ECMWF model climate: Recent progress through improved physical parametrizations. Proc. of ECMWF seminar on Parametrization of Subgrid Physical Processes, 4-8 September 2008, 233-250 [link].
2008
M. Drusch, K. Scipal, P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, E. Andersson, P. Bougeault and P. Viterbo, 2008: Exploitation of satellite data in the surface analysis, ECMWF Tech. memo. 576, doi: 10.21957/n6b1wz8n.
C. Cassardo, N. Loglisci, M. W. Qian, S. Ferrarese, A. Longhetto, G. Balsamo, 2008: Numerical simulation of the 1999 Christmas day storms in Europe (in Chinese)", Meteorology and disaster reduction research, 32(2), pp. 1-8.
P. de Rosnay, M. Drusch, J.-P. Wigneron, T. Holmes, G. Balsamo, A. Boone, C. Rudiger, J.-C. Calvet, Y. Kerr, 2008: Soil moisture remote sensing for numerical weather prediction: L-band and C-band emission modeling over land surfaces, the community microwave emission model (CMEM). IGARRS IEEE International Geoscience & Remote Sensing Symposium, 563-566, 978-1-4244-2808-3/08, Boston, 6-11 July 2008.
C.M.J. Jacobs, E.J. Moors, H.W. Ter Maat, A.J. Teuling, G. Balsamo, J.-C. Calvet, J. Ettema, M. Lange, B.J.J.M. Van Den Hurk, P. Viterbo and W. Wergen 2008: Evaluation of European Land Data Assimilation System (ELDAS) products using in situ observations. Tellus, 60A, 1023-1037.
Bechtold, P., M. Köhler, T. Jung, F. Doblas-Reyes, M. Leut becher, M. J . Rodwel l , F. Vitart, G. Balsamo, 2008: Advances in simulating atmospheric variability with the ECMWF model: from synoptic to decadal time-scales. Q.J.R.Meterol. Soc., 134, 1337-1351, also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 556 [pdf].
F. Vitart, A. Bonet, M. Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, J.-R. Bidlot, R. Buizza, M. Fuentes, A. Hofstadler, F. Molteni, T. Palmer, 2008: The new VarEPS- monthly forecasting system: a first step towards seamless prediction. Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 134, 1789-1799.
P. de Rosnay, M. Drusch, T. Holmes, G. Balsamo, K. Scipal, E. Andersson, P. Bougeault, 2008: ECMWF's contribution to the SMOS project. ECMWF Newsletter 115, 5-6 [pdf].
M. Drusch, K. Scipal, E. Andersson, G. Balsamo, T. Holmes and P. de Rosnay, 2008: Use of satellite data for land surface assimilation. Proc. of ECMWF seminar on Recent developments in the use of satellite observations in numerical weather prediction, 3-7 September 2007, 187-200. [pdf].
F. Vitart, A. Bonet, M. Balmaseda, G. Balsamo, J.-R. Bidlot, R. Buizza, M. Fuentes, A. Hofstadler, F. Molteni, T. Palmer, 2008: Merging VarEPS with the monthly forecasting system: a first step towards seamless prediction. ECMWF Newsletter 115, 35-43 [pdf].
Jarlan, L., G. Balsamo, S. Lafont, A. Beljaars, J.C. Calvet and E. Mougin, 2008: Analysis of Leaf Area Index in the ECMWF land surface scheme and impact on latent heat and carbon fluxes: Applications to West Africa, J. Geophys. Res., 113, D24117. also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 544 [pdf].
2007
G. Balsamo, J.-F. Mahfouf, S. Bélair, G. Deblonde, 2007: A Land Data Assimilation System for soil moisture and temperature: An information content study. J. Hydromet., 8, 1225-1242 [pdf].
C. Rudiger, J.-C. Calvet, J.-F. Mahfouf, L. Jarlan, G. Balsamo, and J. Muñoz Sabater, 2007: Assimilation of land surface variables for model initialisation at Meteo-France. L. Oxley and D. Kulasiri (Eds.), Proc. of the international congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM). Modelling and simulation society of Australia and New Zealand, Inc., Christchurch, New Zealand, 10-13 December, 2007, 1716-1722.
Beljaars, A., G. Balsamo, A. Betts and P. Viterbo, 2007: Atmosphere/surface interactions in the ECMWF model at high latitudes. Proc. of ECMWF Seminar on Polar meteorology, 4-8 September 2006, ECMWF, 153-168 [pdf].
M. Drusch, K. Scipal, E. Andersson, G. Balsamo, P. de Rosnay, 2007: Use of satellite data for land surface assimilation. Proc. of ECMWF Seminar on Recent Developments in the Use of Satellite Observations in Numerical Weather Prediction, 3-7, Sept 2007 [pdf].
2006 and earlier
G. Balsamo, J.-F. Mahfouf, S. Bélair, G. Deblonde, 2006: A Global Root-Zone Soil Moisture Analysis Using Simulated L-band Brightness Temperature in Preparation for the Hydros Satellite Mission. J. Hydromet., 7, 1126-1146 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, F. Bouyssel, J. Noilhan, J.-F. Mahfouf, S. Bélair, S., G. Deblonde: 2005. A simplified variational analysis scheme for soil moisture: Developments at Météo-France and MSC. Proc. ECMWF/ELDAS workshop on Land Surface Assimilation, ECMWF, Reading , UK , 79-96 [pdf].
S. Bélair, G. Balsamo, J.-F. Mahfouf, G. Deblonde, 2005: Towards the inclusion of Hydros soil moisture measurements in forecasting systems of the meteorological service of Canada. Proc. IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 25-29 July 2005, 4, 2741-2743 [pdf].
G. Balsamo, F. Bouyssel and J. Noilhan, 2004: A simplified bi-dimensional variational analysis of soil moisture from screen-level observations in a mesoscale numerical weather prediction model, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc., 130, 895-915. [pdf].
C. Cassardo, G. Balsamo, C. Cacciamani, D. Cesari, T. Paccagnella and R. Pelosini, 2002: Impact of soil surface moisture initialization on rainfall in a limited area model: a case study of the 1995 South Ticino flash flood. Hydrol. Process., 16: 1301-1317. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.1063.
G. Balsamo, B. Cagnazzi, G. Paesano, 2000: A statistical-climatological wind study for characterization of anemological basins in Piedmont Region. Proc. of a Wind Engeneering workshop "In vento 2000", Genoa, Italy, pages 93-100, included in "The wind in Piemonte" ARPA Eds., (in Italian) [pdf].