Professional interests
- Land and atmospheric reanalysis
- Essential Climate Variables
- Production of Climate Data Records
- Climate Change and socio-economical impact
- Land surface data assimilation
- Numerical Weather Prediction
- Remote sensing and microwave emission modelling
Professional pathway
- Senior Scientific Officer / ECV manager, Copernicus Climate Change Service, ECMWF, UK (Apr 2020 - Present)
- Reanalysis Scientist / Technical Officer, Copernicus Climate Change Service, ECMWF, UK (Feb 2016 - March 2020)
- Research Scientist, Data Assimilation Section, ECMWF, UK (Nov 2008 - Jan 2016)
- Post-doctorate, Climate Change and Modeling Unit, CERFACS, France (2007-2008)
- Doctorate (PhD), Meteorology at the Medium Scale Group, Météo-France (2004-2007)
- Research Assistant / PhD, Mathematical and Geodesy Positioning Group, TU Delft (2002-2003)
- Young Graduate Trainee, Earth Observation Section, European Space Agency, ESTEC (2001-2002)
- Junior fellowship at University of Valencia (1999 - 2000)
Committees and projects
- SMOS Quality Working Group
- SMOS-NEXT Scientific Advisory Group
- HYDRAS+ Steering Committee Member
- Copernicus Cross-CDR of Essential Climate Variables (ECV) group chair
- European Commission Polar Expert Group member for Sentinel Expansion
- ESA TRUTHS Earth Watch mission: member of the Mission Advisory Group (MAG)
- ESA Hydro-GNSS scout mission; member of the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG)
- Sentinel-3 Quality Working Group (QWG) member
- ESA's Fiducial Reference Measurements for Soil Moisture project; member of the Science Advisory Group (SAG)
Publications (here)
CV (here)
Contact
Dr. Joaquin Muñoz Sabater
ECMWF, Shinfield Park, RG29AX, Reading, UK.
Email: joaquin.munoz at ecmwf.int
Telephone: +44(0)1189499817
About
Joaquín Muñoz-Sabater was born in Valencia, Spain. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in April 2007, in France, with "mention très honorable". In 2016 he joined the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) entrusted to the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF, Reading, UK) on behalf of the European Commission (EC). There, Joaquín is, since April 2020, working as Senior Scientific Officer / ECV manager, leading the ECV programme, as well as the management and coordination of C3S contracts aimed at producing Climate Data Records of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) based on satellite data.
Prior to his Ph.D., Joaquín worked firstly at the European Space Agency (ESA), ESTEC, The Netherlands, involved in feasibility studies for the EARTHcare mission, and secondly at the Delft University of Technology, where he carried out research in radar interferometry. His thesis took place entirely at Météo France, and it was issued by the Paul Sabatier University (Toulouse III), Toulouse, France. His main topic was the assimilation of remote sensing data for the characterization of land surfaces. Following his PhD he also worked at the European Centre for Research and Advanced Training in Scientific Computation (CERFACS), Toulouse. There, he was responsible for a project of the French National Hydrometeorological and Flood Forecasting Centre, studying the impact of assimilating streamflow observations for flood forecasting applications. In 2008 he joined ECMWF, where he firstly worked in the Data Assimilation Section, mainly focusing on the assimilation of passive remote sensing data (with special emphasis on Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) data), for soil moisture analysis and the impact on the weather forecast. He also was involved in the implementation of a Neural Network aiming at producing a short latency soil moisture product based on SMOS data. Finally, in 2016, he moved to the Copernicus Department, where prior to his current role, he worked as reanalysis scientist taking responsibility on two main activities: 1/ land surface reanalyses, 2/ technical officer of C3S terrestrial ECV contracts.