Ongoing Research
interests- Numerical Weather Prediction and Earth System Science
- Land-Atmosphere Interaction and Predictability
- Climate-change and low-frequency Variability
Professional pathway
- Senior scientist, Model Division/Physics, ECMWF, UK, 2009-2015.
- Scientist, Model Division/Physics, ECMWF, UK, 2006-2009.
- Visiting scientist at the Meteorological Service of Canada, RPN, Canada, 2004-2005.
- ALATNET young researcher at CNRM/Météo-France, GMAP, France, 2000-2003.
- Weather forecasting and land modelling at the ARPA-Piedmont, Italy, 1999-2002.
Academic pathway
- Habilitation to Direct Research (HDR) in Meteorology (UPS, Toulouse-III), in 2012.
- Doctorate (PhD) in Meteorology (UPS, Toulouse-III and UNIGE, Genoa) in 2003.
- Physics degree (4-year "Laurea", UNITO, University of Torino, Italy) in 1999.
- Visiting student (BSc/MSc, University of Reading, Met. Department, UK) in 1997.
- Computer science ("Diploma", Peano Institute, Torino, Italy), in 1994.
Commitees and projects
- WMO/GCW World Meteorological Organization, Global Chryosphere Watch, steering group.
- GLASS/GEWEX 2010-2015 Global Land Atmosphere System Study panel's member.
- EUMETNET/SRNWP 2010-2015 Land Expert Team: Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction.
- EUMETSAT/LSA-SAF Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility, steering group.
- Study of the surface thermal coupling using skin temperature from satellites
- Support and evaluation of the coupled system for use at high resolution
- Refined discretisation for the multi-layer soil scheme
- Extension of tiling to land permanent glaciers
Ongoing and submitted Projects
- EARTH2OBSERVE 2014-2017: Global Earth Observations for Integrated Water Resource Assessment.
- IMAGINES 2013-2015: Global Biosphere Monitoring via multi-sensor/multi-scale biophysical land variables exploiting Sentinel sensor data.
- GEOLAND I&II 2006-2012: Global Operational Land Surface Modelling and Data Assimilation for Vegetation state and Carbon dioxide exchange.
- SAFE-EO (submitted March 2016)
- APPLICATE (submitted Feb 2016)
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About
I contribute to the development of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System. Representing soil, lakes, snow and vegetation cover at kilometric scale has great scientific and technological challenges and large scope to unleash enhanced predictive skills.
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Contact
Dr. Gianpaolo Balsamo
ECMWF, Shinfield Park, RG29AX, Reading, UK.
Email: gianpaolo.balsamo at ecmwf.int
Telephone: +44(0)1189499246
IM/Skype: gpbalsamo
Room: 001
Location: Ground floor