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International Coordination (site: Geneva)

• Supporting the implementation of the Global Greenhouse Gas Watch G3W, a 193-Nations effort to monitor the progress of the Paris Agreement at the World Meteorological Organization
• https://wmo.int/activities/global-greenhouse-gas-watch-g3w
• https://wmo.int/media/news/global-greenhouse-gas-watch-draft-implementation-plan-released
• https://wmo.int/media/update/global-greenhouse-gas-watch-implementation-plan-be-presented-executive-council-ec-78
• https://community.wmo.int/en/meetings/global-greenhouse-gas-watch-g3w-implementation-plan

Research and Development (site: Reading, Bonn)

• Development and evaluation of the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System for use in km-scale ensembles, extended range prediction, climate and environmental reanalyses
• Extension of surface-atmosphere tiling approach over land and water, cryosphere snow/ice, urban/forest canopy tiles for seamless coupling of the water, energy and carbon cycles
• Artificial Intelligence applied to land-use/water-use change assessment (using satellites skin temperatures and machine learning) to detect land-use change and climate disturbances
• https://www.ecmwf.int/en/research ; https://www.copernicus.eu ; https://destination-earth.eu

Education (site: Torino)

• Politecnico di Torino, Department of Excellence on Climate transition 2023-2027
  https://www.diati.polito.it/en/focus/department_of_excellence_on_climate_transition_2023_2027
  PhD and Postdocs co-supervision with the Department of Excellence on Climate Transition
• Biennale di Tecnologia support as speaker: Cool Futures? https://www.biennaletecnologia.it/evento/cool-futures-la-crisi-climatica-tra-arte-scienza-e-sport/
• Master on Climate Change Solutions for Post-Graduate Students & Professionals https://www.polito.it/didattica/master-e-formazione-permanente/master-universitari/offerta-master-universitari/climate-change-adaptation-and-mitigation-solutions

Links to ECMWF project pages

• Internal
• External

Research areas:

• 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 & Projects:

• EUMETSAT/LSA-SAF Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility, steering group.
• WMO/GCW 2013-2015 World Meteorological Organization (), Global Chryosphere Watch, steering group.
• EUMETNET/SRNWP 2010-2015 Land Expert Team: Short-Range Numerical Weather Prediction.
• GLASS/GEWEX 2010-2015 Global Land Atmosphere System Study panel's member.

• 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.

Useful links:

• Land Surface Working Group (LSWG)

Outreach:

• Publications
• Researchgate
• GoogleScholar

E-mail: pad at ecmwf dot int