2015
E. Dutra, I. Sandu, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, H. Freville(1), E. Vignon, E. Brun, 2015: Understanding the ECMWF winter surface temperature biases over Antarctica., Cryosphere (submitted), also available as ECMWF TM 762.
J. Schellekens, E. Dutra, G. Balsamo, A. van Dijk, F. Sperna Weiland, M. Minvielle, J.C. Calvet, B. Decharme, S. Eisner, G. Fink, M. Floerke, S. Pessenteiner, R. van Beek, J. Polcher, H. Beck, A. Martinez de la Torre, R. Orth, B. Calton, S. Burke, G. Weedon, 2015: A global water resources ensemble of hydrological models: the eartH2Observe Tier-1 dataset" Geosci. Data J. (submitted).
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. (submitted).
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. (submitted).
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, 2015: The plumbing of land surface models: why are models performing so poorly? J. Hydromet. (submitted).
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. (under review).
Zsoter E., P. Smith, F. Pappenberger, E. Dutra, D. Richardson, F. Wetterhall, K. Bogner, G. Balsamo, R. E. Emerton, 2015: Multimodel discharge prediction and evaluation with the TIGGE ensemble data archive, J. of Hydromet., (under review).
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.
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
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. avaliable at: http://old.ecmwf.int/publications/library/do/references/show?id=91222.
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.
Agustí-Panareda, A., Massart, S., Chevallier, F., Boussetta, S., Balsamo, G., 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., Balsamo, G., 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., 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.
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. Atmos., 118, 5923–5946, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50488.
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.
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.
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
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
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].
I. Sandu, A. Beljaars, P. Bechtold, T. Mauritsen and G. Balsamo, 2012: Why is it so difficult to represent stably stratified conditions in NWP models?, J. Advances Modelling Earth Systems (submitted) also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 684 [link].
A. Manrique Suñén, A. Nordbo, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, I. Mammarella, 2012: Representing land surface heterogeneity with the tiling method: merits and limitations in presence of large contrast, J. Hydromet. (submitted), also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 683 [link].
S. Boussetta, 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, 2012: Natural land carbon dioxide exchanges in the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System: Implementation and offline validation, J. Geophys. Res. (submitted), available as ECMWF Tech. memo. 675 [link].
Y. J. Orsolini, R. Senan, G. Balsamo, F.J. Doblas-Reyes, F. Vitart, A. Weisheimer, A. Carrasco, R.E. Benestad, 2012: Impact of snow initialization on sub-seasonal forecasts, Clim. Dyn. (in revision).
P. de Rosnay, G. Balsamo, C. Albergel, J. Muñoz Sabater, and L. Isaksen, 2012: Initialization of land surface variables for Numerical Weather Prediction, Surveys in Geophysics, Springer Ed. (submitted).
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. Discuss., 9, 6715-6752, doi:10.5194/hessd-9-6715-2012 [link].
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].
P. de Rosnay, M. Drusch, D. Vasiljevic, G. Balsamo, C. Albergel and L. Isaksen, 2012: A simplified Extended Kalman Filter for the global operational soil moisture analysis at ECMWF, Quart. J. Roy. Meteor. Soc.(accepted), also available as ECMWF Tech. memo 662 [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. (accepted), 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].
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].
S. Boussetta, G. Balsamo, A. Beljaars, T. Kral, L. Jarlan, 2011: Impact of a satellite-derived Leaf Area Index monthly climatology in a global Numerical Weather Prediction model, Int. J. Remote Sensing (accepted), also available as ECMWF Tech. Memo. 640 [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 [pdf].
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 [pdf].
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 [pdf].
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 erlier
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 [pdf].
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].