Gianpaolo Balsamo Email & Phone Number

Reading, GB

Geneva, Switzerland

As Global Greenhouse Gas Watch - G3W Director, I support its developing phase after the endorsement by the 19th World Meteorological Congress in May 2023. In this first phase, our G3W team is looking after the implementation & sustainability strategy, linking with the various constituent bodies and reporting progress to the WMO Executive Council and to WMO.

Reading, United Kingdom

As Principal Scientist I have been contributing to the research output of ECMWF with focus on Earth's biosphere, cryosphere and hydrosphere. These elements of the Earth system are represented using a range of models to simulate the energy/water/carbon cycle continuous exchanges with atmosphere, that can support extended range prediction capabilities, via.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

As Senior Scientist the portfolio of my research activities has sizeably & consistently grown, with a larger Team of experts I have coordinated in order to cover all aspect of Land-Atmosphere coupling, including the modelling and the interaction with data assimilation. The Global Hydrology applications have led to the first Global Flood Awareness System.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

As Scientist joining the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), I have covered responsibilities of model development for the operational global land surface scheme and its data assimilation adaptation. The first and most significant tasks have been the redesign and implementation of the new Hydrology - Tiled ECMWF Surface Scheme for.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

As Postdoctoral Scientist I have been integrated in the Meteorological Research Branch of the Meteorological Service of Canada thanks to a Post-doctoral fellowship programme co-sponsored by Environment Climate Change Canada and the Canadian Space Agency. I have designed and delivered the first prototype of the Canadian Land-surface data assimilation.

Toulouse, Occitanie, France

Researcher on Land surface data assimilation with the ARPEGE global model of Météo-France. I was employed by the French National Research Center for Meteorology CNRM for the participation to the European project ELDAS which contributed to build a European Land Data Assimilation System to be used across regional and global models. After the development of a.

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Weather forecaster and weather analyst for the Piedmont Region Civil protection activities. Employed under the Interreg France-Italy programme I was integrated in the Hydrometeorological Service unit of the Piedmont Region.Among the significant operational contributions I had monitored progress in the construction of a meteorological C-band radar at Mt.

Certificate, Mit Digital Plus Programs, Leadership & Innovation

Leadership & Innovation MIT Professional Education This program fusion the development of leadership skills with vision necessary to.

Habilitation, Meteorology

Habilitation to Direct Research in Meteorology, obtained on the 30th of November 2012, with public defence in the "Joël Noilhan".

Phd, Meteorology

Obtained on the 4th of April 2003, with public defence in Genoa University with a thesis on the "Analysis of Soil Moisture in a Mesoscale.

Undergraduate, Physics

General Physics (4-year Laurea) degree, with speciality in Atmospheric Physics, obtained on the 29th of January 1999, with final mark of.

Undergraduate/Msc, Meteorology

Visiting student (ERASMUS program) in the Meteorology department of the University of Reading, UK. Succesfully completed BSc/MSc courses.