WP3 Global Modelling and data assimilation

Nicolas Bousserez

Nicolas Bousserez

Nicolas Bousserez

Role
WP6 Co-leader

Dr Nicolas Bousserez has extensive experience working on large scientific projects with NASA Science teams and Copernicus at ECMWF, supporting research activities for atmospheric trace-gas inversions and data assimilation systems. He is currently working on the design and development of the future Copernicus CO2 service. His areas of expertise include atmospheric chemistry, remote sensing, inverse methods and numerical algorithms for high-dimensional optimisation problems.

Marko Scholze

Marko Scholze

Marko Scholze

Role
WP5 Co-Leader

Marko Scholze has more than 20 years of research experience in the development and application of inverse modelling and data assimilation systems for the global carbon cycle. At Lund University he leads the “Inverse modelling of the interaction between the atmosphere and the earth’s surface” research group which investigates the global carbon cycle and its interactions with climate and humans by means of inverse modelling and assimilating observations into process-based models.  He is a member of the European Commission's CO2 Monitoring Task Force (CO2 MTF) and has been involved in several projects around the development of of the Copernicus CO2 Monitoring (CO2M) mission.

Stavros Stagakis

Stavros Stagakis

Stavros Stagakis

Role
Project Member

Dr. Stavros Stagakis is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Atmospheric Sciences group of the Department of Environmental Sciences in the University of Basel and a Research Associate at the Remote Sensing Lab, FORTH. He is the PI of the project diFUME: Urban carbon dioxide Flux Monitoring using Eddy Covariance and Earth Observation, funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships programme (H2020-MSCA-IF-2018). He holds a BSc in Biological Applications and Technology and PhD in Plant Ecophysiology and Remote Sensing. His expertise is on remote sensing applications in biosphere monitoring and modelling. His latest research is focused on urban environment and urban climate, working extensively with Eddy Covariance measurements of turbulent CO2 fluxes and the combination of meteorological in-situ measurements with remote sensing imagery for spatially disaggregated modelling and monitoring of biogenic and anthropogenic CO2 fluxes.

Paul Palmer

Paul Palmer

Paul Palmer

Role
Project Member

My research group studies the atmosphere on Earth and other planets using data, models, and theory. To achieve this we develop novel analytical and computational models of land surface processes and atmospheric composition and physics, and confront them with ground-based, airborne and satellite data. 

Marc Bocquet

Marc Bocquet

Marc Bocquet

Role
Project Member

Marc Bocquet has a PhD in theoretical physics from Ecole Polytechnique, and a Habilitation from Paris Sorbonne University.
He has been a postdoc fellow in the physics departments of the University of Warwick and of the University of Oxford.
He is currently professor at École des Ponts ParisTech and deputy director of the atmospheric environment research and
teaching centre (CEREA). He works in the field of data assimilation, machine learning and inverse problems in the
geosciences, with applications to atmospheric chemistry as well as in environmental statistics. He develops new
mathematical methods to better estimate the state of the atmosphere and the ocean, and their constituents, using large
sets of observations and complex models. He is a Fellow of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, and
an Editor for the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, for Foundation of Data Science and for
Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics.

Konstantinos Politakos

Konstantinos Politakos

Konstantinos Politakos

Role
Project Member

Konstantinos Politakos holds a B.Sc. degree from the Department of Physics, University of Crete and works as a research assistant at Foundation for Research and Technology. His main scientific interest includes urban climate and Eddy Covariance in an urban environment. Last September he participated at the 4th ICOS Science Conference with the project "Inter-annual variability of Eddy Covariance CO2 flux measurements in the city center of Heraklion, Greece".

Patricia de Rosnay

Patricia de Rosnay

Patricia de Rosnay

Role
Project Member

Patricia de Rosnay is a Senior Scientist with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) where she is leading the Coupled Assimilation Team in the Earth System Assimilation Section.  Her Team is in charge of the development of coupled Earth system assimilation, land surface assimilation and ocean assimilation in the ECMWF NWP systems.

Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Nektarios Chrysoulakis

Role
Project Member

Head of the Remote Sensing Lab, operating two Flux Towers in the city of Heraklion. Holds a BSc in Physics, a MSc in Environmental Physics and PhD in Remote Sensing. Main research interests: climate change and urbanization, urban climate, urban energy balance, urban resilience, urban planning and metabolism, natural and technological hazards, surface temperature and albedo, environmental monitoring and change detection. cPI of the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy project urbisphere, focusing on coupling dynamic cities and climate; and coordinator of the H2020-Space project CURE, focusing on Copernicus Core Services exploitation in the domain of urban resilience. Member of the Board of Directors of the Eratosthenes Centre of Excellence, in Earth Observation, Space Technology and Geospatial Analysis. Member of the GEO Climate Change Working Group.

Gianpaolo Balsamo

Gianpaolo Balsamo

Gianpaolo Balsamo

Role
Project Deputy Coordinator

Gianpaolo Balsamo, Ph.D., Prof., has coordinated the CO2 Human Emission project, precursor of CoCO2, and he supports the CoCO2 project coordination as Deputy Project Leader. He has a Ph.D. and is a professor in Earth system science. He joined ECMWF in 2006 and he is now a principal scientist and team leader with his research focusing on Earth system coupled process modelling within the Integrated Forecasting System of ECMWF. He had previously worked for Environment & Climate Change Canada in Montréal, and for Météo-France in Toulouse, specialising on data assimilation of Earth Observations.

Jean-Christophe Calvet

Jean-Christophe Calvet

Jean-Christophe Calvet

Role
Project Member

Jean-Christophe Calvet joined Météo-France, Toulouse, in 1990 and CNRM in 1994, where he has been the Head of a land modelling and remote sensing section since 2003. His background is in land surface modeling, microwave remote sensing, and data assimilation. His research interests include the use of remote sensing over land surfaces for meteorology. His most recent works concern the joint analysis of soil moisture and vegetation biomass, and the representation of carbon cycle in climate models.

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