VISITING SCIENTIST PROGRAM
As part of the H SAF project we have an ongoing visiting scientist program. This program allows scientists from institutions that are not SAF members to participate in the activities of the SAF, either as Visiting Scientists or as Associate Scientists, through appropriate projects in their home institutes. If you are interested in joining us for e.g. 1-6 months to work on one of our research projects please feel free to contact us.

precipitation

2023

H_AS23_02

TAHMO

Kumah Kwabena Kingsley

H SAF Precipitation Products Evaluation in Sub-Saharan Africa

2020

HSAF_VSA20_03

CETEMPS

Annalina Lombardi

Precipitation Downscaling of H SAF Product in different Hydrological Scenario using a Cellular Automata Approach

2020

H_AVS20_02

CNR-IRPI

Yves Tramblay

Validation of high-resolution satellite rainfall products for river flow prediction in North Africa

2018

H_AVS18_04

CNR-IRPI

Wade T. Crow

Leveraging coincident soil moisture and precipitation products for improved global validation of satellite-based rainfall products

2017

H_AS17_01

S.Barbieri

Testing of dual-polarization processing algorithms for radar rainfall estimation in tropical scenarios

2017

H_AVS17_02

L.M. Costa do Amaral

Validation of the H-SAF precipitation products over Brazil using the CHUVA campaign dataset

2016

H_AS16_03

DPC/CNR-ISAC

S.Sebastianelli

Potentials and limitations of the use of GPM-DPR for validation of H-SAF precipitation products: study over the italian territory

2016

H_AVS16_01

GDWM

B. Gnandt, B. Gauzer, K. Molnár

Validation of precipitation products over basins included in OVF modelling system

2015

AS15_05

CNR-IRPI/DPC/CNMCA

L. Brocca, L. Ciabatta, C. Massari, T. Moramarco, S. Puca, D. Melfi, F. Zauli

Integration of H05 and H16 products through SM2RAIN algorithm for improving rainfall estimate

2015

AS15_04

SHMU

M. Gera

Common Radar Rainfall Rate Estimation and Quality Control Procedure for Ground validation of the H-SAF rainfall products

2015

AS15_03

GET-CNRS/CNR-ISAC

M. Alcoba, M. Gosset

Verification study over West Africa of PMW precipitation products using X-pol radar observations and rain gauges

2015

AVS15_02

IMGW/DELTARES

A. Weerts

Assessment of alternative data assimilation techniques for HSAF products under different climatic conditions

2014

VS14_03

CNMCA/UNIRM2

F. Del Frate

Improvements on the PR-OBS-6 H-SAF precipitation product using multispectral markers from geostationary satellite data

2014

VS14_01

UNIFE/DPC

H. Feidas

Validation of the H-SAF precipitation products over Greece using rain gauge data

2013

VS13_04

DPC/CNMCA/CNR-ISAC

M. Montopoli

Validation of H-SAF Microwave and Infrared Precipitation Products with TRMM Products

2011

VS11_01

M. Petracca

Evaluation on accuracy of precipitation data

2008

VS08_06

ITU/CNR-ISAC

A. Öztopal, A. Mugnai, D. Casella, M. Formenton, P. Sanó, I. Sönmez, Z. Sen

Enhancement of H-SAF Precipitation Retrevial Algorithm/Product over Mountainous Regions

2008

VS08_04

G.J. Tripoli, W.Y. Leung, A. Mugnai, D. Casella, M. Formenton, P. Sanò, E.A. Smith, A. Mehta

Generation of an European Cloud-Radiation Database to be used for PR-OBS-1 (Precipitation Rate at Ground by MW Conical Scanners)

2008

VS08_01

CNRM/ECMWF

F. Karbou, P. Bauer, A.Geer, W. Bell

Exploitation of microwave sounder/imager data over land surfaces in the presence of clouds and precipitation

2007

VS07_01

ECMWF

C. O'Dell, P. Bauer

Assimilation of precipitation-affected SSMIS radiances over land in the ECMWF data assimilation system

2007

VS07_02

P. Antonelli

Refinement and operational implementation of a rain rate algorithm based on AMSU/MHS and rain gauge data over H-SAF area

soil moisture

2021

H_AS21_01

Filipe Aires, Patricia De Rosnay, Peter Weston, David Fairbairn

Statistical approaches to assimilate ASCAT soil moisture information: Uncertainty assessment, NN localisation, and evaluation

2020

H_AVS20_01

ECMWF

Filpe Aires

Towards a neural network-based algorithm for scatterometer Root Zone Soil Moisture Retrieval

2018

H_AVS18_02

TU Wien

Susan Steele-Dunne

Towards improved representation of vegetation dynamics in the EUMETSAT H SAF TU Wien Soil Moisture Retrieval algorithm

2012

VS12_02

ECMWF

T. Pellarin, P. de Rosnay, C. Albergel, S. Abdalla

Root-zone soil moisture index complementary validation at global scale based on triple collocation method. Comparison with State-Of-The-Art global scale root-zone soil moisture products.

2009

AS09_01

CNRM

C. Draper, J.F. Mahfouf, J-C. Calvet, E. Martin

Assimilation of ASCAT soil moisture products into the SIM hydrological platform

2009

AS09_03

CNR-IRPI/ECMWF/TU-WIEN

L. Brocca, S. Hasenauer, P. de Rosnay et al.

Consistent validation of H-SAF soil moisture satellite and model products against ground measurements for selected sites in Europe

2008

VS08_02

TU-WIEN

G. Blöschl, J. Komma, S. Hasenauer

Hydrological downscaling of soil moisture

0

VS11_02

ECMWF/CESBIO/TU-WIEN/ZAMG

C. Albergel, C. Gruhier, P. de Rosnay, S. Hasenauer, B. Zeiner

Comparison between H-SAF large scale surface soil moisture, H-SAF assimilation soil moisture and SMOS level 2 soil moisture

snow

2021

H_AS21_02

Politecnico di Milano / Finnish Meteorological Institute

Leila Rahimi, Ali Nadir Arslan

Validate and use HSAF products (H11, H12/H35) in order to characterize / identify snowmelt-driven floods and droughts

2018

H_AVS18_03

METU/TSMS

Semih Kuter

Support to Development of H-SAF Snow Product for the Mountainous Areas by using Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines

2018

H_AVS18_01

ESTU

J.Ignacio Lopez-Moreno

Validation of H-SAF Snow Products with Physically Based Snow Energy Balance Model Driven by Downscaled Reanalyses Data

2016

H_AVS15_01

LHMS

J. Kilpys

Independent validation of the H-SAF snow cover products (H10, H12, H31)

2016

H_AS16_02

UniHel

B. Simsek

Potentials and limitations of the use of GPM-DPR for validation of H-SAF precipitation products: study over the italian territory

2014

VS14_02

SYKE/FMI

K. Böttcher, S. Metsämäki, P. Lahtinen

Support provision to SAF development of the fractional snow cover product SCA and its independent validation

2013

VS13_03

AU/TSMS

D. Schwanenberg

Generic Data Assimilation Test Bed for H-SAF Snow Products and a Conceptual Hydrological Model

2012

VS12_01

METU/TSMS

J. Parajka

Validation of HSAF snow products in mountainous terrain in Austria and assimilating the snow products into a conceptual hydrological model at regional scale

2008

VS08_05

TSMS/FMI

A.G. Ertürk

Developing an approach for merging the snow products for transition zone between mountainous and flat areas and establishing metadata standards

2008

VS08_03

Z. Akyurek, A. Unal Sorman

Evaluating and improving the developed algorithms for effective snow cover mapping on mountainous terrain for hydrological applications

2007

VS07_04

A. Kontu, T. Sukuwara

Contribution to calibration/validation of snow products

2007

VS07_03

NMA/FMI

S. Oancea

Snow detection algorithm based on Meteosat-8 RGBHRV139i composite images and comparison with HSAF and LSA SAF snow recognition products