Souhail Boussetta

Souhail Boussetta is a Scientist in the ECMWF Research Department Coupled Processes team. His research interests concentrate on the complex coupled biogeophyiscal processes occurring at the surface and influencing the Earth system and its energy water and carbon cycles.
As scientist at ECMWF his main objectives are to contribute to delivering the most accurate weather and environmental predictions from one day up to a year ahead and in climate reanalysis. His main focus lies in improving the land surface parametrisation of the ECMWF model and its interaction with the atmosphere. Improved predictability is achieved via enhanced process understanding and refined parametrisations (e.g. evapotranspiration, soil and snow thermodynamics, surface albedo and roughness), making optimal use of available information such us in-situ and satellite observations in addition to reanalysis products.
These activities converge with several international science projects goals to which Souhail has contributed including several peer-reviewed publications relating the land surface parametrization and its interaction with the atmosphere.