Activities of scientific interest

• Occasional reviewer for:
  • Journal of Hydrometeorology, 
  • Water Resources Research,
  • Water,
  • Remote Sensing of Environment, 
  • Remote Sensing,
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS), 
  • Meteorological Applications,
  • Climate Dynamics,
  • IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
  • Hydrological Processes, 
  • Journal of Hydrology, 
  • IEEE JSTARS, 
  • Journal of Geophysical Research,
  • International Journal of Digital Earth,
  • Journal of Climate,
  • Advances in Water Resources,
  • Geophysical Research Letters,
  • Geoscientific Model Development
  • Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
  • International Journal of Geo-Information
  • Hydrological Sciences Journal
  • Hydrology (MDPI)
  • Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
  • Atmosphere (MDPI)

• Thesis (PhD) Awarding Committees:
  
  • Jury:
    • M. Talone: “Contribution to the improvement of the soil moisture and ocean salinity (SMOS) mission sea surface salinity retrieval algorithm”. Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. 22 November 2010.
    • A.Benlloch Casaban: "Comparación de las Temperaturas de Brillo en Banda L Proporcionadas por SMOS y AQUARIUS sobre Distintas Zonas de La Tierra". Universitat de València, Spain, 29 September 2017
    • D. Rains: "L-band brightness temperature assimilation into a distributed hydrological model: Application to the Community Land Model over Australia" , March 2019. Ghent, Belgium
    • J. Blyverket: "Land Surface Data Assimilation of Satellite Derived Surface Soil Moisture", University of Bergen, Norway, 21 Oct 2019
  • Reviewer:

    • A. Coll Pajaron: "Distribución de la humedad del suelo mediante observaciones del satélite SMOS, modelización con SURFEX y medidas in situ sobre la Valencia Anchor Station".

    • A.Benlloch Casaban: "Comparación de las Temperaturas de Brillo en Banda L Proporcionadas por SMOS y AQUARIUS sobre Distintas Zonas de La Tierra".

    • D. Rains: "L-band brightness temperature assimilation into a distributed hydrological model: Application to the Community Land Model over Australia"
    • J. Blyverket: "Land Surface Data Assimilation of Satellite Derived Surface Soil Moisture"
• Master thesis supervision:
  •  Pau Benetó Vallés: “Estudi del contingut en humitat del sòl en el País Valencià a partir de dades ERA-Interim de Reanàlisi del ECMWF”. Universitat de València, Spain, 2013.
• Scientific conferences:
  • Organiser:
    • IGARSS-2010 invited session FR1-2.L10: « SMOS: The Beginning of a L-band Generation of Global Remote Sensed Soil Moisture Observations». Hawaii, USA, 2010.
  • Deputy organizer :
    • Scientific Subcomission A-3 ”Remote sensing Observations of Land Processes, Resources and Natural Hazards”, COSPAR Assembly, July 2012, Mysore, India.
  • Chairman / convener:
    • TU3.O6 « Data Assimilation session into Numerical Models ».  IGARSS 2009, Cape Town.
    • HS6.2: « Remote Sensing of soil moisture », EGU Assembly, 2011, Vienna.
    •  A3.1: “Earth Observation of the Water Cycle. Water Resources, Soil Moisture and Precipitation”. COSPAR Assembly, 14-22 July 2012, Mysore, India.
    • “Water Cycle: Assimilation and applications”. Understanding the carbon and water cycles using SMOS data and models Workshop, 13-14 Nov, CESBIO, Toulouse, France.
    • “H-SAF and HEPEX workshops on coupled hydrology”. 3-7 Nov 2014, ECMWF, UK.
    • Session-3 "Assimilation Methods". 2nd International Surface Working Group (ISWG) & 8th Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility (LSA-SAF)s Workshop, 26-28 June 2018, Lisboa, Portugal.
    • Session 18F: "Quantifying Impact of Weather Extremes in a Changing Climate: Precipitation and Storms ", 2019 Joint Satellite Conference, 28 Sept – 04 Oct 2019, Boston, US
  • Discussion Panel:
    • Session 19E: "Quantifying Impact of Weather Extremes in a Changing Climate", 2019 Joint Satellite Conference, 28 Sept – 04 Oct 2019, Boston, US

• Memberships:
  • SMOS Quality Working Group (2010-2016).
  • SMOS-NEXT Scientific Advisory Group (Sept.2012 - Feb. 2013).
  • Steering Committee Member of HYDRAS+ project, Gent, Belgium (from 2014)
  • Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). (2008-2015)
  • Chair and member of the cross Climate Data Record (CDR) of Essential Climate Variables (ECV) Group (since 2016)
  • European Geosciences Union (since Dec. 2018)
    
    
    
• Participation in International Boards:
  
  • EU Polar ....
  • ESA CCI+ (phase I) Tender Evaluation Board for new ECVs: Snow, Permafrost, Land Surface Temperature, High-Resolution Land Cover, Above-Ground Biomass, Lakes

• Interviews:
  • BBC Berkshire Radio, May 2011. “Exceptional drought in UK”,
  • ABC journal, Feb 2017 "What is Copernicus?"
    
    
• Outreach presentations:
  • "Climate Change", May 2016. Edelweis Secondary School, Valencia
  • "Copernicus C3S and CAMS Services for Ozone monitoring". Conmemoración 30th anniversary Montreal Protocol, 14 Sept 2017, Agencia Nacional de Meteorología, Madrid, Spain
    Youtube video here. Media article here.
  • "El Servicio de Cambio Climático (C3S) de Copernicus. Indicadores de Cambio Climático & Productos para medios de comunicación." VI Seminario de la Asociación de Comunicadores de Meteorología ACOMET: "La Comunicación del Cambio Climático en España: Atribuciones", 9-10 June 2018, Fundación CaixaForum, Madrid, Spain. (Full presentation webcasted: , Web article ).
  • Climathon Burjassot, Valencia, July 2018