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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)
- Sensors (MDPI)
- Land (MDPI)
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (EGU)
- Environmental International
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformations
- Agricultural Water Management
- International Journal ofEnvironmental Research and Public Health
- Agronomy (MDPI)
- Earth System Science Data (ESSD)
- MethodsX
- Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems
- The Cryosphere
- IEEE-Access
- Journal of Environmental Management
- Geo-Spatial Information Science
- The Statistical Journal of the International Association of Official Statistics (IAOS)
- International Journal of Climatology
- Journal of Atmospherics and Solar-Terrestrial Physics

Guest Editor for the Special Issue: "Microwave Remote Sensing for Hydrology" of the Remote Sensing (MDPI) Journal, July 2018- Dec 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/special_issues/MicrowaveRS_Hydrology

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:
  - artA. 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.
  - ISSI Workshop on Remote Sensing in Climatology -- Essential Climate Variables and their Uncertainties, 13-17 Nov 2023, Bern, Switzerland.
- 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
  - Session 19E: "Quantifying Impact of Weather Extremes in a Changing Climate", 2019 Joint Satellite Conference, 28 Sept – 04 Oct 2019, Boston, US
  - Session 2: "Observations", 2022 C3S 5th General Assembly, 13-15 Sept 2022, The Hague, The Netherlands

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 (Dec. 2018-Dec 2019, Apr 2023-Apr 2024).
- Member of the Mission Advisory Group (MAG) of the TRUTHS mission of the ESA Earth Watch Programme (2021)
- Member of the Sentinel-3 Quality Working Group (QWG) (from Dec 2021)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) of the ESA's HydroGNSS-R scout mission (from Oct 2021)

Participation in International Boards:
- EU Polar Expert Working Group for the definition of a pan-European high resolution snow and ice service (May 2017 & 2018)
- ESA CCI+ (phase I) Tender Evaluation Board for new ECVs: Snow, Permafrost, Land Surface Temperature, High-Resolution Land Cover, Above-Ground Biomass, Lakes
- Fond National de la Recherche Luxembourg: Review final report of the project "HYDRAS+ (BELSPO STEREO III)", Oct 2019.
- Copernicus Marine Service Tender Evaluation Board of the Sea Level, Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Colour and Sea Ice Thematic Assembly Centre (TAC)- Nov 2021
- ESA's Fiducial Reference Measurements for Soil Moisture project; member of the Science Advisory Group (SAG) - 2022

Interviews:
- BBC Berkshire Radio, May 2011. “Exceptional drought in UK”,
- ABC journal, Feb 2017 "What is Copernicus?"
- Canal Sur Radio, 5 Sept 2022, program "El Mirador de Andalucía". Interview by journalist Natalia Barnés about 'Extreme weather during the summer in Europe'. Audio here.
- Castilla la Mancha TV, 13 Sept 2022, Castilla La Mancha despierta. Interview by journalist Ana Isabel Albares about 'Extreme Heats and Droughts in the summer'. Video here
- Podcast "Carne Cruda", from eldiario.es. Interview by Javier Gallego about 'Extreme droughts in Spain'. Audio here

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
- Webinario "C3S: El Servicio de Cambio Climático de Copérnicus", Copernicus Central America Initiative, 09 Feb 2022. Full presentation

Other contributions:
- Launch of the Copernicus Health Hub; contribution of the Climate Change Service, 14 Jun 2023, Valencia, Spain. Video here (from 3:13:10)