He is since 2023 a member of the scientific steering committee for the WMO/WWRP and has the liaison role to the PCAPS project.

Linus Magnusson obtained his PhD from Stockholm University in 2009 and joined ECMWF shortly after. He started his work on ocean initialisation and ENSO forecasting in the Seasonal forecasting section where he also worked on sea-ice modelling. He later moved to the Ensemble forecasting section working on diagnostics and has now a similar job in the Evaluation section. His research interests include severe weather evaluation, tropical cyclone forecasting, medium-range forecast error propagation, and diagnostics for processes in the Arctic.

Research interests:
Verification│extreme weather│predictability