  | Van Weverberg, K., Ghilain, N., Goudenhoofdt, E., Barbier, M., Koistinen, E., Doutreloup, S., Van Schaeybroeck, B., Frankl, A., & Field, P. (2024). Sensitivity of simulated rain intensity and kinetic energy to aerosols and warm‐rain microphysics during the extreme event of July 2021 in Belgium. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. doi:10.1002/qj.4761  Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
  | Ghilain, N., Dethinne, T., Van Schaeybroeck, B., Fettweis, X., Hamid, R., Verma, A., Vandelanotte, A., Van Weverberg, K., Grailet, J.-F., Brajkovic, J., Baudewyn, M., Denis, T., Doutreloup, S., François, L., De Pue, J., Jonard, F., & Termonia, P. (19 February 2024). Towards a mini-ensemble of Regional Earth System Models for climate services over Belgium [Poster presentation]. Belgian Science for Climate Action Conference, Brussels, Belgium. Editorial reviewed |
 | Fettweis, X., Ambroise B., David P.M, Ghilain, N., Paul P., & Wuest C. (December 2023). Évolution actuelle (1960-2021) de l’enneigement dans les Vosges à l’aide du modèle régional du climat MAR. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, 80 (2023/1). doi:10.25518/0770-7576.7049 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Hachez, J., Ghilain, N., Kök, A., & Coppitters, D. (May 2026). Climate-driven load shifts and the optimal design of district heating and cooling systems: Planning energy supply for a warming century. Applied Energy, 410, 127585. doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2026.127585 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Brajkovic, J., Ghilain, N., Doutreloup, S., Fettweis, X., Archambeau, P., & Dessers, C. (09 April 2026). Trends in Extreme Precipitation over Belgium and Resulting Hydrological Responses in the Ourthe Basin [Paper presentation]. Benelux Geography Conference 2026, Leuven, Belgium. |
 | Villani, L., Piemontese, L., Castelli, G., Borgo, A., Ghilain, N., Van Schaeybroeck, B., Lucca, E., Aslam, M. F., Debolini, M., Bouizrou, I., Yimer, E. A., Baudewyn, M., Jaramillo, F., Trabucco, A., van Griensven, A., Penna, D., & Bresci, E. (2026). Neglecting plant physiology: systematic overestimation of drought projections. Environmental research. Climate. doi:10.1088/2752-5295/ae583c Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
Vanderkelen, I., Vandelanotte, K., Van Schaeybroeck, B., Ghilain, N., Serras, F., Van Lipzig, N., Brajkovic, J., Fettweis, X., Caluwaerts, S., & Termonia, P. (17 March 2026). National climate scenarios for Belgium [Paper presentation]. Belgian Science for Climate Action Conference 2026, Brussels, Belgium. Editorial reviewed |
 | Passtoors, A., Van Weverberg, K., Reinoso-Rondinel, R., Reyniers, M., Poelman, D., & Ghilain, N. (14 March 2026). Urbanization and Air Pollution Effects on Precipitation Microphysics: Evidence from Disdrometer Observations in Belgium [Paper presentation]. European Geophysical Union Assembly, Vienna, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-18043 Editorial reviewed |
 | Vandelanotte, K., Vanderkelen, I., Ghilain, N., Serras, F., Brajkovic, J., Van de Vyver, H., Van Lipzig, N., Fettweis, X., Caluwaerts, S., Lauwaet, D., De Troch, R., Termonia, P., & Van Schaeybroeck, B. (14 March 2026). Belgian National Climate Scenarios derived from convection-permitting regional climate models [Paper presentation]. European Geophysical Union Assembly, Vienna, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-12385 Editorial reviewed |
 | Ghilain, N., François, L., Lecart, B., Dethinne, T., Jonard, F., & Fettweis, X. (14 March 2026). Modeling fire occurrence and tree mortality in Belgium for the 21st century using downscaled CMIP6 climate simulations [Paper presentation]. European Geophysical Union Assembly. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-19149 Editorial reviewed |
 | Baetens, J., Ghilain, N., Doutreloup, S., & Belgian National Wildfire Network. (13 March 2026). Bringing together Belgium’s wildfire stakeholders to initiate the design of an integrated wildfire management and policy in Belgium [Paper presentation]. European Geophysical Union Assembly. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu26-1993 Editorial reviewed |
Vanderkelen, I., Vandelanotte, K., Van Schaeybroeck, B., Ghilain, N., Serras, F., Van Lipzig, N., Brajkovic, J., Fettweis, X., Caluwaerts, S., & Termonia, P. (10 March 2026). National climate scenarios for Belgium [Paper presentation]. BeNeLux Geographical days, Leuven, Belgium. Editorial reviewed |
Ghilain, N., Fettweis, X., Denis, T., Sacré, I., Brajkovic, J., & Doutreloup, S. (10 March 2026). The belgian climate in a +3°C warming world [Paper presentation]. BeNeLux Geographical days, Leuven, Belgium. Editorial reviewed |
 | Van Weverberg, K., Neutens, N., De Corte, S., Pastoors, A., Calderan, S., Ghilain, N., Reinoso-Rondinel, R., Reyniers, M., Overeem, A., Van de Vijver, H., Van Schaeybroeck, B., De Wit, B., & Uijlenhoet, R. (2026). Country-wide rainfall estimates from a commercial microwave link network in Belgium. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. Editorial reviewed |
 | Cavitte, M. G. P., Goosse, H., Dalaiden, Q., & Ghilain, N. (03 December 2025). Brief communication: Annual variability of the atmospheric circulation at large spatial scale reconstructed from a data assimilation framework cannot explain local East Antarctic ice rises' surface mass balance records. The Cryosphere, 19 (12), 6483-6492. doi:10.5194/tc-19-6483-2025 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi Dataset: https://doi.org/10.14428/DVN/J34MQO |
Dethinne, T., Ghilain, N., Kittel, C., Lecart, B., Fettweis, X., & Jonard, F. (2025). Assessing Regional Climate Model Sensitivity to Vegetation Dynamics Informed by Remote Sensing. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/337051. doi:10.5194/egusphere-2025-3907 |
 | Brajkovic, J., Fettweis, X., Noël, B., Vyver, H. V. D., Ghilain, N., Archambeau, P., Pirotton, M., & Doutreloup, S. (June 2025). Increased intensity and frequency of extreme precipitation events in Belgium as simulated by the regional climate model MAR. Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 59, 102399. doi:10.1016/j.ejrh.2025.102399 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Brajkovic, J., Fettweis, X., Ghilain, N., & Doutreloup, S. (18 April 2025). Past and future evolution of synoptic weather patterns leading to extreme precipitation events in Belgium. Linking synoptic scale events to their local impacts. [Paper presentation]. EGU 2025. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-9805 |
 | Dethinne, T., Ghilain, N., Lecart, B., Fettweis, X., & Jonard, F. (28 March 2025). Sensitivity of the Regional Climate Model MAR to Vegetation Dynamics in Forested Areas [Poster presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2025, Vienne, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu25-11286 Editorial reviewed |
 | Grailet, J.-F., Hogan, R. J., Ghilain, N., Bolsée, D., Fettweis, X., & Grégoire, M. (26 March 2025). Inclusion of the ECMWF ecRad radiation scheme (v1.5.0) in the MAR (v3.14), regional evaluation for Belgium, and assessment of surface shortwave spectral fluxes at Uccle. Geoscientific Model Development, 18 (6), 1965-1988. doi:10.5194/gmd-18-1965-2025 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Ghilain, N., Grailet, J.-F., Dethinne, T., Strebelle, J., Moutier, W., Fettweis, X., & van Schaeybroek, B. (28 January 2025). CM-SAF datasets uses for verification of Belgian Regional Climate Models: case studies [Poster presentation]. EUMETSAT Climate Monitoring SAF User workshop, Bonn, Germany. |
 | Van Schaeybroeck, B., Vandelanotte, K., Ghilain, N., Van de Vyver, H., Serras, F., Van Lipzig, N., & Termonia, P. (20 January 2025). GCM selection for dynamical downscaling of extreme rainfall changes over Belgium [Poster presentation]. European Geophysical Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-7207 Editorial reviewed |
 | Marchi, S., Jonard, M., Andre, F., Ghilain, N., & Goosse, H. (November 2024). QUEL CLIMAT FUTUR POUR NOS FORÊTS ? Silva Belgica, 5/2024, 30-37. Editorial reviewed |
 | Cavitte, M. G. P., Goosse, H., Dalaiden, Q., & Ghilain, N. (2024). Brief Communication: annual large-scale atmospheric circulation reconstructed from a data assimilation framework cannot explain local East Antarctic ice rises’ surface mass balance records. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/325072. doi:10.5194/egusphere-2024-3140 |
| Van Weverberg, K., Ghilain, N., Goudenhoofdt, E., Barbier, M., Koistinen, E., Doutreloup, S., Van Schaeybroeck, B., Frankl, A., & Field, P. (2024). Sensitivity of simulated rain intensity and kinetic energy to aerosols and warm‐rain microphysics during the extreme event of July 2021 in Belgium. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society. doi:10.1002/qj.4761 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Brajkovic, J., Doutreloup, S., Ghilain, N., Archambeau, P., Pirotton, M., Vandelnotte, K., Serras, F., & Fettweis, X. (14 April 2024). Will extreme precipitation events like July 2021 become more frequent in the future? Insights from Belgium using MAR [Poster presentation]. EGUc2024, Vienna, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu24-9460 |
 | Dethinne, T., Ghilain, N., Fettweis, X., & Jonard, F. (15 March 2024). Predicting the response of forest ecosystems to climate extremes using MODIS data in the Regional Climate Model MAR during the 2018 drought in Belgium [Poster presentation]. Belgian Geographers Days, Namur, Belgium. Editorial reviewed |
| Ghilain, N., Dethinne, T., Van Schaeybroeck, B., Fettweis, X., Hamid, R., Verma, A., Vandelanotte, A., Van Weverberg, K., Grailet, J.-F., Brajkovic, J., Baudewyn, M., Denis, T., Doutreloup, S., François, L., De Pue, J., Jonard, F., & Termonia, P. (19 February 2024). Towards a mini-ensemble of Regional Earth System Models for climate services over Belgium [Poster presentation]. Belgian Science for Climate Action Conference, Brussels, Belgium. Editorial reviewed |
| Fettweis, X., Ambroise B., David P.M, Ghilain, N., Paul P., & Wuest C. (December 2023). Évolution actuelle (1960-2021) de l’enneigement dans les Vosges à l’aide du modèle régional du climat MAR. Bulletin de la Société Géographique de Liège, 80 (2023/1). doi:10.25518/0770-7576.7049 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
Brajkovic, J., Van De Vyver, H., Doutreloup, S., Ghilain, N., & Fettweis, X. (15 May 2023). Simulation of future extreme rainfall events over Belgium with a focus on the Vesdre valley using the regional climate model MAR [Poster presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria. doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu23-6507 Editorial reviewed |
 | Ghilain, N., Vannitsem, S., Dalaiden, Q., Goosse, H., De Cruz, L., & Wei, W. (26 April 2022). Large ensemble of downscaled historical daily snowfall from an earth system model to 5.5 km resolution over Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica. Earth System Science Data, 14 (4), 1901 - 1916. doi:10.5194/essd-14-1901-2022 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi Dataset: https://zenodo.org/records/4287517 |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., Barrios, J. M., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (17 April 2020). Water interception by canopies for remote sensing based evapotranspiration models. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 41 (8), 2934 - 2945. doi:10.1080/01431161.2019.1698072 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Martins, J. P. A., Trigo, I. F., Ghilain, N., Jimenez, C., Göttsche, F.-M., Ermida, S. L., Olesen, F.-S., Gellens-Meulenberghs, F., & Arboleda, A. (December 2019). An all-weather land surface temperature product based on MSG/SEVIRI observations. Remote Sensing, 11 (24), 3044. doi:10.3390/rs11243044 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., Batelaan, O., Ardö, J., Trigo, I., Barrios, J.-M., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2019). A new retrieval algorithm for soil moisture index from thermal infrared sensor on-board geostationary satellites over Europe and Africa and its validation. Remote Sensing, 11 (17), 1968. doi:10.3390/rs11171968 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Barrios, J. M., Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., Sachs, T., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (02 December 2018). Daily evapotranspiration at sub-kilometre spatial resolution by combining observations from geostationary and polar-orbit satellites. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 39 (23), 8984 - 9003. doi:10.1080/01431161.2018.1504340 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Verbeiren, B., Ghilain, N., Gellens-Meulenberghs, F., van Griensven, A., Hoffmann, L., Mallick, K., Meire, P., van der Kwast, H., & Barrios, J. M. (2018). High-resolution modelling and monitoring of water and energy transfers in wetland ecosystems (HiWET) [Paper presentation]. BEOdays 2018, Barvaux, Belgium. |
 | Barrios, J. M., Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2017). Evaluating an energy balance setting and random forest-based downscaling for the estimation of daily et at sub-kilometer spatial resolution. In 2017 9th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multitemporal Remote Sensing Images, MultiTemp 2017. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. doi:10.1109/Multi-Temp.2017.8035226 Peer reviewed |
 | Petropoulos, G. P., Ireland, G., Lamine, S., Griffiths, H. M., Ghilain, N., Anagnostopoulos, V., North, M. R., Srivastava, P. K., & Georgopoulou, H. (July 2016). Operational evapotranspiration estimates from SEVIRI in support of sustainable water management. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, 49, 175 - 187. doi:10.1016/j.jag.2016.02.006 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Ghilain, N. (2016). Continental Scale Monitoring of Subdaily and Daily Evapotranspiration Enhanced by the Assimilation of Surface Soil Moisture Derived from Thermal Infrared Geostationary Data. In Satellite Soil Moisture Retrieval: Techniques and Applications. Elsevier Inc. doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-803388-3.00016-4 Peer reviewed |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2015). Continental scale monitoring of (sub-)daily evapotranspiration enhanced by the assimilation of geostationary data [Poster presentation]. GEWEX ESA workshop on Earth Observation of the water cycle, Frascati, Italy. |
 | Ghilain, N. (2014). Monitoring evapotranspiration at continental scale: enhanced contribution from geostationary satellites [Doctoral thesis, VUB - Vrije Universiteit Brussel]. ORBi-University of Liège. https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/343196 |
 | Ghilain, N., De Roo, F., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2014). Evapotranspiration monitoring with Meteosat Second Generation satellites: improvement opportunities from moderate spatial resolution satellites for vegetation. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 35 (7), 2654 - 2670. doi:10.1080/01431161.2014.883093 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Ghilain, N., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2014). Assessing the impact of land cover map resolution and geolocation accuracy on evapotranspiration simulations by a land surface model. Remote Sensing Letters, 5 (5), 491 - 499. doi:10.1080/2150704X.2014.927081 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2013). EVAPOTRANSPIRATION MONITORING IN SEMI-ARID AREAS USING MSG/SEVIRI DERIVED DATA: IMPROVEMENTS FROM THE USE OF LEAF AREA INDEX AND LAND SURFACE TEMPERATURE [Paper presentation]. 2013 EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference, Vienna, Austria. Peer reviewed |
 | Gellens-Meulenberghs, F., Ghilain, N., & Arboleda, A. (2012). Land surface evapotranspiration as seen from Meteosat Second Generation Satellites: LSA-SAF developments and perspectives. International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 1018 - 1021. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2012.6351228 Peer reviewed |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., Sepulcre-Cantò, G., Batelaan, O., Ardö, J., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (26 November 2012). Improving evapotranspiration in a land surface model using biophysical variables derived from MSG/SEVIRI satellite. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 16 (8), 2567 - 2583. doi:10.5194/hess-16-2567-2012 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Ghilain, N. (2012). Monitoring Evapotranspiration at Sub-Kilometer Scale: Downscaling MSG/SEVIRI Images Using Moderate Resolution Remote Sensing Derived Data. Advances in Geosciences, 466-474. Editorial reviewed |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2011). The EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF): Validation Report Evapotranspiration (ET). (SAF/LAND/RMI/VR/07). https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/341875 |
 | Arboleda, A., Ghilain, N., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2011). The EUMETSAT Satellite Application Facility on Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF) Product User Manual Evapotranspiration (ET) PRODUCTS: LSA-16 (MET), LSA-17 (DMET). (SAF/LAND/RMI/ PUM_MET/2.4). https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/341883 |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (14 March 2011). Evapotranspiration modelling at large scale using near-real time MSG SEVIRI derived data. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, 15 (3), 771 - 786. doi:10.5194/hess-15-771-2011 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Trigo, I. F., Dacamara, C. C., Viterbo, P., Roujean, J.-L., Olesen, F., Barroso, C., Camacho-De-Coca, F., Carrer, D., Freitas, S. C., García-Haroj, J., Geiger, B., Gellens-Meulenberghs, F., Ghilain, N., Meliá, J., Pessanha, L., Siljamo, N., & Arboleda, A. (2011). The satellite application facility for land surface analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing, 32 (10), 2725 - 2744. doi:10.1080/01431161003743199 Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi |
 | Arboleda, A., Ghilain, N., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2011). EUMETSAT’S LSA-SAF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION: COMPARISONS OF OPERATIONAL PRODUCT TO OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS AT HYDROLOGICAL BASINS SCALE [Paper presentation]. Proceedings of the EUMETSAT conference 2011. Peer reviewed |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2010). SAF for Land Surface Analysis (LSA SAF) Algorithm Theoretical Basis Document Meteosat Second Generation Evapotranspiration (MET) Product Daily MET (DMET) Product. (SAF/LAND/RMI/ ATBD_MET/1.2). https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/341879 |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (April 2009). Use of geostationary satellite imagery in optical and thermal bands for the estimation of soil moisture status and land evapotranspiration [Paper presentation]. EGU General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria. Editorial reviewed |
 | Ghilain, N., Arboleda, A., & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (2007). IMPROVEMENT OF A SURFACE ENERGY BALANCE MODEL BY THE USE OF MSG-SEVIRI DERIVED VEGETATION PARAMETERS. In Conference Proceedings EUMETSAT Users conference 2007. Darmstadt, Germany: EUMETSAT. Editorial reviewed |
 | Arboleda, A., Ghilain, N.* , & Gellens-Meulenberghs, F. (23 September 2005). THE LSA-SAF EVAPOTRANSPIRATION PRODUCT: FIRST RESULTS WITH MSG [Paper presentation]. 2005 EUMETSAT meteorological satellite data user´s conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia. Editorial reviewed* These authors have contributed equally to this work. |
