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Chelle L. Gentemann

Chelle L. Gentemann

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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
38
Citations
8965
World Ranking
8512
National Ranking
3039

Overview

Chelle L. Gentemann is affiliated with the University of Miami in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a strong focus on subfields including Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, and Environmental Chemistry.

Their scientific contributions center on several main topics, which include:

  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Climate variability and models
  • Offshore Engineering and Technologies
  • Marine and Coastal Research

Gentemann has published extensively across multiple venues. The most frequent publication platforms include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Earth and Space Science
  • Remote Sensing
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Frontiers in Marine Science

Some notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Gentemann include:

  • "Cloud-Native Repositories for Big Scientific Data," 2021, published in Computing in Science & Engineering
  • "Saildrone: Adaptively Sampling the Marine Environment," 2020, published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • "Science Storms the Cloud," 2021, published in AGU Advances
  • "FluxSat: Measuring the Ocean-Atmosphere Turbulent Exchange of Heat and Moisture from Space," 2020, published in Remote Sensing
  • "Using Saildrones to Validate Arctic Sea-Surface Salinity from the SMAP Satellite and from Ocean Models," 2021, published in Remote Sensing

Frequent collaborative partners in Gentemann's research include:

  • Peter J. Minnett
  • Michael Steele
  • Marisol García-Reyes
  • Jorge Vazquez-Cuervo
  • Edward D. Cokelet

Their work integrates aspects of both oceanographic and atmospheric processes with a marked interest in polar ice dynamics and marine ecosystems. This multidisciplinary approach contributes to understanding the interactions between ocean and atmosphere, including the measurement and modeling of physical and chemical exchanges in marine environments.

Best Publications

  • Satellite measurements of sea surface temperature through clouds

    Frank J. Wentz;Chelle Gentemann;Deborah Smith;Dudley Chelton

  • Toward Improved Validation of Satellite Sea Surface Skin Temperature Measurements for Climate Research

    C. J. Donlon;P. J. Minnett;C. Gentemann;T. J. Nightingale

  • Green Evolution and Dynamic Adaptations Revealed by Genomes of the Marine Picoeukaryotes Micromonas

    Alexandra Z. Worden;Jae-Hyeok Lee;Thomas Mock;Pierre Rouzé

  • Observations of coupling between surface wind stress and sea surface temperature in the Eastern Tropical Pacific

    Dudley B. Chelton;Steven K. Esbensen;Michael G. Schlax;Nicolai Thum

  • The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment High-resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project

    Craig Donlon;I. Robinson;K. S. Casey;J. Vazquez-Cuervo

  • Diurnal signals in satellite sea surface temperature measurements

    Chelle L. Gentemann;Craig J. Donlon;Alice Stuart-Menteth;Frank J. Wentz

  • Satellite sea surface temperatures along the West Coast of the United States during the 2014–2016 northeast Pacific marine heat wave

    Chelle L. Gentemann;Melanie R. Fewings;Marisol García-Reyes

  • Half a century of satellite remote sensing of sea-surface temperature

    P.J. Minnett;A. Alvera-Azcárate;T.M. Chin;G.K. Corlett

  • In situ validation of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission microwave sea surface temperatures

    Chelle L. Gentemann;Frank J. Wentz;Carl A. Mears;Deborah K. Smith

  • Satellite Microwave SST Observations of Transequatorial Tropical Instability Waves

    Dudley B. Chelton;Frank J. Wentz;Chelle L. Gentemann;Roland A. de Szoeke

  • Air-Sea Fluxes With a Focus on Heat and Momentum

    Meghan F. Cronin;Chelle Leigh Gentemann;James B Edson;Iwao Ueki

  • EUREC 4 A

    Bjorn Stevens;Sandrine Bony;David Farrell;Felix Ament

  • Observational needs of sea surface temperature

    Anne Grace O'Carroll;Edward M Armstrong;Helen Beggs;Marouan Bouali

  • Group for High Resolution Sea Surface temperature (GHRSST) analysis fields inter-comparisons. Part 1: A GHRSST multi-product ensemble (GMPE)

    Matthew Martin;Prasanjit Dash;Prasanjit Dash;Alexander Ignatov;Viva Banzon

  • Accuracy of Satellite Sea Surface Temperatures at 7 and 11 GHz

    C.L. Gentemann;T. Meissner;F.J. Wentz

  • Global distribution patterns of distinct clades of the photosynthetic picoeukaryote Ostreococcus

    Elif Demir-Hilton;Sebastian Sudek;Marie L Cuvelier;Marie L Cuvelier;Chelle L Gentemann

  • Multi-satellite measurements of large diurnal warming events

    Chelle L. Gentemann;Peter J. Minnett;Pierre Le Borgne;Christopher J. Merchant

  • Post-launch calibration of the TRMM microwave imager

    F.J. Wentz;P. Ashcroft;C. Gentemann

  • Three way validation of MODIS and AMSR-E sea surface temperatures

    Chelle L. Gentemann

  • Profiles of ocean surface heating (POSH): A new model of upper ocean diurnal warming

    Chelle L. Gentemann;Peter J. Minnett;Brian Ward;Brian Ward

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter J. Minnett
Peter J. Minnett University of Miami
Frank J. Wentz
Frank J. Wentz Remote Sensing Systems (United States)
Craig Donlon
Craig Donlon European Space Agency
Richard W. Reynolds
Richard W. Reynolds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Christopher J. Merchant
Christopher J. Merchant University of Reading
Peter Cornillon
Peter Cornillon University of Rhode Island
Nick Rayner
Nick Rayner Met Office
Chidong Zhang
Chidong Zhang Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory
Olivier Bock
Olivier Bock Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Mark A. Bourassa
Mark A. Bourassa Florida State University

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