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Gary Lagerloef is affiliated with Science Applications International Corporation in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a notable presence in Environmental Science.

Their work spans several key subfields including Oceanography, Environmental Engineering, Atmospheric Science, and Global and Planetary Change. The range of topics covered includes Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes, Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing, Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics, Climate Variability and Models, and Geophysics and Gravity Measurements.

Lagerloef has contributed to academic literature with publications in prominent journals such as Remote Sensing of Environment and the Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans.

  • Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010-2019), 2020, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Diagnosis of Large-Scale, Low-Frequency Sea Level Variability in the Northeast Pacific Ocean, 2021, Journal of Geophysical Research Oceans

The scientist frequently collaborates with coauthors including Nicolás Reul, Semyon A. Grodsky, Manuel Arias, J. Boutin, and Rafael Catany.

Best Publications

  • Diagnostic Model and Analysis of the Surface Currents in the Tropical Pacific Ocean

    Fabrice Bonjean;Gary S. E. Lagerloef

  • The Aquarius/SAC-D mission: Designed to meet the salinity remote-sensing challenge

    Gary Lagerloef;F. Raul Colomb;Davide Le Vine;Frank Wentz

  • Tropical Pacific near-surface currents estimated from altimeter, wind, and drifter data

    Gary S. E. Lagerloef;Gary T. Mitchum;Roger B. Lukas;Pearn P. Niiler

  • Aquarius: An Instrument to Monitor Sea Surface Salinity From Space

    D.M. Le Vine;G.S.E. Lagerloef;F.R. Colomb;S.H. Yueh

  • Aquarius and Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Salinity from Space

    David M Le Vine;Gary S E Lagerloef;Sandra E Torrusio

  • Validation and Error Analysis of OSCAR Sea Surface Currents

    Eric S. Johnson;Fabrice Bonjean;Gary S. E. Lagerloef;John T. Gunn

  • The determination of surface salinity with the European SMOS space mission

    J. Font;G.S.E. Lagerloef;D.M. Le Vine;A. Camps

  • Sea Surface Salinity: The Next Remote Sensing Challenge

    Gary S. E. Lagerloef;Calvin T. Swift;David M. LeVine

  • Empirical orthogonal function analysis of advanced very high resolution radiometer surface temperature patterns in Santa Barbara Channel

    Gary S. E. Lagerloef;Robert L. Bernstein

  • Sea surface salinity estimates from spaceborne L-band radiometers: An overview of the first decade of observation (2010–2019)

    Nicolás Reul;S.A. Grodsky;Manuel Arias;Jacqueline Boutin

  • L-Band Passive and Active Microwave Geophysical Model Functions of Ocean Surface Winds and Applications to Aquarius Retrieval

    Simon H. Yueh;Wenqing Tang;Alexander G. Fore;Gregory Neumann

  • Aquarius reveals salinity structure of tropical instability waves

    Tong Lee;Gary Lagerloef;Michelle M. Gierach;Hsun-Ying Kao

  • Haline hurricane wake in the Amazon/Orinoco plume: AQUARIUS/SACD and SMOS observations

    Semyon A. Grodsky;Nicolas Reul;Gary Lagerloef;Gilles Reverdin

  • Use of satellite observations for operational oceanography: recent achievements and future prospects

    P.-Y. Le Traon;D. Antoine;A. Bentamy;H. Bonekamp

  • Mechanisms of the 1997–1998 El Niño–La Niña, as inferred from space-based observations

    Joel Picaut;Eric Hackert;Antonio J. Busalacchi;Ragu Murtugudde

  • Interdecadal Variations in the Alaska Gyre

    Gary S. E. Lagerloef

  • Sea surface salinity from space: Science goals and measurement approach

    C. J. Koblinsky;P. Hildebrand;D. LeVine;F. Pellerano

  • Interannual long equatorial waves in the tropical Atlantic from a high-resolution ocean general circulation model experiment in 1981-2000

    S. Illig;B. Dewitte;N. Ayoub;Y. du Penhoat

  • Remote Sensing of Sea Surface Salinity: Comparison of Satellite and In Situ Observations and Impact of Retrieval Parameters

    Emmanuel P. Dinnat;David M. Le Vine;Jacqueline Boutin;Thomas Meissner

  • Aquarius geophysical model function and combined active passive algorithm for ocean surface salinity and wind retrieval

    Simon Yueh;Wenqing Tang;Alexander Fore;Akiko Hayashi

  • Introduction to the special section: The role of surface salinity on upper ocean dynamics, air‐sea interaction and climate

    Gary S. E. Lagerloef

  • Optimum interpolation analysis of Aquarius sea surface salinity

    Oleg Melnichenko;Peter Hacker;Nikolai Maximenko;Gary Lagerloef

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon Yueh
Simon Yueh Jet Propulsion Lab
Tong Lee
Tong Lee California Institute of Technology
Jordi Font
Jordi Font Spanish National Research Council
Raymond W. Schmitt
Raymond W. Schmitt Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Yi Chao
Yi Chao University of California, Los Angeles
Gary T. Mitchum
Gary T. Mitchum University of South Florida
Frank J. Wentz
Frank J. Wentz Remote Sensing Systems (United States)
Nicolas Reul
Nicolas Reul French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Jacqueline Boutin
Jacqueline Boutin Sorbonne University
James A. Carton
James A. Carton University of Maryland, College Park

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