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Overview

Olivier Francis is a researcher affiliated with the University of Luxembourg in Luxembourg. Their work spans multiple areas within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Engineering, with a focus on topics related to geophysics, remote sensing, and environmental studies.

The main fields of study in their research include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Engineering

The subfields they contribute to are:

  • Oceanography
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Geophysics
  • Environmental Engineering
  • Global and Planetary Change

Key topics covered in their publications are:

  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • GNSS positioning and interference
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Climate variability and models
  • Geophysical and Geoelectrical Methods
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis

Olivier Francis has published extensively, with notable papers including:

  • "Tidal analysis of GNSS reflectometry applied for coastal sea level sensing in Antarctica and Greenland" (2020), Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "The results of CCM.G-K2.2017 key comparison" (2020), Metrologia
  • "Gravity Monitoring of Underground Flash Flood Events to Study Their Impact on Groundwater Recharge and the Distribution of Karst Voids" (2020), Water Resources Research
  • "Performance assessment of the relative gravimeter Scintrex CG-6" (2021), Journal of Geodesy
  • "SNR-Based GNSS-R for Coastal Sea-Level Altimetry" (2021), Geosciences

The most frequent co-authors working alongside Olivier Francis are:

  • Sajad Tabibi
  • Renaldo Sauveur
  • Felipe Geremia-Nievinski
  • Tonie van Dam
  • Kelly Guerrier

Their publications commonly appear in these venues:

  • Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Pure and Applied Geophysics
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Journal of Geodesy

Best Publications

  • Modelling the global ocean tides: modern insights from FES2004

    Florent Lyard;Fabien Lefevre;Thierry Letellier;Olivier Francis

  • Accuracy assessment of recent ocean tide models

    C. K. Shum;P. L. Woodworth;O. B. Andersen;Gary D. Egbert

  • Geophysics From Terrestrial Time-Variable Gravity Measurements

    Michel Van Camp;Olivier de Viron;Arnaud Watlet;Arnaud Watlet;Bruno Meurers

  • Stability comparison of two absolute gravimeters: optical versus atomic interferometers

    P. Gillot;Olivier Francis;A. Landragin;F. Pereira Dos Santos

  • Global charts of ocean tide loading effects

    Olivier Francis;P. Mazzega

  • Bedrock displacements in Greenland manifest ice mass variations, climate cycles and climate change

    Michael Bevis;John Wahr;Shfaqat A. Khan;Finn Bo Madsen

  • Uncertainty of absolute gravity measurements

    Michel Van Camp;Simon D. P. Williams;Olivier Francis

  • Stability comparison of two absolute gravimeters: optical versus atomic interferometers

    Pierre Gillot;Olivier Francis;Arnaud Landragin;Franck Pereira Dos Santos

  • The 8th International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters 2009: the first Key Comparison (CCM.G-K1) in the field of absolute gravimetry

    Z. Jiang;V. Pálinkáš;F. E. Arias;J. Liard

  • Elastic uplift in southeast Greenland due to rapid ice mass loss

    Shfaqat Abbas Khan;John Wahr;Leigh A. Stearns;Gordon S. Hamilton

  • The European Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters 2011 (ECAG-2011) in Walferdange, Luxembourg: results and recommendations

    Olivier Francis;Henri Baumann;Tomas Volarik;Christian Rothleitner

  • Is the instrumental drift of superconducting gravimeters a linear or exponential function of time

    Michel Van Camp;Olivier Francis

  • Results of the Sixth International Comparison of Absolute Gravimeters, ICAG-2001

    L. Vitushkin;M. Becker;Z. Jiang;O. Francis

  • Calibration of a superconducting gravimeter by comparison with an absolute gravimeter FG5 in Boulder

    Olivier Francis;T. M. Niebauer;G. Sasagawa;F. Klopping

  • Geodetic measurements in Greenland and their implications

    John Wahr;Tonie van Dam;Kristine Larson;Olivier Francis

  • Results from the fifth international comparison of absolute gravimeters, ICAG'97

    L. Robertsson;O. Francis;T. M. Vandam;J. Faller

  • Accurate transfer function determination for superconducting gravimeters

    Michel Van Camp;H.-G. Wenzel;P. Schott;P. Vauterin

  • A geophysical interpretation of the secular displacement and gravity rates observed at Ny-Ålesund, Svalbard in the Arctic—effects of post-glacial rebound and present-day ice melting

    Tadahiro Sato;Jun'ichi Okuno;Jacques Hinderer;Daniel S. MacMillan

  • Comparison of recent ocean tide models using ground‐based tidal gravity measurements

    Paul Melchior;Olivier Francis

  • Geodetic measurements of postglacial adjustments in Greenland

    Shfaqat Abbas Khan;John Wahr;Eric Leuliette;Tonie van Dam

  • Single-station monitoring of volcanoes using seismic ambient noise

    Raphael S. M. De Plaen;Thomas Lecocq;Corentin Caudron;Valérie Ferrazzini

  • Two years of continuous measurements of tidal and nontidal variations of gravity in Boulder, Colorado

    Tonie M. van Dam;Olivier Francis

Frequent Co-Authors

Tonie van Dam
Tonie van Dam University of Utah
Jacques Hinderer
Jacques Hinderer University of Strasbourg
John Wahr
John Wahr University of Colorado Boulder
Kristine M. Larson
Kristine M. Larson University of Colorado Boulder
Shfaqat Abbas Khan
Shfaqat Abbas Khan Technical University of Denmark
Simon D. P. Williams
Simon D. P. Williams National Oceanography Centre
Michael Bevis
Michael Bevis The Ohio State University
Michel Diament
Michel Diament Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris
Shaul Hurwitz
Shaul Hurwitz United States Geological Survey
Jonathan E. Chambers
Jonathan E. Chambers British Geological Survey

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