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Overview

Peter Cornillon is affiliated with the University of Rhode Island in the United States. The primary focus of their research lies within Earth and Planetary Sciences, with a particular emphasis on Oceanography, Atmospheric Science, Global and Planetary Change, Ocean Engineering, and Information Systems.

Their work explores several main topics related to oceanographic and atmospheric phenomena including:

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

Cornillon has contributed to a number of scientific publications. Notable recent papers include:

  • Saildrone: Adaptively Sampling the Marine Environment, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Deep Learning of Sea Surface Temperature Patterns to Identify Ocean Extremes, 2021, Remote Sensing
  • Saildrone: Adaptively Sampling the Marine Environment, 2020, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • An evaluation of the LLC4320 global-ocean simulation based on the submesoscale structure of modeled sea surface temperature fields, 2023, Geoscientific model development
  • Mitigating Masked Pixels in a Climate-Critical Ocean Dataset, 2024, Remote Sensing

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Cornillon include:

  • Peter J. Minnett
  • Vardis Tsontos
  • J. X. Prochaska
  • Chelle Gentemann
  • Christian E. Buckingham

Peter Cornillon has published extensively in several scientific venues. Their most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
  • Remote Sensing
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Geoscientific model development

Best Publications

  • Air–sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies

    R.J. Small;R.J. Small;S.P. deSzoeke;S.P. deSzoeke;S.P. Xie;L. O’Neill;L. O’Neill

  • Fronts in Large Marine Ecosystems

    Igor M. Belkin;Peter C. Cornillon;Kenneth Sherman

  • US GODAE: Global Ocean Prediction with the Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM)

    Eric P Chassignet;Harley E Hurlburt;E J Metzger;Ole M Smedstad

  • Edge Detection Algorithm for SST Images

    Jean-François Cayula;Peter C. Cornillon

  • A Comparison of Satellite and In Situ–Based Sea Surface Temperature Climatologies

    Kenneth S. Casey;Peter C. Cornillon

  • Climatology and seasonal variability of ocean fronts in the East China, Yellow and Bohai seas from satellite SST data

    Ryan Hickox;Igor Belkin;Peter Cornillon;Zhengqiang Shan

  • Satellite-derived sea surface temperature fronts on the continental shelf off the northeast U.S. coast

    David S. Ullman;Peter C. Cornillon

  • Large Diurnal Sea Surface Temperature Variability: Satellite and In Situ Measurements

    Lothar Stramma;Peter Cornillon;Robert A. Weller;James F. Price

  • Satellite observations of sea surface cooling by hurricanes

    Lothar Stramma;Peter Cornillon;James F. Price

  • Multi-Image Edge Detection for SST Images

    Jean-François Cayula;Peter Cornillon

  • SST fronts of the Pacific coastal and marginal seas

    I. Belkin;P. Cornillon

  • Warm core ring velocities inferred from NSCAT

    Peter Cornillon;Kyung-Ae Park

  • Modification of surface winds near ocean fronts: Effects of Gulf Stream rings on scatterometer (QuikSCAT, NSCAT) wind observations

    Kyung-Ae Park;Peter Cornillon;Daniel L. Codiga

  • Routes and rates of larval fish transport from the southeast to the northeast United States continental shelf

    Jonathan A. Hare;James H. Churchill;Robert K. Cowen;Thomas J. Berger

  • Gulf Stream warm rings: a statistical study of their behavior

    Otis B. Brown;Peter C. Cornillon;Steven R. Emmerson;H.Mark Carle

  • Surface wind response to oceanic fronts

    Qingtao Song;Peter Cornillon;Tetsu Hara

  • Evaluation of Front Detection Methods for Satellite-Derived SST Data Using In Situ Observations

    David S. Ullman;Peter C. Cornillon

  • Long baroclinic Rossby waves detected by TOPEX/POSEIDON

    Paulo S. Polito;Peter Cornillon

  • Enhanced chlorophyll at the shelfbreak of the Mid-Atlantic Bight, and Georges Bank during the spring transition

    John P. Ryan;James A. Yoder;Peter C. Cornillon

  • The distribution of diurnal sea surface warming events in the western Sargasso Sea

    Peter Cornillon;Lothar Stramma

Frequent Co-Authors

Lothar Stramma
Lothar Stramma GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
George R. Halliwell
George R. Halliwell National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Otis B. Brown
Otis B. Brown North Carolina State University
Craig Donlon
Craig Donlon European Space Agency
Chelle L. Gentemann
Chelle L. Gentemann University of Miami
Nick Rayner
Nick Rayner Met Office
Scott Glenn
Scott Glenn Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Richard W. Reynolds
Richard W. Reynolds National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Peter J. Minnett
Peter J. Minnett University of Miami
Gary A. Wick
Gary A. Wick National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

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