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Robert Frouin is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily spans the domains of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a significant focus on Oceanography, Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Atmospheric Science, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's work involves diverse topics including Marine and coastal ecosystems, Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, and Isotope Analysis in Ecology.

Frequent publication venues for Robert Frouin include:

  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • Optics Express
  • Remote Sensing of Environment
  • Remote Sensing
  • Applied Optics

Among the main collaborators are Jing Tan, Emmanuel Boss, Milton Kampel, Amato T. Evan, and Hiroshi Murakami.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert Frouin include:

  • "NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms," 2021, Remote Sensing of Environment
  • "Seasonal bias in global ocean color observations," 2021, Applied Optics
  • "Ocean carbon from space: Current status and priorities for the next decade," 2023, Earth-Science Reviews
  • "A compilation of global bio-optical in situ data for ocean colour satellite applications - version three," 2022, Earth system science data
  • "Estimates of diurnal and daily net primary productivity using the Geostationary Ocean Color Imager (GOCI) data," 2022, Remote Sensing of Environment

Best Publications

  • An emerging ground-based aerosol climatology: Aerosol optical depth from AERONET

    B. N. Holben;D. Tanré;A. Smirnov;T. F. Eck;T. F. Eck;T. F. Eck

  • Asian Dust Events of April 1998

    Rudolf B. Husar;D. M. Tratt;B. A. Schichtel;S. R. Falke

  • Biospheric Primary Production During an ENSO Transition

    Michael J. Behrenfeld;James T. Randerson;Charles R. McClain;Gene C. Feldman

  • Passive remote sensing of tropospheric aerosol and atmospheric correction for the aerosol effect

    Y. J. Kaufman;D. Tanré;H. R. Gordon;T. Nakajima

  • An ocean-colour time series for use in climate studies: The experience of the ocean-colour climate change initiative (OC-CCI)

    Shubha Sathyendranath;Robert J.W. Brewin;Carsten Brockmann;Vanda Brotas

  • Observations of a poleward surface current off the coasts of Portugal and Spain during winter

    Robert Frouin;Armando F. G. Fiúza;Isabel Ambar;Timothy J. Boyd

  • Spectral reflectance of sea foam in the visible and near-infrared: In situ measurements and remote sensing implications

    Robert Frouin;Myriam Schwindling;Pierre-Yves Deschamps

  • A review of satellite methods to derive surface shortwave irradiance

    R.T. Pinker;R. Frouin;Z. Li

  • NASA's surface biology and geology designated observable: A perspective on surface imaging algorithms

    Kerry Cawse-Nicholson;Philip A. Townsend;David Schimel;Ali M. Assiri

  • Estimating Photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) at the earth's surface from satellite observations

    Robert Frouin;Rachel T. Pinker

  • A simple analytical formula to compute clear sky total and photosynthetically available solar irradiance at the ocean surface

    Robert Frouin;David W. Lingner;Catherine Gautier;Karen S. Baker

  • Atmospheric Correction of Satellite Ocean-Color Imagery During the PACE Era.

    Robert J. Frouin;Bryan A. Franz;Amir Ibrahim;Kirk Knobelspiesse

  • Ocean Optics Protocols For Satellite Ocean Color Sensor Validation, Revision 4, Volume III: Radiometric Measurements and Data Analysis Protocols

    J. L. Mueller;A. Morel;R. Frouin;C. Davis

  • Determination from Space of Atmospheric Total Water Vapor Amounts by Differential Absorption near 940 nm: Theory and Airborne Verification

    Robert Frouin;Pierre-Yves Deschamps;Pierre Lecomte

  • April 1998 Asian dust event: A southern California perspective

    David M. Tratt;Robert J. Frouin;Douglas L. Westphal

  • Satellite sensor requirements for monitoring essential biodiversity variables of coastal ecosystems

    Frank E. Muller‐Karger;Erin Hestir;Christiana Ade;Kevin Turpie

  • Relation between photosynthetically available radiation and total insolation at the ocean surface under clear skies1

    Karen S. Baker;Robert Frouin

  • Maritime component in aerosol optical models derived from Aerosol Robotic Network data

    A. Smirnov;A. Smirnov;B. N. Holben;O. Dubovik;O. Dubovik;R. Frouin

  • Estimating photosynthetically available radiation at the ocean surface from ADEOS-II global imager data

    Robert Frouin;Hiroshi Murakami

  • Maritime aerosol optical thickness measured by handheld sun photometers

    Kirk D. Knobelspiesse;Christophe Pietras;Christophe Pietras;Giulietta S. Fargion;Giulietta S. Fargion;Menghua Wang;Menghua Wang

  • Response of the equatorial Pacific to chlorophyll pigment in a mixed layer isopycnal ocean general circulation model

    S. Nakamoto;S. Prasanna Kumar;J. M. Oberhuber;J. Ishizaka

  • Reduction of skylight reflection effects in the above-water measurement of diffuse marine reflectance

    Bertrand Fougnie;Robert Frouin;Pierre Lecomte;Pierre-Yves Deschamps

Frequent Co-Authors

Kenneth J. Voss
Kenneth J. Voss University of Miami
Pierre-Yves Deschamps
Pierre-Yves Deschamps University of Lille
Frank E. Muller-Karger
Frank E. Muller-Karger University of South Florida
Stanford B. Hooker
Stanford B. Hooker Goddard Space Flight Center
Mati Kahru
Mati Kahru University of California, San Diego
David Antoine
David Antoine Curtin University
Heidi M. Sosik
Heidi M. Sosik Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Hubert Loisel
Hubert Loisel University of Lille
Michael S. Twardowski
Michael S. Twardowski Florida Atlantic University
Shubha Sathyendranath
Shubha Sathyendranath Plymouth Marine Laboratory

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