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Simon Gascoin is affiliated with the Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphère in France. Their research encompasses a broad range of topics within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science, with a particular focus on cryospheric studies and related fields.

Their main research fields include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Environmental Science

Gascoin's subfields of study further specify their expertise in:

  • Atmospheric Science
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
  • Environmental Engineering

The topics most prominently covered in Gascoin's work are:

  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Climate change and permafrost
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
  • Landslides and related hazards
  • Climate variability and models
  • Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance

Simon Gascoin has contributed to several publication venues with frequent outputs. These include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Cryosphere
  • Remote Sensing
  • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
  • Water Resources Research

Among notable recent papers featuring Gascoin's research are:

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya, 2021, Science
  • Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers - more frequent than thought?, 2021, The Cryosphere
  • Long-term trends (1958-2017) in snow cover duration and depth in the Pyrenees, 2020, International Journal of Climatology
  • Snow depth mapping from stereo satellite imagery in mountainous terrain: evaluation using airborne laser-scanning data, 2020, The Cryosphere
  • The Copernicus Polar Ice and Snow Topography Altimeter (CRISTAL) high-priority candidate mission, 2020, The Cryosphere

Gascoin collaborates frequently with a group of researchers, including:

  • César Deschamps-Berger
  • Marie Dumont
  • Juan Ignacio López-Moreno
  • Esteban Alonso-González
  • Matthieu Lafaysse

Best Publications

  • Twenty-three unsolved problems in hydrology (UPH)–a community perspective

    Günter Blöschl;Marc F.P. Bierkens;Antonio Chambel;Christophe Cudennec

  • A massive rock and ice avalanche caused the 2021 disaster at Chamoli, Indian Himalaya

    D. H. Shugar;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;M. Jacquemart;D. Shean;S. Bhushan

  • Massive collapse of two glaciers in western Tibet in 2016 after surge-like instability

    Andreas Kääb;Silvan Leinss;Adrien Gilbert;Yves Bühler

  • Theia Snow collection: high-resolution operational snow cover maps from Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 data

    Simon Gascoin;Manuel Grizonnet;Marine Bouchet;Germain Salgues

  • The AMMA Land Surface Model Intercomparison Project (ALMIP)

    Aaron Boone;Patricia de Rosnay;Gianpaolo Balsamo;Anton Beljaars

  • A snow cover climatology for the Pyrenees from MODIS snow products

    Simon Gascoin;Olivier Hagolle;Mireille Huc;Lionel Jarlan

  • Assessing the capability of the SWAT model to simulate snow, snow melt and streamflow dynamics over an alpine watershed

    Youen Grusson;Youen Grusson;Xiaoling Sun;Xiaoling Sun;Simon Gascoin;Sabine Sauvage;Sabine Sauvage

  • Snow hydrology in Mediterranean mountain regions: A review

    Abbas Fayad;Abbas Fayad;Simon Gascoin;Ghaleb Faour;Juan Ignacio López-Moreno

  • Sudden large-volume detachments of low-angle mountain glaciers – more frequent than thought?

    Andreas Kääb;Mylène Jacquemart;Adrien Gilbert;Silvan Leinss

  • Mapping snow depth in open alpine terrain from stereo satellite imagery

    Renaud Marti;Renaud Marti;Simon Gascoin;E. Berthier;M. de Pinel

  • Wind effects on snow cover in Pascua-Lama, Dry Andes of Chile

    Simon Gascoin;Stefaan Lhermitte;Christophe Kinnard;Kirsten Bortels

  • Assessment of daily MODIS snow cover products to monitor snow cover dynamics over the Moroccan Atlas mountain range

    A. Marchane;L. Jarlan;L. Hanich;A. Boudhar

  • Remote Sensing of Water Resources in Semi-Arid Mediterranean Areas: the joint international laboratory TREMA

    L. Jarlan;S. Khabba;S. Er-Raki;M. Le Page

  • Glacier contribution to streamflow in two headwaters of the Huasco River, Dry Andes of Chile

    S Gascoin;C Kinnard;R Ponce;Stef Lhermitte

  • LONG TERM TRENDS (1958‐2017) IN SNOW COVER DURATION AND DEPTH IN THE PYRENEES

    J. I. López-Moreno;Jean Michel Soubeyroux;Simon Gascoin;E. Alonso-Gonzalez

  • Different sensitivities of snowpacks to warming in Mediterranean climate mountain areas

    J.I. López-Moreno;Simon Gascoin;J. Herrero;E.A. Sproles

  • Detection of Irrigated Crops from Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Data to Estimate Seasonal Groundwater Use in South India

    Sylvain Ferrant;Adrien Selles;Adrien Selles;Michel Le Page;Pierre Alexis Herrault

  • Snow depth mapping from stereo satellite imagery in mountainous terrain: evaluation using airborne laser-scanning data

    César Deschamps-Berger;César Deschamps-Berger;Simon Gascoin;Etienne Berthier;Jeffrey Deems

  • Normalizing land surface temperature data for elevation and illumination effects in mountainous areas: A case study using ASTER data over a steep-sided valley in Morocco

    Y. Malbéteau;O. Merlin;S. Gascoin;J.P. Gastellu

  • Land water storage variability over West Africa estimated by Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and land surface models

    M. Grippa;L. Kergoat;F. Frappart;Q. Araud

  • An Assessment of Existing Methodologies to Retrieve Snow Cover Fraction from MODIS Data

    Théo Masson;Marie Dumont;Mauro Dalla Mura;Pascal Sirguey

  • Mechanisms leading to the 2016 giant twin glacier collapses, Aru Range, Tibet

    Adrien Gilbert;Silvan Leinss;Jeffrey S. Kargel;Andreas Kääb

Frequent Co-Authors

Etienne Berthier
Etienne Berthier Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géophysique et Océanographie Spatiales
Marie Dumont
Marie Dumont Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Lionel Jarlan
Lionel Jarlan Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Eric Martin
Eric Martin Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Olivier Hagolle
Olivier Hagolle Centre National D'Etudes Spatiales
Juan I. López-Moreno
Juan I. López-Moreno Spanish National Research Council
Agnès Ducharne
Agnès Ducharne Sorbonne University
Florence Habets
Florence Habets École Normale Supérieure
Jesús Revuelto
Jesús Revuelto Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
Olivier Merlin
Olivier Merlin Paul Sabatier University

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