Research staff: Dr. Stephane Saux-Picart

Plymouth Marine Laboratory
Prospect Place
The Hoe
Plymouth
PL1 3DH
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0) 1752 633485
Fax: +44 (0) 1752 633101
email: stuxpml.ac.uk

Research interests

Model vs Satellite comparison, primary production algorithm from remote sensing data, time series analysis, signal processing.

Current projects

Coast Colour, NERC NC Ecosystem Modelling, EU FP6 ECOOP, NCOF

Recent publications

Takafumi Hirata, Stephane Saux-Picart, Taketo Hashioka, Maki Aita-Noguchi, Hiroshi Sumata, Masahito Shigemitsu, Icarus Allen, Yasuhiro Yamanaka, A comparison between phytoplankton community structures derived from a global 3D ecosystem model and satellite observation, Journal of Marine Systems, Available online 31 January 2012, ISSN 0924-7963, doi: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2012.01.009

Stefano Ciavatta, Ricardo Torres, Stephane Saux-Picart, Julian Icarus Allen, Can ocean color assimilation improve biogeochemical hindcasts in shelf seas? Journal of Geophysical Research, Vol. 116, C12043, 19 PP., 2011,doi: 10.1029/2011JC007219

Saux-Picart, S., Butenschön, M., and Shutler, J. D.: Wavelet-based spatial comparison technique for analysing and evaluating two-dimensional geophysical model fields, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss., 4, 3161-3183, doi: 10.5194/gmdd-4-3161-2011, 2011.

Anne Verhoef, Catherine Ottlé, Bernard Cappelaere, Ty Murray, Stephane Saux-Picart, Mehrez Zribi, Fabienne Maignan, Nicolas Boulain, Jerome Demarty, David Ramier, Spatio-temporal surface soil heat flux estimates from satellite data; results for the AMMA experiment at the Fakara (Niger) supersite, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Volumes 154-155, 15 March 2012, Pages 55-66, ISSN 0168-1923, doi: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2011.08.003

Reul, N., S. Saux-Picart, B. Chapron, D. Vandemark, J. Tournadre, and J. Salisbury (2009), Demonstration of ocean surface salinity microwave measurements from space using AMSR-E data over the Amazon plume, /Geophys. Res. Lett./, 36, L13607, doi:10.1029/2009GL038860.

S. Saux-Picart, C. Ottlé, B. Decharme, C. André, M. Zribi, A. Perrier, B. Coudert, N. Boulain, B. Cappelaere, L. Descroix, D. Ramier (2009), Water and energy budgets simulation over the AMMA-Niger super-site spatially constrained with remote sensing data, Journal of Hydrology, 375, 287–295, doi:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2008.12.023

Saux-Picart S., Ottle C., Perrier A., Decharme B., Coudert B., Zribi Mehrez, Boulain Nicolas, Cappelaere Bernard, Ramier D (2009), SEtHyS_Savannah : a multiple source land surface model applied to Sahelian landscapes. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 149 (9), p. 1421-1432, doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2009.03.013