Dr. Chelle L. Gentemann
Scientist, Remote Sensing Systems
438 First Street, Suite 200
Santa Rosa, CA, 95401
voice: (707) 545-2904x14
fax: (707) 545-2906
gentemann@remss.com

Remote Sensing Systems, Scientist, 1998-Present

Calibration, algorithm development, and validation of the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Microwave Imager (TMI), Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer - Earth observing system (AMSR-E), and Visible and Infrared Scanner (VIRS). Research into the upper ocean thermal structure: empirical and physical models of diurnal warming. Research into modification of SST by Tropical Cyclones. Development of a website with near real-time global tropical cyclone collocated with SST. Development and production of OI SSTs. Development of a high-resolution sea ice algorithm for SSM/I and validation of sea ice from microwave radiometers. Studies of sea ice climate variability.

Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Graduate Research Assistant, 2003-2007

Research on error characterization for IR and MW SSTs using in situ observation, blending of IR and MW SSTs, skin bulk differences, the cool skin layer, and diurnal warming. Development of a physical model of diurnal warming with Dr. Peter J. Minnett.

Scripps Institute of Oceanography, Graduate Research Assistant, 1995-1998

Investigation of baroclinic instabilities with Dr. Rick Salmon and Dr. Myrl Hendershott. Numerical modeling of surface quasi-geostrophic flow over topography.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Undergraduate Research Assistant, 1993-1995

Investigated the effect of traveling atmospheric storms on TOPEX SSH, with Dr. Carl Wunsch and Dr. Detlef Stammer, to provide more accurate parameterization of the inverted barometer effect.

Ph.D. (2003-2007), Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami

M.S. (1995-1997), Physical Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

B.S. (1991-1995), Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

GODAE High Resolution SST (GHRSST) Science Team

GHRSST Working Groups: Diurnal Warming

GHRSST Technical Advisory Groups: Sea Ice, Multi-Product Ensemble, and Data Management

NASA Satellite Ocean Atlas Team

NASA Physical Oceanography Data Active Archive Center (PO.DAAC) User Working Group (Vice-Chair)

American Geophysical Union 2007 Joint Assembly, Acapulco, Mexico. Outstanding student presentation award.

American Geophysical Union 2006 Joint Assembly, Baltimore, MD. Outstanding student paper award.

IGARSS 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, Denver, CO. Student paper competition finalist.

American Meteorological Society 2005 13th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Norfolk, VA. Student poster competition: 3rd prize.

NASA Group Achievement Award (2001) to the Satellite Ocean Atlas Team, for outstanding achievement in utilization of multiple observations from space for the study of the global oceans.

Yale 2008 Department of Geology & Geophysics Colloquium, "Satellite sea surface temperatures".

AGU 2006 Joint Assembly, "Optimally interpolated infrared and microwave sea surface temperatures: the Multi-sensor Improved SST (MISST) Project".

IGARSS 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, "Multi-satellite, multi-sensor data fusion: global daily 10 km SSTs from MODIS, AMSR-E, and TMI"

IGARSS 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium & 27th Canadian Symposium on Remote Sensing, "In situ observations of diurnal warming in the skin layer"

AMS 14th Conference on Satellite Meteorology, "Multi-sensor Improved Sea Surface Temperatures (MISST) for GODAE"

AGU Ocean Sciences, 2004, "Diurnal warming in satellite sea-surface temperatures"

JCOMM Workshop on Advances in Marine Climatology, 2003, "Diurnal Warming and Climate SST records"

CEOS Meeting, Ocean Sciences, 2003, "Accurate microwave SST retrieval and microwave/infrared blending"

GCOS Workshop on Advances in the Use of Historical Marine Climate Data, 2002, "Advances in Microwave Sea Surface Temperature" and "Towards Improved Validation of Satellite Sea Surface Skin Temperature Measurements for Climate Research"

GODAE Science Team Meeting, 2001, "Microwave SST retrievals from TRMM"

IGARSS, 2001, "Satellite Microwave SST: Accuracy, Comparisons to AVHRR and Reynolds SST, and Measurement of Diurnal Thermocline Variability"

Gentemann, C.L. and P.J. Minnett, "Profiles of Surface Heating (POSH): a new model of upper ocean diurnal warming", submitted J. Geophys. Res.

Barron, C.N., A.B. Kara, C.L. Gentemann, and W.-Y. Loh, "Time Scales for SST over the Global Ocean", submitted J. Climate

Gentemann, C.L. and P.J. Minnett, "Radiometric measurements of ocean surface thermal variability", in press J. Geophys. Res.

Gentemann, C.L., M. DeMaria, F.J. Wentz, "Sea-surface temperatures from NASA's Aqua satellite improve hurricane intensity prediction", in prep.

Gentemann, C.L., "Diurnal warming at the ocean surface", Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, Miami, FL, University of Miami, Doctor of Philosophy: 163, 2007.

Gentemann, C.L, C.J. Donlon, A. Stuart-Menteth, F.J. Wentz, "Diurnal signals in satellite sea surface temperature measurements", GRL, 30(3), 1140-1143, 2003.

Gentemann, C.L, F.J. Wentz, C.M. Mears, and D.K. Smith, "In-situ validation of TRMM microwave sea surface temperatures", J. Geophs. Res., 109:C04021, 2004.

Horvath, A. and C. L. Gentemann, "Cloud-fraction-dependent bias in satellite liquid water path retrievals of shallow, non-precipitating marine clouds", Geophys. Res. Lett. 34(L22806), doi:10.1029/2007GL030625, 2007.

Donlon, C., I. Robinson, K. S Casey, J. Vazquez-Cuervo, E. Armstrong, O. Arino, C. Gentemann , et al.. "The Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) High Resolution Sea Surface Temperature Pilot Project (GHRSST-PP)." Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 88(8), 1197-1213, 2007.

Reynolds, R.W, H. Zhang, T.M. Smith, C.L. Gentemann, F.J. Wentz, "Impacts of in situ and additional satellite data on the accuracy of a sea surface temperature analysis for climate", Int. J. of Climate, 25: 857-864, 2005.

Dong S., S. T. Gille, J. Sprintall, C. Gentemann, (2006), "Validation of the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer for the Earth Observing System (AMSR-E) sea surface temperature in the Southern Ocean", J. Geophys. Res., 111, C04002, doi:10.1029/2005JC002934.

Donlon, C. J., L. Nykjaer, C. L. Gentemann, (2004). "Using sea surface temperature measurements from microwave and infrared satellite measurements." International Journal of Remote Sensing 25(7-8): 1331-1336.

Reynolds, R.W., C.L. Gentemann, F.J. Wentz, "Impact of TRMM SSTs on a climate-scale SST analysis", J. Climate, 17(8), 2938-2952, 2004.

Stammer, D., F.J. Wentz, and C.L. Gentemann, "Validation of Microwave sea surface temperature measurements for climate purposes", J. of Climate, 16(1), 73-87, 2003.

Donlon, C.J., P. Minnett, C.L. Gentemann, I.J. Barton, B. Ward, J. Murray, T.J. Nightingale, "Towards Operational Validation of Satellite sea surface skin temperature observations", J. Climate, 15(4), 353-369, 2002.

Donlon, C.J., C.L. Gentemann, and F.J. Wentz, "A new generation of microwave sea surface temperature", AMSR Backscatter, 12(2), 2001.

Wentz, F.J., Ashcroft, P.D., Gentemann, C.L., "Post-Launch Calibration of the TMI Microwave Radiometer", IEEE Trans. Geos. Rem. Sens., 39(2), 415-422, 2001.

Wentz, F.J., D.K. Smith, C.A. Mears, C.L. Gentemann, "Advanced Algorithms for QuikScat and SeaWinds/AMSR", IGARSS'01 Proceedings 2001.

Donlon, C.J., P.J. Minnett, I. J. Barton, T. J. Nightingale and C. Gentemann. Sea surface temperature measurements and definitions. Proceedings of the WCRP/SCOR Workshop on Inter-comparison and Validation of Ocean-Atmosphere Flux Fields, Potomac, MD. May 21 - 24, 2001.

Chelton, D., S.K. Ebensen, M.G. Schlax, N. Thum, M.H. Freilich, F.J. Wentz, C.L. Gentemann, M.J. McPhaden, and Paul S. Schopf, "Observations of Coupling Between Surface Wind Stress and Sea Surface Temperature in the Eastern Tropical Pacific", J. Climate, 14(7), 1479-1498, 2001.

Chelton, D.B., F.J. Wentz, C.L. Gentemann, R.A. de Szoeke, and M.G. Schlax, "Microwave SST Observations of Trans-equatorial Tropical Instability Waves", Geophys. Res. Lett, 27(9), 1239-1242, 2000.

Wentz, F.J., C.L. Gentemann, D.K. Smith, and D.B. Chelton, "Satellite Measurements of Sea-Surface Temperature Through Clouds", Science 288(5467), 847-850, 2000.

Halpern, D., V. Zlotnicki, P. M. Woicheshyn, O. B. Brown, G. C. Feldman, M. H. Freilich, F. J. Wentz, and C. Gentemann. 2000. "An atlas of monthly mean distributions of SSMI surface wind speed, AVHRR sea surface temperature, TMI sea surface temperature, AMI surface wind velocity, SeaWIFS chlorophyll-a, and TOPEX/POSEIDON sea surface topography during 1998". Jet Propulsion Laboratory Publication 00-08, 102 p. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109.

Minnett, P.J., C.L. Gentemann, F. Wentz, and A.T. Jessup (2006), Validation of TMI and AMSR-E SSTs by Comparison to VOS Observations, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS33J-04

Szczodrak, M., P.J. Minnett, and C. Gentemann (2006), Ship-based Radiometric Measurements and Their use in Validating the Retrievals of MODIS and AMSR-E, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS36E-03

Ward, B., C. Gentemann, and R. Winninkhof (2006), The Diurnal Warm Layer and its Implication for the Air-Sea Flux of Carbon Dioxide, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS35G-16

Gentemann, C.L., G. Wick, J. Cummings, and E. Bayler (2006), New high-resolution near real-time sea surface temperatures: the Multi-sensor Improved SST (MISST) Project, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS34B-02

Smith, D.K., F.J. Wentz, C. Gentemann, and K. Hilburn (2006), Long-term, Consistently Processed, Multi-Satellite Ocean Products Available from DISCOVER, Eos Trans. AGU, 87(36), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract x

Szczodrak, M., P.J. Minnett, and C. Gentemann (2005), Long Term Comparison of AMSR-E Retrievals and Ship Based Measurements of Total Water Vapor in the Caribbean Sea, Eos Trans. AGU, 86(52), Fall Meet. Suppl., Abstract A33B-0907

Gentemann, C.L., M. DeMaria, and F.J. Wentz (2003), Near real time global optimum interpolated microwave SSTs: applications to hurricane intensity forecasting, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(52), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS12C-03

Gentemann, C.L., C.J. Donlon, A. Stuart-Menteth, F.J. Wentz (2003) Diurnal signals in satellite sea surface temperatures measurements, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(52), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS31I-04

Reynolds, R.W., C.L. Gentemann, and F.J. Wentz (2003) Impact of TRMM SSTs on a climate-scale SST analysis, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(52), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS22H-02

Wentz, F.J., P.J. Ashcroft, and C.L. Gentemann (2003), On-orbit calibration of AMSR-E, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS22H-02

Gentemann, C.L., M. DeMaria, and F.J. Wentz (2003), Global optimum interpolated microwave SSTs from Aqua's AMSR-E improve hurricane intensity forecasting, Eos Trans. AGU, 84(46), Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS22H-02

Gentemann, C.L., and F.J. Wentz (2002), Diurnal Warming from Satellite and In Situ Observations, Eos Trans. AGU, Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS42K-12

Mears, C., C. Gentemann, and F.J. Wentz (2002), TRMM Microwave SST, Eos Trans. AGU, Ocean Sci. Meet. Suppl., Abstract OS42K-12