Douglas Vandemark
My research interests lie in air-sea interactions with a focus on ocean remote sensing of wind waves and the air-sea exchange of momentum, heat, and mass including greenhouse gases. My specific research in these fields involves microwave oceanography including altimetry, scatterometry, radiometry, and synthetic aperture radar as well as in situ measurement techniques and instrumentation related to turbulent flux parameterization, gas transfer, and wind wave interaction at local, regional and global scales. Recent research focus is on salinity remote sensing as well as investigation of carbon dioxide air-sea flux and its remote sensing using satellite ocean surface topography, wind, temperature, and color measurements. This work includes developing observation platforms and sensors supporting measurements in the coastal zone.
Research Interests
- Air/Sea Boundary Interactions
- Coastal Processes
- Earth Satellite Applications
- Earth Sciences Instrumentation
- Earth/Terrestrial Remote Sensing
- Electromagnetic Propagation
- Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layers
- Physical Oceanography
- Remote Sensing Technology
Selected Publications
Grodsky, S. A., Reul, N., Bentamy, A., Vandemark, D., & Guimbard, S. (2019). Eastern Mediterranean salinification observed in satellite salinity from SMAP mission. Journal of Marine Systems, 198, 103190. doi:10.1016/j.jmarsys.2019.103190
Qiao, T., Yanlei, D., Tsang, L., Vandemark, D., & Yueh, S. (2019). Radar Scattering of Ocean Surfaces with Anisotropic Ocean Spectrum using NMM3D Simulations. In X. Li, H. Guo, K. -S. Chen, & X. Yang (Eds.), Advances in SAR Remote Sensing of Oceans. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
Grodsky, S. A., Vandemark, D., Feng, H., & Levin, J. (2018). Satellite detection of an unusual intrusion of salty slope water into a marginal sea: Using SMAP to monitor Gulf of Maine inflows. Remote Sensing of Environment, 217, 550-561. doi:10.1016/j.rse.2018.09.004
Qiao, T., Tsang, L., Vandemark, D., Yueh, S. H., Liao, T. -H., Nouguier, F., & Chapron, B. (2018). Sea Surface Radar Scattering at L-Band Based on Numerical Solution of Maxwell’s Equations in 3-D (NMM3D). IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 56(6), 3137-3147. doi:10.1109/tgrs.2018.2792432
Fournier, S., Vandemark, D., Gaultier, L., Lee, T., Jonsson, B., & Gierach, M. M. (2017). Interannual Variation in Offshore Advection of Amazon-Orinoco Plume Waters: Observations, Forcing Mechanisms, and Impacts. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 122(11), 8966-8982. doi:10.1002/2017jc013103
Zibordi, G., Mélin, F., Berthon, J. -F., Holben, B., Slutsker, I., Giles, D., . . . Seppälä, J. (2009). AERONET-OC: A Network for the Validation of Ocean Color Primary Products. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 26(8), 1634-1651. doi:10.1175/2009jtecho654.1
Chen, G., Chapron, B., Ezraty, R., & Vandemark, D. (2002). A Global View of Swell and Wind Sea Climate in the Ocean by Satellite Altimeter and Scatterometer. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 19(11), 1849-1859. doi:10.1175/1520-0426(2002)019<1849:agvosa>2.0.co;2
Elfouhaily, T., Chapron, B., Katsaros, K., & Vandemark, D. (1997). A unified directional spectrum for long and short wind-driven waves. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 102(C7), 15781-15796. doi:10.1029/97jc00467
Le Quéré, C., Moriarty, R., Andrew, R. M., Canadell, J. G., Sitch, S., Korsbakken, J. I., . . . Zeng, N. (n.d.). Global Carbon Budget 2015. Earth System Science Data, 7(2), 349-396. doi:10.5194/essd-7-349-2015
Bakker, D. C. E., Pfeil, B., Smith, K., Hankin, S., Olsen, A., Alin, S. R., . . . Watson, A. J. (n.d.). An update to the Surface Ocean CO<sub>2</sub> Atlas (SOCAT version 2). Earth System Science Data, 6(1), 69-90. doi:10.5194/essd-6-69-2014
Most Cited Publications