Douglas Vandemark

Douglas Vandemark
RESEARCH PROFESSOR
Affiliate Research Professor
Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory
Phone: (603) 862-0195
Office: Earth, Oceans, & Space, Morse Hall Rm 141, Durham, NH 03824
Websites: Full profile: FindScholars@UNH, UNH/EOS Ocean Process Analysis Laboratory
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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.

Education

  • Ph.D., Earth Science: Oceanography, University of New Hampshire
  • M.S., Engineering, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • B.S., Hope College

Research Interests

  • Air/Sea Boundary Interactions
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Earth Satellite Applications
  • Electromagnetic Propagation
  • Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layers
  • Physical Oceanography

Selected Publications

Buchhaupt, C. K., Egido, A., Vandemark, D., Smith, W. H. F., Fenoglio, L., & Leuliette, E. (n.d.). Towards the Mitigation of Discrepancies in Sea Surface Parameters Estimated from Low- and High-Resolution Satellite Altimetry. Remote Sensing, 15(17), 4206. doi:10.3390/rs15174206

Tran, N., Vandemark, D., Bignalet-Cazalet, F., & Dibarboure, G. (n.d.). Quantifying Multifrequency Ocean Altimeter Wind Speed Error Due to Sea Surface Temperature and Resulting Impacts on Satellite Sea Level Measurements. Remote Sensing, 15(13), 3235. doi:10.3390/rs15133235

Jayasinghe, A., Elliott, S., Gibson, G. A., & Vandemark, D. (n.d.). The Role of Phytoplankton Biomacromolecules in Controlling Ocean Surface Roughness. Atmosphere, 13(12), 2101. doi:10.3390/atmos13122101

Hunt, C. W., Salisbury, J. E., & Vandemark, D. (2022). Controls on buffering and coastal acidification in a temperate estuary. LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY, 67(6), 1328-1342. doi:10.1002/lno.12085

Grodsky, S. A., Reul, N., Bentamy, A., & Vandemark, D. (2022). Eastward propagating surface salinity anomalies in the tropical North Atlantic. REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, 13(4), 334-342. doi:10.1080/2150704X.2022.2032452

Bakker, D. C. E., Pfeil, B., Landa, C. S., Metzl, N., O'Brien, K. M., Olsen, A., . . . Xu, S. (2016). A multi-decade record of high-quality fCO(2) data in version 3 of the Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT). EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA, 8(2), 383-413. doi:10.5194/essd-8-383-2016

Le Quere, C., Moriarty, R., Andrew, R. M., Canadell, J. G., Sitch, S., Korsbakken, J. I., . . . Zeng, N. (2015). Global Carbon Budget 2015. EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA, 7(2), 349-396. doi:10.5194/essd-7-349-2015

Zibordi, G., Holben, B., Slutsker, I., Giles, D., D'Alimonte, D., Melin, F., . . . Seppala, 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

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