Activities of scientific interest
- Occasional reviewer for:
- Journal of Hydrometeorology,
- Water Resources Research,
- Water,
- Remote Sensing of Environment,
- Remote Sensing,
- Hydrology and Earth System Sciences (HESS),
- Meteorological Applications,
- Climate Dynamics,
- IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing,
- Hydrological Processes,
- Journal of Hydrology,
- IEEE JSTARS,
- Journal of Geophysical Research,
- International Journal of Digital Earth,
- Journal of Climate,
- Advances in Water Resources,
- Geophysical Research Letters,
- Geoscientific Model Development
- Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters
- International Journal of Geo-Information
- Hydrological Sciences Journal
- Hydrology (MDPI)
- Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing
- Atmosphere (MDPI)
- Sensors (MDPI)
- Land (MDPI)
- Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences (EGU)
- Environmental International
- International Journal of Applied Earth Observations and Geoinformations
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- Scientific conferences:
- Organiser:
- IGARSS-2010 invited session FR1-2.L10: « SMOS: The Beginning of a L-band Generation of Global Remote Sensed Soil Moisture Observations». Hawaii, USA, 2010.
- Deputy organizer :
- Scientific Subcomission A-3 ”Remote sensing Observations of Land Processes, Resources and Natural Hazards”, COSPAR Assembly, July 2012, Mysore, India.
- Chairman / convener:
- TU3.O6 « Data Assimilation session into Numerical Models ». IGARSS 2009, Cape Town.
- HS6.2: « Remote Sensing of soil moisture », EGU Assembly, 2011, Vienna.
- A3.1: “Earth Observation of the Water Cycle. Water Resources, Soil Moisture and Precipitation”. COSPAR Assembly, 14-22 July 2012, Mysore, India.
- “Water Cycle: Assimilation and applications”. Understanding the carbon and water cycles using SMOS data and models Workshop, 13-14 Nov, CESBIO, Toulouse, France.
- “H-SAF and HEPEX workshops on coupled hydrology”. 3-7 Nov 2014, ECMWF, UK.
- Session-3 "Assimilation Methods". 2nd International Surface Working Group (ISWG) & 8th Land Surface Analysis Satellite Application Facility (LSA-SAF)s Workshop, 26-28 June 2018, Lisboa, Portugal.
- Session 18F: "Quantifying Impact of Weather Extremes in a Changing Climate: Precipitation and Storms ", 2019 Joint Satellite Conference, 28 Sept – 04 Oct 2019, Boston, US
- Discussion Panel:
- Session 19E: "Quantifying Impact of Weather Extremes in a Changing Climate", 2019 Joint Satellite Conference, 28 Sept – 04 Oct 2019, Boston, US
- Organiser:
- Memberships:
- SMOS Quality Working Group (2010-2016).
- SMOS-NEXT Scientific Advisory Group (Sept.2012 - Feb. 2013).
- Steering Committee Member of HYDRAS+ project, Gent, Belgium (from 2014)
- Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). (2008-2015)
- Chair and member of the cross Climate Data Record (CDR) of Essential Climate Variables (ECV) Group (since 2016)
- European Geosciences Union (since Dec. 2018-Dec 2019).
- Member of the Mission Advisory Group (MAG) of the TRUTHS mission of the ESA Earth Watch Programme (2020-2021)
- Member of the Science Advisory Committee (SAC) of the ESA HydroGNSS scout mission (from Nov 2021)
- Member of the Sentinel-3 Quality Working Group (QWG) (from Dec 2021)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) of the ESA's HydroGNSS-R scout mission (from Oct 2021)
- Participation in International Boards:
- EU Polar Expert Working Group for the definition of a PanEuropean pan-European high resolution snow and ice service
- ESA CCI+ (phase I) Tender Evaluation Board for new ECVs: Snow, Permafrost, Land Surface Temperature, High-Resolution Land Cover, Above-Ground Biomass, Lakes
- Fond National de la Recherche Luxembourg: Review final report of the project "HYDRAS+ (BELSPO STEREO III)", Oct 2019.
- ESA Earth Watch mission TRUTHS, member of the Mission Advisory Group (MAG), 2021
- ESA Hydro-GNSS scout mission; member of the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG), Nov 2021-present
- Sentinel-3 Quality Working Group (QWG) member - Dec 2021 - present
- Copernicus Marine Service Tender Evaluation Board of the Sea Level, Sea Surface Temperature, Ocean Colour and Sea Ice Thematic Assembly Centre (TAC)- Nov 2021
- ESA's Fiducial Reference Measurements for Soil Moisture project; member of the Science Advisory Group (SAG) - 2022
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