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FROUIN, ROBERT

Research Meteorologist

Degrees:

• Ph.D., University of Lille, France

Research Interests:

• Radiation transfer theory; Satellite remote sensing, Inverse problems related to light scattering; Air-sea interactions; Ocean color; Carbon cycle; Climate change

Mentoring:

• Gross, Lydwine (Post Doc; 2000-2002)
• Pouliquen, Eric (Post Doc; 1993-1995)
• Razafimpanilo, Herisoa (Post Doc; 1993-1995)
• Ba, Mamoudou (Post Doc; 1990-1993)
• Berthelot, Beatrice (Post Doc; 1990-1991)

Deschamps, P.-Y., R. Frouin, and L. Wald, 1981: Satellite Determination of the mesoscale variability of the sea surface temperature. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 11, 864-870.

Deschamps, P.-Y., and R. Frouin, 1984: Large diurnal heating of the sea surface observed by the HCMR experiment. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 14, 177-184.

Baker, K. S., and R. Frouin, 1987: Relation between photosynthetically available radiation and total insolation at the ocean surface under clear skies. Limnol. Oceanogr., 32, 1370-1377.

Frouin, R., C. Gautier, and J.-J. Morcrette, 1988: Downward longwave irradiance at the ocean surface from satellite data: Methodology and in-situ validation. J. Geophys. Res., 93, 597-619.

Frouin, R., C. Gautier, K. B. Katsaros, and R. Lind: A comparison of satellite and empirical formula techniques for estimating insolation over the oceans. J. Appl. Meteor., 27, 1016-1022.

Frouin, R., D. Lingner, C. Gautier, K. Baker, and R. Smith, 1989: A simple analytical formula to compute total and photosynthetically available solar irradiance at the ocean surface under clear skies. J. Geophys. Res., 94, 9731-9742.

Frouin, R., A. Fiúza, I. Ambar, and T. J. Boyd, 1990: Observations of a poleward surface current off the coasts of Portugal and Spain during winter. J. Geophys. Res., 95, 679-691.

Frouin, R., P.-Y. Deschamps, and P. Lecomte, 1990: Determination from space of atmospheric total water vapor amounts by differential absorption near 940 nm: Theory and airborne verification. J. Appl. Meteor., 29, 448-460.

Chertock B., R. Frouin, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1991: Global monitoring of net solar irradiance at the ocean surface. Climatological variability and the 1982-1983 El Niño. J. Climate, 4, 639-650.

Gautier, C. and R. Frouin, 1992: Variability of net surface solar irradiance in the eastern equatorial pacific during 1982-1985. J. Climate, 5, 30-55.

Frouin, R., and B. Chertock, 1992: A technique for global monitoring of net solar irradiance at the ocean surface. Part I: Model. J. Appl. Meteor, 31, 1056-1066.

Chertock, B., R. Frouin, and C. Gautier, 1992: A technique for global monitoring of net solar irradiance at the ocean surface. Part II: Validation. J. Appl. Meteor., 31, 1066-1083.

Frouin, R., J.-Y. Balois, P.-Y. Deschamps, M. Herman, M. Panouse, and J. Priddle, 1992: Aircraft photopolarimetric observations of the ocean, ice/snow, and clouds in coastal regions of the Antarctic Peninsula. Antarctic. J., 27, 187-190.

Aman, A., H. P. Randriamanantena, A. Podaire, and R. Frouin, 1992: Upscale integration of normalized difference vegetation index: The problem of spatial heterogeneity. IEEE Trans. Geos. Rem. Sen., 30, 326-338.

Bréon, F.-M., R. Frouin, and C. Gautier, 1994: Global shortwave energy budget at the earth’s surface from ERBE observations. J. Climate, 7, 309-324.

Iacobellis, S. F., R. Frouin, H. Rasafimpanilo, R. C. J. Somerville, and S.C. Piper, 1994: North African Savanna Fires and atmospheric carbon dioxide. J. Geophys. Res., 99, 8321-8334.

Frouin, R., and R. Pinker, 1995: Estimating photosynthetically Active Radiation (PAR) at the Earth’s surface from satellite observations. Rem. Sen. Environ., 51, 98-107. Pinker, R., R. Frouin, and Z. Li, 1995: A review of satellite methods to derive shortwave surface irradiance. Rem. Sen. Environ., 51, 108-124.

Frouin, R., and J. J. Simpson, 1995: Radiometric calibration of VISSR solar channels during the GOES pathfinder benchmark period. Rem. Sen. Environ., 52, 95-115.

Ba., M., P.-Y. Deschamps, and R. Frouin, 1995: Error reduction in NOAA satellite monitoring of the land surface vegetation during FIFE. J. Geophys. Res., 100, 25537-25548.

Razafimpanilo, H., R. Frouin, S. F. Iacobellis, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1995: Methodology for estimating burned area from AVHRR reflectance data. Rem. Sen. Environ., 54, 273-289.

Frouin, R., M. Schwindling, and P.-Y. Deschamps, 1996: Spectral reflectance of sea foam in the visible and near-infrared: In-situ measurements and remote sensing implications. J. Geophys. Res., 101, 14361-14371.

Kaufman, Y. J., D. Tanré, H. R. Gordon, T. Nakajima, J. Lenoble, R. Frouin, H. Grassl, B. M. Herman, M. D. King, and P. Teillet, 1997: Remote sensing of aerosol properties from space and their impact on surface property retrievals. J. Geophys. Res., 102, 16,815-16,830.

Ackelson, S. G., and R. Frouin, Editors, 1997: Ocean Optics XIII. Proceedings of SPIE 2963, 906 pp. Published by SPIE – the International Society for Optical Engineering, Washington, USA. [Book]

Gregg, W. W., W. E. Esaias, G. C. Feldman, R. Frouin, S. B. Hooker, C. R. McClain, and R. H. Woodward, 1998: Coverage opportunities for global ocean color in a multi-mission era. IEEE Trans. Geos. Rem. Sen., 36, 1620-1628.

Schwindling, M., P.-Y. Deschamps, and R. Frouin, 1998: Verification of aerosol models for satellite ocean color remote sensing, J. Geophys. Res., 103, 24,919-24-935.

Fougnie, B., P.-Y. Deschamps, and R. Frouin, 1999: Vicarious Calibration of the POLDER ocean color spectral bands using in-situ measurements. IEEE Trans. Geos. Rem. Sen., 37, 1567-1574.

Gross, L., S. Thiria, and R. Frouin, 1999: Applying artificial neural network methodology to ocean color remote sensing. Ecological Modelling, 120, 237-246.

Iacobellis, S. F., R. Frouin, and R. C. J. Somerville, 1999: Direct climate forcing by biomass-burning aerosols: Impact of correlations between controlling variables. J. Geophys. Res., 104, 12031-12045.

Nakajima, T., A. Higurashi, K. Aoki, T. Endoh, H. Fukushima, M. Toratani, Y. Mitomi, B. G. Mitchell, and R. Frouin, 1999: Early phase analysis of OCTS radiance data for Aerosol remote sensing. IEEE Trans. Geos. Rem. Sen., 37, 1575-1585.

Fougnie, B., R. Frouin, P. Lecomte, and P.-Y. Deschamps, 1999: Reduction of skylight reflection effects in the above-water measurement of marine diffuse reflectance. Appl. Optics, 38, 3844-3856.

Higurashi, A., T. Nakajima, B. H. Holben, A. Smirnov, R. Frouin, and B. Chatenet, 2000: Global aerosol climatology from 2-channel AVHRR remote sensing. J. Climate, 13, 2011-2027.

Gross, L., S. Thiria, R. Frouin, and B. G. Mitchell, 2000: Artificial neural networks for modeling the transfer function between marine reflectance and phytoplankton pigment concentration. J. Geophys. Res., 105, 3483-3495.

Frouin, R., H. Kawamura, and M. Kishino, Editors, 2000: Hyper-spectral Remote Sensing of the Ocean. Proceedings of SPIE 4154, 252 pp. Published by SPIE –the International Society for Optical Engineering, Washington, USA. [Book]

Nakamoto, S., S. Prasanna Kumar, J.M. Oberhuber, K. Muneyama, and R. Frouin, 2000: Chlorophyll control of sea surface temperature in the Arabian Sea in a mixed layer isopycnal general circulation model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 27, 747-750.

Flamant, C., J. Pelon, P. Chazette, V. Trouillet, P. Quinn, R. Frouin, D. Bruneau, J.-F. Leon, T. Bates, J. Johnson, and J. Livingston, 2000: Airborne lidar measurements of aerosol spatial distribution and optical properties over the Atlantic Ocean during an European pollution outbreak of ACE-2. Tellus, 52B, 652-677.

Frouin, R., S. F. Iacobellis, and P.-Y. Deschamps, 2001: Influence of oceanic whitecaps on the global radiation budget. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 1523-1526.

Nakamoto, S., S. Prasanna Kumar, J. M. Oberhuber, J. Ishizaka, K. Muneyama, and R. Frouin, 2001: Response of the equatorial Pacific to chlorophyll pigments in a mixed layer isopycnal ocean general circulation model. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28, 2021-2024. Tratt, D. M., R. J. Frouin, and D. L. Westphal, 2001: April 1998 Asian dust event: a southern california perspective. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 18371-18,379.

Behrenfeld, M. J., J. T. Randerson, C. R. McClain, G. C. Feldman, S. O. Los, C. J. Tucker, P. G. Falkowski, C. B. Field, R. Frouin, W. E. Esaias, D. K. Kolber, and N. H. Pollack 2001: Biospheric primary production during and ENSO transition. Science, 291, 2594-2597.

Nicolas, J.-M., P.-Y. Deschamps, and R. Frouin, 2001: Spectral reflectance of oceanic whitecaps in the visible and near infrared: Aircraft measurements over open ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 28 , 4445-4448.

Holben, B. N., D. Tanré, A. Smirnov, T. F. Eck, I. Slutsker, N. Abuhassan, W. W. Newcomb, J. S. Shafer, B. Chatenet, F. Lavenu, Y. F. Kaufman, J. Vande Castle, A. Setzer, B. Markham, D. Clark, R. Frouin, R. Halthore, A Karneli, N. T. O’Neill, C. Pietras, R. T. Pinker, K. Voss, and G. Zibordi, 2001: An emerging ground-based climatology: aerosol optical depth from AERONET. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 12067-12097.

Voss, K. J., E. J. Welton, P. K. Quinn, R. Frouin, M. Miller, and R. M. Reynolds, 2001: Aerosol optical depth measurements during the Aerosols-99 experiment. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 20811 - 20820.

Husar, R. B., D. Tratt, D. Jaffe, S. Gasso, T. Gill, N. S. Laulinen, F. Fu, M. Reheis, Y. Chun, D. Westphal, B. N. Holben, G. Geymard, I. McKndry, N. Kuring, G. C. Feldman, C. R. McClain, R. Frouin, J. Merrill, D. Dubois, F. Vignola, T. Murayama, N. Sugimoto, S. Nickovic, W. E. Wilson, K. Sassen, B. A. Schichtel, S. R. Falke, 2001: Asian dust events of April 1998. J. Geophys. Res., 106, 18317-18330.

Frouin, R., and S. F. Iacobellis, 2002: Influence of phytoplankton on the global radiation budget. J. Geophys. Res., 107, doi:10.1029/2001JD000562.

Loisel, H., J.-M. Nicolas, P.-Y. Deschamps, and R. Frouin, 2002: Seasonal and inter-annual variability of particulate organic matter in the global ocean. Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, doi:10.1029/2002/GL015948.

Frouin, R., and G. D. Gilbert, Editors, 2002: Remote Sensing and Underwater Imaging. Proceedings of SPIE 4488, 280 pp. Published by SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Washington, USA. [Book]

Smirnov, A., B. N. Holben, O. Dubovik, R. Frouin, and I. Slutsker, 2003: Maritime component in aerosol optical models derived from AERONET (Aerosol Robotic Network) data. J. Geophys. Res., 108, 4033, doi:10.1029/2002JD002701.

Frouin, R., Y. Yuan, and H. Kawamura, Editors, 2003: Ocean Remote Sensing and Applications. Proceedings of SPIE, 4892, 620 pp. Published by SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Washington, USA. [Book]

Miller, A. J., M. A. Alexander, G. J. Boer, F. Chai, K. Denman, D. J. Erikson, R. Frouin, A. Gabric, E. Laws, M. Lewis, Z. Liu, R. Mrtugudde, S. Nakamoto, D. J. Nielson, J. R. Morris, C. Ohlman, I. Perry, N. Schneider, K. Shell, and A. Timmermann, 2003: Potential feedbacks between Pacific Ocean Ecosystems and Inter-decadal climate variations. Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc., 84, 617-633.

Shell, K., R. Frouin, S. Nakamoto, and R. C. J. Somerville, 2003: Atmospheric response to solar radiation absorbed by phytoplankton. J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003440.

Li, L. H. Fukushima, R. Frouin, B. G. Mitchell, M-X He, I. Uno, T. Takamura, and S. Ohta, 2003: Influence of sub-micron absorptive aerosol on SeaWiFS-derived marine reflectance during ACE-Asia. J. Geophys. Res., 108, doi: 10.1029/2002JD002776.

Frouin, R., G. D. Gilbert, and D. Pan, Editors, 2003: Ocean Remote Sensing and Imaging II. Proceedings of SPIE, 5155, 260 pp. Published by SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Washington, USA. [Book]

Meister, G., P. Abel, R. Barnes, J. Cooper, C. Davis, G. Fargion, R. Frouin, M. Godin, D. Korwan, R. Maffione, C. McClain, S. McLean, D. Menzies, A. Poteau, J. Robertson, and J. Sherman, 2003: Comparison of spectral radiance calibrations at oceanographic and atmospheric research laboratories. Metrologia, 40, S93-S96.

Nakamoto, S. S. Prasanna-Kumar, K. Nakata, K. Shell, R. Frouin, K. Ueyoshi, P. Sammarco, A. Lai, H. Saito, T. Sato, and K. Muneyama, 2003: Thermo-physical Interaction of Ocean Ecosystem and Geophysical system--For Understanding Carbon Circulation in the Ocean. J. Adv. Mar. Sci. Tech. Soc., 8, 35-48.

Zhao, X.-P., I. Laszlo, O. Dubovik, A. Smirnov, B. H. Holben, J. Sapper, C. Pietras, K. J. Voss, and R. Frouin, 2003: Regional evaluation of the revised NOAA/NESDIS AVHRR two-channel aerosol retrieval algorithm and determination of the refractive index for key aerosol types over the ocean. J. Geophys. Res., 109, doi: 10.1029/2003JD003817.

Gross-Colzy, L., R. Frouin, C. Dupouy, J.-M. André, and S. Thiria, 2004: Reducing variability due to secondary pigments in the retrieval of chlorophyll concentration from marine reflectance: A case study in the western equatorial Pacific. Appl. Opt.,43, 4041-4054.

Kahn, R., J. Anderson, T. L. Anderson, T. Bates, F. Brechtel, C.M. Carrico, A. Clarke, S. J. Doherty, E. Dutton, R. Flagan, R. Frouin, H. Fukushima, B. Holben, S. Howell, B. Huebert, A. Jefferson, H. Jonsson, O. Kalashnikova, J. Kim, S-W. Kim, P. Kus, W.-H. Li, J. M. Livingston, C. McNaughton, J. Merrill, S. Mukai, T. Murayama, T. Nakajima, P. Quinn, J. Redemann, M. Rood, P. Russell, I. Sano, B. Schmid, J. Seinfeld, N. Sugimoto, J. Wang, E. J. Welton, J.-G. Won, and S.-C. Yoon, 2004: Environmental snapshots from ACE-Asia. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D19S14, doi: 10.1029/2003JD004339.

Deschamps, P.-Y., B. Fougnie, R. Frouin, P. Lecomte, and C. Verwaerde, 2004: SIMBAD: A field radiometer for satellite ocean-color validation. Appl. Opt.,43, 4055-4069.

Dubuisson, P., D. Dessailly, M. Vesperini, and R. Frouin, 2004: Water Vapor Retrieval over ocean using near-infrared radiometry. J. Geophys. Res., 109, D19106, doi: 10.1029/ 2004JD004516.

Pelletier, B., and R. Frouin, 2004: Fields of nonlinear regression models for inversion of satellite data. Geophys. Res. Lett., 31, L16304, doi:10.1029/2004GL019840.

Knobelspiesse, K. D., C. Pietras, G. S. Fargion, M. Wang, R. Frouin, M. A. Miller, A. Subramaniam, and W. M. Balch, 2004: Maritime aerosol optical thickness measured by handheld sun photometers. Rem. Sen. Environ., 93, 87-106.

Frouin, R., H. Kawamura, and D. Pan, Editors, 2004: Active and Passive Remote Sensing of the Oceans. Proceedings of SPIE, 5656, 188 pp. Published by SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Washington, USA. [Book]

Miller, M. A., K. Knobelspiese, R. Frouin, M. J. Bertolomew, R. M. Reynolds, C. Pietras, G. Fargion, P. Quinn, and F. Thieuleux, 2005: Marine sunphotometry using complementary techniques. Appl. Opt., 44, 3805-3820.

Frouin, R., M. Babin, and S. Sathyendranath, Editors, 2005: Remote Sensing of the Coastal Oceanic Environment. Proceedings of SPIE, 5885, 266 pp., Published by SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Washington, USA. [Book]

Knapp, K. R., R. Frouin, S. Kondragunta, and A. Prados, 2005: Toward aerosol optical depth retrievals over land from GOES visible radiances: Determining surface reflectance. Int. J. Rem. Sen., 26, 4097-4116.

Martiny, N., R. Frouin, and R. Santer, 2005: Radiometric calibration of SeaWiFS in the near infrared. Appl. Opt., 44, 7828-7844.

Pelletier, B., and R. Frouin, 2006: Remote sensing of chlorophyll-a concentration by use of ridge function fields. Appl. Opt., 45, 784-798.

Frouin, R., P.-Y. Deschamps, L. Gross-Colzy, H. Murakami, and T. Y. Nakajima, 2006: Retrieval of chlorophyll-a concentration via linear combination of Global Imager data. J. Oceanogr., 62, 331-337.

Murakami, H., K. Sasaoka, K. Hosoda, H. Fukushima, M. Toratani, R. Frouin, B. G. Mitchell, M. Kahru, P.-Y. Deschamps, D. Clark, S. Flora, M. Kishino, S-I. Saito, C. Dupouy, A. Siripong, S. Matsumura, and J. Ichizaka, 2006: Validation of ADEOS-II GLI Ocean Color Products Using In Situ Observations. J. Oceanogr., 62, 373-393.

Frouin, R., V. K. Argawal, H. Kawamura, S. Nayak, and D. Pan, Editors, 2006: Remote Sensing of the Marine Environment. Proceedings of SPIE, 6406, Published by SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Washington, USA. [Book]

Nakamoto, S., S. Prasanna Kumar, J.M. Oberhuber, K. Muneyama, K. Ueyoshi, B. Subrahmanyam, K. Nakata, C.A. Lai, and R. Frouin, 2007: Potential feedback mechanism between phytoplankton and upper ocean environment through radiative transfer process influenced by heat release by phytoplankton - Numerical Ocean General Circulation Models and an Analytical Solution. In "Global Climate Change and Response of Carbon Cycle in the Equatorial Pacific and Indian Ocean and Adjacent Landmasses", Edited by H. Kawahata and Y. Awaya, Elsevier Oceanography Series, 73, 255-272.

Frouin, R., and H. Murakami, 2007: Estimating Photosynthetically Available Radiation at the Ocean Surface from ADEOS-II Global Imager data, 2007: J. Oceanogr., 63, 493-503.

Fukushima, H., M. Toratani, H. Murakami, P.-Y. Deschamps, R. Frouin, and A. Tanaka, 2007: Evaluation of ADEOS-II Ocean color atmospheric correction using SIMBADA hand-held radiometer data. J. Oceanogr., 63, 533-543.

Frouin, R., and Z. Lee, Editors, 2006: Coastal Ocean Remote Sensing. Proceedings of SPIE, 6680, Published by SPIE--The International Society for Optical Engineering, Bellingham, Washington, USA. [Book]

Duforêt, L., R. Frouin, and P. Dubuisson, 2007: Importance and estimation of aerosol vertical structure in satellite ocean-color remote sensing. Appl. Opt., 46, 1107-1119. Frouin, R., and B. Pelletier, 2007: Fields of non-linear regression models for atmospheric correction of satellite ocean-color imagery. Rem. Sen. Environ., 11, 450-465.