Department
Earth System Science
Organization
University of California Irvine
Email
erignot@uci.edu

Location

Irvine , California 92697
United States

Science Specialties

cryospheric remote sensing, glaciology, climate modeling

Current Research

Mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet, sponsored by NASA's Polar Research Program. Topography and dynamics of polar ice sheets from satellite radar interferometry, sponsored by NASA's topography and surface change program. Studies of ice-shelf tearing and stability using radar interferometry and finite element modeling, ADRO/NASA research project. Land cover and land use change mapping in the tropics using radar and optical data, ADRO/NASA project in coll. w. Univ. New Hampshire BOREAS co-investigator, land cover mapping and carbon budgeting of boreal forests.