CATHERINE PRIGENT'S CURICCULUM VITAE:

EDUCATION:
Dr. Catherine Prigent
Departement de Radioastronomie Millimetrique
Observatoire de Paris
61, Avenue de l'Observatoire
75014 Paris, France

tel: (33) 01 40 51 20 18
email: Catherine.Prigent@obspm.fr

EDUCATION:
PhD 1988, physics, Paris University
MS 1985, microwave propagation and signal processing, Rennes University
1985, telecommunication engineering, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications de Bretagne

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Sept 2000-
Researcher for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Departement de Radioastronomie Millimetrique, Paris Observatory.

1995-2000
Researcher at NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York.
On leave from Paris Observatory.
- Estimation and analysis of microwave land surface emissivities between 19 and 85 GHz. Use of the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) observations and International Satellite Cloud Climatology Project (ISCCP ) data.
- Estimation of atmospheric and surface parameters (surface temperature, water vapor atmospheric content and cloud liquid water path) over land from microwave observations (SSM/I).

1990-1995:
Researcher for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Dpt. de Radioastronomie Millimetrique, Paris Observatory.
- Microwave radiative transfer modeling over ocean: analysis of gaseous absorption models, development of a sea surface emissivity model, validation of these models using airborne radiometric measurements and satellite data.
- Retrieval of atmospheric parameters (sea surface wind speed, water vapor, cloud liquid water and rain) from SSM/I observations. Development of a variational inversion scheme based on radiative transfer calculations.

1985-1988
Doctoral research, Departement de Radioastronomie Millimetrique, Meudon Observatory. Subject: Microwave remote sensing for atmospheric studies: radiative transfer model and receiver design.
-Microwave radiative transfer modeling in the atmosphere: gaseous absorption, sea surface emissivity, absorption and scattering by cloud and rain
- Quasi-optical design for a 10 channel radiometer between 110 and 190 GHz. Analysis of the antenna of this radiometer, for use from a geostationary orbit.