Jérôme Gourrion

Jérôme Gourrion was born in Toulon, France, in 1972. He received the B.Eng. degree in marine technologies from the University of Toulon, La Garde, France, in 1994 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in physical oceanography from the University of Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France, in 1995 and 2003, respectively. He is currently with the Department of Physical Oceanography, Institut de Ciències del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Barcelona, Spain, where, in the context of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity mission, he contributes to the validation of brightness temperature images and the improvement of sea surface salinity retrieval. His main research experience concerns the analysis of in situ and remote sensing data over the ocean to improve the description of air–sea fluxes.