Professor Ghislain Picard
Ghislain Picard (PhD awarded in 2005) is a Professor at the Institut des Géosciences de l’Environnement, at Université Grenoble Alpes in France. He has a background in remote sensing and snow science. He has a specific interest in the polar regions, Antarctica and the Arctic, and on the interactions between snow and the atmosphere. Using satellite and in-situ observations, as well as radiative transfer modeling and surface energy budget modeling, he studies how snow is changing on the ice-sheets, on sea-ice, and alpine regions in relationship with climate change. He will contribute to 5DAIS by better constraining meltwater production at the surface of the ice-sheet. New datasets will be produced continuously (timeliness of a few days max) providing informon on surface melt from passive microwave, and surface albedo from optical measurements.
