Luciana Fenoglio

Contents

  • Education
  • Academic career
  • Research experience
  • Publications
  • Research reports
  • Abstracts
  • Other publications
  • Presentations at International Symposia

    • Education

    November 1982 Degree in Mathematics, Dipl. Mathematics, Facolta' di Scienze Matematiche e Fisiche, Universita' degli Studi di Torino
    July 1996 Ph.D. in Geodesy, Darmstadt Technical University

    Academic career

    1983 Fellowship at the Astronomical Observatory of Torino. Field of research: Celestial Mechanics \\
    1984-1985 Fellowship at CERGA (Centre d'Etude et de Recherche Geodynamique et Astronomique), Grasse, France. Field of research : Ground stations positioning from doppler satellites (Transit)
    1985-1986 mission analyst at Alenia (aerospace firm in Torino)
    1986-1990 mathematical analyst in mission analysis and orbit determination at ESA/ESOC
    1990-1991 mission analyst at Alenia, attitude determination
    1991- Research Assistent, Institute of Physical Geodesy, Darmstadt Technical University

    Research projects

    1991-1993 Co-Investigator of ESA A0
    1993-1997 Co-Investigator of ESA A1
    1999- Member of the European Group of Altimeter Specialists.
    1998- Co-Investigator in ESA Envisat A0
    2003-2005 Responsible scientist for TUD in ESEAS-RI Project founded by the European Commission under contract EVRI-CT-2002-40025 http://www.eseas.org
    2007- Habilitandenstipendium GEPRIS DFG Project http://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/
    2007- STREMP DFG Project http://www.massentransporte.de/index.php?id=131&pid=8
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    • 2008- Member of the International Group of coastal altimetry

    Research experience

    The topic of my M.Sc. study at the University of Torino was titled "Formation of the solar system from incoming bodies" and involved astronomy and celestial mechanics.

    The topic of the fellowship study at Cerga was titled: and involved celestial mechanics and geodesy.

    The PhD thesis was titled: "Sea Surface Determination with respect to European datums" The study applied to local areas. Several topics in geodesy, altimetry and oceanography were considered. The main aim was the computation of a mean sea surface and of a mean geoid and the interpretation of their difference as sea surface topography and errors.

    The following thema have been developped as part of the PhD work:

    Altimeter processing
    A system has been build to process and analyse satellite altimeter data for geophysical and oceanographic applications
    Single and dual crossover adjustment
    Various methods were analysed and compared to compute the crossovers location and to solve for the radial orbit error.
    Combined method involving altimetry and tide gauge data
    Altimetry and tide gauge data are merged to compute a mean sea level surface in small ocean basins
    Regional geoid improvement (gravimetric geoid)
    Altimetry data are used as selection criteria for the gravity data
    High-resolution mean sea surface from altimetric missions
    ERS and Topex/Poseidon data are merged

    In the post-PhD work:

    Variability studies
    Altimetry and tide gauge data are analysed for a long term sea level variation study
    Re-tracking of altimetry near coast
    Altimeter data in coastal regions are carefully analysed to detect improvements by ground-based retracking
    mass variation and transport
    altimetry, GRACE data and models are used in 2002-2007 to separate the components

    Publications

    E.Groten, L.Fenoglio, T.Mueller, 1992:
    A comparison between classical crossover techniques and a Stochastic Deterministic Approach, Proceedings of Cospar 1992, Washington , pp. ????,

    E.Groten, L.Fenoglio, 1992:
    A combined approach for mean sea level determination in Baltic Sea : application to real GEOSAT Altimetry and simulated tide gauge data, in the Proceedings of the 2nd Baltic Conference, Geodesy and Cartography, Riga Nov.10-13 1992, , University of Latvia June 1995.

    Fenoglio L., Groten E. 1992:
    A Stochastic Deterministic Approach as an alternative to crossover techniques in small ocean basins, in Proceedings of the First ERS-1 Symposium - Space at the Service of our Environment, Cannes, France, 4-6 November 1992, ESA SP-359, Volume 1, pp. 407-411, March 1993.

    Fenoglio L., Groten E., 1993:
    Application of ERS-1 35 day cycle altimetry data to mean sea level determination in small ocean basins, in Proceedings of the Second ERS-1 Symposium - Space at the Service of our Environment, Hamburg, Germany, 11-14 October 1993, ESA SP-361, Volume II, pp.1041-1046, January 1994.

    Fenoglio L., Belikov M., 1994:
    Sea Surface Topography in Mediterranean Sea from Altimetry, Tide gauge and gravity data. Proceedings of INSMAP 94 Hannover, pp.289-298

    Fenoglio L., Belikov M., 1995:
    Geoid determination in Mediterranan Sea by inclusion of inverted altimetry data, presented at EGS XX General Assembly Hamburg, in Proceedings of the Session: Regional Geoid Computation of EGS XX General Assembly Hamburg 1995, pp.????

    Fenoglio L., Groten E., 1995:
    Mean Sea Level Determination in small ocean basins using ERS-1 Altimetry in a combined approach, Manuscripta Geodaetica 20:394-407

    Fenoglio L., 1995:
    Determination of Mean Sea Level and Sea Surface Topography in Baltic Sea from altimetry and tide gauge data, in Report of Finnish Geodetic Institute, Final Results of the Baltic Sea Level 1993 GPS Campain pp. 31-35.

    Fenoglio L., 1996:
    Evaluation of the geopotential for application in Baltic Sea, in Studies of the Baltic Sea, Subcommission IAG SSC 8.1, Riga Latvia pp. 34-43.

    Fenoglio L., 1996:
    Sea Surface Determination with Respect to European Vertical Datums, PhD Thesis, Deutsche Geodaetische Kommission, Heft Nr. 464, Munchen

    Fenoglio L., Groten E., 1997:
    Geodetic aspects of long term sea level variations in european seas rom altimetry and tide gauge data, in ESA SP-414, pp 1103-1108, Proceedings of the Third ERS Symposium on Space at the service of our Environment, Florence, Italy 17-21 March 1997, http://earth1.esrin.esa.it/florence/papers/participants/data/fenoglio1/index.html , March 1997.

    Fenoglio L., 1997:
    Altimetry data improvement by dual crossover method and along-track stationary sea surface topography in European seas, to be published in AVN, Allgemeine Vermessungs-Nachrichten, Wichmann

    Fenoglio L., Wang L. and Groten E. 1998:
    Investigation of sea level variability at low and medium frequencies in European Seas, Progress in Geodetic Science at GW98, Ed. Freeden, Shaker Verlag,Aachen, pp. 57-64
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    • Wang Y., Yang L., Fenoglio-Marc L. and Groten E. 1998:
    Separation of geoid and stationary sea surface topography and determination of mean sea level in western Mediterraea Sea, Progress in Geodetic Science at GW98, Ed. Freeden, Shaker Verlag,Aachen, pp. 190-197
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L., Wang Y. and Groten E. 1999:
    Investigation at regional scales of sea level variability at low and medium frequencies, in Aviso Newsletter N.7, CNES, pp. 40-43

    Fenoglio-Marc L. 2000:
    El Nino 1997: main characteristics and interannual variability in Allgemeine Vermessungs-Nachrichten N.4/2000, Wichmann Verlag, pp.140-146

    Fenoglio-Marc L. and Groten E. 2000:
    Modelling the sea level variations for the unification of altimetry missions, Proceedings of COSPAR 2000, in press in Advances in Space Research, Elsevier
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L.. 2000:
    Multi-mission data analysis and unification in the Mediterranean Sea Proceedings of the ERS-ENVISAT Symposium Gothenburg, SP-461, ESA Publication Division
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L. 2001:
    Analysis and representation of regional sea level variability from altimetry and atmospheric-oceanic data, Geophysical Journal International, Vol. 145, pp. 1-18
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L. 2002:
    Long term sea level change in the Mediterranean Sea from multi-satellite altimetry and tide gauges Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Vol.27 , pp. 1419-1431
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L. 2003:
    Comparison of altimetry and tide gauge data of the SIMN Italian Dataset in PC-Proceedings of the ENVISAT Calibration and Validation Team (CCVT)
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L. 2003:
    On the variability of mean sea level, in Allgemeine Vermessungs-Nachrichten N.2/2003, Wichmann Verlag, pp.140-146
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L., E.Groten and C.Dietz, 2004:
    Vertical Land Motion in the Mediterranean Sea from altimetry and tide gauge stations, in Marine Geodesy, 27, pp.683-701
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L., E.Tel, M.J. Garcia and N.Kjaer, 2004:
    Inter-annual to decadal sea level change in the south-western Europe from satellite altimetry and in-situ measurements, in International Association of Geodesy Symposia, Proceedings oof GGSM2004 Porto, Springer Verlag
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    • Fenoglio-Marc L., E.Groten, 2004:
    Long-term sea level variability from multi-satelite altimetry in the European Seas, in Proceedings of the ENVISAT Symposium, Salzburg 2004, ESA Editions CD
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    • Tsimplis M.N., E.Alvarez-Fanjul, D.Gomis, L.Fenoglio, B.Perez (2005)
    Mediterranean Sea level trends:atmospheric pressure and wind contribution, GRL, 32, 20, L20602

    Fenoglio-Marc L., S. Vignudelli, A. Humbert, P. Cipollini, M. Fehlau, M. Becker
    An accessment of satellite altimetry in proximity of the Mediterranean coastline, in 3rd ENVISAT Symposium Proceedings, SP-636, ESA Publications Division

    Fenoglio-Marc L., J. Kusche, M. Becker and I. Fukumori (2007a).
    Comments on "On the steric and mass-induced contributions to the annual sea level variations in he Mediterranean Sea" by D. Garcia et al., J. of Geoph. Res., Vol. 112, C12018,doi:10.1029/2007JC004196

    Fenoglio-Marc L., J. Kusche, M. Becker (2007b).
    Estimation of mass variation and mean dynamic topography in the Mediterranean Sea from altimetry and GRACE/GOCE geoids, in 3rd GOCE Users Symposium Proceedings, SP-627, ESA Publications Division

    Tsimplis M.N., A.G.P.S. Shaw, A. Pascual, M. Marcos, M. Pasaric, L. Fenoglio-Marc(2007c)
    Can we reconstruct the 20th century sea level variability in the Mediterranean Sea on the basis of recent altimetric measurements? In Remote Sensing of the European Sea, edited by A.Barale and M. Gade, Springer Science

    Fenoglio-Marc L., M. Becker, J. Kusche, R. Rietbroek (2007d).
    Leakage of Continental Hydrology in seawater mass change estimations from Space in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, in Proceedings of the Second Space for Hydrology Symposium, in press, ESA Publications Division

    Research reports

    L. Wang and L.Fenoglio, 1997:
    Study of tide gauge long term variations, May 1997

    L.Fenoglio, 2002:
    Long term changes in the tropical Pacific, May 2002

    L.Fenoglio, 2002:
    Long term changes in the Ionian Sea, September 2002

    Kjaer N., O.Andersen, P.Knudsen, L.Fenoglio-Marc, 2004:
    Reports on sea level variations in the European Seas and the North Atlantic Ocean using satellite altimetry and tide gauges, ESEAS-RI WP3 Task 3.1, Annual Report 1st Year http://www.eseas.org/eseas-ri/deliverables/d3.1/ , January 2004. http://www.eseas.org/eseas-ri/management/status/wp3/tasks/t3.1/t3.1rep/ , January 2004.

    L.Fenoglio-Marc, N.Kjaer,O.Andersen, P.Knudsen, M.J.Garcia, E.Tel, 2004:
    Reports on interannual to decadal sea level variations using satellite altimetry and tide gauges, ESEAS-RI WP3 Task 3.2, Annual Report 2nd Years http://www.eseas.org/eseas-ri/deliverables/d3.2/ , December 2004.

    Actual presented Abstracts

    L.Fenoglio, J. Kusche, M. Becker
    Mass variation in the Mediterranean Sea from Grace and its validation by altimetry, steric and hydrologic fields , for Dynamic Planet Cairns, Australia 22.08.05-26.08.05
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    L.Fenoglio, K. Suselj
    Interdecadal model for sea surface heights in the Mediterranean Sea in 1950-2005 , for Final Workshop ESEAS-RI, Split 5-7 October 2005
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    L.Fenoglio, M. Becker
    Global and regional sea level variability models in 1900-2005 , for Final Workshop ESEAS-RI, Split 5-7 October 2005
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    L.Fenoglio, M. Becker
    Coastal altimetry and sea level change in selected test areas along the European coast , for EGU Vienna 2006
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    Other publications

    Fenoglio L., :
    Diplom Thesis

    Presentations at International Symposia

    Fenoglio L., Belikov M., 1994:
    Use of altimetry and gravity data for Sea Surface Topography Determination in small ocean basins, presented at ECMI, 8th Conference of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry, Kaiserslautern

    L.Fenoglio, L.Wang and E.Groten, 1997
    Long term sea variability of sea-surface and atmosphere parameters in European Seas Geodaetische Woche 1997, Berlin (long abstract) http://www.geodesy.tu-berlin.de/~gw97/exa.html

    L.Fenoglio, L.Wang and E.Groten, 1998
    Long term components of sea level variations in European seas EGS, Nice 1998
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    L.Fenoglio, 2000
    Regional analysis and representation of sea level variability from altimetry and climate data in the equatorial Pacific EGS, Nice 2000
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    L.Fenoglio, L.Wang and E.Groten, 1998
    Long term sea level change in Mediterranean Sea from multi-mission altimetry and tide gauges EGS, Nice 2001
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    L.Fenoglio, 2001
    Local geoid in the western Mediterranean from satellite altimetry Workshop, Analytical geoid determination (Aropa), Castle of Morbach, Luxembourg, October 2001
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    L.Fenoglio, 2002
    Two decades of sea level changes in the Mediterranean Sea from multi-satellite altimetry EGS, Nice 2002
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    L.Fenoglio, 2002
    Long-term sea level changes in the Ionian Sea Tide gauges and CGPS, Toulouse September 2002
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    L.Fenoglio, 2002
    Long-term sea level changes in the Mediterranean Sea from satellite altimetry and tide gauges Geodaetische Woche, Frankfurt October 2002
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    L.Fenoglio, 2003
    Cross-calibration of Envisat range in the Mediterranean Sea from multi-satellite altimetry and tide gauges , as poster at EGS/AGU Assembly 2003 07.04.03-11.04.03
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    L.Fenoglio, 2003
    Cross-calibration of Envisat range in the Mediterranean Sea from multi-satellite altimetry and tide gauges , for IAGG General Meeting Sapporo 30.06.03-12.07.03 See Abstract
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