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Dr Graham Quartly

Earth Observation Scientist

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Dr Graham Quartly is a Senior Scientist at PML working on the development of remote sensing techniques and their exploitation to tackle questions in physical and biological oceanography. Graham has a PhD in Underwater Acoustics from the University of Bath, and more than 20 years experience in satellite-based remote sensing from work at the UK's National Oceanography Centre (NOC) and its forerunners. His chief area of expertise has been altimetry (in which he has been an accredited PI on almost all projects). He has also written papers on ocean colour and sea surface temperature data.

Graham's work ranges from detailed technical work related to calibration of sensors and their long-term monitoring to applications of remote-sensing data to address scientific issues in physics, climate and biological science. He has worked on a number of European Space Agency projects on currents, waves and sea level, and has acted as a reviewer for a large number of journals and external funding bodies. He has published over 80 papers.

Projects

Sea State CCI

Contact: Dr Graham Quartly

Sea State CCI is part of the European Space Agency's programme to deliver long-term homogeneous datasets covering many of the recognised...

Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (S3MPC)

Contact: Dr Graham Quartly

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Sentinel-3A satellite in February 2016 and Sentinel-3B in April 2018, as the start of a long-term...

Other key projects

AIMS (AltiKa: Innovative Meteorological Studies) (2013 - 2014)

SALCOMBE (Satellite Altimetry and Laser Cytometry Over MozamBique Eddies) (2015-2016)

Sea-level CCI (ESA-funded pan-European consortium) to improve the quality of sea level records.) (2014-2017)

Sentinel-3 Mission Performance Centre (assessment of quality of data from new ESA satellites) (2014- )

GlobCurrent (ESA-funded pan-European collaboration to provide global fields of ocean surface currents) (2013 - 2017)

Ocean Virtual Laboratory (ESA-funded project to enable real-world users easy access to a wide variety of satellite and model data for the Greater Agulhas area) (2014-2017)

Selected key publications

Ardhuin, F., J.E. Stopa, B. Chapron, F. Collard, R.E. Jensen, J. Johannessen,, R. Husson, A. Mouche, M. Passaro, G.D Quartly, V. Swail,, and I. Young, 2019. Observing sea states, accepted by Frontiers in Marine Science, special issue for OceanObs19 doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00124

Kurekin, A.A., B.R. Loveday, O. Clements, G.D. Quartly, P.I. Miller, G. Wiafe, K.A. Agyekum, 2018. Operational monitoring of illegal fishing in Ghana through exploitation of satellite Earth Observation and AIS data. Remote Sens. 2019, 11, 293 (28pp.). doi: 10.3390/rs11030293

Quartly, G.D., W.H.F. Smith & M. Passaro, 2019. Removing intra-1 Hz covariant error to improve altimetric profiles of σ0 and sea surface height (to appear in IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens.), doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2886998.

Danielson, R.E., J.A Johannessen, G.D. Quartly, M.-H. Rio, B. Chapron, F. Collard, and C. Donlon, 2018. Exploitation of error correlation in a large analysis validation: GlobCurrent case study Remote Sens. Env. 217, 476-490. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.07.016

Land, P., T. Bailey, M. Taberner, S. Pardo, S. Sathyendranath, K. Nejabati Zenouz, V. Brammall, J. Shutler, and G. Quartly, 2018. Statistical modelling of satellite chlorophyll uncertainty Remote Sens. 2018, 10(5), 695; (21pp.) doi: 10.3390/rs10050695

Legeais, J.-F., M. Ablain, L. Zawadzki, H. Zuo, J.A. Johannessen, M.G. Scharffenberg, L. Fenoglio-Marc, M.J. Fernandes, O.B. Andersen, S. Rudenko, P. Cipollini, G.D. Quartly, M. Passaro, A. Cazenave, J. Benveniste, 2018. An improved and homogeneous altimeter sea level record: from the ESA Climate Change Initiative. Earth Sys. Sci. Data 10, 281-301. doi: 10.5194/essd-10-281-2018

Nencioli, F., and G.D. Quartly, 2018. Exploring the synergy between along-track altimetry and tracer fronts to reconstruct surface ocean currents, Remote Sens. Env. 216, 747-757. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.04.036

Nencioli, F., G. Dall' Olmo, and G.D. Quartly, 2018. Agulhas ring transport efficiency from combined satellite altimetry and Argo profiles, J. Geophys. Res. (15 pp.) doi: 10.1029/2018JC013909

Passaro, M., Z.A. Nadzir, & G.D. Quartly, 2018. Improving the precision of sea level data from satellite altimetry with high-frequency and regional Sea State Bias corrections, Remote Sensing of Environment, 218, 245-254. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2018.09.007

Poisson, J.C., G. Quartly, A. Kurekin, P. Thibaut, D. Hoang, and F. Nencioli. 2018, Development of an ENVISAT altimetry processor ensuring sea level continuity between open ocean and Arctic leads, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Rem. Sens. 56 (9), 5299-5319. doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2018.2813061

Quartly G.D., J.-F. Legeais, M. Ablain, L. Zawadzki, M.J. Fernandes, S. Rudenko, L. Carrère, P.N. García, P, Cipollini, O.B. Andersen, J.-C. Poisson, S. Mbajon Njiche, A. Cazenave, J. Benveniste, 2017. A new phase in the production of quality-controlled sea level data, Earth Sys. Sci. Data 9, 557-572. doi: 10.5194/essd-9-557-2017

Smyth, T., G. Quartly, T. Jackson, G. Tarran, M. Woodward C. Harris, C. Gallienne, R. Thomas, R. Airs, D. Cummings, R. Brewin, V. Kitidis, J. Stephens, M. Zubkov, A. Rees, 2017, Determining Atlantic Ocean province contrasts and variations, Prog. Oceanogr. 158, 19-40. doi: 10.1016/j.pocean.2016.12.004

Warren, M.A., G.D. Quartly, J.D. Shutler, P.I. Miller, Y. Yoshikawa, 2016. Estimation of ocean surface currents from Maximum Cross Correlation applied to GOCI geostationary satellite data over the Tsushima (Korea) Straits. J. Geophys. Res. 121 (9), 6993-7009. doi: 10.1002/2016JC011814.

Ashton, I.G., J.D. Shutler, P. Land, D.K. Woolf, and G. D. Quartly, 2016. A sensitivity analysis of the impact of rain on regional and global sea-air fluxes of CO2. PLOS One 11(9): e0161105 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161105

Passaro, M., S. Dinardo, G.D. Quartly, H.. Snaith , J. Benveniste, P. Cipollini, and B. Lucas, 2016. Cross-calibrating ALES Envisat and CryoSat-2 delay-Doppler: A coastal altimetry study in the Indonesian Seas. Adv. Space Res. 58, 289-303. doi: 10.1016/j.asr.2016.04.011

Rees, A. P., C.E. Widdicombe, K. Tait, G.D. Quartly, A. McEvoy, L. Al-Moosawi, 2016. Metabolically active, non-nitrogen fixing, Trichodesmium in UK coastal waters during winter, J. Plankton Res. doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbv123

Shutler, J.D., G.D. Quartly, C.J. Donlon, S. Sathyendranath, T. Platt, B. Chapron, J.A. Johannessenen, F. Girard-Ardhuin, P.D. Nightingale, D.K. Woolf, J.L. Hoyer,, 2016. Progress in Earth observation for studying physical oceanography: surface currents, storm surges, sea-ice, atmosphere-ocean gas exchange and surface heat fluxes, Progress in Phys. Geog., 40 (2), 215-246. doi: 10.1177/0309133316638957

Quartly, G.D., 2015. Metocean Comparisons of Jason-2 and AltiKa—A Method to Develop a New Wind Speed Algorithm, Marine Geodesy, 38(S1):437–448. doi: 10.1080/01490419.2014.988834

Quartly, G.D., and M. Passaro, 2015. Initial Examination of AltiKa's Individual Echoes, Marine Geodesy, 38(S1):73–85 doi: 10.1080/01490419.2014.984882

Schabetsberger R, Økland F, Kalfatak D, Sichrowsky U, Tambets M, Aarestrup K, Gubili C, Sarginson J, Boufana B, Jehle R, Dall’Olmo G, Miller MJ, Scheck A, Kaiser R, Quartly G, 2015. Genetic and migratory evidence for sympatric spawning of tropical Pacific eels from Vanuatu. Marine Ecology Progress Series 521, 171-187. doi: 10.3354/meps11138

Xu, W., P.I. Miller, G.D. Quartly, and R.D. Pingree, 2015,Seasonality and interannual variability of the European Slope Current from 20 years of altimeter data with in situ measurement comparisons,Remote Sens. Env. 162, 196-207. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2015.02.008

Feng, X., M. Tsimplis, G. Quartly, M. Yelland, 2014, Wave height analysis from 10 years of observations in the Norwegian Sea, Cont. Shelf. Res. 72, 47-56. doi: 10.1016/j.csr.2013.10.013

Feng, X., M. Tsimplis, M. Yelland, G. Quartly, 2014, Changes in significant and maximum wave heights in the Norwegian Sea, Glob. Plan. Change. 114, 68-76. doi: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2013.12.010

Passaro, M., P. Cipollini; S. Vignudelli; G.D. Quartly; and H.M. Snaith, 2014, ALES: a multi-mission adaptive sub-waveform retracker for coastal and open ocean altimetry, Remote Sens. Env. 145, 173-189. doi: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.02.008

Other activities

SCOR/WCRP/IAPSO Working Group 136 on Climatic Importance of the Greater Agulhas System (2010-2013)

Ocean Surface Topography Science Team

ESA's Sentinel-3 Validation Team

AltiKa validation team

Co-Investigator on SWOT mission