Eric Rignot
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Dr. Eric Rignot
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| Occupation | Professor, Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine |
| Known for | Principal scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
Eric Rignot is Professor of Earth system science at the University of California, Irvine, and principal scientist for the Radar Science and Engineering Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
He is a principal investigator on several NASA-funded projects to study the mass balance of the Greenland ice sheets and Antarctic ice sheets by using radar interferometry and other methods; the interactions of ice shelves with the ocean; and the dynamic retreat of Patagonian glaciers. In particular, Rignot's primary research interests are glaciology, climate change, radar remote sensing, ice sheet numerical modeling, radar interferometry, radio echo sounding, and ice-ocean interactions. His research group focuses on understanding the interactions of ice and climate, ice sheet mass balance, ice-ocean interactions in Greenland and Antarctica, and current/future contributions of ice sheets to sea level change.
In 2007 he contributed to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report WGI (Working Group I).
Rignot received several awards and honors.
An overview of Rignot's research publications can be obtained via his Google Scholar profile.
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