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Claire Bulgin

Senior Research Scientist
EO Data-Model Evaluation

Research interests

I am interested in urban flood detection using Synthetic Aperture Radar, enabling detection of flooding on a 24/7 basis for operational flood incident management and data assimilation of flood extents into flood forecasting models. I work with Sentinel-1 and WorldDEM data to detect urban flooding at high resolution on a global basis.

Recent publications

Dynamic sea-level changes and potential implications for storm surges in the UK: a storylines perspective. 2023-04-01

Representation Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences. 2022-06

Bayesian Cloud Detection over Land for Climate Data Records. 2022-05-06

Representation Uncertainty in the Earth Sciences. 2021-11-19

Coastal Tidal Effects on Industrial Thermal Plumes in Satellite Imagery. 2019-09

Impact of Assimilation of Sea‐Ice Surface Temperatures on a Coupled Ocean and Sea‐Ice Model. 2018-04

Quantifying Uncertainty in Satellite-Retrieved Land Surface Temperature from Cloud Detection Errors. 2018-04

Bayesian Cloud Detection for 37 Years of Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Global Area Coverage (GAC) Data. 2018-01

Disaggregation of SMOS soil moisture over West Africa using the Temperature and Vegetation Dryness Index based on SEVIRI land surface parameters. 2018

A spatiotemporal analysis of the relationship between near-surface air temperature and satellite land surface temperatures using 17 years of data from the ATSR series. 2017

The Impact of Satellite-Derived Land Surface Temperatures on Numerical Weather Prediction Analyses and Forecasts. 2017

Validation practices for satellite-based Earth observation data across communities. 2017

Independent uncertainty estimates for coefficient based sea surface temperature retrieval from the Along-Track Scanning Radiometer instruments. 2016

Sampling uncertainty in gridded sea surface temperature products and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) Global Area Coverage (GAC) data. 2016

The sea surface temperature climate change initiative: Alternative image classification algorithms for sea-ice affected oceans. 2015

Cloud-clearing techniques over land for land-surface temperature retrieval from the Advanced Along-Track Scanning Radiometer. 2014

Regional and seasonal variations of the Twomey indirect effect as observed by the ATSR-2 satellite instrument. 2008

Claire Bulgin

Contact details

0118 378 7717