Opinion: We Must Advance Coastal Sea Level Monitoring from Space

摘要

Anny Cazenave is a French space geodesist and one of the pioneers in satellite altimetry. She works at the Laboratoire d'Etudes en Geophysique et Oceanographie Spatiale (LEGOS) at Observatoire Midi-Pyrenees in Toulouse. Since 2013, she is director of Earth sciences at the International Space Sciences institute (ISSI), in Bern (Switzerland). As one of the leading scientists in the joint French/American satellite altimetry missions TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1, and the Ocean Surface Topography Mission, she has contributed to a greater understanding of sea level rise caused by global warming. Cazenave was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and was the lead author of the sea level sections for their fourth and fifth Assessment Reports.