Pierre Gentine

MAURICE EWING AND J. LAMAR WORZEL PROFESSOR OF GEOPHYSICS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING AND PROFESSOR OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

842D S.W. Mudd

Tel(212) 854-7287
Email[email protected]




Pierre Gentine investigates the continental hydrologic cycle using multi scale modeling and big data (machine learning, remote sensing, high-resolution turbulent simulations) in the context of rising CO2 concentrations. Gentine hopes to answer questions such as what will be the future of droughts and extreme dryness/precipitations, and how will they impact agricultural production?

Research Interests

Hydrologic cycle, land-atmosphere interactions, turbulence, convection, soil moisture

Research Areas

Artificial IntelligenceComputational Engineering ScienceData ScienceImagingModeling & SimulationSensingSustainable HumanitySecure Humanity

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Pierre Gentine received his undergraduate degree from SupAéro, the French National Aeronautical and Space Engineering School in Applied Mathematics in Toulouse, France. He obtained a MSc and PhD in civil and environmental engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2006 and 2010, respectively. He joined the faculty of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics at Columbia Engineering in 2010.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

HONORS & AWARDS

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Associate professor of earth and environmental engineering, Columbia University, 2016-
Junior faculty (by nomination), Earth Institute, Columbia University, 2013 –?
Assistant professor of earth and environmental engineering, Columbia University, 2011-2016
Instructor in applied physics and applied mathematics, Columbia University, 2009-2011
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HONORS & AWARDS

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Clarence Meisinger Award, 2017
Invited scientist at ECMWF (European Centre for Medium range Weather Forecast), 2016
NSF CAREER award, 2016
Department of Energy (DOE) Early Career award, 2015
NASA New Investigator Program (early career) award, 2014
Excellence in refereeing – Geophysical Research Letters, 2013
Invited professorship award – Wageningen University, 2013
Invited professorship award – Ecole Normale Superieure, 2012
Shoettler fellowship, MIT, 2004-2006
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Green J., Konings A., Kolassa J., Alemohammad H., Entekhabi D., Gentine P., Hotspots of biosphere-atmosphere feedbacks, (2017), Nature Geo
Konings A., Williams P., Gentine P., (2017), Sensitivity of grassland productivity to aridity controlled by stomatal and xylem regulation, Nature Geo; doi:10.1038/ngeo2903
Anber U., Gentine P, Wang S., Sobel A.H., (2015) Fog and rain in the Amazon, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 112 (37), 11473-1147
Salvucci, G. D., and P. Gentine (2013), Emergent relation between surface vapor conductance and relative humidity profiles yields evaporation rates from weather data, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, doi:10.1073/pnas.1215844110.
Findell, K., P. Gentine, and B. Lintner (2011), Probability of afternoon precipitation in eastern United States and Mexico enhanced by high evaporation, Nat Geosci, 4(7), 434–439,doi:10.1038/NGEO1174.
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