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DR CHRISTOPH RUDIGER



Contact Details

Organization: Civil and Environmental Engineering
Position: RESEARCH FELLOW
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Work: 03 8344 5628
Fax: 03 8344 6215
Room: D318
Level: 03
Building: Engineering Block D
Campus: Parkville

Research Expertise and International Linkages

Research Expertise

Research Interest Country of Expertise
Microwave Remote Sensing Australia, France
Data Assimilation in Land Surface Modelling Australia, France

International Linkages

Country Establishment Collaboration
France Meteo France Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Germany Max Planck Institute for Meteorology Exchange
France Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique Exchange, Research
Netherlands The Free University of Amsterdam Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training
Austria Technical University Vienna Exchange, Research
United Kingdom The University of Reading Exchange, Research
France Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la BIOsphere Exchange, Research, Technical Assistance/Training

Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other Awards

Qualifications

Title Institution Date Awarded Abbreviation
Doctor of Philosophy University of Melbourne 31-May-2008

Memberships

Membership Type Membership Body Description Start Date End Date
Member American Geophysical Union Member 01-Mar-2004
Member Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand Member 31-Mar-2003

Government Research Classifications

Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications

Socio-Economic Objective Classifications

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2009

Journal Articles

  • An Intercomparison of ERS-Scat and AMSR-E Observations, and Soil Moisture Simulations over France


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Journal of Hydrometeorology
    Volume: 10
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 431-447
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  • An evaluation of ASCAT surface soil moisture products with in-situ observations in Southwestern France


    Year: 2009
    Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
    Volume: 13
    Issue: 2
    Page numbers: 115-124
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  • Modelling LAI at a regional scale with ISBA-A-gs: comparison with satellite-derived LAI over southwestern France
    Year: 2009
    Journal: Biogeosciences
    Volume: 6
    Page numbers: 1389-1404
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Identification of Spaceborne Microwave Radiometer Calibration Sites for Satellite Missions
    Year: 2009
    Event name: 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International
    Conference Publication: 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International
    Page numbers: 3740-3746
    Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
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  • The Effect of Rock Cover Fraction on the Retrieval of Surface Soil Moisture at L-band
    Year: 2009
    Event name: 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International
    Conference Publication: 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International
    Page numbers: 3761-3767
    Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
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  • Towards validation of SMOS using airborne and ground data over the Murrumbidgee Catchment
    Year: 2009
    Event name: 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International
    Conference Publication: 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International
    Page numbers: 3733-3739
    Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
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Publications in 2008

Journal Articles

  • Joint assimilation of surface soil moisture and LAI observations into a land surface model


    Year: 2008
    Journal: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology
    Volume: 148
    Issue: 8-9
    Page numbers: 1362-1373
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  • Estimating the Effective Soil Temperature at L-Band as a Function of Soil Properties
    Year: 2008
    Journal: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
    Volume: 46
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 797-807
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  • From near-surface to root-zone soil moisture using an exponential filter: an assessment of the method based on in-situ observations and model simulations
    Year: 2008
    Journal: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
    Volume: 12
    Page numbers: 1323-1337
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Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Goulburn River experimental catchment data set
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Water Resources Research
    Volume: 43
    Page numbers: 1-10
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Conference Publications/Papers

  • Aggregation and disaggregation of synthetic l-band soil moisture data over South-western France in preparation of SMOS


    Year: 2007
    Event name: International IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
    Conference Publication: International IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
    Page numbers: 1853-1856
    Publisher: IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers(Piscataway)
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  • Assimilation of Land Surface Variables for ModelInitialisation at Météo-France
    Year: 2007
    Event name: International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM)
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (MODSIM)
    Page numbers: 1716-1722
    Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
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  • The National Airborne Field Experiment Data Sets
    Year: 2007
    Event name: MODSIM07
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Page numbers: 2625-2631
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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Publications in 2005

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Root zone soil moisture retrieval using streamflow and surface moisture data assimilation in nested catchments
    Year: 2005
    Event name: MODSIM 05 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation
    Conference Publication: MODSIM 05 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making
    Page numbers: 1458-1464
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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Publications in 2004

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Streamflow data assimilation: A study on nested catchments
    Year: 2004
    Event name: 2nd International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrological Modeling and Data Assimilation
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Catchment-scale Hydrologic Modeling and Data Assimilation
    Page numbers: 1-1
    Publisher: University of Wageningen
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Publications in 2003

Conference Publications/Papers

  • Catchment modelling for scaling assimilation of soil moisture and streamflow
    Year: 2003
    Event name: MODSIM 2003
    Conference Publication: Proceedings of MODSIM 2003
    Volume: 1
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 386-391
    Publisher: The Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand(Canberra)
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