Rémy Roca

Rémy Roca received the M.S. degree in fundamental physics, with major in remote sensing, in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree from Université Paris, Paris, France, with a thesis on the use of satellite observations to evaluate climate models, in 2000. He was with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA, for almost two years where he got familiar with image processing and cloud detection and tracking algorithms from geostationary satellites. From 2001 to 2012, he was with the Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Institut Pierre et Simon Laplace, Paris, where he was a CNRS Researcher. He was appointed a Mission Scientist of the Megha-Tropiques Indo–French Satellite Mission and took over the PIship of the mission in 2007. He is a Senior CNRS Researcher with the Laboratoire d’Etudes en Géographie et Océanographie Spatiales, Toulouse, France. His broad interests are focused on the study of the water cycle in the tropics and the use of satellite observations to investigate the tropical variability. He has more than 15 years of experience in the field of tropical climate, meteorology, and remote sensing. Dr. Roca was the Chairman of the International Precipitation Group in 2014 and 2015, and since 2016, he has been co-leading the GEWEX/WCRP Data Analysis Panel.