Dr. Laura Carrea
Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Research Interests:
- Lake surface water temperature retrieval
- Generation of climate data records from Earth observations
- Satellite image classification
- Lakes and climate
- Polarization algebra
- Scattering by hydrometeors
Research Projects:
Details of the lake projects can be found at laketemp, a page dedicated to the work on lakes at the University of Reading.
- European Space Agency Climate Change Initiative: Lakes (CCI Lake)
- Copernicus Climate Change Service: Land Hydrology & Cryospere (C3S Hydrology) with contributions to
- Copernicus Global Land Service: Lake Surface Water Temperature (CGLOPS LSWT)
- Global Observatory of Lake Responses to Environmental Change: measuring and explaining responses of global lakes to environmental drivers (GloboLakes)
- EU Surface Temperature for All Corners of the Earth: led by the Met Office Hadley Centre, a collaborative H2020 project to derive a measurements-based analysis of historical surface air temperatures (EUSTACE)
Centaur Publications
2023
Carrea, Laura, Cretaux, Jean-Francois, Liu, Xiaohan, Wu, Yuhao, Calmettes, Beatriz, Duguay, Claude R., Merchant, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-9850, Selmes, Nick, Simis, Stefan G. H., Warren, Mark, Yesou, Herve, Mueller, Dagmar, Jiang, Dalin, Embury, Owen
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1661-7828, Berge-Nguyen, Muriel and Albergel, Clement
(2023)
Satellite-derived multivariate world-wide lake physical variable timeseries for climate studies.
Scientific Data, 10 (1).
30.
ISSN 2052-4463
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01889-z
2022
Carrea, Laura, Merchant, Christopher J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-9850 and Woolway, R. Iestyn
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0498-7968
(2022)
Lake surface water temperature [in "State of the Climate in 2021"].
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 103 (8).
S28-S30.
ISSN 1520-0477
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2022BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
2021
Carrea, Laura, Merchant, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4687-9850, Calmettes, Beatriz and Cretaux, Jean-Francois
(2021)
Lake surface water temperature [in "State of the Climate 2020"].
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 102 (8).
S28-S31.
ISSN 1520-0477
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2021BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
2020
Rayner, Nick A., Auchmann, Renate, Bessembinder, Janette, Brönnimann, Stefan, Brugnara, Yuri, Capponi, Francesco, Carrea, Laura, Dodd, Emma M. A., Ghent, Darren, Good, Elizabeth, Høyer, Jacob L., Kennedy, John J., Kent, Elizabeth C., Killick, Rachel E., van der Linden, Paul, Lindgren, Finn, Madsen, Kristine S., Merchant, Christopher J., Mitchelson, Joel R., Morice, Colin P., Nielsen-Englyst, Pia, Ortiz, Patricio F., Remedios, John J., van der Schrier, Gerard, Squintu, Antonello A., Stephens, Ag, Thorne, Peter W., Tonboe, Rasmus T., Trent, Tim, Veal, Karen L., Waterfall, Alison M., Winfield, Kate, Winn, Jonathan and Woolway, R. Iestyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0498-7968
(2020)
The EUSTACE project: delivering global, daily information on surface air temperature.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101 (11).
E1924-E1947.
ISSN 1520-0477
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-19-0095.1
Carrea, Laura, Woolway, Iestyn, Merchant, Christopher, Dokulil, M. T., De Gasperi, C. L., de Eyto, E., Kelly, S., La Fuente, R. S., Marszelewski, W., May, Linda, Paterson, A. M., Pulkkanen, M., Rusak, J. A., Rusanovskaya, O., Schladow, S. G., Schmid, M., Shimaraeva, S. V., Silow, E. A., Timofeyev, M. A., Verburg, P., Watanabe, S. and Weyhenmeyer, G. A. (2020) Lake surface water temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2019”]. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101 (8). S26-S28. ISSN 1520-0477 doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2020BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
Woolway, Iestyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0498-7968, Jennings, Eleanor and Carrea, Laura
(2020)
Impact of the 2018 European heatwave on lake surface water temperature.
Inland Waters, 10 (3).
ISSN 2044-2041
doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/20442041.2020.1712180
2019
Carrea, Laura, Woolway, Richard Iestyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0498-7968, Merchant, Christopher, Dokulil, Martin T., de Eyto, Elvira, DeGasperi, Curtis L., Korhonen, Johanna, Marszelewski, Wlodzimierz, May, Linda, Paterson, Andrew M., Rusak, James A., Schladow, S. Geoffrey, Schmid, Martin, Verburg, Piet, Watanabe, Shohei and Weyhenmeye, Gesa A.
(2019)
Lake surface temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2018”].
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 100 (9).
pp. 13-14.
ISSN 1520-0477
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2019BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
2018
Woolway, Iestyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0498-7968, Carrea, Laura, Merchant, Christopher, Dokulil, M. T., de Eyto, E., DeGasperi, C. L., Korhonen, J., Marszelewski, W., May, L., Paterson, A. M., Rimmer, A., Rusak, J. A., Schladow, S. G., Schmid, M., Shimaraeva, S. V., Silow, E. A., Timofeyev, M. A., Verburg, P., Watanabe, S. and Weyhenmeyer, G. A.
(2018)
Lake surface temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2017”].
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (8).
S13-S15.
ISSN 1520-0477
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2018BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
2017
Ngobigha, Felix, Bebbington, David and Carrea, Laura (2017) Discrete numerical approach to the Fredholm Integral Method for evaluating scattering by irregular dielectric particles. IEEE Transaction on Antennas and Propagation, 65 (11). pp. 5949-5959. ISSN 1558-2221 doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TAP.2017.2751649
Bebbington, David and Carrea, Laura (2017) Geometric polarimetry - part II: the Antenna Height Spinor and the Bistatic Scattering Matrix. IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 55 (8). pp. 4296-4313. ISSN 1558-0644 doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2017.2690972
Woolway, R. Iestyn ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0498-7968, Carrea, Laura, Merchant, Christopher J., Dokulil, Martin, de Eyto, Elvira, DeGasperi, Curtis, Korhonen, Johanna, Marszelewski, Włodzimierz, May, Linda, Paterson, Andrew, Rimmer, Alon, Rusak, James, Schladow, Geoffrey, Schmid, Martin, Shimaraeva, Svetlana, Silow, Eugene, Timofeev, Maxim, Verburg, Piet, Watanabe, Shohei and Weyhenmeyer, Gesa
(2017)
Lake surface temperature [in “State of the Climate in 2016”].
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 98 (8).
pp. 13-14.
ISSN 1520-0477
doi: https://doi.org/10.1175/2017BAMSStateoftheClimate.1
2016
Yang, Xinan, Vernitski, Alexei and Carrea, Laura (2016) An approximate dynamic programming approach for improving accuracy of lossy data compression by Bloom filters. European Journal of Operational Research, 252 (3). pp. 985-994. ISSN 0377-2217 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2016.01.042
2015
Carrea, Laura, Embury, Owen and Merchant, Christopher J. (2015) Datasets related to in-land water for limnology and remote sensing applications: distance-to-land, distance-to-water, water-body identifier and lake-centre co-ordinates. Geoscience Data Journal, 2 (2). pp. 83-97. ISSN 2049-6060 doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/gdj3.32
2014
Macdonald, Malcolm, Anderson, Pamela, Carrea, Laura, Dobke, Benjamin, Embury, Owen, Merchant, Christopher J. and Bensi, Paolo (2014) Concepts for a geostationary-like polar missions. In: Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XVIII, September 22, 2014, Amsterdam, Netherlands. (Proc. SPIE 9241, Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites XVIII, 92411B)
Bebbington, David and Carrea, Laura (2014) Geometric polarimetry − part I: spinors and wave states. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 52 (7). pp. 3908-3923. ISSN 0196-2892 doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2013.2278141
Carrea, Laura, Vernitski, Alexei and Reed, Martin (2014) Optimized hash for network path encoding with minimized false positives. Computer Networks, 58. pp. 180-191. ISSN 1389-1286 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2013.09.002
2012
Bebbington, David and Carrea, L. (2012) On mathematical and physical principles of transformations of the coherent radar backscatter matrix. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 50 (11). pp. 4657-4669. ISSN 0196-2892 doi: https://doi.org/10.1109/TGRS.2012.2191294
Last update: 31st August 2023