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Webb, T.J.; Beja, J.; Fernández Bejarano, S.J.; Ramos, E.; Sainz-Villegas, S.; Soetaert, K.; Stolte, W.; Troupin, C.; Weigel, B. (2025). Realising the potential of interoperable data products to improve the outlook for marine biodiversity: Lessons from the European marine observation and data network. Mar. Policy 173: 106578. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2024.106578
Doglioni, F.; Ricker, R.; Rabe, B.; Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Kanzow, T. (2023). Sea surface height anomaly and geostrophic current velocity from altimetry measurements over the Arctic Ocean (2011-2020). ESSD 15(1): 225-263. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-225-2023
Vargas-Yanez, M.; Sanchez-Leal, R.F.; Alvera-Azcarate, A.; Troupin, C.; Moya, F.; Ballesteros, E.; Serra, M.; Balbin, R.; Molto, V.; Garcia-Martinez, M.C. (2023). Opportunity observation of an Algerian Eddy to the south of Cape Palos (southwestern Mediterranean Sea). Sci. Mar. (Barc.) 87(3): e070. https://dx.doi.org/10.3989/scimar.05333.070
Barth, A.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Troupin, C.; Beckers, J.-M. (2022). DINCAE 2.0: multivariate convolutional neural network with error estimates to reconstruct sea surface temperature satellite and altimetry observations. Geosci. Model Dev. 15(5): 2183-2196. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-2183-2022
Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Troupin, C.; Goosse, H.; McPhaden, M.J.; Beckers, J.-M. (2021). Editorial to the Liège Colloquium Special Issue: long-term studies in oceanography – a celebration of 50 years of science at the Liège Colloquium (1969 – 2018). Ocean Dynamics 71(1): 119-123. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10236-020-01421-0
Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Van der Zande, D.; Barth, A.; Cardoso dos Santos, J.F.; Troupin, C.; Beckers, J.-M. (2021). Detection of shadows in high spatial resolution ocean satellite data using DINEOF. Remote Sens. Environ. 253: 112229. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.rse.2020.112229
Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Van der Zande, D.; Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Martin, S.; Beckers, J.-M. (2021). Analysis of 23 years of daily cloud-free chlorophyll and suspended particulate matter in the greater North Sea. Front. Mar. Sci. 8: 707632. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.707632
Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Reyes, E.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Beckers, J.-M.; Tintoré, J. (2021). Variational interpolation of high-frequency radar surface currents using DIVAnd. Ocean Dynamics 71(3): 293-308. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10236-020-01432-x
Belgacem, M.; Schroeder, K.; Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Pavoni, B.; Raimbault, P.; Garcia, N.; Borghini, M.; Chiggiato, J. (2021). Climatological distribution of dissolved inorganic nutrients in the western Mediterranean Sea (1981-2017). ESSD 13(12): 5915-5949. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5915-2021
Buurman, M.; Troupin, C.; Barth, A.; Bruvry-Lagadec, L.; Mieruch, S.; Krishnan, N.; Santinelli, G.; Baart, F.; Thijssen, P.; Waumans, F.; Zamani, T. (2021). SeaDataCloud Virtual Research Environment: Implementation and technical aspects, in: Fichaut, M. et al.IMDIS 2021 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems 12-14 April, 2021 Online: Book of Abstracts. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata: an International Journal of Earth Sciences, 62(Suppl. 1): pp. 114-116
Cabrera, P.; Otero, V.; Everaert, G.; Sauzède, R.; Remanan, R.P.; Claustre, H.; Uitz, J.; Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Schepers, L. (2021). Blue-Cloud Demonstrator: A machine learning approach to derive plankton biomass and diversity products from the Global Ocean, in: Fichaut, M. et al.IMDIS 2021 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems 12-14 April, 2021 Online: Book of Abstracts. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata: an International Journal of Earth Sciences, 62(Suppl. 1): pp. 27-31
Shahzadi, K.; Pinardi, N.; Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Lyubartsev, V.; Simoncelli, S. (2021). A new global ocean climatology. Frontiers in Environmental Science 9: 711363. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2021.711363
Troupin, C.; Barth, A.; Bruvry-Lagadec, L.; Buurman, M.; Kaitala, S.; Krishnan, N.; Mieruch, S.; Santinelli, G.; Thijssen, P.; Waumans, F.; Zamani, T. (2021). Working with the SeaDataCloud Virtual Research Environment: what can we do for you?, in: Fichaut, M. et al.IMDIS 2021 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems 12-14 April, 2021 Online: Book of Abstracts. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata: an International Journal of Earth Sciences, 62(Suppl. 1): pp. 117-118
Ruiz, S.; Claret, M.; Pascual, A.; Olita, A.; Troupin, C.; Capet, A.; Tovar-Sanchez, A.; Allen, J.; Poulain, P.-M.; Tintoré, J.; Mahadevan, A. (2019). Effects of oceanic mesoscale and submesoscale frontal processes on the vertical transport of phytoplankton. JGR: Oceans 124(8): 5999-6014. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2019JC015034
Troupin, C.; Pascual, A.; Ruiz, S.; Olita, A.; Casas, B.; Margirier, F.; Poulain, P.M.; Notarstefano, G.; Torner, M.; Fernández, J.G.; Rújula, M.A.; Muñoz, C.; Alou, E.; Ruiz, I.; Tovar-Sanchez, A.; Allen, J.T.; Mahadevan, A.; Tintoré, J. (2019). The AlborEX dataset: sampling of sub-mesoscale features in the Alboran Sea. ESSD 11(1): 129-145. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-129-2019
Barth, A.; Mahadevan, A.; Pascual, A.; Ruiz, S.; Troupin, C. (2018). The 48th Liege colloquium: submesoscale processes: mechanisms, implications, and new frontiers. Ocean Dynamics 68(8): 1067-1069. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10236-018-1173-5
Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Watelet, S.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Beckers, J.M. (2018). Generating ocean climatologies from in situ observations, in: Giorgetti, A. et al. (Ed.) IMDIS 2018: International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems 5-7 November, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain: Book of Abstracts. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata: an International Journal of Earth Sciences, 59: pp. 268-269
Iona, A.; Theodorou, A.; Watelet, S.; Troupin, C.; Beckers, J.-M.; Simoncelli, S. (2018). Mediterranean Sea Hydrographic Atlas: towards optimal data analysis by including time-dependent statistical parameters. ESSD 10(3): 1281-1300. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1281-2018
Troupin, C.; Muñoz, C.; Fernández, J.G.; Rújula, M.A. (2018). Scientific results traceability: software citation using GitHub & Zenodo, in: Giorgetti, A. et al. (Ed.) IMDIS 2018: International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems 5-7 November, 2018 - Barcelona, Spain: Book of Abstracts. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata: an International Journal of Earth Sciences, 59: pp. 167-169
Pascual, A.; Ruiz, S.; Olita, A.; Troupin, C.; Claret, M.; Casas, B.; Mourre, B.; Poulain, P.M.; Tovar-Sanchez, A.; Capet, A.; Mason, E.; Allen, J.T.; Mahadevan, A.; Tintoré, J. (2017). A multiplatform experiment to unravel meso- and submesoscale processes in an intense front (AlborEx). Front. Mar. Sci. 4: 39. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2017.00039
Barth, A.; Watelet, S.; Troupin, C.; Alvera, A.; Santinelli, G.; Hendriksen, G.; Giorgetti, A.; Beckers, J.M. (2016). OceanBrowser: on-line visualization of gridded ocean data and in situ observations, in: IMDIS 2016 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, 11-13 October 2016, Gdansk, Poland. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata: an International Journal of Earth Sciences, 57(Suppl.): pp. 39-40
Barth, A.; Beckers, J.-M.; Troupin, C.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Vandenbulcke, L. (2014). divand-1.0: n-dimensional variational data analysis for ocean observations. Geosci. Model Dev. 7(1): 225-241. https://dx.doi.org/10.5194/gmd-7-225-2014
Beckers, J.-M.; Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Alvera-Azcárate, A. (2014). Approximate and efficient methods to assess error fields in spatial gridding with Data Interpolating Variational Analysis (DIVA). J. Atmos. Oceanic. Technol. 31(2): 515-530. https://dx.doi.org/10.1175/JTECH-D-13-00130.1
Capet, A.; Troupin, C.; Carstensen, J.; Grégoire, M.; Beckers, J.-M. (2014). Untangling spatial and temporal trends in the variability of the Black Sea Cold Intermediate Layer and mixed Layer Depth using the DIVA detrending procedure. Ocean Dynamics 64(3): 315-324
Barth, A.; Troupin, C.; Alvera Azcárate, A.; Beckers, J.M. (2013). Variational data analysis for generating ocean climatologies (DIVA) and web-based distribution of data products (OceanBrowser), in: IMDIS 2013 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems 23-25 September, 2013 - Lucca (Italy). Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata: an International Journal of Earth Sciences, 54(Supplement): pp. 206-207
Benavides, M.; Aristegui, J.; Agawin, N.S.R.; Alvarez-Salgado, X.A.; Alvarez, M.; Troupin, C. (2013). Low contribution of N2 fixation to new production and excess nitrogen in the subtropical northeast Atlantic margin. Deep-Sea Res., Part 1, Oceanogr. Res. Pap. 81: 36-48. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr.2013.07.004
Troupin, C.; Barth, A.; Beckers, J.-M.; Pascual, A. (2013). Application of the Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis (DIVA) to sea-level anomaly measurements in the Mediterranean Sea, in: IMDIS 2013 International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems 23-25 September, 2013 - Lucca (Italy). Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata: an International Journal of Earth Sciences, 54(Supplement): pp. 263-264
Troupin, C.; Barth, A.; Sirjacobs, D.; Ouberdous, M.; Brankart, J.M.; Brasseur, P.; Rixen, M.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Belounis, M.; Capet, A.; Lenartz, F.; Toussaint, M.E.; Beckers, J.-M. (2012). Generation of analysis and consistent error fields using the Data Interpolating Variational Analysis (DIVA). Ocean Modelling 52-53: 90-101. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2012.05.002
Troupin, C.; Mason, E.; Beckers, J.-M.; Sangra, P. (2012). Generation of the Cape Ghir upwelling filament: a numerical study. Ocean Modelling 41: 1-15. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.09.001
Tyberghein, L.; Verbruggen, H.; Pauly, K.; Troupin, C.; De Clerck, O. (2012). Bio-ORACLE: a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modelling. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 21(2): 272-281. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00656.x
Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Troupin, C.; Barth, A.; Beckers, J.-M. (2011). Comparison between satellite and in situ sea surface temperature data in the Western Mediterranean Sea. Ocean Dynamics 61(6): 767-778. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10236-011-0403-x
Mason, E.; Colas, F.; Molemaker, J.; Shchepetkin, A.F.; Troupin, C.; McWilliams, J.C.; Sangra, P. (2011). Seasonal variability of the Canary Current: A numerical study. J. Geophys. Res. 116: 1-20. https://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2010JC006665
Lenartz, F.; Beckers, J.-M.; Chiggiato, J.; Mourre, B.; Troupin, C.; Vandenbulcke, L.; Rixen, M. (2010). Super-ensemble techniques applied to wave forecast: performance and limitations. Ocean Sci. 6(2): 595-604. dx.doi.org/10.5194/os-6-595-2010
Troupin, C.; Machín, F.; Ouberdous, M.; Sirjacobs, D.; Barth, A.; Beckers, J.-M. (2010). High-resolution climatology of the northeast Atlantic using Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis (Diva). J. Geophys. Res. 115(C08005): 20 pp. dx.doi.org/10.1029/2009JC005512
Troupin, C.; Sangrà, P.; Aristegui, J. (2010). Seasonal variability of the oceanic upper layer and its modulation of biological cycles in the Canary Island region. J. Mar. Syst. 80(3-4): 172-183. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmarsys.2009.10.007
Barth, A.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Troupin, C.; Ouberdous, M.; Beckers, J.-M. (2009). A web interface for griding arbitrarily distributed in situ data based on Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis (Diva). Geophys. Res. Abstr. 11(9321)
Troupin, C.; Lenartz, F.; Sirjacobs, D.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Barth, A.; Ouberdous, M.; Beckers, J.-M. (2009). Evolution of Western Mediterranean Sea Surface Temperature between 1985 and 2005: a complementary study in situ, satellite and modelling approaches. Geophys. Res. Abstr. 11(2139-1)
Troupin, C.; Lenartz, F.; Sirjacobs, D.; The GHER Team (2008). The western Mediterranean sea surface temperature dynamics seen through complementary in situ, satellite and modelling approaches over the 1985-1995 period. MEDCLIVAR 2008. Université de Liège: Rhodos. 14 slides pp.
Barth, A.; Watelet, S.; Troupin, C.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Beckers, J.M. (2017). Analysis of ocean in situ observations and Web-based visualization: From individual measurements to an integrated view, in: Diviacco, P. et al.Oceanographic and marine cross-domain data management for sustainable development. pp. 345-371. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0700-0.ch015
Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Troupin, C.; Barth, A.; Beckers, J.-M. (2012). An EOF-based technique to compute merged high resolution sea surface temperature fields, in: 44th international Liège colloquium on ocean dynamics "Remote sensing of colour, temperature and salinity – new challenges and opportunities" - May 7-11, 2012. pp. 1
Tyberghein, L.; Verbruggen, H.; Pauly, K.; Troupin, C.; Mineur, F.; De Clerck, O. (2012). Bio-ORACLE: a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modeling, in: Tyberghein, L. Evolution, diversity and niche dynamics of seaweeds. pp. 14-43
Tyberghein, L.; Verbruggen, H.; Pauly, K.; Troupin, C.; De Clerck, O. (2011). Bio-ORACLE: a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modelling, in: Pauly, K. GIS-based environmental analysis, remote sensing and niche modeling of seaweed communities. pp. 97-124
Barth, A.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Troupin, C.; Licer, M.; Beckers, J.-M. (2023). Reconstruction of missing data in satellite images with a Data-Interpolating Convolutional Auto-Encoder, in: 54th International Liège Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics: machine learning and data analysis in oceanography. pp. 1
Troupin, C.; Barth, A.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Sirjacobs, D.; Beckers, J.M. (2012). Viewing through the clouds in satellite images, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) Book of abstracts - VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day. Brugge, Belgium, 24 February 2012. VLIZ Special Publication, 55: pp. 85
Tyberghein, L.; Verbruggen, H.; Pauly, K.; Troupin, C.; Mineur, F.; De Clerck, O. (2011). Bio-ORACLE: a global environmental dataset for marine species distribution modeling, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Marine Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 25 February 2011: book of abstracts. pp. 89
Barth, A.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Troupin, C.; Ouberdous, M.; Beckers, J.-M. (2010). A web interface for gridding and visualizing oceanographic data sets, in: Fichaut, M. et al. (Ed.) International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference IMDIS 2010, 29-31 March 2010, Paris, France: Book of abstracts. pp. 50
Scory, S.; Troupin, C.; Ouberdous, M.; Beckers, J.-M. (2010). Salinity and temperature climatologies of the North Sea using the Variational Inverse Method, in: Fichaut, M. et al. (Ed.) International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference IMDIS 2010, 29-31 March 2010, Paris, France: Book of abstracts. pp. 124
Troupin, C.; Ouberdous, M.; Barth, A.; Bassompierre, M.; Coatanoan, C.; Grandi, A.; Johansen, S.L.; Ostensen, O.; Sagen, H.; Scory, S.; Tonani, M.; Toussaint, M-E.; Tronconi, C.; Beckers, J.-M. (2010). SeaDataNet regional climatologies: an overview, in: Fichaut, M. et al. (Ed.) International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference IMDIS 2010, 29-31 March 2010, Paris, France: Book of abstracts. pp. 84
Troupin, C.; Ouberdous, M.; Rixen, M.; Sirjacobs, D.; Beckers, J.-M. (2008). Hydrostatic and advection constraints in the software DIVA: theory and applications, in: Iona, Sissy et al. (Ed.) International Marine Data and Information Systems Conference IMDIS-2008, 31 March - 2 April 2008, Athens, Greece: Book of abstracts. pp. 211-212
Troupin, C.; Barth, A.; Alvera-Azcárate, A.; Sirjacobs, D.; Beckers, J.M. (2012). Viewing through the clouds in satellite images. University of Liège. Geohydrodynamics and Environment Research: Liège. 1 poster pp.
Sirjacobs, D.; Troupin, C.; Alvera, A.; Barth, A.; Ouberdous, M.; Vandenbulcke, L.; Beckers, J.-M. (2009). Weekly satellite sea surface temperature around Corsica, a DINEOF analysis of AVHRR data (1998), foreseeing comparison with interpolated and modelled fields. ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting 2009. Université de Liège: Nice. 1 poster pp.
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