Publications

2026

1. Cornillon, P. and Prochaska, J. X. (2026). The Agentic Professor: exploring GenAI-supported futures in higher education. EDUCAUSE Review. In press.

2025

1. Woo, H.-J., Park, K.-A. and Cornillon, P. (2025). Diurnal variability of submesoscale chlorophyll-a fronts revealed by hourly geostationary satellite observations. Geophysical Research Letters. doi:10.1029/2025GL117201
2. Park, K.-A., Woo, H.-J. and Cornillon, P. (2025). Unprecedented hourly geostationary ocean color satellite observations. Communications Earth & Environment. In review.

2024

1. González-Haro, C., Isern-Fontanet, J., Turiel, A., Merchant, C. J. and Cornillon, P. (2024). Structural and dynamical quality assessment of gap-filled sea surface temperature products. Earth and Space Science 11, e2023EA003088. doi:10.1029/2023EA003088
2. Agabin, A., Prochaska, J. X., Cornillon, P. and Buckingham, C. E. (2024). Mitigating masked pixels in climate-critical datasets. Remote Sensing 16(13), 2439. doi:10.3390/rs16132439

2023

1. Prochaska, J. X., Guo, E., Cornillon, P. C. and Buckingham, C. E. (2023). The fundamental patterns of sea surface temperature. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 61. doi:10.1109/TGRS.2023.3300272

2022

1. Chen, Y., Qiu, D., Cornillon, P. and Wu, M. (2022). Chlorophyll bloom enhanced by a mesoscale eddy in the western South China Sea. Frontiers of Earth Science. doi:10.1007/s11707-022-0984-3

2021

1. Prochaska, J. X., Cornillon, P. C. and Reiman, D. (2021). Deep learning of sea surface temperature patterns to identify ocean extremes. Remote Sensing 13(4), 744. doi:10.3390/rs13040744

2019

1. Cornillon, P. C., Firing, E., Thompson, A. F., Ivanov, L. M., Kamenkovich, I., Buckingham, C. and Afanasyev, Y. D. (2019). Oceans. In Zonal Jets: Phenomenology, Genesis, and Physics (Galperin, B. and Read, P. L., eds), ch. 4, pp. 46–71. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781107358225.003
2. Boussidi, B., Cornillon, P., Puggioni, G. and Gentemann, C. (2019). Determining the AMSR-E SST footprint from co-located MODIS SSTs. Remote Sensing 11, 715. doi:10.3390/rs11060715
3. Wu, F., Cornillon, P., Guan, L. and Kilpatrick, K. (2019). Long-term variations in the pixel-to-pixel variability of NOAA AVHRR SST fields from 1982 to 2015. Remote Sensing 11(7), 844. doi:10.3390/rs11070844
4. Smith, L., Cornillon, P., Rudnickas, D. and Mouw, C. B. (2019). Evidence of environmental changes caused by Chinese island-building. Scientific Reports 9, 5295. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-41659-3

2018

1. Park, K.-A., Lee, M.-S., Park, J.-E., Ullman, D., Cornillon, P. C. and Park, Y.-J. (2018). Surface currents from hourly variations of suspended particulate matter from Geostationary Ocean Color Imager data. International Journal of Remote Sensing 39, 1929–1949. doi:10.1080/01431161.2017.1416699

2017

1. Wu, F., Cornillon, P., Boussidi, B. and Guan, L. (2017). Determining the pixel-to-pixel uncertainty in satellite-derived SST fields. Remote Sensing 9. doi:10.3390/rs9090877

2016

1. Park, J.-E., Park, K.-A., Ullman, D. S., Cornillon, P. C. and Park, Y.-J. (2016). Observation of diurnal variations in mesoscale eddy sea-surface currents using GOCI data. Remote Sensing Letters 7, 1131–1140. doi:10.1080/2150704X.2016.1219423
2. Schloesser, F., Cornillon, P. C., Donohue, K., Boussidi, B. and Iskin, E. (2016). Evaluation of thermosalinograph and VIIRS data for the characterization of near-surface temperature fields. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 33, 1843–1858. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-15-0180.1

2015

1. Chang, Y. and Cornillon, P. C. (2015). A comparison of satellite-derived sea surface temperature fronts using two edge detection algorithms. Deep-Sea Research Part II 119, 40–47. doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.12.001

2014

1. Buckingham, C. E., Cornillon, P. C., Schloesser, F. and Obenour, K. M. (2014). Global observations of quasi-zonal bands in microwave sea surface temperature. Journal of Geophysical Research 119, 4840–4866. doi:10.1002/2014JC010088

2013

1. Buckingham, C. E. and Cornillon, P. C. (2013). The contribution of eddies to striations in absolute dynamic topography. Journal of Geophysical Research 118, 448–461. doi:10.1029/2012JC008231

2011

1. Altintas, I., Crawl, D., Crosby, C. J. and Cornillon, P. C. (2011). Scientific workflows for the geosciences: an emerging approach to building integrated data analysis systems. In Geoinformatics: Cyberinfrastructure for the Solid Earth Sciences (Keller, G. R. and Baru, C., eds), pp. 237–250. Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511976308.016

2010

1. Casey, K. S., Brandon, T. B., Cornillon, P. C. and Evans, R. (2010). The past, present, and future of the AVHRR Pathfinder SST program. In Oceanography from Space: Revisited, pp. 273–287. Springer, Dordrecht. doi:10.1007/978-90-481-8681-5_16
2. Barseghian, D., Altintas, I., Jones, M. B., Crawl, D., Potter, N., Gallagher, J., Cornillon, P. C., Schildhauer, M., Borer, E. T., Seabloom, E. W. and Hosseini, P. R. (2010). Workflows and extensions to the Kepler scientific workflow system to support environmental sensor data access and analysis. Ecological Informatics 5, 42–50. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2009.08.008

2009

1. Chassignet, E. P., Hurlburt, H., Metzger, E. J., Smedstad, O., Cummings, J., Halliwell, G., Bleck, R., Baraille, R., Wallcraft, A., Lozano, C., Tolman, H., Srinivasan, A., Hankin, S., Cornillon, P. C., Weisberg, R., Barth, A., He, R., Werner, F. and Wilkin, J. (2009). US GODAE: global ocean prediction with the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM). Oceanography 22, 64–75. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2009.39
2. Blower, J. D., Blanc, F., Clancy, M., Cornillon, P. C., Donlon, C., Hacker, P., Haines, K., Hankin, S., Loubrieu, T., Pouliquen, S., Price, M., Pugh, T. and Srinivasan, A. (2009). Serving GODAE data and products to the ocean community. Oceanography 22, 70–79. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2009.67
3. Cornillon, P. C., Adams, J., Blumenthal, M. B., Chassignet, E., Davis, E., Hankin, S., Kinter, J., Mendelssohn, R., Potemra, J. T. and Srinivasan, A. (2009). NVODS and the development of OPeNDAP. Oceanography 22, 116–127. doi:10.5670/oceanog.2009.43

2008

1. Small, R. J., deSzoeke, S. P., Xie, S. P., O’Neill, L., Seo, H., Song, Q., Cornillon, P. C., Spall, M. and Minobe, S. (2008). Air–sea interaction over ocean fronts and eddies. Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans 45, 274–319. doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2008.01.001
2. Cornillon, P. C. and Eichmann, A. (2008). Using satellite-derived SST fronts to evaluate an eddy resolving numerical circulation model. In IGARSS 2008 — 2008 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, pp. II-5–II-8. IEEE. doi:10.1109/IGARSS.2008.4778913 · Refereed conference proceedings paper

2007

1. Ullman, D. S., Cornillon, P. C. and Shan, Z. (2007). On the characteristics of subtropical fronts in the North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research 112, C01010. doi:10.1029/2006JC003601
2. Fan, X., Cornillon, P. C., Eichmann, A. and Sheremet, V. (2007). The effect of density stratification and a cape in a baroclinic western boundary current separation experiment. McGill Science Undergraduate Research Journal 2(1), 43–46.

2006

1. Song, Q., Cornillon, P. C. and Hara, T. (2006). Surface wind response to oceanic fronts. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, C12006. doi:10.1029/2006JC003680
2. Park, K.-A., Kim, K., Cornillon, P. C. and Chung, J. Y. (2006). Relationship between satellite-observed cold water along the Primorye coast and sea ice in the East Sea (the Sea of Japan). Geophysical Research Letters 33. doi:10.1029/2005GL025611
3. Park, K.-A., Cornillon, P. C. and Codiga, D. L. (2006). Modification of surface winds near ocean fronts: effects of Gulf Stream rings on scatterometer (QuikSCAT, NSCAT) wind observations. Journal of Geophysical Research 111, C03021. doi:10.1029/2005JC003016
4. Cornillon, P. C., Chamberlain, J. and Holloway, D. (2006). The system integrator in distributed data systems: the OPeNDAP Data Connector (ODC). In Special Paper 397: Geoinformatics — Data to Knowledge (Sinha, A. K., ed.), pp. 225–234. Geological Society of America.

2005

1. Park, K.-A., Chung, J. Y., Kim, K. and Cornillon, P. C. (2005). Wind and bathymetric forcing of the annual sea surface temperature signal in the East (Japan) Sea. Geophysical Research Letters 32, L05610.
2. Cornillon, P. C. (2005). What is a data system, anyway? EDUCAUSE Review 40, 10–11.
3. Belkin, I. M. and Cornillon, P. C. (2005). Bering Sea thermal fronts from Pathfinder data: seasonal and interannual variability. Pacific Oceanography 3, 6–20.

2004

1. Song, Q., Hara, T., Cornillon, P. C. and Friehe, C. A. (2004). A comparison between observations and MM5 simulations of the marine atmospheric boundary layer across a temperature front. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 21, 170. doi:10.1175/1520-0426(2004)021<0170:ACBOAM>2.0.CO;2
2. Osychny, V. and Cornillon, P. C. (2004). Properties of Rossby waves in the North Atlantic estimated from satellite data. Journal of Physical Oceanography 34, 61–76. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2004)034<0061:PORWIT>2.0.CO;2
3. Belkin, I. M. and Cornillon, P. C. (2004). Surface thermal fronts of the Okhotsk Sea. Pacific Oceanography 2, 6–19.

2003

1. Cornillon, P. C., Gallagher, J. and Sgouros, T. (2003). OPeNDAP: accessing data in a distributed, heterogeneous environment. Data Science Journal 2, 159–169. doi:10.2481/dsj.2.164
2. Codiga, D. L. and Cornillon, P. C. (2003). Effects of geographic variation in vertical mode structure on the sea surface topography, energy, and wind forcing of baroclinic Rossby waves. Journal of Physical Oceanography 33, 1219. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2003)033<1219:EOGVIV>2.0.CO;2
3. Belkin, I. M. and Cornillon, P. C. (2003). SST fronts of the Pacific coastal and marginal seas. Pacific Oceanography 1, 90–113.

2002

1. Park, K.-A. and Cornillon, P. C. (2002). Stability-induced modification of sea surface winds over Gulf Stream rings. Geophysical Research Letters 29, 2211.

2001

1. Alfultis, M. A. and Cornillon, P. C. (2001). A characterization of the North Atlantic STMW layer climatology using World Ocean Atlas 1994 data. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 18, 2021–2037. doi:10.1175/1520-0426(2001)018<2021:ACOTNA>2.0.CO;2
2. Casey, K. S. and Cornillon, P. C. (2001). Global and regional sea surface temperature trends. Journal of Climate 14, 3801–3818. doi:10.1175/1520-0442(2001)014<3801:GARSST>2.0.CO;2
3. Alfultis, M. A. and Cornillon, P. C. (2001). Annual and interannual changes in the North Atlantic STMW layer properties. Journal of Physical Oceanography 31, 2066–2086. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(2001)031<2066:AAICIT>2.0.CO;2
4. Ullman, D. S. and Cornillon, P. C. (2001). Continental shelf surface thermal fronts in winter off the northeast US coast. Continental Shelf Research 21, 1139–1156. doi:10.1016/S0278-4343(00)00107-2

2000

1. Ullman, D. S. and Cornillon, P. C. (2000). Evaluation of front detection methods for satellite-derived SST data using in situ observations. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 17, 1667–1675. doi:10.1175/1520-0426(2000)017<1667:EOFDMF>2.0.CO;2

1999

1. Ullman, D. S. and Cornillon, P. C. (1999). Satellite-derived sea surface temperature fronts on the continental shelf off the northeast U.S. coast. Journal of Geophysical Research 104, 23459–23478. doi:10.1029/1999JC900133
2. Casey, K. S. and Cornillon, P. C. (1999). A comparison of satellite and in situ-based sea surface temperature climatologies. Journal of Climate 12, 1848–1863. doi:10.1175/1520-0442(1999)012<1848:ACOSAI>2.0.CO;2

1998

1. Ullman, D. S., Brown, J., Cornillon, P. C. and Mavor, T. (1998). Surface temperature fronts in the Great Lakes. Journal of Great Lakes Research 24, 753–775. doi:10.1016/S0380-1330(98)70860-3

1997

1. Everson, R., Cornillon, P. C., Sirovich, L. and Webber, A. (1997). An empirical eigenfunction analysis of sea surface temperatures in the western North Atlantic. Journal of Physical Oceanography 27, 468–479. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1997)027<0468:AEEAOS>2.0.CO;2

1996

1. Cayula, J.-F. and Cornillon, P. C. (1996). Cloud detection from a sequence of SST images. Remote Sensing of Environment 55, 80–88. doi:10.1016/0034-4257(95)00199-9

1994

1. Cornillon, P. C., Lee, T. and Fall, G. (1994). On the probability that a Gulf Stream meander crest detaches to form a warm core ring. Journal of Physical Oceanography 24, 159–171. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1994)024<0159:OTPTAG>2.0.CO;2

1992

1. Gangopadhyay, A., Cornillon, P. C. and Watts, D. R. (1992). A test of the Parsons–Veronis hypothesis on the separation of the Gulf Stream. Journal of Physical Oceanography 22, 1286–1301. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1992)022<1286:ATOTPH>2.0.CO;2
2. Cayula, J.-F. P. and Cornillon, P. C. (1992). Edge detection algorithm for SST images. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 9, 67–80. doi:10.1175/1520-0426(1992)009<0067:EDAFSI>2.0.CO;2

1991

1. Halliwell, G. R. Jr., Ro, Y. J. and Cornillon, P. C. (1991). Westward-propagating SST anomalies and baroclinic eddies in the Sargasso Sea. Journal of Physical Oceanography 21, 1664–1680.
2. Halliwell, G. R. Jr., Cornillon, P. C. and Byrne, D. A. (1991). Westward-propagating SST anomaly features in the Sargasso Sea, 1982–88. Journal of Physical Oceanography 21, 635–649. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1991)021<0635:WPSAFI>2.0.CO;2
3. Hanson, H. P., Cornillon, P. C., Halliwell, G. R. Jr. and Halliwell, V. (1991). Climatological perspectives, oceanographic and meteorological, on variability in the subtropical convergence zone in the northwestern Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research 96, 8517–8529.
4. Cayula, J.-F. P., Cornillon, P. C., Holyer, R. and Peckinpaugh, S. (1991). Comparative study of two recent edge-detection algorithms designed to process sea-surface temperature fields. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 29, 175–177.

1990

1. Halliwell, G. R. Jr. and Cornillon, P. C. (1990). Large-scale SST variability in the western North Atlantic subtropical convergence zone during FASINEX. Part I: description of SST and wind stress fields. Journal of Physical Oceanography 20, 209–222. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1990)020<0209:LSSVIT>2.0.CO;2
2. Halliwell, G. R. Jr. and Cornillon, P. C. (1990). Large-scale SST variability in the western North Atlantic subtropical convergence zone during FASINEX. Part II: upper ocean heat balance and frontogenesis. Journal of Physical Oceanography 20, 223–234. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1990)020<0223:LSSVIT>2.0.CO;2

1989

1. Cornillon, P. C., Weyer, R. and Flierl, G. (1989). Translational velocity of warm core rings relative to the slope water. Journal of Physical Oceanography 19, 1317–1332. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1989)019<1317:TVOWCR>2.0.CO;2
2. Halliwell, G. R. Jr. and Cornillon, P. C. (1989). Large-scale SST anomalies associated with subtropical fronts in the western North Atlantic during FASINEX. Journal of Marine Research 47, 757–775.

1988

1. Cornillon, P. C., Evans, D., Brown, O. B., Evans, R., Eden, P. and Brown, J. (1988). Processing, compression and transmission of satellite IR data for near-real-time use at sea. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 5, 320–327. doi:10.1175/1520-0426(1988)005<0320:PCATOS>2.0.CO;2

1987

1. Cornillon, P. C. and Watts, R. (1987). Satellite thermal infrared and inverted echo sounder determinations of the Gulf Stream northern edge. Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 4, 712–723. doi:10.1175/1520-0426(1987)004<0712:STIAIE>2.0.CO;2
2. Cornillon, P. C., Gilman, C., Stramma, L., Brown, O. B., Evans, R. and Brown, J. (1987). Processing and analysis of large volumes of satellite-derived thermal infrared data. Journal of Geophysical Research 92, 12993–13002. doi:10.1029/JC092iC12p12993
3. Cornillon, P. C., Stramma, L. and Price, J. F. (1987). Satellite measurements of sea surface cooling during hurricane Gloria. Nature 326, 373–375. doi:10.1038/326373a0
4. Milkowski, G., Cornillon, P. C. and Glenn, S. (1987). A warm core ring prediction program in support of offshore drilling activities. Marine Technology Society Journal 21, 22–32.

1986

1. Stramma, L., Cornillon, P. C., Weller, R. A., Price, J. F. and Briscoe, M. G. (1986). Large diurnal sea surface temperature variability: satellite and in situ measurements. Journal of Physical Oceanography 16, 827–837.
2. Cornillon, P. C., Evans, D. and Large, W. (1986). Warm outbreaks of the Gulf Stream into the Sargasso Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research 91, 6583–6596. doi:10.1029/JC091iC05p06583
3. Stramma, L., Cornillon, P. C. and Price, J. F. (1986). Satellite observations of sea surface cooling by hurricanes. Journal of Geophysical Research 91, 5031–5035. doi:10.1029/JC091iC04p05031
4. Cornillon, P. C. (1986). The effect of the New England Seamounts on Gulf Stream meandering as observed from satellite IR imagery. Journal of Physical Oceanography 16, 386–389. doi:10.1175/1520-0485(1986)016<0386:TEOTNE>2.0.CO;2
5. Brown, O. B., Cornillon, P. C., Emmerson, S. R. and Carle, H. M. (1986). Gulf Stream warm rings: a statistical study of their behavior. Deep Sea Research Part A 33, 1459–1473.
6. Cornillon, P. C., Hickox, S. and Turton, H. M. (1986). Sea surface temperature charts for the southern New England fishing community. Marine Technology Society Journal.
7. Cornillon, P. C. (1986). Satellite oceanography: a new tool for marine policy makers. Marine Policy 10, 57–60.

1985

1. Cornillon, P. C. and Stramma, L. (1985). The distribution of diurnal sea surface warming events in the western Sargasso Sea. Journal of Geophysical Research 90, 11811–11815. doi:10.1029/JC090iC06p11811

1984

1. Bisagni, J. J. and Cornillon, P. C. (1984). The synoptic sound-speed field of a warm-core Gulf Stream ring. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 76, 532–539.

1981

1. Mollo-Christensen, E., Cornillon, P. C. and Mascarenhas, A. da S. (1981). Method for estimation of ocean current velocity from satellite images. Science 212, 661–662. doi:10.1126/science.212.4495.661

1977

1. Cornillon, P. C. and Keane, M. A. (1977). Simple model for simulating traffic noise spectra. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 61, 739–743.

1976

1. Cermak, G. W. and Cornillon, P. C. (1976). Multidimensional analyses of judgments about traffic noise. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 59, 1412–1420.

1973

1. Cornillon, P. C., Grindhammer, G., Klems, J. H., Mazur, P. O., Orear, J., Peoples, J., Rubinstein, R. and Faissler, W. (1973). Large-angle π− proton elastic scattering at 14 and 23 GeV/c. Physical Review Letters 30, 403–406. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.30.403
2. Rubinstein, R., Cornillon, P. C., Grindhammer, G., Klems, J. H., Mazur, P. O., Orear, J., Peoples, J. and Faissler, W. (1973). Large-angle π+p and K+p elastic scattering at 13.8 GeV/c. Physical Review Letters 30, 1010–1012. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.30.1010