Sid-Ahmed Boukabara

JCSDA Deputy Director / STAR Senior Data Assimilation Scientist

Recent Publications

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photo: Sid-Ahmed Boukabara Sid-Ahmed Boukabara received the Ingénieur degree in electronics and signal processing from the National School of Civil Aviation (ENAC), in Toulouse, France (1994), the M.S. degree from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France (1994) and the Ph.D. degree in remote sensing from the Denis Diderot University, Paris, France (1997). Until 2005 he was a scientist with Atmospheric Environmental Research (AER) Inc., working on various projects including MonoRTM, NPOESS CrIS, CMIS and QuikSCAT. He then joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) center for SaTellite Applications and Research (STAR), where he has been leading an effort to develop variational algorithms applicable to all-weather conditions and over all surface backgrounds.

Experience

2009 - Present: Senior Data Assimilation Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, Maryland
2007 - 2009: Physical Scientist, NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, Camp Springs, Maryland
2005 - 2007: Physical Scientist, IMSG Inc., Camp Springs, Maryland
1998 - 2005: Staff Scientist, Microwave Remote Sensing Department, AER Inc., Lexington, Massachusetts
1994 - 1998: Engineer / PhD Researcher, CETP, Paris, France

E-mail: Sid.Boukabara@noaa.gov