Science - Oceans and Ice: People: Jorge Vazquez

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (1993-present)
- Appointed by NASA to the Data Management and Communications Steering Committee (DMAC)
- Task Scientist of the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (2002-Present)
- Research on the validation of satellite derived sea surface temperature products (1995-2002)
- Principal Investigator for NOAA/NASA AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature Project. (1995)
- Deputy Task Scientist for the Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center (PODAAC). (1993-2002)
Adjunct faculty in Earth Science at Azusa Pacific University (2003-Present)
Visiting Scientist, Institute of Marine Science, Barcelona, Spain. Spanish Grant to apply remote sensing techniques to study the Mediterranean (1993)

Vazquez-Cuervo, J., E. Armstrong and A. Harris, 2004. "The effects of aerosols and clouds on the retrieval of satellite derived infrared sea surface temperatures," Journal of Climate, 17 (10), 3921-3933.
J. Vazquez-Cuervo and E. Armstrong, 2003, Comparisons of satellite derived infrared sea surface temperatures with aerosol and cloud data from the Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer (TOMS), accepted to Journal of Climate.
Armstrong, A. and J. Vazquez-Cuervo, A New Global Satellite-Based Sea Surface Temperature Climatology, Geophysical Research Letters, 2001, 28 (22), 4199-4202.
Vazquez-Cuervo, J., and R. Sumgaysay, "Comparisons of SSTs as derived from the European Remote Sensing Satellite and the NOAA/NASA AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder Data Set", Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2001, 82 (5), 925-944.
Garcia-Gorriz, E., J. Vazquez, 1999, Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling in the Mediterranean, International Journal of Remote Sensing., 20 (11).
Viudez, A., Haney, B. and J. Vazquez-Cuervo, The deflection of baroclinic jets near the coast: A Case Study in the Alboran Sea, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 28 (2), 1999.
Bouzinac, C., J. Vazquez, C. Millot and J. Font, 1998, CEOF Analysis of ERS-1 and TOPEX/Poseidon Combined Altimetric Data in the Region of the Algerian Current, Journal of Geophysical Research.
Vazquez, J., Font, J., and Martinez-Benjamin, J.J., 1996, Observations on the circulation in the Alboran Sea using ERS1 altimetry and AVHRR data, Journal of Physical Oceanography.
Smith, E. A., J., Vazquez, A. Van Tran, and R. Sumagaysay, A Satellite-Derived Sea Sea Surface Temperature Data Set for Global Studies from the NOAA/NASA Pathfinder Program, EOS, 1995.
Vazquez, J., A V. Tran, R. Sumagaysay, E. Smith, S. Digby, and K. Perry, 1994, NOAA/NASA AVHRR Oceans Pathfinder Sea Surface Temperature Data Set User's Handbook.
Vazquez, J. 1993, Observations on the long-period variability of the Gulf Stream, Journal of Geophysical Research., 98(c11).
Fu, L.-L., J. Vazquez and C. Perigaud, 1991. "Fitting Dynamic Models to the GEOSAT sea level observations in the Tropical Pacific Ocean. Part 1: A free wave model, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 21(6).
Vazquez, J., V. Zlotnicki and L.-L. Fu, 1990. Sea level variabilities in the Gulf Stream between Cape Hatteras and 50 degrees West-a GEOSAT Study, Journal of Geophysical Research, 95 (C10).
Fu, L.-L. and J. Vazquez, 1987. Seasonal variability of the Gulf Stream from satellite altimetry, Journal of Geophysical Research, 92 (C1), 749-754.
Vazquez, J. and D. R. Watts, 1985. Observations on the propagation, growth, and predictability of Gulf Stream meanders. Journal of Geophysical Research, 90(C4), 7143-7151.