2026- Research Scientist; French Space Agency CNES – LEGOS laboratory (Midi-Pyrénées Observatory) ▪ Toulouse (FR)
2023-2026 JPL Postdoctoral Fellow; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – California Institute of Technology ▪ Pasadena (CA, USA)
Education:
2020-2023 PhD in Environmental & Space Sciences; ISAE-Supaéro & Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier ▪ Toulouse (FR)
2019-2020 MS in Meteorology, Oceanography, Climate & Remote Sensing; Sorbonne Université, Pierre-et-Marie-Curie ▪ Paris (FR)
2014-2015 MS in Statistics, Data Sciences & Econometrics; ENSAE ParisTech ▪ Paris (FR)
2009-2014 BS & MS in Mathematics and Physics; Collège Stanislas, École Polytechnique (L’X, X2011) ▪ Paris and Palaiseau (FR)
Publications
ORCID orcid.org/0000-0002-9321-255X
Paris, A., Garambois, P-A., Gal, L., Cerbelaud, A., et al., 2026 . Global Scale River Discharge and Mean Depth from Radar Altimetry and Model. Nature Communications . In Revision.
Cerbelaud, A., Wade, J., David, C.H., Durand, M., Frasson, R., Pavelsky,T., Oubanas, H., 2026 . Wide-swath Altimetry Maps Bank Shapes and Storage Changes in Global Rivers. Nature https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10218-y . Cerbelaud , C. H. David, T. Pavelsky, S. Biancamaria, P.-A. Garambois, C. Kittel, F. Papa, P. Bates, M. J. Tourian, M. Durand, R. Frasson, H. Oubanas, M. Simard, G. Schumann, G. Allen, A. Tarpanelli, S. Wongchuig, J. Wade, M. Tom, P.-O. Malaterre, C. J. Gleason, J.-F. Crétaux, K. Nielsen, O. Elmi, C. Schwatke, D. Scherer, L. Gal, A. Paris, A. Dasgupta, S. Munier, D. Feng, P. Bauer-Gottwein, F. Hossain, D. Yamazaki, B. Kitambo, S. Mischel, M. Bonnema, K. Verma, K. Andreadis, N. Picot, J. Benveniste, 2025 . Satellite Requirements to Capture Water Propagation in Earth’s Rivers. Reviews of Geophysics https://doi.org/10.1029/2024RG000871 .Cerbelaud, A., David, C.H., Biancamaria, S., Wade, J., Tom, M., Frasson, R.P.M., Allen, G.H., Thurman, H., Blumstein, D., 2025 . Spatial Hydrographs of River Flow and Their Analysis for Peak Event Detection in the Context of Satellite Sampling. Water Resources Research https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR038444 .Cerbelaud, A., David, C.H., Biancamaria, S., Wade, J., Tom, M., Frasson, R.P.M., Blumstein, D., 2024 . Peak Flow Event Durations in the Mississippi River Basin and Implications for Temporal Sampling of Rivers. Geophysical Research Letter https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL109220 .Cerbelaud, A., Roupioz, L., Blanchet, G., Breil, P., Briottet, X., 2021 . A repeatable change detection approach to map extreme storm-related damages caused by intense surface runoff based on optical and SAR remote sensing: Evidence from three case studies in the South of France. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2021.10.013 .Cerbelaud, A., Lefèvre, J., Genthon, P., Menkes, C., 2022 . Assessment of the WRF-Hydro uncoupled hydro-meteorological model on flashy watersheds of the Grande Terre tropical island of New Caledonia (South-West Pacific). Journal of Hydrology Regional Studies https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejrh.2022.101003 .Cerbelaud, A., Breil, P., Blanchet, G., Roupioz, L. & Briottet, X., 2022 . Proxy Data of Surface Water Floods in Rural Areas: Application to the Evaluation of the IRIP Intense Runoff Mapping Method Based on Satellite Remote Sensing and Rainfall Radar. Water https://doi.org/10.3390/w14030393 .Cerbelaud, A., Blanchet, G., Roupioz, L., Breil, P., Briottet, X., 2023 . Mapping Pluvial Flood-Induced Damages with Multi-Sensor Optical Remote Sensing: A Transferable Approach. Remote Sensing https://doi.org/10.3390/rs15092361 .Thurman, H.R., Allen, G. H., Williams, B.A., Cerbelaud, A. , David, C.H., 2025 . SWOT Captures Hydrologic Waves Traveling Down Rivers. Geophysical Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113875 .
Wade, J., David, C. H., Collins, E. L., Denbina, M., Cerbelaud, A., Tom, M., et al., 2025 . Intrinsic Spatial Scales of River Stores and Fluxes and Their Relative Contributions to the Global Water Cycle. Geophysical Research Letters https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113052 .
Wade, J., David, C. H., Altenau, E. H., Collins, E. L., Oubanas, H., Coss, S., Cerbelaud, A., Tom, M., Durand, M., Pavelsky, T., 2025 . Bidirectional translations between observational and topography‐based hydrographic data sets: MERIT‐basins and the SWOT river database (SWORD). Water Resources Research, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024WR038633 .
Tom, M., Odermatt, D., David, C.H., Cerbelaud, A., Wade, J., Frey, H., 2025 . Monitoring Earth’s Glacial Lakes from Space with Machine Learning. Science of Remote Sensing https://doi.org/10.1016/j.srs.2025.100277 .
Tom, M., David, C.H., Marlis, K.M., Zimdars, P.A., Bonassies, Q., Wade, J., Cerbelaud, A., Bonnema, M., Pavelsky, T., Huang, T., 2025 . Event-based Serverless Environmental Modeling on the Cloud: A Pedagogical Guide and River Case Study. Environmental Modelling & Software https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2025.106753 .
Cerbelaud, A., Favro, A., Roupioz, L., Blanchet, G., Briottet, X., Delvit, J.-M., Breil, P, 2020 . Potentiel de l’imagerie optique satellitaire à haute résolution pour détecter les dommages engendrés par des épisodes pluvieux extrêmes. La Houille Blanche https://doi.org/10.1051/lhb/2020059 .Payrastre, O., Nicolle, P., Bonnifait, L., Brigode, P., Astagneau, P., Baise, A., Belleville, A., Bouamara, N., Bourgin, F., Breil, P., Brunet, P., Cerbelaud, A., Courapied, F., Devreux, L., Dreyfus, R., Gaume, E., Nomis, S., Poggio, J., Pons, F., Rabab, Y., Sevrez, D., 2022 . Tempête Alex du 2 octobre 2020 dans les Alpes-Maritimes : une contribution de la communauté scientifique à l’estimation des débits de pointe des crues. La Houille Blanche https://doi.org/10.1080/27678490.2022.2082891 .
Roupioz, X. Briottet, K. Adeline, A. Al Bitar, D. Barbon-Dubosc, R. Barda-Chatain, P. Barillot, S. Bridier, E. Carroll, C. Cassante, A. Cerbelaud , P. Déliot, P. Doublet, et al., 2023 . Multi-source datasets acquired over Toulouse (France) in 2021 for urban microclimate studies during the CAMCATT/AI4GEO field campaign. Data in Brief https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109109 .
