Research interests

I am interested in studying the atmosphere-biosphere interactions, in particular land and sea surface temperatures and their relationship to atmospheric chemistry and physics.

Peer Reviewed Publications

2023

Bouillon, M., Safieddine, S., & Clerbaux, C. (2023). Sudden stratospheric warmings in the Northern Hemisphere observed with IASI. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 128, e2023JD038692. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023JD038692

Abeed, R., Viatte, C., Porter, W. C., Evangeliou, N., Clerbaux, C., Clarisse, L., Van Damme, M., Coheur, P.-F., and Safieddine, S.: A roadmap to estimating agricultural ammonia volatilization over Europe using satellite observations and simulation data, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 12505–12523, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-12505-2023, 2023.

Lam, L., George, M., Gardoll, S., Safieddine, S., Whitburn, S., Clerbaux, C.: Tropical Cyclone Detection from the Thermal Infrared Sensor IASI Data Using the Deep Learning Model YOLOv3. Atmosphere. 2023; 14(2):215. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14020215.

Tencé, F., Jumelet, J., Bouillon, M., Cugnet, D., Bekki, S., Safieddine, S., Keckhut, P., and Sarkissian, A.: 14 years of lidar measurements of polar stratospheric clouds at the French Antarctic station Dumont d'Urville, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 23, 431–451, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-431-2023, 2023.

 

2022

Bouillon, M., Safieddine, S., Whitburn, S., Clarisse, L., Aires, F., Pellet, V., Lezeaux, O., Scott, N. A., Doutriaux-Boucher, M., and Clerbaux, C.: Time evolution of temperature profiles retrieved from 13 years of infrared atmospheric sounding interferometer (IASI) data using an artificial neural network, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 1779–1793, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-1779-2022, 2022.

Viatte, C., Abeed, R., Yamanouchi, S., Porter, W. C., Safieddine, S., Van Damme, M., Clarisse, L., Herrera, B., Grutter, M., Coheur, P.-F., Strong, K., and Clerbaux, C.: NH3 spatiotemporal variability over Paris, Mexico City, and Toronto, and its link to PM2.5 during pollution events, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 12907–12922, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-12907-2022, 2022.

Safieddine S., Clerbaux C., Clarisse L., Whitburn, S., and E.A.B Eltahir: Present and future land surface and wet bulb temperatures in the Arabian Peninsula, Environ. Res. Lett. 17 044029. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac507c, 2022.

Chen X., Wu L., Chen X., Zhang Y., Guo J.,Safieddine S., Huang F., & Wang X. (2022). Cross-Tropopause Transport of Surface Pollutants during the Beijing 21 July Deep Convection Event, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79(5), 1349-1362. https://doi.org/10.1175/JAS-D-21-0115.1, 2022.

2021

Whitburn S., Clarisse L., Bouillon M., Safieddine S., George M., Dewitte S., De Longueville H., Coheur P.-F., Clerbaux C.: Trends in spectrally resolved outgoing longwave radiation from 10 years of satellite measurements, npj climate and atmospheric science, Springer Nature, 4, pp.48. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00205-7, 2021.

Parracho A. C., Safieddine S., Lezeaux O., Clarisse L., Whitburn S., George M., Prunet P., Clerbaux C.: IASI‐derived sea surface temperature dataset for climate studies, Earth and Space Science, 8, e2020EA001427. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001427, 2021.

Abeed R., Clerbaux C., Clarisse L., Van Damme M., Coheur P.-F., Safieddine S.: A space view of agricultural and industrial changes during the Syrian civil war, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9 (1): 000041, https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.000041, 2021.

Whitburn S., Clarisse L., Bouillon M., Safieddine S., George M., Dewitte S., De Longueville H., Coheur P.-F., Clerbaux C.: Trends in spectrally resolved outgoing longwave radiation from 10 years of satellite measurements, npj climate and atmospheric science, Springer Nature, 4, pp.48. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-021-00205-7, 2021.

Parracho A. C., Safieddine S., Lezeaux O., Clarisse L., Whitburn S., George M., Prunet P., Clerbaux C.: IASI‐derived sea surface temperature dataset for climate studies, Earth and Space Science, 8, e2020EA001427. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020EA001427, 2021

 Abeed R., Clerbaux C., Clarisse L., Van Damme M., Coheur P.-F., Safieddine S.: A space view of agricultural and industrial changes during the Syrian civil war, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 9 (1): 000041, https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2021.000041, 2021.

2020

Viatte C., Clerbaux C., Maes C., Daniel P., Garello R., Safieddine S., Ardhuin F.: Air Pollution and Sea Pollution Seen from Space, Surveys in Geophysics, 41, 1583–1609. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10712-020-09599-0, 2020.


Safieddine S., Bouillon M., Paracho A., Jumelet J., Tence F., Pazmino A., Goutail F., Wespes C., Bekki S., Boynard A., Hadji-Lazaro J. et al.: Antarctic ozone enhancement during the 2019 sudden stratospheric warming event, Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087810. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087810, 2020.

Safieddine S., Parracho A. C., George M., Aires F., Pellet V., Clarisse L., Whitburn S., Lezeaux O., Thepaut J.-N., Hersbach H., Radnoti G., Goettsche F., Martin M., Doutriaux Boucher M., Coppens D., August T., Zhou D.K. and Clerbaux C.: Artificial Neural Networks to retrieve land and sea skin temperature from IASI, Remote Sensing, 12(17), 2777, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12172777, 2020.


Whitburn S., Clarisse L., Bauduin S., George M., Hurtmans D., Safieddine S., Coheur P.-F., Clerbaux C.: Spectrally resolved fluxes from IASI data: Retrieval algorithm for clear-sky measurements, Journal of Climate, 33(16), 6971-6988, https://doi.org/10.1175/JCLI-D-19-0523.1, 2020

 

Bouillon M., Safieddine S., Hadji-Lazaro J., Whitburn S., Clarisse L., Doutriaux-Boucher M., Coppens D., August T., Jacquette E., Clerbaux C.: Ten-year assessment of IASI radiance and temperature, Remote Sens.12(15), 2393; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152393, 2020.

2017

Safieddine S. A., and Heald C. L.: A global assessment of dissolved organic carbon in precipitation. Geophysical Research Letters, 44, 11,672– 11,681, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL075270, 2017.

Porter, W. C., Safieddine, S. A. and Heald, C. L.: Impact of aromatics and monoterpenes on simulated tropospheric ozone and total OH reactivity, Atmos. Environ., 169, 250–257, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2017.08.048, 2017.

 

Safieddine, S., Heald, C. L., and Henderson, B. H.: The Global Non-Methane Reactive Organic Carbon Budget: A Modeling Perspective, Geophys. Res. Lett., 44, 3897–3906, 2017GL072602, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017GL072602, 2017.

2016


Safieddine, S., Boynard, A., Hao, N., Huang, F., Wang, L., Ji, D., Barret, B., Ghude, S. D., Coheur, P.-F., Hurtmans, D., and Clerbaux, C.: Tropospheric ozone variability during the East Asian summer monsoon as observed by satellite (IASI), aircraft (MOZAIC) and ground stations, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10489–10500, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10489-2016, 2016.

Wespes, C., Hurtmans, D., Emmons, L. K., Safieddine, S., Clerbaux, C., Edwards, D. P., and Coheur, P.-F.: Ozone variability in the troposphere and the stratosphere from the first 6 years of IASI observations (2008–2013), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 5721–5743, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5721-2016, 2016.

Quennehen, B., Raut, J.-C., Law, K. S., Daskalakis, N., Ancellet, G., Clerbaux, C., Kim, S.-W., Lund, M. T., Myhre, G., Olivié, D. J. L., Safieddine, S., Skeie, R. B., Thomas, J. L., Tsyro, S., Bazureau, A., Bellouin, N., Hu, M., Kanakidou, M., Klimont, Z., Kupiainen, K., Myriokefalitakis, S., Quaas, J., Rumbold, S. T., Schulz, M., Cherian, R., Shimizu, A., Wang, J., Yoon, S.-C., and Zhu, T.: Multi-model evaluation of short-lived pollutant distributions over east Asia during summer 2008, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 10765–10792, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-10765-2016, 2016.

Boynard, A., Hurtmans, D., Koukouli, M. E., Goutail, F., Bureau, J., Safieddine, S., Lerot, C., Hadji-Lazaro, J., Wespes, C., Pommereau, J.-P., Pazmino, A., Zyrichidou, I., Balis, D., Barbe, A., Mikhailenko, S. N., Loyola, D., Valks, P., Van Roozendael, M., Coheur, P.-F., and Clerbaux, C.: Seven years of IASI ozone retrievals from FORLI: validation with independent total column and vertical profile measurements, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 4327–4353, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-9-4327-2016, 2016.

2015

Clerbaux C., Hadji-Lazaro J., Turquety S., George M., Boynard A., Pommier M., Safieddine S., Coheur P.-F., Hurtmans D., Clarisse L., Van Damme M. et al.: Tracking pollutants from space: Eight years of IASI satellite observation, Comptes Rendus Géoscience, Elsevier, 2015, 347 (3), pp.134-144, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crte.2015.06.001

2014

Boynard A., Clerbaux C., Clarisse L., Safieddine S., Pommier M., Van Damme M., Bauduin S., Oudot C., Hadji-Lazaro J., Hurtmans D., Coheur P.-F. et al.: First simultaneous space measurements of atmospheric pollutants in the boundary layer from IASI: A case study in the North China Plain, Geophys. Res. Lett., 41, 645– 651, doi:10.1002/2013GL058333. 2014

Safieddine, S., Boynard, A., Coheur, P.-F., Hurtmans, D., Pfister, G., Quennehen, B., Thomas, J. L., Raut, J.-C., Law, K. S., Klimont, Z., Hadji-Lazaro, J., George, M., and Clerbaux, C.: Summertime tropospheric ozone assessment over the Mediterranean region using the thermal infrared IASI/MetOp sounder and the WRF-Chem model, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 14, 10119–10131, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-14-10119-2014, 2014.

2013

Safieddine S., Clerbaux C., George M., Hadji-Lazaro J., Hurtmans D., Coheur P.-F., Wespes C., Loyola D., Valks P., Hao N.: Tropospheric ozone and nitrogen dioxide measurements in urban and rural regions as seen by IASI and GOME-2, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 10,555– 10,566, doi:10.1002/jgrd.50669, 2013.

Book Chapters

Sarah Safieddine, Camille Viatte. Reactive Tropospheric Chemistry. Thierry Phulpin, Didier Renaut, Hervé Roquet, Claude Camy-Peyret (eds). Satellites for Atmospheric Sciences 2: Meteorology, Climate and Atmospheric Composition, chapitre 7, Wiley, pp.143-151, 2023, Online ISBN: 9781394264780; Print ISBN: 9781789451412. ⟨10.1002/9781394264780.ch7⟩

Claude Camy-Peyret, Sarah Safieddine. Stratospheric Chemistry. Thierry Phulpin, Didier Renaut, Hervé Roquet, Claude Camy-Peyret (eds). Satellites for Atmospheric Sciences 2: Meteorology, Climate and Atmospheric Composition, chapitre 11, Wiley, pp.189-201, 2023, Online ISBN: 9781394264780; Print ISBN: 9781789451412. ⟨10.1002/9781394264780.ch11⟩

Clerbaux, C., Bauduin, S., Boynard, A., Clarisse, L., Coheur, P., George, M., Hadji-Lazaro, J., Hurtmans, D., Safieddine, S., Van Damme, M., and Whitburn, S.: Observation of Air Pollution over China Using the IASI Thermal Infrared Space Sensor. In : Bouarar I., Wang X., Brasseur G. (eds) Air Pollution in Eastern Asia : An Integrated Perspective. ISSI Scientific Report Series, vol 16. Springer, Cham, doi :10.1007/978-3-319-59489-7- 14, 2017.

Press and Media

2024

The Conversation France: Les paradoxes de l’ozone, à la fois protecteur, polluant et gaz à effet de serre

The Conversation France: 35 °C à Paris : les JO 2024 permettront-ils de mieux comprendre les dangers de la température humide ?

2022

CNRS press release: Viabilité et réchauffement climatique : l’humidité compte

Participation/interview to different media:

2024

Liberation, interview: L’humanité a sauvé la couche d’ozone, après avoir provoqué sa destruction partielle

France Inter, Camille Passe au vert: « Wet bulb » : qu’est-ce que la température humide ?

Radio Television Swisse, Invitée sport : Température humide pendant les JO

2023

Liberation, interview: Malgré une tendance positive, la couche d'ozone est soumise à une forte variabilité

2022

Now Lebanon: The invisible crisis of air pollution

Ouest France: Canicules à répétition, humidité extrême… Le Pakistan et l’Inde vont-ils devenir « inhabitables » ?

Ouest France: Météo. Mais au fait, c’est quoi des températures « invivables » ?

TF1 info: Changement climatique : ces régions du monde déjà inhospitalières

Atlantico: Ce que les vagues de chaleur extrêmes qui frappent l’Inde nous apprennent sur les limites de survie du corps humain