Principal Investigator - French
| Title | Prof. |
| First Names | Hassan |
| Family Name | BENCHERIF |
| Nationality | France |
| Year of Birth | 1966 |
Hassan BENCHERIF is Professor at Reunion University (Universite de La Reunion). He is a LiDAR expert with most research activities focus on:
- Dynamics and variability of the UT-LS region
- Trend and ozone change in the tropical stratosphere
some Publications:
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Mbatha N., Sivakumar V., Bencherif H. and Malinga S.B., Extracting gravity wave parameters during the September 2002 Southern Hemisphere major sudden stratospheric warming using a SANAE imaging Riometer, Ann. Geophy., 31, 1709-1719, 2013
Mzé N., A. Hauchecorne, H. Bencherif , F. Dalaudier and J.-L. Bertaux, Climatology and comparison of ozone from ENVISAT/GOMOS and SHADOZ/balloon-sonde observations in the southern tropics, Atmos. Chem. Phys ., 10, 8025-8035, 2011
Sivakumar V , Bencherif H, Begue N and Thompson A.M., Tropopause characteristics and variability from 11-year SHADOZ observations in the southern tropics and sub-tropics, Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology , doi:10.1175/ 2011JAMC2453.1, 2011
Begue N, Bencherif H, Sivakumar V, Kirgis G, Mze N and Leclair de Bellevue J., Temperature variability and trends in the UT-LS over a sub-tropical site, Reunion (20.8 S, 55.5 E), Atmos. Chem. Phys., 10, 8563-8574, 2010
Bencherif H., L. El Amraoui, G. Kirgis, J. Leclair de Bellevue, A. Hauchecorne, N. Mzé, T. Portafaix, A. Pazmino, and F. Goutail, Analysis of a rapid increase of stratospheric ozone during late austral summer 2008 over Kerguelen (49.4° S, 70.3° E), Atmos. Chem. Phys ., 11, 363-373, 2011
Bencherif H., L. El Amraoui, N.Semane, S. Massart, D.V. Charyulu, A. Hauchecorne and V.-H. Peuch, Examination of the 2002 major warming in the southern hemisphere using ground-based and Odin/SMR assimilated data: stratospheric ozone distributions and tropic/mid-latitude exchange, Can. J. Phys ., 85, 1287-1300, 2007
Bencherif H., R. Diab, T. Portafaix, B. Morel, P. Keckhut, and A. Moorgawa, Temperature climatology and trend estimates in the UTLS region as observed over a southern subtropical site, Durban, South Africa, Atmos. Chem. Phys. , 6, 5121–5128, 2006
Morel B., H. Bencherif , P. Keckhut, T. Portafaix, A. Hauchecorne and S. Baldy, Fine-scale study of a thick stratospheric ozone lamina at the edge of the southern subtropical barrier. Part II: Numerical simulations with coupled dynamics models, J. Geophys. Res., Vol. 110, D17101, doi:10.1029 /2004JD005737, 2005
Sivakumar, V., Morel, B., Bencherif , H., Baray, J.L., Baldy, S., Hauchecorne, A., and Rao, P.B., Rayleigh lidar observation of a warm stratopause over a tropical station, Gadanki (13.5 ° N; 79.2 ° E), Atmos. Chem. Phys ., 4, 1989–1996, 2004
Bencherif , H., Portafaix, T., Baray, J.L., Morel, B., Baldy, S., Leveau, J., Moorgawa A., M. Michaelis, Hauchecorne, A., Keckhut, P., Diab, R., LIDAR observations of lower stratospheric aerosols over South Africa linked to large scale transport across the southern subtropical barrier, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics , 65, 707-715, 2003