*Please note that messages from Guy’s colleagues at MeteoFrance are included first; the remaining messages appear in the order in which they were received.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J’ai peu travaill\u00e9 de fa\u00e7on continue avec Guy, mais nos chemins se sont assez souvent crois\u00e9s, un peu lorsque j’\u00e9tais dans l’\u00e9quipe de direction de l’Ecole Nationale de la M\u00e9t\u00e9orologie, plus r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement lorsque je fus ensuite directeur adjoint de la recherche de M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France, et, r\u00e9cemment, au titre de mes fonctions actuelles de charg\u00e9 de mission pour les Ing\u00e9nieurs des Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es en poste \u00e0 M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France.
C’est en m\u00e9moire de ces contacts, toujours hauts en couleurs et anim\u00e9s, que, dans les circonstances douloureuses qu’ils traversent, je tiens \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter \u00e0 sa famille et \u00e0 ses proches l’assurance de ma profonde sympathie, et mes condol\u00e9ances bien sinc\u00e8res.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
G\u00e9rard De Moor
M\u00e9t\u00e9oFrance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J’ai beaucoup de peine \u00e0 l’annonce de cette triste nouvelle. J’avais beaucoup travaill\u00e9 avec Guy durant les ann\u00e9es 80 et j’en ai gard\u00e9 un excellent souvenir \u00e0 la fois professionnel et personnel. Je transmets \u00e0 tous ceux qui lui \u00e9taient proches mes tr\u00e8s sinc\u00e8res condol\u00e9ances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yves Durand
M\u00e9t\u00e9oFrance<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lorsque j\u2019ai appris la terrible nouvelle j\u2019\u00e9tais emp\u00each\u00e9 de faire quoique ce soit, je remercie Pascal Brunel d\u2019avoir donn\u00e9 cette photo o\u00f9 je suis avec Guy. Cette photo t\u00e9moigne publiquement de l\u2019estime mutuelle tr\u00e8s profonde que nous nous portions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guy m\u2019a toujours \u00e9tonn\u00e9 par sa d\u00e9termination et sa comp\u00e9tence. Je tiens \u00e0 signaler avec quel brio il a transpos\u00e9 la protection des fr\u00e9quences actives (T\u00e9l\u00e9communications) au tout nouveau domaine de la protection des fr\u00e9quences passives (T\u00e9l\u00e9d\u00e9tection). Au del\u00e0 du simple calcul, cela demande une connaissance scientifique approfondie tant au niveau des capteurs que de la physique de l\u2019environnement. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 Guy Rochard des moyens de surveillance par satellite de notre environnement ont \u00e9t\u00e9 prot\u00e9g\u00e9s et seront encore disponibles malgr\u00e9 des pressions commerciales voire autres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sur le plan personnel Guy m\u2019a aid\u00e9 \u00e0 combattre la maladie par ses encouragements tr\u00e8s fermes. Merci Guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Je souhaite exprimer mes sinc\u00e8res condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 sa famille, \u00e0 ses amis et mes anciens coll\u00e8gues. Comme on dit en Bretagne \u00ab Kenavo Guy \u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n
English Translation:
When hearing of Guy\u2019s sudden passing I was unable to do anything. I thank Pascal Brunel for providing the picture of Guy and I. This picture shows the deep regard we have for each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guy has always amazed me by his determination and his proficiency. I want to note how good did he manage to switch from the active frequencies protection process (Telecommunications) to the passive frequencies protection process (Remote sensing). More than computation ability this needs to have a deep knowledge in sensors area as well as in the environment behaviour. Thanks to Guy Rochard space environment monitoring capabilities have been registered and will remain available in the future despite commercial lobbying or worst.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From a personal point of view to mention how kindly but firmly Guy helps me to fight a cancer. Thanks Guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I wish to express sincere condolences to his family, his friends and my formers colleagues. As we use to say in Brittany \u201cKenavo Guy\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jean-Francois AUREJAC
former Senior Technical Advisor at CMS, Lannion, Meteo-France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Guy, from his French colleagues\u2026.For Guy Rochard, I was one his French colleagues, same generation, starting to work with him on assimilation of satellite data in the seventies, in Paris, then Reading, then Toulouse. Guy was always keen to teach me more about subtle properties of satellite data. I learnt a lot through him. He was always keen to learn more about data assimilation and to understand more the \u201csatellite user problems\u201d. His enthusiastic approach was pushing me to extract more from the satellite data, me and many other French colleagues who feel as sad as me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will miss Guy a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jean Pailleux
M\u00e9t\u00e9oFrance CNRM<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Je suis tr\u00e8s \u00e9mu par le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de Guy qui est un exemple de combativit\u00e9 et qui fait partie de mes amis de Lannion.
Daniel Breton, retrait\u00e9 du CNES qui a bien connu Guy dans le domaine de la protection des fr\u00e9quences m’a appel\u00e9 ce matin et m’a fait part de sa tristesse.
Tu peux assurer la famille de Guy que nous le regrettons beaucoup.
Bien amicalement,
Fernand Karcher
M\u00e9t\u00e9oFrance CNRM<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are very sorry to hear the bad news. Guy is one of our best friends. He gave us a lot of help on TOVS work. Particularly, Guy took care so much when we visited CMS\/Lannion. We’ll remember him forever. Please send our best wishes to his wife and his families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ZHANG Fengying & RAN Maonong
CMA\/NSMC of China<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have been very grieved in learning the death of our friend Guy. I remember him very well as one of the most active members and co-chairman of ITWG since the first meetings and more recently in the field of frequency protection, also in the framework of EUMETNET programmes. I would like to express to his family my sincere condolences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Paolo Pagano
Italian Meteorological Service<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the late 1980’s – early 1990’s my colleagues and I at NASA developed WetNet, the first near real time passive microwave satellite remote distribution system. Guy was a leader getting the European community involved in this new data distribution system. We processed the SSM\/I data on a daily basis and distributed the data by modem and\/or magneto-optical disk. This was the forerunner of the Earth science data distribution system we have today. I was fortunate to visit Guy in Roscoff and worked with him on WetNet. He was the perfect host and great gentlemen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I speak for many in the NASA community who will miss his leadership and presence in the Earth science community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sincerely,
Michael Goodman
NASA \/ Marshall Space Flight Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here in FUNCEME- Fortaleza-Brazil, we are very sorry to hear the bad news about our friend Guy. He had a pleasant personality and made many friends here at FUNCEME.
As said by ZHANG and RAN, we’ll remember him forever. Our sincere condolences to his family.
Antonio Geraldo Ferreira
FUNCEME-Fortaleza-Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guy Rochard always showed strong support for my work and was a key person for my integration in the French research community in the mid-nineties. I traveled several times to Lannion to discuss atmospheric radiative transfer modeling with him and his group and he always was the perfect host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I join the community in deeply regretting his loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Juan R. Pardo
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas – Madrid (Spain)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those of us at AER who knew Guy as a friend and colleague are saddened to learn of his passing. Guy was a passionate and dedicated contributor to this community as well as a charming individual. We will all miss him. Our condolences go to his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nous tous \u00e0 AER qui connaissions Guy en temps que coll\u00e8gue et ami, sommes profond\u00e9ment pein\u00e9s par sa disparition. Guy \u00e9tait un membre passionn\u00e9 et d\u00e9vou\u00e9 de la communaut\u00e9 scientifique, ainsi qu’une personne d’une gentillesse hors paire. Il nous manquera \u00e9norm\u00e9ment. Toutes nos condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 sa famille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ron Isaacs, Executive Vice President
AER
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J’ai rencontr\u00e9 Guy pour la premi\u00e8re fois il y a 12 ans, quand j’\u00e9tais au LMD, lors de la conf\u00e9rence ITSC-VII \u00e0 Igls, en Autriche, un jour de neige comme aujourd’hui dans le Massachusetts. J’ai toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 touch\u00e9e par son humour, sa convivialit\u00e9 et sa gentillesse. Sa fa\u00e7on passionn\u00e9e et pugnace de d\u00e9fendre les fr\u00e9quences microondes contre les fr\u00e9quences radio m’a toujours \u00e9bahie, ainsi que son attachement et son combat pour le partage des informations scientifiques, seule fa\u00e7on de faire vraiment avancer les choses. C’\u00e9tait quelqu’un que j’aimais beaucoup. Je suis profond\u00e9ment boulevers\u00e9e par sa disparition si brutale et inattendue. Je n’arrive pas \u00e0 me dire qu’il n’est plus l\u00e0, que je ne recevrai plus de temps en temps de petits messages concernant le travail toujours bien sympathiques et tr\u00e8s amicaux. \u00c7a va \u00eatre difficile. J’aimerais que toute sa famille et ses proches sachent combien il \u00e9tait appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 de tous ceux qui le connaissaient, \u00e0 travers le monde entier. Qu’ils sachent combien je partage leur peine, combien nous la partageons tous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
English translation:
I met Guy for the first time 12 years ago, while I was at LMD, at ITSC-VII in Igls, Austria, on a snowy day like today in Massachusetts. I’ve always been very touched by his sense of humor, his conviviality and his kindness. His passion and pugnacity in defending microwave frequencies against radio frequencies have always amazed me, as well as his strong will and fight for information and knowledge to be shared among the members of our community, only way to get things moving. It was someone I loved dearly. I am so moved by his so sudden death. It is really hard to think that I will never see him again, nor I will receive from time to time an email from him dealing with work but always in a very friendly manner. It is going to be tough. I would like his whole family to know how much he was appreciated and cherished by all the people who knew him, all over the world. I would like them to know how much I will miss him, how much we will ALL miss him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
H\u00e9l\u00e8ne RIEU-ISAACS
AER
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It makes me really sad to hear this. He was a rare person and beyond the
personal loss which must be tremendous for you and your colleageues we have all
lost his ceaseless and selfless engagement for frequency protection.
Anke Thoss
SMHI<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J’avais eu l’occasion de travailler directement avec Guy Rochard pendant ma th\u00e8se il y a une quinzaine d’ann\u00e9e. Depuis, je l’avais rencontr\u00e9 \u00e0 quelques conf\u00e9rences et je suivais son activit\u00e9 \u00e0 travers les Emails r\u00e9guliers a l’ITWG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J’ai toujours beaucoup appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 Guy, ses qualit\u00e9s de dynamisme, de simplicit\u00e9, et surtout son cot\u00e9 chaleureux. Je ne peux oublier que, tout jeune th\u00e9sard, il avait pris le temps de me ballader dans Lannion tout en m’exposant les activit\u00e9s du CMS.
Sa mort soudaine est donc un choc douloureux. Je vous prie de bien vouloir transmettre mes condol\u00e9ances et ma sympathie \u00e0 sa famille et coll\u00e8gues.
Bien cordialement
Francois-Marie BREON
CEA\/DSM\/LSCE
France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please send his family a sign of my deepest sorrow for Guy missing to all of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Rolando Rizzi
University of Bologna
Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to express my condolences to Guy’s family and MeteoFrance.
Sincerely
Miguel A. Martinez
Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia (I.N.M.)
Madrid, SPAIN<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nombre d’entre nous au LMD connaissons Guy Rochard depuis de nombreuses ann\u00e9es. Nous avons toujours appr\u00e9ci\u00e9 son dynamisme et sa passion pour la m\u00e9t\u00e9orologie satellitaire. Il a rendu de nombreux services \u00e0 notre communaut\u00e9, en particulier ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es par son engagement pour la d\u00e9fense des fr\u00e9quences microondes d’observation de l’atmosph\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nous sommes att\u00e9r\u00e9s par sa disparition subite, et nous transmettons \u00e0 sa famille et \u00e0 ses coll\u00e8gues et amis nos sinc\u00e8res condol\u00e9ances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Michel Desbois et ses collaborateurs
LMD
France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nous sommes tr\u00e8s tristes au Bureau des Fr\u00e9quence du CNES d’apprendre la mort de
Guy. C’\u00e9tait un grand d\u00e9fenseur des fr\u00e9quences passives et m\u00eame si son style
pouvait parfois heurter certaines sensibilit\u00e9s, il ne laissait pas indiff\u00e9rent
et faisait vraiment bouger les choses. Nous avons collabor\u00e9 tr\u00e8s activement avec
Guy ces derni\u00e8res ann\u00e9es lors de nos r\u00e9unions \u00e0 la CEPT, \u00e0 l’UIT ou au SFCG et
il \u00e9tait un \u00e9l\u00e9ment indispensable de nos reflexions. La derni\u00e8re r\u00e9union du SFCG
\u00e0 Pekin portait la marque de Guy qui avait milit\u00e9 activement pour son
organisation. Sa passion, son franc-parler mais aussi sa bonne humeur et sa
gentillesse nous manqueront beaucoup.
Pouvez-vous transmettre nos condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 sa famille et \u00e0 ses proches.
Meilleures Salutations – Best Regards
Vincent Meens
CNES
France <\/p>\n\n\n\n
C’est avec une immense tristesse que j’apprends que Guy nous a brusquement quitt\u00e9. Il \u00e9tait, de tr\u00e8s longue date, un coll\u00e8gue de travail et d’\u00e9changes scientifiques toujours renouvel\u00e9s et fructueux, mais il \u00e9tait avant tout un ami dont le souvenir restera toujours pr\u00e9sent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Je partage la peine de sa famille et je lui transmets mes plus sinc\u00e8res condol\u00e9ances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nicole Jacquinet
LMD, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Je suis tr\u00e8s pein\u00e9e d’apprendre cette triste nouvelle. Guy \u00e9tait plein d’\u00e9nergie il y a encore si peu de temps \u00e0 propos de la d\u00e9fense des fr\u00e9quences microondes. Il va manquer \u00e0 notre communaut\u00e9.
Transmets mes condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 sa famille et \u00e0 ses proches,
Amicalement<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Catherine Prigent
CNRS, LERMA
Observatoire de Paris
France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We are so saddened by the loss of wonderful scientist, we will miss his warmth and zeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dongsoo Kim and colleagues from
NESDIS\/NCDC<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So often, the papers I found most useful were written by Guy Rochard. I have known Guy for just about the whole of my working life. From early TOVS meetings to various international workshops, Guy was always so animated and involved and a great person to have dinner with. Atmospheric remote sensing in Australia will miss him \u2013 I will too. One often learns about the significance of an individual\u2019s life when they leave us for the peace of eternity. The \u201csad news\u201d emails received from the Guy\u2019s friends and associates throughout the world reveal how much he did for others and was loved by all who came into contact with him. The ITOVS working group was one of the organizations that he worked through to make our world a better place to live. Guy provided much of the energy that fueled the ITWG. He pioneered the research in the use satellite AVHRR imagery to improve the TOVS sounding product and his tireless efforts to preserve the availability of the frequencies that we use for microwave remote sensing. Possibly most important to the ITWG, however, was Guy\u2019s influence and generous assistance to help others, throughout the world, to participate in our ITOVS science. He was an inspiration and mentor to many students and young scientists from other countries, in addition to his own. He made it possible for them to travel abroad to university and government research centers to enhance their knowledge and experience. Many of us were fortunate to be able to help mentor Guy\u2019s students and associates from abroad and have the opportunity to develop lasting friendships and associations with them that we otherwise would not enjoy. Guy was an amazing promoter of international cooperation in development of our scientists, as well as our science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Guy was such a fundamental part of the ITWG that it is hard to imagine participating in an ITSC without him; may his spirit remain with us always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bill Smith Sr. We understand that the loss of Guy Rochard is hard for you to bear. For this reason, we would like to express our deepest sympathy for all of you who now have to go on with the work at CMS without Guy being amongst you. Although we have not had so much of direct contacts with Guy, it has been obvious for us how important he has been for the international meteorological satellite community and, especially, for you at CMS in Lannion. Guy really made a difference through his engagement, both at CMS and on the international arena, and this is something we all should remember and keep in our hearts as an inspiration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our thoughts go to all of you and to Guy’s family<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yours sincerely We are very sorry to hear the bad news in MSC. I have known Guy Rochard since the 7th ITSC 1993, Igls. Even I am not so familiar with Guy, he was a very nice gentleman and active scientist, and a great defender for the passive microwave community. I want to express sincere condolences to his family. As a previous co-chair of ITWG I too can attest to the wonderful contribution that Guy has made to the remote sensing\/sounding community over the many years of his involvement – not just by what he has done, but by who he was as a person. He has made so many contributions: – from science leadership to frequency protection – and all with his unique flair… and tenacity. It is with much sadness that we within the NOAA spectrum community learned of Guy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He will always be remembered as a champion for the protection of passive sensing frequencies, strongly supporting NOAA\u2019s 2005 passive microwave workshop. His passion and unrelenting fervor for this cause is an example for all of us to emulate in our own endeavors. Guy\u2019s gentle persuasion will be greatly missed in our group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I enjoyed his company at many radio frequency meetings. Guy was always the perfect host, most notably at SFCG-24 held in Perros-Guirec, and he was always the most gracious guest as well, most recently at our workshop here in Washington, D. C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The entire NOAA spectrum group grieves the loss of our colleague, Guy. We extend to his family our most sincere condolences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dave McGinnis I first met Guy in the early 80’s when I was dealing with AVHRR dissemination in France. And then many times and on many occasions around the ITU, ITWG, EUMETNET and frequency allocation business. I have always been impressed by his dedication to the job and our “cause,” his good spirit and friendliness. He played a very significant role and will be difficult to replace. I must say I will dearly miss him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please send our best wishes to his wife and family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yann Kerr As a CNES engineer, I have been working closely with Guy since 1993 on the touchy issue of frequency protection for passive sensors. Since then the situation has very significantly improved, thanks to Guy’s unfailing commitment and pugnacity. During these years I appreciated also his very generous character. He was a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daniel Breton, formerly french space agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je n’ai jamais travaill\u00e9 directement avec Guy mais j’ai eu l’occasion de le Denis Blumstein My deepest sadness upon hearing of Guy’s sudden and untimely passing. I have known Guy more than 25 years – he was a remarkable person both in science and humanitarian sense. It is a vast loss for all engaged in remote sensing activities. On behalf of myself, and many my colleagues in Russia. Alexander B.Uspensky Receiving the totally unexpected news from M. Roquet, I am shocked and sad to hear that Guy has passed away. During many years I have worked very close with Guy and have always regarded him as a close friend. Guy was very dedicated to the protection of passive sensors and was very gifted to make problems in this area aware to the scientific world and to public. During many Radio Conferences and associated preperatory meetings we were working closely together. I will miss him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would like to pass my condolences to his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Robert Wolf<\/p>\n\n\n\n I am very sad. I was very lucky to know Guy, not only for his science but, much more, for his humanity. I would like his family to please accept my heartfelt sympathy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sincerely, I have many memories of Guy \u2013 sharing physics books, exchanging music, looking at pictures of his Nancy (his granddaughter) and my Nancy (my wife), tasting cheeses and wines, dancing in my living room, walking around his home town, talking on the telephone (which always seemed to be nearby for him), and sharing advising responsibilities for students from all over. Guy was a teacher of physics, a protector of frequencies, a chairman of the International TOVS Working group, a seeker of knowledge, an enjoyer of life, and a friend. I will miss him. Paul Menzel I was stunned and deeply saddened by news of Guy’s passing. I always enjoyed his passion for all things, but especially for protection of microwave frequencies! He was a force for good that will be surely missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With deepest condolences for his family and with fond memories, I received this sad news in Bangkok for the UNEP\/ABC science team meeting. Still I cannot believe his sudden passing away, because I just sent him the following message from the International Radiation Commission (IRC) to appreciate his effort on the ITWG, after I received his notice on the ITWG activity on 18 Nov. 2005. He had been acting as an IRC\/ ITWG working group chair and has been very active in the working group activities until now. We, IRC, express deep condolences on this sad event, and like to extend our great appreciation to his contribution to the communities. We wish that his family members and those who loved Guy Rochard recover from this sorrow as quick as possible. We, IRC, will succeed his effort and his will to attain a great success in the remote sensing studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Terry Nakajima, I am shocked and saddened to hear this sad news. Guy kindly talked to me and taught me a lot of things when I first attended TOVS meeting at Budapest. Also he helped us introduce AAPP. A few weeks ago he gave me a call where he suggested the collaboration between China and Japan on satellite data assimilation. I deeply appreciate his kindness and commitment. Like all of you, I was lucky to know Guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would like to send to his family my sincere condolences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sincerely, We are deeply saddened by news of Guy’s passing. He gave us lots of help on our TOVS work. Dr. Guy Rochard will live in our heart forever. We want to express sincere condolences to his family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Songyan Gu WMO mourns the loss of a dedicated contributor who always had the best interests of WMO Members at heart. Guy’s zeal and professional acumen were cornerstones in the sounding community. He lead the International TOVS Working Group not only as a Chairman but as an enthusiastic participant in many of the areas. His enthusiasm was infectious. He motivated and led an effort to protect radio frequency allocations necessary for our work. The realignment of the 50GHz band several years ago is a direct testimony to Guy’s leadership and this will be a lasting legacy. He always would work with WMO’s best interests at heart and kept the WMO Space Programme constantly aware of emerging issues. We will certainly miss a true friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Donald Hinsman Je suis egalement tres triste. Nous n avons pas toujours ete d accord avec Guy, mais j appreciais chez lui sa gentillesse et son humour. Sans parler de la tenacit\u00e9 avec laquelle il a defendu les causes dont il \u00e9tait le champion. Dommage! J imagine le vide qu il va laisser et garderai en memoire tous ces moments chaleureux connus \u00e0 l epoque de DEMOS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amiti\u00e9s Je viens de prendre connaissance de cette triste et subite nouvelle .. Guy will be very much missed here in Wisconsin. At the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) and its Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) Guy is widely recognized as a friend, as a highly respected leader in our field, and as one who has fought tirelessly to protect microwave frequency bands for remote sensing, He will surely be remembered with fondness and with very high regard. This is truly sad news. I have been very grieved over the sudden and untimely passing of my best friend Guy. It’s too tough for me to accept this reality. He always supports, inspires and encourages me. I have so many fond memories of him. We discussed radiative transfer modeling and ICI retrieval package in Lannion during my stay at CMS in the spring of 1999. He corrected the mistakes in my paper. We were fishing on his boat, walking along the street in his hometown of Treguier, climbing up the Great Wall, watching Peking opera and the acrobat performance, enjoying the dinners with or without Beijing Roasted Duck, tasting Tsingtao beer, exchanging CDs and books. On behalf of the Indian community I express my deepest condolence to the family of Guy’s. I never met him but he had called me few times and wanted to push Indian scientists to participate in ITWG activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ramesh Singh My interaction with Guy took place during the ITSC-XII in Lorne Australia. I found him a very positive and encouraging person. Over the past five years, Guy has been to me a friend and colleague. He has been important person to us on personal level also. My deepest condolences to the Family and Colleagues of Guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Devendra Singh It is a great shock to learn that Guy passed away. I met him several times at meetings on the protection of radio frequencies. We also had discussion on the subject by phone and e-mail. Guy’s dedication was impressive, and he contributed substantially to frequency protection. I also remember him as a very kind man. We will miss him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Please convey my sincere condolences to his family on their loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wim Monna Dr. Guy Rochard was always full of enthusiasm, collaborating with Brazilian efforts in satellite atmospheric retrieval, fighting in defense of 50Ghz band clean availability, participating in meetings, calling by phone, or even simply roaming and discussing along a Brazilian beach by night or a Bretagne street by day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Environmental Satellites Division at CPTEC\/INPE loses not only an excellent scientific partner but also a beloved friend of many of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Juan Carlos Ceballos and Sci Team of DSA\/CPTEC\/INPE It is a great shock to learn that Guy passed away. Guy visited our university many times, he gave us a lot of help . He is our good friends. I will miss him. I would like to express to his family my sincere condolences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Zhu yuanjing We have been shocked to learn on the passing of Guy. I knew Guy since the end of the eighties when we had in Europe discussions on future satellite systems which have become reality now (Meteosat Second Generation, METOP). Guy contributed at that time in relevant working groups with his deep knowledge on radiative transfer processes. I was always impressed by Guy’s powerful engagement, his enthusiasm and extreme motivations during his work. One of his most laudable merits are his activities to protect the microwave frequencies for meteorological purposes. He was so much engaged that he didn’t only convince other people, he was very much successful in carrying along colleagues and others in scientific (and political) issues. Europe has lost one of its remote sensing expert with greatest internationally reputation – we will be missing him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We would like to express to his family our sincere condolences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On behalf of all colleagues of DWD’s remote sensing experts, On behalf of my NPOESS Integrated Program Office colleagues, we are deeply saddened by Guy’s sudden passing. Guy’s excitement about NPOESS and NPP always invigorated those of us that are space systems providers. It was not unusual for me to routinely receive telephone calls from Guy at 4 or 5 o’clock PM here in Washington DC (US Eastern time) to ask about the latest rumor on NPP or NPOESS, especially regarding real time data. I feel very fortunate to have know him the last seven years. I will miss his spirit and passion. I had the fortune to know Guy Rochard and to spend with him enough time to Each of us (and not only as member of the TOVS community) missed a lot. It has been always difficult to me to remember Guy without smiling, thinking Thank you, dear Guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Valerio Tramutoli This is very sad news. Lot of people might be not aware of Guy’s investment to make happen an effective involvement of Africans in ITWG activities. I remember him struggling for inviting one of my colleague and myself at the ITWG conference in Budapest. I remember how passionated he was with his nice ideas: enlarge this community and protect frequencies for research. So this is also a big loss for the African community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rest in peace Guy and be proud of your ACTION!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Amadou Th. Gaye It was about two months before the 1st ITSC in 1983 that Guy visited the MSC (Meteorological Satellite Center) of Japan. The purpose is to exchange the information on the procedure to incorporate AVHRR data into TOVS data processing since, at that stage, CMS Lannion and MSC Japan are only the centers that have established the system for mixing AVHRR data with TOVS. The meeting started from the lesson of pronouncing “Rochard” since it was very hard for me to correctly mimic his voice. Finally, we decided to call him as Guy. The systems of both centers were greatly different. He brought up many photos and figures, and the discussion continued all day long from the morning to the evening, including many issues other than TOVS and AVHRR. After this work, Guy moved to microwave far from thermal infrared. I came to Meteorological Research Institute and began the study of remote sensing of atmospheric constituents using near infrared and visible. Although I spent there almost 20 years until I retired two years ago, I occasionally visited ITSC just like the native land, where Guy is always keeping busy. One of my pleasures was to see him again. I knew Guy since my involvement into remote sensing started (about 20 years ago). He was always very helpful and supportive whenever I needed something. In particular when I was in charge to plan and coordinate the AAPP development, he was the one to push the project and to help promote it with the community and with management. One important thing I learnt from him in that times was to stand upright and follow of what one is convinced even if the “party line” is different. He lived that every day. Not to forget his tireless efforts to protect the microwave frequencies. We just some weeks ago spoke about the efforts to make on the coordination of global and local processing – his passion were the users and the use of the satellite data by everybody in a good and correct way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I lost a friend and colleague whom I ‘ll never forget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dieter Klaes I knew Guy Rochard in 1986 when he visited NSMC in Beijing. He is very enthusiastic and friendly. He visited China many times since then, actively promote the exchange of visiting scientists, especially young scientists to work and study in CMS and in other international cooperative research centers.He was a top gun to devote his life to satellite data sharing, microwave frequency protect, scientific and technical cooperation recent years. He has many friends in China and he knew Beijing very well. With his proposal and encouragement, we decided to host the 14th ATOVS meeting in Beijing. He gave many good advice to us as the host. He showed great concern about the FY-3 program, actually he called me the day before he passed away. We discussed FY-3. It is unbelievable when I heard of his death. We’ll miss him as a friend and advisor. His death is a great lost for the international meteorological satellite community. I express the deepest condolence to his family and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dong Chaohua C’est avec grande tristesse et stup\u00e9faction que j’ai appris le d\u00e9c\u00e8s de mon ancien coll\u00e8gue fran\u00e7ais Guy Rochard. J’ai rencontr\u00e9 Guy \u00e0 mes premi\u00e8res participations aux conf\u00e9rences ITSC\/TOVS \u00e0 la fin des ann\u00e9es 80 et j’ai tout de suite reconnu en Guy un chercheur inlassable d\u00e9vou\u00e9 \u00e0 la communaut\u00e9 scientifique. Son d\u00e9vouement et son enthousiasme sur le probl\u00e8me de recouvrement de donn\u00e9es satellitaires resteront \u00e0 toujours dignes de reconnaissance internationale. Sa rigueur scientifique, qu’il d\u00e9montrait si bien \u00e0 travers ses interventions dans divers forums scientifiques, \u00e9tait remarquable. Plus r\u00e9cemment, son travail acharn\u00e9 pour la protection des fr\u00e9quences dans le micro-ondes restera exemplaire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sur le plan personnel, Guy \u00e9tait tr\u00e8s aimable. Son sourire, sa joie de vivre, et ses connaissances sur une multitude de sujets scientifiques ou autres, faisaient de lui un atout dans toutes rencontres. \u00c0 toute sa famille et ses proches, mes plus sinc\u00e8res condol\u00e9ances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cher cousin, pour reprendre une de tes expressions, tu peux te reposer en Paix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cl\u00e9ment Chouinard Like many others I have known Guy all my working life and know what a wonderful and generous person Guy was. Like many others I have benefited in my career from Guy’s support and encouragement which I found particularly important when I was doing my PhD. During that time Guy visited John Eyre several times but unlike some visitors he took the time to get to know and take an interest in the work of young inexperienced scientists like myself. I will miss him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steve English I was deeply saddened to hear of Guy’s sudden passing. He had many friends at NASA who will dearly miss him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I would like to share two memories I have of Guy, one professional and one personal. The former was at the first ITSC I attended at Igls, Austria (ITSC-9) in 1997. He gave an absolutely rousing speech on frequency protection. He ended it with something like “If we fight, we can win!” upon which he received a standing ovation. I have never heard, before or since, such an enthusiastic talk nor seen such a response from a normally reserved group of scientists. At the end of the meeting, he was elected co-chair of the ITWG.<\/p>\n\n\n\n My second memory was at the ITSC-12 in Lorne, Australia in 2002. He was co-chair of the ITWG at the time and madly running around the conference taking care of the many details required to make it a great meeting. Somehow, in addition to all his duties, he found the time to take pictures of people, have them developed, and hand them out at the conference. (And they were very nice pictures, too!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thank you Guy for all your hard work that benefitted the remote sensing community and the personal and professional touches you added that made the ITSC meetings truly memorable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Joanna Joiner J\u2019ai connu Guy en 1982 alors que je visitais le centre de Lannion. Je me souviens encore de son accueil chaleureux. A cette \u00e9poque, je me pr\u00e9parais \u00e0 faire des \u00e9tudes doctorales et j\u2019\u00e9tais tr\u00e8s impressionn\u00e9 par la beaut\u00e9 des images satellitaires. Guy m\u2019en a mis plein la vue. Il a port\u00e9 \u00e0 mon attention sa publication de 1978 sur des mesures de texture pour la classification des nuages. Quelques ann\u00e9es plus tard, ma th\u00e8se porta sur ce m\u00eame sujet, reprenant plusieurs de ses id\u00e9es. Voil\u00e0 un autre domaine dans lequel Guy fut un pr\u00e9curseur. Plus tard, J\u2019ai toujours pris plaisir \u00e0 le rencontrer dans les r\u00e9unions ITSC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mes plus sinc\u00e8res condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 sa famille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Louis Garand Nous sommes extremement tristes a cette nouvelle. Nous avons connu Guy des le temps de notre jeunesse et notre parcours pour cette science satellitaire a ete marque par des cooperations plus que fructueuses et dans tous les cas reposant sur une estime et un respect profonds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Les visites a Lannion, au plus lointain de nos souvenirs, etaient des echanges precieux de travail mais aussi, tout aussi precieux, des instants joyeux, ceci grace a la chaleureuse amitie de Guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Avec toi et avec vous tous, collaborateurs de Guy de si longue date, nous partageons toute votre tristesse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Si tu le veux bien, fais toi l’interprete de notre sympathie et de notre estime au pres de sa famille et de tous ses collegues du CMS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n De tout coeur avec vous, J’ai appris le d\u00e9c\u00e8s brutal de Guy par la lettre de G\u00e9rard de Moor envoy\u00e9e aux Ing\u00e9nieurs des Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es en poste \u00e0 M\u00e9t\u00e9o-France!<\/p>\n\n\n\n C’est vraiment tr\u00e8s triste et je voudrais adresser quelques mots de sympathie \u00e0 l’\u00e9quipe du CMS-R&D et \u00e0 sa famille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Je n’\u00e9tais pas un coll\u00e8gue tr\u00e8s proche de Guy, mais je conserve de tr\u00e8s bons souvenirs de lui, m\u00eame s’il sont un peu anciens, lors de r\u00e9unions, missions ou contacts \u00e9pisodiques, o\u00f9 il se caract\u00e9risait par sa jovialit\u00e9, son accueil chaleureux lorsque nous venions vous voir au Centre de M\u00e9t\u00e9orologie Spatiale, sa disponibilit\u00e9 lorsque nous faisions appel \u00e0 lui pour de la formation et sa motivation de pionnier infatiguable de la m\u00e9t\u00e9o spatiale, toujours renouvel\u00e9e au contact des cercles internationaux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Toutes mes chaleureuses condol\u00e9ances \u00e0 sa famille et \u00e0 vous, ses coll\u00e8gues de Lannion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vincent Pircher On behalf of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, I want to express my deepest sadness upon hearing of Guy’s passing. Guy was an ardent devotee of Earth observation, a tireless defender of the use of spectrum for the passive microwave community, and a personal friend – both to me and to many of my GRSS colleagues. My sincere condolences go out to his family. *Please note that messages from Guy’s colleagues at MeteoFrance are included first; the remaining messages appear in the order in which they were received.* J’ai peu travaill\u00e9 de fa\u00e7on continue avec Guy, mais nos chemins se sont assez souvent crois\u00e9s, un peu lorsque j’\u00e9tais dans l’\u00e9quipe de direction de l’Ecole Nationale de la M\u00e9t\u00e9orologie, plus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-611","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamas.org\/irc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamas.org\/irc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamas.org\/irc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamas.org\/irc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamas.org\/irc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamas.org\/irc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2094,"href":"https:\/\/www.iamas.org\/irc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/611\/revisions\/2094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iamas.org\/irc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
On behalf of myself, and many of my colleagues in Omaha, Nebraska, USA, I want express sincere condolences to the family.
Randolph G. Arbeiter
Raytheon Company
Omaha, NE, USA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Regards,
Fred Prata
CSIRO Marine & Atmospheric Research 107-121 Station Street
Aspendale, Victoria, Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hampton University\/University of Wisconsin-Madison<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Karl-G\u00f6ran, Adam and Anke
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
Norrk\u00f6ping, Sweden<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter K.H. Wang
Deputy Director
Meteorological Satellite Center\/Central Weather Bureau, Taiwan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guy has had a long association with New Zealand; he visited soon after we installed our HRPT receiver in 1980 – and he is remembered with much kindeness.
Our greetings and condolences go to his family and colleagues.
Sincerely,
Michael Uddstrom
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)
New Zealand<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NOAA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CNES, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
rencontrer plusieurs fois \u00e0 Lorne, \u00e0 Denver, \u00e0 P\u00e9kin et de discuter avec lui et
son grand copain Bernard. J’ai bien vu combien il \u00e9tait influent et appr\u00e9ci\u00e9
dans la communaut\u00e9 et combien il est regrett\u00e9. J’aimerais me joindre \u00e0 tous ceux
qui pr\u00e9sentent leurs sinc\u00e8res condol\u00e9ance \u00e0 sa famille.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CNES, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want express sincere condolences to his family, friends, and colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SRC Planeta, Roshydromet
Moscow, Russia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luigi De Leonibus
Ufficio Generale per La Meteorologia Via Centocelle 301, 00175,
Roma, Italia<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My thoughts are with his family; may they be consoled by many good memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NOAA\/NESDIS<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jeff Puschell
Raytheon Strategic Systems
El Segundo, CA, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
President IRC
( Message from Terry to Guy: Hi Guy, Thanks for the ITWG effort to provide the community with very useful information of on-going events regarding the remote sounding instrumentations and studies. The working group looks very active owing to your effort. Thanks.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kozo Okamoto
Japan Meteorological Agency<\/p>\n\n\n\n
on behalf of ATOVS Working Group
NSMC, Beijing, China<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WMO, Geneva, Switzerland<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thierry Phulpin
CNES, France<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mes collegues Africains qui l on cotoy\u00e9 (ITWG , fluvap, .. ) se joignent a mon \u00e9motion dans ces moments douloureux en gardant en memoire ses actions pour ses id\u00e9es .. et s associe a l ensemble des collegues et amis dans les marques de sympathie pour sa famille
Dominique DAGORNE IRD
Laboratoire de Physique de l’Atmosph\u00e8re et Oc\u00e9anographie –
Universit\u00e9 de Dakar, S\u00e9n\u00e9gal<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sympathys,
Hank Revercomb, SSEC Director
PS Please pass this message on to your colleagues and give our sympathys to Guy’s family..<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My life won\u2019t be the same without Guy\u2019s nice calls and long emails from Brittany. Guy, my best friend, may you rest in peace. Your passion, kindness, warm heart and everything will always be with me. I will miss you forever.
My sincerest condolences go to Anne-Marie and his children on their loss.
Xuebao WU
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Space Science & Engineering Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indian Institute of Technology
Kanpur, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n
IMD, India<\/p>\n\n\n\n
KNMI
De Bilt, The Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brazil<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peking University
Beijing CHINA<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Wolfgang Benesch
Deutscher Wetterdiesnt
Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please convey our sincerest condolences to his family on their loss.
Peter Wilczynski
NPOESS Integrated Program Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n
appreciate his scientific and human qualities. I’m close, in this difficult
moment, to his family and to the colleagues of CMS in Lannion. They were like my family during my stage in Lannion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I miss his “joie de vivre” and the opportunity to share with him science
and cheerfulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to the pleasant time we spent together in Lannion and in Italy. Even in this sad day I want to take for me the memory of his smiling presence, perhaps around a table, telling stories, drinking some wine and laughing together often for nothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Italy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Universit\u00e9 Cheikh Anta Diop
DAKAR SENEGAL<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AVHRR became one of big issues of 2nd ITSC in 1985. There, Guy brought up new data that he got out of manufacturers of HIRS and AVHRR in US. One of impressive pictures is the positioning of IFOVs of all HIRS channels, which scatters by one km in maximum. We worked with AVHRR for several years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, I really miss you, Guy.
Tadao Aoki
Center for Global Environmental Studies
National Institute of Environmental Studies
Japan<\/p>\n\n\n\n
EUMETSAT
Germany<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSMC of CMA
Beijing, China<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chercheur \u00e0 la retraite
Division de l’assimilation des donn\u00e9es m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques
SEA\/Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n
UK Met Office<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NASA Goddard<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Environment Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Alain Chedin, Noelle Scott
ARA\/LMD\/IPSL
Ecole Polytechnique<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Al Gasiewski
NOAA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"