César Deschamps-Berger

Postdoctoral researcher

Contact details

Address
Maison de la Recherche, Jean Jaurès University 5, Allées A. Machado – 31058 TOULOUSE Cedex 1
Email
cesar.deschamps-berger@univ-tlse2.fr
Personal Website
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=fr&user=CLKph5UAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

Research topics

My research focuses on the cryosphere in mountain and polar regions. I use satellite observations, including photogrammetry and high‑resolution laser altimetry, to measure snowpack distribution and glacier mass balance. Combined with in‑situ measurements, close‑range remote sensing and modelling, these observations make it possible to quantify the impact of the cryosphere on ecosystems and hydrology in cold regions.​​​​​​​

My current project aims to determine the impact of forest‑cover change and climate change on snow‑dominated hydrology at climatic scales.

Activities / Resume

  • 2025-2026 : Postdoctoral fellowship, CNES grant, at GEODE, Toulouse (24 months). “Contribution of remote sensing to the study of snow in mountain forests”.
  • 2023-2024 : Postdoctoral fellowship, Juan de la Cierva grant, at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, CSIC, Jaca, Spain (24 months). “Snow, glaciers and vegetation: the cryosphere and its environment in the context of climate change”.
  • 2021-2022 : Postdoctoral researcher, collaborator of Dr J.-I. Lopez‑Moreno at the Pyrenean Institute of Ecology, CSIC, Zaragoza, Spain (14 months). “Perspectives on the evolution of the snowpack in Spanish national parks in the 21st century”.
  • 2017-2021 : PhD at CESBIO (Toulouse) and at CNRM, Météo‑France, Snow Research Centre (Grenoble), supervised by Dr S. Gascoin and Dr M. Dumont.
  • 2015-2016 : Master’s degree (Year 2) in Ocean, Atmosphere and Continental Surfaces, Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier.
  • 2012-2014 : Student in the Department of Geosciences at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.

Publications extraites de HAL affiliées à Geode : Géographie de l'environnement

Additional information

Publication (selection)
  • Deschamps-Berger C., Lopez-Moreno J. I., Gascoin S., Mazzotti G., Boone A. Where snow and forest meet: a global atlas, Geophysical Research Letters, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GL113684
     
  • López Moreno J. I., Deschamps-Berger C., Revuelto J., Alonso-González E., Rojas-Heredia F., Callow N.,he response of marginal snowpacks to climate warming, Advances in Climate Change Research, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.accre.2025.04.014, 2025
     
  • Izagirre E., Revuelto J., Vidaller I., Deschamps-Berger C., Rojas-Heredia F., Rico I., et al. Pyrenean glaciers are disappearing fast: state of the glaciers after the extreme mass losses in 2022 and 2023. Regional Environmental Change, 24(4), 172, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-024-02333-1
     
  • Deschamps-Berger C., Gascoin S., Shean D., Besso H., Guiot A., and López-Moreno J. I.: Evaluation of snow depth retrievals from ICESat-2 using airborne laser-scanning data, The Cryosphere, 17, 2779–2792, 2023, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-17-2779-2023
     
  • Deschamps‐Berger C., Cluzet B., Dumont M., Lafaysse M., Berthier E., Fanise P., and Gascoin S. : Improving the spatial distribution of snow cover simulations by assimilation of satellite stereoscopic imagery. Water Resources Research, 58(3), 2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021WR030271
     
  • Deschamps-Berger C., Gascoin S., Berthier E., Deems J. and Gutmann E.. Snow depth mapping from stereo satellite imagery in mountainous terrain : evaluation using airborne lidar data. The Cryosphere, 1–28, 2020, https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-2020-15
     
  • Deschamps-Berger C., Gascoin S., Berthier E., Lacroix P. and Polidori L. La Terre en 4D : apport des séries temporelles de modèles numériques d’élévation par photogrammétrie spatiale pour l’étude de la surface terrestre. Revue Française de Photogrammétrie et de Télédétection, n.221, 2020, https://rfpt.sfpt.fr/index.php/RFPT/article/view/430
     
  • Deschamps-Berger C., Nuth C., Van Pelt W., Berthier E., Kohler J. and Altena B.. Closing the mass budget of a tidewater glacier: The example of Kronebreen, Svalbard. Journal of Glaciology, 65(249), 136-148, 2018, https://doi.org/10.1017/jog.2018.98